Blender vs ZBrush - (HONEST Comparison)
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- After 158 tutorials and diving deep into the core of ZBrush, today I'd like to share my closing thoughts on the real differences between the two software -
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I have a question, I bought myself a course to learn zbrush and because I wanted to learn how to make my self some vrchat modules.I did not take blender because the courses for blender look really cartoony and not at all awesome like the beginners course with sci fi characters that i buy.
So my question is can I rig zbrush characters with blender or another program?
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also, you made a great job in terms of NPR character models I am waiting to see the NPR environments saga 😼😸
Just use both. Most professionals use Maya/Zbrush, but I think Blender/Zbrush workflow is just as powerful. Blender is more of a replacement for Maya than Zbrush imho. But sculpting in Zbrush is simply unmatched and you will never want to go back to Blender sculpting after using it.
I left Maya for blender ❤️
Thx
Thx
@@gauravmail1990 I left Blender for Houdini, too many limitations with Blender!
@@gcharb2d Getting better every day tho. What was your main use case you found Blender lacks with?
It’s so impressive how much you’ve done nonstop for so long with this series! And I can tell it has dealt a huge blow to your viewership, but still you persist because no one else makes this kind of content the way you make it, and it’s all to help people learn on their own while you also learn for your own craft. Thanks, man. You rock!
Totally agree. I'll admit that I tuned out the notifications at first since I don't have ZBrush, but I think people shouldn't be so obsessive about their loyalty to a technology. It shouldn't surprise people that the specialized software is better at its specialty than the well rounded free one. I do feel like sculpting is my specialty, and one day I'd like to learn ZBrush, but I will always use Blender in some capacity because of its amazing features and versatility. I think it's safe to say that both are phenomenal products, but any professional worth their salt should know when to use what tools.
Good comparison. Better than mine.
I've told others. I compared the two as Blender being an all terrain jeep, and ZBrush being a Formula 1 car.
You can do a lot more with a jeep. But if all you are expecting to do is win a race on a flat track, you want the Formula 1 car. For that's what it's made to do.
So if you want to make an indie 3D short film, you want Blender. If you are making models for a toy company, or making models for a pro made movie, you want ZBrush.
Excellent video! My workflow is Zbrush for animating, Blender for audio design, Maya for editing, then MS Paint for compositing 😎
Nailed it💀
Your channel has been a lifesaver for me. I appreciate the effort you've gone to put these tutorials up. This is certainly a refresher for someone who's returning back into Zbrush after a long period of time.
Been debating for a long while if I should do the jump to Zbrush or not. I started learning character sculpting and like you said, I can do some cool stuff in Blender but sometimes it takes so long to do basic things. Guess this video is what I needed to push me.
I use both and it really does save time. I can bust a character out in a single afternoon, then take it to blender for rigging and everything else.
I can't imagine only using one prog now.
The only thing i worry about on the zbrush front is them selling out to fuckin Maxon. But honestly, i priated Zbrush for 2 years before i boight it. If i gotta pirate again, i will.
@@Glitch-Gremlin I just got the perpetual liscence for V2022 and have like zero reason to ever upgrade again untill I see what Maxon is up to. Fuck subscription only, it's nice that buying an older perpertual liscence means I don't (legaly) have to submit to their new pay model.
Exactly the same here, debating should I get Zbrush or stay...This Video said it all, and helped to decide to go with Zbrush and better to learn industries standard software...
All I needed was to realize that Zbrush users don’t have the same problems and have to feel dumb for trynna sculpt properly in blender
Imagine demanding that we learn really tricky geometry and don’t even get the same possibilities anyway
When sculpting, it’s flat-out inferior, not an alternative. I’m kinda mad that I wasted all this time cos I promised people some good results a while ago but I went straight for hyper realism cos that’s what I was aiming for in drawing at the time. All I did was I work myself into a corner for daring to use traditional and obvious methods.
If I can import my blender model and see the same things done easily then I’ll see a direct comparison while saving my model.
If this works like I expect then such a massive weight will be lifted off my shoulders.
Will legit change my life if I can finally get around the roadblocks of 3d sculpting and move forwards towards good portfolio.
So mad that they got me jumping through hoops just to transfer skills I already had
thank you for making all of this, the community really needed this 🙏💯
I've been waiting for this video for awhile 🙏🏽 thanks for sharing your opinions
I love a brief no-nonsense summary that tells you everything you need to know and nothing more - thank-you!
That was FANTASTIC! I don’t do any three D stuff anymore, but even I know that was a super great comparison. Great work Royal! You’re a true lifesaver!
I love your honest quick and straight to the point video
omg that might be enough to convince me to get zbrush. i always though it was hard in blender but now i see that zbrush makes it so much easier.
