You don't have to abandon one to use the other. They actually work very well together.

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

You aren’t wrong, but I’m talking specifically for sculpting

@OST1350

Жыл бұрын

I use Zbrush, Blender and Substance 3D Painter workflow.

@Frayedrican

Жыл бұрын

@@OST1350 I'm doing the same! I'm learning zbrush, blender, substance painter and marmoset tool bag. They all work great together. I'll never touch maya or 3D Max.

@TheTyroofToriyama

Жыл бұрын

That’s like having a 3 headed wife cos their qualities are all split up in different places Bruh I wanna be Godzilla, not Gidhora Juggling tons of apps and problem solving for all of them sound like playing whackamole against a Cerberus

@c.glazercrush3994

10 ай бұрын

You could do nice blackouts or lower poly forms,save as object and go to town on z brush.

I've been rebuilding my 3D art skills for the past year. I was really excited when i learned how good blender has become, and then I was super stoked about how good Nomad is on iPad. 10 years ago i used 3ds max and zbrush. I missed zbrush, and love sculpting, so I bought a licence, and man.. zbrush is like getting into a jacuzzi, the others is are like washing your hands in the sink.

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! That’s one way to put it!

@TheTyroofToriyama

Жыл бұрын

In blender, everything is so over complicated that skills aren’t used, they’re transferred Sculpting went smoothly until it didn’t now I’m learning tons of jargon just to get my vision to show in the sculpture It’s like teaching song with sign language or writing with Morse code… Kevin De Bruyne needs to go to the devs and shout “Let me sculpt!!” Cos I’m doing a whole lot of not-sculpting just to finish my sculpture… Such awkward methods being glued together when I should just be brush-tooling the life outta that bad-boy… God forbid the process was streamlined

Used blender for years and recently got into ZBrush. You're spot on. ZBrush feels more artistic to me as I feel like I can make decisions on the fly similarly to illustration. It stays as smooth as butter.

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

100% Agree. It's hard to quantify something like that but it's true.

@TheTyroofToriyama

Жыл бұрын

It shouldn’t be any other way. I wanna layers same as I do on photoshop and Krita. Why can I just drop a cylinder in blender and turn it easily into an arm? Instead I’m worrying about so many other things I’d need to type out a half an hour lesson just to describe it Let the artists do their art, ffs. Tools and settings should help the artists do exactly what they imagine, not have the artists help the computer understand what we’re trying to achieve Sorry but it could just be done better. These apps should have all of the best features thought of so far, in one place.

I enjoy blender alot, but people turn a blind eye too its flaws due too it being free.

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

This is a very honest statement. Thank you!

@TheTyroofToriyama

Жыл бұрын

That and some of them haven’t gone far enough to notice the limits of the software

Short and to the point as always. Smashing it man.

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You might be making my head too big lol

@EyesofLamia

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlHowell Haha naaah, your content is always fun to watch

I use Blender currently for practicing sculpting and it is good, but I know that after a certain point I'm gonna have to buy Zbrush.

Zbrush is dedicated to sculpting. Blender can do just about everything. Zbrush is obviously a better software for sculpting.

I am using 3D Coat at the moment, but if you are looking for a job, ZB is a must-have for 90% of studios out there! The only thing that makes Blender usable for sculpting is the Voxel Remesher, without it Blender is pretty bad for sculpting IMHO!

@AlHowell

Жыл бұрын

That's a great point about voxel remesher

iF you beggining your journey start with blender, it gives you more angles to master, hardsurface sculpting, rendering, riggin, you can grasp all the basics and learn how to combine them, maybe you will land a job that will require you to make props or maybe even some environmental structures at the beginning, meanwhile blender will definitly find solutions for higher polycount and vertex, and at some point you will be ahead of competition a multipurpouse artist able to be flexible to any workflow. and ye you will be the BEAST of new age of modelers that go with the flow of new technologies and possibilities. BUT If you just wanna catch up to old farts that to lazy to learn anymore, stick to that dinosaur zbrush and extintct in the near future with hes crazy creators who dont even know how proper mordern UI should look/work :) cheers

@zenthous9568

Жыл бұрын

Zbrush feels so much better

I'm a fan of Zbrush weird UI and workflows. It takes a while to get confortable with the program but once you get it, is very cool. I wish the curves would be easier to control though.

There's also Ken Trammell and his "Human" course, which I recently took and it's amazing. The gap is getting smaller and smaller. I suspect that this is the reason why the deal with MAXON took place

@tlilmiztli

2 жыл бұрын

Deal with Maxon took place because ZBrush had free updates for like... 20 years. It has nothing to do with Blender. To realize how far Blender is behind ZBrush you would have to know ZBrush. This gap you are talking about is like Grand Canyon and yes, it is getting smaller and smaller. By... centimeter at the time.

