What Can I Do With It?

[ambrose60]

what can i actually do with zbrush? im thinking about getting it because moving thousands of vertex in maya to make a face is often unrewarding and tedious.

i was watching a kind of zbrush tutorial and they kept saying that its not a 3d program, its more of a tool and that when a head is sculpted, its not animateable.

im just not sure what zbrush is good for other than making statues lol.

anyone help me? give me a real overview of how best this tool can be used?

[seldt]

u can do so much ..

[xerxes73]

ZBrush, especially ZBrush 3, can be used for high detail sculpting from a base mesh created in another package or now that the retopology tools have been introduced, you can create a base mesh in Z, sculpt and retopo to make a clean, animate-able mesh for use in an external package. Z also fills a texturing capacity quite admirably.

With 3d layers, allowance for multiple editable objects within one document, retopo functionality, and rapid design visualization, the question isn't really what is Z good for, it's why haven't you tried it yet?

[black-bart-ga]

What ZBrush is good for....import a low poly base mesh from another application. Build rapidly and intuitively an extremely detailed high res model.....generate displacement map.....back into your other app...apply displacement maps to lower res mesh.

[user_deleted]

So your saying that z brush is just a tool and it cant animate it just creates the characters? im new to all this and whats wondering whats the difference between maya and zbrush?

thank you

[james-thompson--2]

QUOTE(Grantbarret @ 05/10/08, 11:48 PM) [snapback]285368[/snapback]
So your saying that z brush is just a tool and it cant animate it just creates the characters? im new to all this and whats wondering whats the difference between maya and zbrush?

thank you

You can't animate with it; Maya is for animation. But you can sculpt freely like it's wax or clay. My AMD 64X2 dual core and NVidia 7800GT computer with 2 gigs RAM can handle up to 4 million polygons. You can either make the base mesh in Maya and export it over to Zbrush and then work on it there or you can us ZBalls to make your fundamental mesh with this intuitive SubD polygon system that's proprietary to Pixologic. Because of it's Pixol system and 2 1/2 D space where you can "drop" your 3d scupture it's also the defacto choice for texturing and coloring your sculptures.

[vovin]

go on youtube. Type in zbrush and watch a few videos. Then you will see what a skilled person can do with this software.