Thanks for sharing your experience 👍

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

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

@@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.

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

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

Haha! That’s one way to put it!

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

This is a very honest statement. Thank you!

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

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

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.

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

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

That's a great point about voxel remesher

Zbrush feels so much better

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.

@@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!

Thanks for the encouragement!

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.

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

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 👍

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).

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

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

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.

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.

@@jiu6246 are u idiot?

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

@@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.

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

I will see what I can do.

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!

@@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.

@@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!

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

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

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

@@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

@@yiiarts6641 do whatever you want

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. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z76igsqJ1Km0p4U.html This video is from Flipped Normals and is about 4 years old but still applicable: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ld97esmU1ZjeY58.html

yep! It really is

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

​@@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)

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".

@@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.

@@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!

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

lol!

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

I don’t blame you one bit 👍

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

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

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

Yep, nothing like zbrush

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

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

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.

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

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

@@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. 😉

Which one is childish?

@@AlHowell blender all in one

Blender is perfect for hobbyists and small projects!