@gcharb2d

Жыл бұрын

@@tlilmiztli Blender fanboys actually think the VFX industry revolve around Blender, when in fact Blender is still seen pretty much as a toy for hobbyists by the VFX industry!

Zbrush is a program focused on sculpting Blender is bit everything but perfect for Modeling rigging and animations I personally don't like Zbursh because UI makes me hate everything so title is kinda silly i don't think any sculpter started blender while zbrush was there but still Blender is free and pretty decent

great video... keep up the great work.

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the encouragement!

When I went to school for animation years ago, they gave us this student discount for access to Maya. I got Zbrush as a result of that, and was tinkering with it and really loved using it. Then years later I discovered Blender has 3D modeling as well, so I figured "it's free, I should try it out!" Well I hated using it, it didn't feel anywhere near as welcoming to a new person as Zbrush did, and I ditched the fucking thing. So for me it wasn't as simple as "they're the same thing."

@lordofthe6string

Жыл бұрын

I find that interesting. I had a similar experience, but I remember me and my fellow students HATED zbrush at first because of how unintuitive and clunky even simple things like zooming in felt. I love it now and would have a hard time trying to switch to blender. I'm glad it clicked with you straight away 👍

@bakedbeings

8 ай бұрын

There's also the design priorities of an application's developers. Pixo have always been artist focussed in their software's communication: masking and polygroups, real-time sculpting feedback and lighting (matcaps and pixols), the ability to take any parts of the ui you use and slap them around the edges of the viewport. Maya on the other hand has the same issues as Blender: it can be done in Maya, but it'll have more steps and take a bespoke workflow, usually with the help of devs or plugins to make things properly usable (until they buy the plugin).

Laura Gallagher might disagree. Not about ZBrush being "the Standard." Only about how good Blender is for sculpting, as in *_very_* good, with v3.3.

I'm currently teaching myself ZBrush. Although working for a big company isn't necessarily a goal of mine, I am open to it and I do want my work to look professional regardless.

@AlHowell

Жыл бұрын

Well have a blast! Zbrush it literally the only 3d software where I feel like I can fly...

@alexandert4463

Жыл бұрын

May I ask what type of Zbrush license you are using while you learn the software? @frantzjoseph3d

I started sculpting life with zbrush, after a point, i realised i can now easily achieve the level of detail i need with blender itself, so why bother exporting importing

@tlilmiztli

2 жыл бұрын

You can have many millions of polygons on EACH SUBTOOL. Its physically impossible to reach that level of detail in Blender. Fact that you can reach same level of detail in Blender is only saying that you dont need high polycount. Thats it.

@wesualize

2 жыл бұрын

@@tlilmiztli exactly. That's what I said. For more details i can use texture or can do it in zbrush.

As somebody who can genuinely intuition their way in, out, and around most new softwares…Blender is a nightmare.

@AlHowell

8 ай бұрын

😂

I can understand you, I would also like to start zbrush but the program with its UI is like a laberint. there are many tutorials but none of them are very helpful or I haven't found a more correct one. can you recommend me a channel or course that you say is beginner friendly?

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

I am currently in the process of developing this exact thing. I will get back to with other channels

@Gromic2k

2 жыл бұрын

I suggest you wait some time. I hope Maxon will rebuild the whole interface. They did the same with their main program Cinema 4D recently. So for me it only makes sense that they do the same with their newly aquired program Zbrush

@yiiarts6641

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gromic2k you want to tell me to wait till they rebuild it all? for how long ? better than waiting that you don't even know if they're going to do it

@Gromic2k

2 жыл бұрын

@@yiiarts6641 do whatever you want

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

You might check out this channel Easy 3d. Smaller channel but lots of great info. He will typically respond to any questions you have as well. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y4ymscmRn6a2p7Q.html This video is from Flipped Normals and is about 4 years old but still applicable: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ka1_qcicoJXgY84.html

Can you make a video comparing Zbrush with 3dcoat sculpting?

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

I will see what I can do.

Started off using nomad sculpt, I was surprised to find out from a guy who has taught ZBrush for 20 years that nomad sculpt handles polygons better than blender. He was saying he could handle around 30 million on the iPad whereas blender struggled with that level, obviously ZBrush can handle 100 million. Which is why I'm looking to upgrade to ZBrush, not to mention blender isn't as intuitive without having to go into a plethora of menus before even getting started.

@musashidanmcgrath

9 ай бұрын

With Zbrush HDgeo you can go up to 1 billion, but it's not geo you can print or exoort. You have to capture it to a displacement map.

@jiu6246

6 ай бұрын

You can at least create a new document and sculpt something in Blender compared to ZBrush where you need to watch 30 youtube videos how to save the work.

@kedigiller111

5 ай бұрын

@@jiu6246 are u idiot?

