Just discovered zbrush and selfcad

jbskaggs

CyberReality's comments about zbrush in another post made me curious about it and wow what a neat piece of sculpting software.

It sorta took some of the magic out of 3d design for me as the premade chisels really makes creature prototyping ridicuously easy.

of course I am 100% ignorant on rigging and animation. But still what a difference it can make on my projects. My wife has a graphic arts degree and in under half an hour made a barn owl, a ancient ruined tower column, and an alien tentacle creature. Maybe she will make me some art too?

I also discovered selfcad as well which has built in slicing for 3d printing I will be experimenting with as we should acquired a anycubic mega s 3d printer and laser combo.

I havent been able to actually program for two days due to other projects, and I hope to get back on it soon.

I am still struggling with creator's block on my healer's fx.

Megalomaniak

Pixologic is a pretty great company, AFAIK so far everyone who has bought a copy of ZBrush has had a lifetime support of free (major version) upgrades. With that said, it's UI is notoriously unique, even more so than blenders.

jbskaggs

@Megalomaniak said: Pixologic is a pretty great company, AFAIK so far everyone who has bought a copy of ZBrush has had a lifetime support of free (major version) upgrades. With that said, it's UI is notoriously unique, even more so than blenders.

yes it is a strange UI. Took me like 10 minutes to get zoom to work. My wife though was able to use it almost instantly- and she hasnt ever used blender.

Morrow I will see if I can get zbrush to run under wine

cybereality

Yeah ZBrush is pretty good. I'm not really an artist (though I went to art school and I aspire to be) but I do like to test different programs. However, you can do sculpting in Blender. It doesn't have all the features of ZBrush (especially the retopology and baking high res detail to low poly models is much better in ZBrush) but it works. I've seen some amazing stuff done in Blender, it is very powerful and free. For example, this artist:

jbskaggs

Thanks and Queen's Gambit was a great show too.