Learning everything about zbrush 4r4 for free#
Here you will also find the Artists Spotlight, where famous 3D Artists explain how they use ZBrush, helping inspire you to create like the pros.ĭont forget to subscribe for free to our ZBrushCentral community with over 250,000 members to discover tips, view artists creations, locate useful help for all things related to ZBrush or post your works-in-progress! Youre invited to visit our ZClassroom for a huge database of free high quality movies explaining all the main features of ZBrush. To learn more about the fea-tures introduced in previous releases of ZBrush 4, we invite you to read the ZBrush 4 /4R2/4R2b/R3 Whats New Guides, located in your ZBrush installations Documentation folder. This document only covers whats new in version 4R4. We hope that the information you find here helps you understand the differences between this release and previous versions of ZBrush. While much of ZBrush 4R4 is very similar to other releases in the version 4 series, there are quite a few new features to help make your ZBrushing even more productive and creative. Pretty offtopic.Īnywho Zbrush is quite awesome indeed and I’m impressed by what it has had to offer so far.Welcome to the Whats New documentation for ZBrush 4R4. More like a clone stamp with an offset so you don’t have to paint “through” the image. One thing that should be fixed with the projection is that you wouldn’t have to have the darn image blocking your view. Yeah mudbox texturepaint/projection is pretty neat but its sculpting is a bit weird imo. Mudbox really shines with texture painting and map generating, not so much with sculpting. Its one of those things you can just pick up and use since it all makes sense and is obvious. Something like Blender on the other hand, well it cant really afford to be too alien and weird since there are so many other applications out there that directly compete with it or do what it does.Īs for Mudbox, that is one wonderfully designed app.
It, like other apps still approaches the user with a workspace and tools type of environment, counter to Blender’s approach. They will probably never design zbrush’s UI, but after dealing with it for a month it works. It has no real competition in my book for what it is able to do. There is no other app truly like zbrush, none can really compare to it. It is perfecting the technique and all the features which becomes the real road block. Everything is quite organized, and easy to use. Its not hard to adjust to either, as its not as… complicated as it seems at first. It makes some sort of twisted sense when you think of it that way and when they have designed it around a wacom pen rather than a mouse and keyboard. Think of a desk with tools along the sides and a flat workspace in the center. One, they just wanted to be different, and two, its based around real life sculpting set ups. The reason the interface is different, is two fold. I have the pleasure of being in contact with a few pixologic devs, and i remember one of them asking a group of students what they like most about Zbrush and what they like least about it. I remember first using zbrush…i wanted to throw the computer along with the cintiq out of the window. On a sidenote that “Insert Multi Mesh” featurevideo has to be some of the worst feature demonstrations ever. I agree from what little time I’ve spent with Zbrush it’s not all that simple but I really don’t think that’s a reason to entirely skip the whole program.
If you’re too good for zbrush’s complicated UI I doubt they will give a crap. Those people who could take it (like me) and wouldn’t whine about everything still managed to learn it and do awesome things. That’s why many people didn’t use blender 2.49 and earlier because the UI didn’t make much sense. (one of them should be an artist that is well versed in other applications) Pay a couple people to redesign thats all they do. Use a tabbed interface or whatever you have to do to clean it up. Redesign it, put the things in the right places, then i may look into it. Im not going to learn that system, i know its flawed.
I would never purchase it with the interface in the state that its in.