I LOVE blender for how much they've worked to bring it up to par with many of the animation programs out there. It's not totally there, but for those us without lots money to buy the big name stuff, it's least free. BUT, the people trying say it's just as good as Z-brush have truely never used Z-brush at all. I purchased mine years ago and even legacy version still does better then Blender's scultping and is FAR more stable.

@gcharb2d

Жыл бұрын

Maya is still the king for animation, Houdini is the one making Autodesk nervous with KineFX, Blender still has the same rigging/animation tool set it had in 2.6x, the Blender institute keeps promising a new rigging/animation tool set, but as usual they are not delivering!

@FurlowT

Жыл бұрын

@@gcharb2d I've said same thing for the Fur/Hair system for long time, but they finally updated that. You have to remember, Blender is working off of donations and many times unpaid programmers that do things on spare time. So can't expect them make huge progress save for times you get those guys that just devote their time to it or fully commision someone to do the work.

@gcharb2d

Жыл бұрын

@@FurlowT no offence, but the new hair system is an embryo at best, and they started an animation 2020 project 5 years ago, just like they started an animation 2025 project just before the holidays, they didn't deliver in 2020, I doubt very much they will deliver in 2025, and yes, I do understand that they are living off of donations, which is why the Blender Institute has become a hype machine, they put out 2 or more release a year, with ton of new toys, but half-baked ones, like the hair system that got out in early 2022 and that has never been updated since, that's why there are literary thousands of plugins for Blender, because Blender is not a functional tool, common, who ever heard of a FBX plugin, there is one for Blender that cost 28-840 USD that adds over 140 FBX functionalities to Blender, FBX is the golden standard for importing/exporting 3D models, only Blender has a skeleton version of FBX integrated into it, and same goes for pretty much everything else, if you are a hobbyist, Blender is fine, but from a professional standpoint, it sucks hard!

Proficiency tools are important. Blender can also edit videos, yet I'll never replace Davinci Resolve with it. Sculpting in blender is way better than the video NLE in blender and for most users they don't need anything else. But saying it can do anything zbrush can is pure stupidity and stubbornness. PS i dont use anything but blender for all my 3D needs.

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Great to see you here again. I've never used Blender for editing but it's a good point.

@HAWXLEADER

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlHowell They are slowly getting there. The NLE is much better than it was a few years ago. My main gripe is rendering, it just takes too long to render a video file, even if it doesn't include a 3D scene.

@AndikaRiyandi

Жыл бұрын

@@HAWXLEADER so what do you use? zbrush for sculpt?

Yeah but Zbrush's UI is a fucking nightmare for beginners. Very counter intuitive if you're trying to kitbash

finnaly, just stated learning zbrush, i can say, it's better

@AlHowell

Жыл бұрын

yep! It really is

The biggest issue with Blender Sculpt Mode at the moment is that there are no dedicated devs working on it. The lone dev who was was fired some weeks back. It's still a sculpting UX mess with terrible performance and the multi-level sculpting is still broken. It is good for beginners or dabblers though, or even more serious artists doing less complicated work.

@AlHowell

9 ай бұрын

Dang, hadn't heard he was fired. That's a bummer

@musashidanmcgrath

9 ай бұрын

@@AlHowell Yeah, he had a big row with the main devs and he got the boot. So basically, they are just adding a patch here and there, but otherwise, development on sculpt mode is dead. And now that the Maxon outrage has died down a bit, when you look at ZB 2023 objectively, there have been some really solid and useful features added. Either way, Blender sculpting is still LEAGUES below Zbrush.

I have a lot of money just laying around so ya sure, why not!? I mean that is why every company has gone to subscription model, to relieve all of use filthy rich humans of the burden of having too much money and no where to put it all!

That's right, as always. But, standard is a very changeable word and also very subjective. I'm not saying anything, but a few years ago no one spoke seriously about the blender as a serious package, and even more so no one tried to compare it with zbrush... but, times are changing and I work in the studio using blender, and youtube is full of comparisons with zbrush... what will happen next)

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

You make some great points. Thank you. So, in the studio where you work, sculpting is done in Blender?

@dennyn1746

2 жыл бұрын

​@@AlHowell I create cinematics for advertising projects. Sculpting has become interesting to me not so long ago and in my current work it is practically not needed (there is definitely enough blender there). This is my hobby so far. But besides sculpting, I'm interested in many other areas in 3D, so blender is an excellent software that can help you with this. This is certainly not ideal, but a guy with Maya worked at my vacancy two years ago and I was able to successfully replace him with blender)

@tlilmiztli

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing will happen next. Blender isnt sculpting app. They will add thing or two. The amount of options available in ZBrush is overwhelming even for ZBrush user :D Blender is jack of all trades. And will be. It will not beat ZBrush at sculpting, Houdini at procedural modeling, Maya at animation. It will for ever stay this app that can do everything decent enough, but it isnt master in anything. I have waited 12+ years for Blender to become something more then just free app for everything. It never excelled at anything. Everything in is is "OK".

@dennyn1746

2 жыл бұрын

@@tlilmiztli Everything changes over time. In all the previous 12 years that you mentioned, there has not been such attention to blender as now. I am well acquainted with zbrush, I spent a lot of time studying it, but I always doubted the expediency of buying it, because I did not work in the industry at that time, even now, when I work, I still do not see the point in it, so blender is a great solution for me. And yes, zbrush borrowed fabric brushes from blender))) But even if you imagine that blender will be second in everything, isn't it great? Although, often the first, second, third... not far behind each other) "And the last will be the first" I'm not a fan of blender, I'm a fan of the opportunities it provides to people all over the world without forcing them to fork out for vague goals. Then you can buy anything, if necessary. But you will have no doubts about such a decision, because you will already be a pro.

@gcharb2d

Жыл бұрын

@@dennyn1746 I disagree, the most attention Blender got was with the 2.8 release, and when Epic Games donated 1.2 M to the Blender Institute, then things got a bit interesting, for a while, at the moment the Blender Institute is promising tons of new features, features they promised in the past and never delivered on, like the Animation 2020 Project that never saw the light of day, now it's the Animation 2025 Project, it's déjà vu all over again!

ZBrush might be the industry standard but its very gatekept. It says that low income people have to choose between life essentials like rent and food or a program. I guess at that point it's an investment. Idk, Maya software and ZBrush feel so elitist. Not to say they don't do great work obviously. But it's not accessible to everyone who may be great artists but aren't fortunate enough to have extra money.

zbrush in every way superior software compared to Blender in terms of sculpting. its just the price eh.

No thank zbrush pricing is enough for me to keep using blender!

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t blame you one bit 👍

@petertremblay3725

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlHowell One man army game dev need to eat!

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

@@petertremblay3725 yes you do! But as you can see… I can afford to miss a few meals lol

@petertremblay3725

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlHowell Already miss a few since i start this project loll

There is something Blender can't do that ZBrush can do for me... confuse me.

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

lol!

performance of blender sculpting is bad

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, nothing like zbrush

comparing pears and apples

@AlHowell

Жыл бұрын

This video wasn’t really about comparing the two. It was based on objective fact that most large film/ game companies use Zbrush

Just use blender so you don't need to pay $600 for a year.

@AlHowell

Жыл бұрын

That is true. But this whole video is about WHY you might actually need to learn Zbrush if you want to work at your favorite film or video game company

No me interesa ser un EMPELADO de alguien mas jajaja , por eso Yo SOY MI PROPIO JEFE ;) por eso uso Blender

@AlHowell

2 жыл бұрын

100% Being your own boss sounds amazing! Props to you

@murdocklesban6836

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlHowell de eso trata la vida , no ser empleado asalariado ;)

@tlilmiztli

2 жыл бұрын

Yo tambien. Pero tengo clientes que usan ZBrush :D Y si te piden ZTL no les vas mandar OBJ diciendo "pero yo no uso ZBrush". Si estas serio sobre trabajar como escultor usar Blender te limita.

@murdocklesban6836

2 жыл бұрын

@@tlilmiztli jajaja osea porque uso blender no soy escultor serio . Si claro muchachito sigue nomas .

Software Subscription = No

🤔 this was kind of a stupid video. Blender is like an all-access pass to Disney World, zbrush is like an access pass to a specific disney world park with VIP access and a tour behind the scenes and everything else that you would get that is not included in an all-access pass to the entire part. It's no different than writing programs like final draft which is known to be the industry standard. Or back in the days when Maya was the Industry Program. My recommendation is to work with both of them for the fact that they move back and forth seamlessly seamlessly.

@AlHowell

10 ай бұрын

Obviously, I disagree and think it is a very helpful video

@tashadfowler3465

10 ай бұрын

@@AlHowell and that is your right. but i still think it is a stupid video. i don't believe you should stop using one and work on another and many in the comments believe the same. Zbrush is an amazing software, but it focuses on one primary function plus you pay for it. so, a lot of people use blender a free software as an introductory. FYI some of us use these programs as hobbies it's not our life's dream. kind of like i taught myself to play the guitar but have no plan on being in a band. 😉

You talk about childish program ha-ha .... make more video it's so fun ...

@AlHowell

Жыл бұрын

Which one is childish?

@abdulkhalilsalik

Жыл бұрын

@@AlHowell blender all in one

Blender for all 3d from Beginner to advance, Zbrush for professional. Blender is good for me.

@gcharb2d

Жыл бұрын

Blender is perfect for hobbyists and small projects!