I love how you do all this!
as an automotive technician and game design enthusiast the comparisons is rather accurate, when you're doing it as a hobby to start you really don't have the luxury of time. so learning the standard is what I wanted to know. and this really narrowed down what and where I want/needed to focus my time on character model creation. much appreciated!
Thank you so much for those words, It has been a battle trying to decide which one should I study with more detail, lets see what the future holds.
I have to thank you for everything. You taught me so much with Blender. And now I know the difference with Z-Brush and when I would need it.
this is the type of video im looking for when i search zbrush vs blender. thanks!
Wonderful review! Loved it.
Been thinking to make the jump to ZBrush. This video has helped immensely. Many, many thanks. May you live long and prosper.
It's been 2 months with waking up and going to sleep with ZBrush already? Damn, time sure flies. It's been a short, clean and easily understandable tutorial series sir, thanks for all your effort. I don't think I'll make a living out of sculpting, but it was fun to stick by. When I have the courage to start modeling (and game developing), I'll go back to your older series at some point too.
But until then, I hope you'll have a faaaantastic day, and I'll see you around!
Thanks a lot. Every time I type a question on youtube, one of your videos pops up, and I always know the answer I'm looking for is right there!
Good one, thanks for the quick, simple, yet very impactful explaination.
That's how this videos must be, quick to the point and actually setting the differencies between each program. Really good vid.
Best comparison video that I have seen. Thanks
Thank you so much for this series. It was honestly exactly what i needed and finishing it off with this review was the icing on the cake. Thank you skies. You have to be one of the best channels for this type of content on this platform and dang if i dont appreciate everything you do.
What a superb comparison examples.. wow 🔥
Thanks for this whole series and for this video in particular! You must be fried after all this. But this is an incredible series of videos, available for free, that give amazing and detailed explanations that anyone can follow. Well done!
We're always with you mate
great wrap up. agreed.
Thank you ! You did a great job simplifying such a complex daw....Looking forward to be a great producer
awesome video. great help and perfect analysis. Keep up the great work.
Dude you're an absolute legend love your work 🙏
This is a great way of explaining it. So glad I found this video!!!
Haven't watch many zbrush vs blender videos but this one really hits the nail on focusing (honestly) on the difference between them and their own use-cases
Thanks for being brave and honest ❤️
Awesome channel.
Great comparison and honest. This is exactly what I needed and wanted to know.
algo, and also thank you for the series :D, love you
i use both apps... and bro.. bloody fliiping hell.... thats a brilliant comparison
This is just the info I needed. Thanks man!
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This was exactly what I needed. Thank you for the quick and concise explanation.
Guess I'll sink into Zbrush for 3D printing once I end my current Blender projects. I'm sooooo glad your channel got randomly recommended to me by TH-cam a year ago.
bro great vid!! we need more people spitting like you
You truly are the king of kings
Thank you so much, I was wondering and your video made it clear to me
I started with z brush but quickly learnt it's not a beginner friendly problem,but after using blender for a while I went back to zbush and now it feels so much easier to to understand ....well maybe the hard modeling side of things is still a learning curve.
Love your video! It's informative, concise, and hilarious. 😂🤣
best comparison I have ever heard in my 11 years of using Blender.
I wasn't really interested in the Z Brush series as I'm not planning on just sculpting, but still watched a number of them because I did want to see how the industry standard worked and I was quite blown away with the features. This is a great summary though on when you should choose one over the other. So I'll admire the Z brush features from afar but at least I know what's possible now.
I jumped to sculpting from Zbrush to Blender like 10'ish years ago.
Back then, Zbrush couldn't do all that it can do now, obviously.
But after all those years, now Blender can definitely do all that Zbrush could do 10 years ago and more.
That lack of features back then, in Zbrush, never stopped people from creating amazing stuff for games and movies.
If all you do is sculpt, then you are right, Zbrush is a better choice, Blender is behind.
But the benefit of not jumping programs for a task, if you are doing more than just sculpting, is HUGE. It saves so much time.
You're talking a lot of nonsense. I worked with Blender for 5 years, blender sculpting still sucks, blender can't compete with the version of zbrush from 10 years ago. Zbrush is a sculpting program on its own, while blender does many things. That's why it's always missing
@@user-hf3ul8rf7n I have been using blender since blender 2.4,
Blender 4.1 does many things, and that is why it is better than Zbrush 10 years ago.
Zbrush couldn't pose models, edit the polygons, do dynamic topology, re-mesh models, do real-time shaders, or anything remotely like that, back then.
The only downside of blender, compared to that old Zbrush version that I used last, that i can think of, is high polycount performance. Maybe the default brushes felt better, but that's subjective... Otherwise, Blender now is better than Zbrush was back then.
Oh, and btw, Blender default brushes will get an update soon.
High polycount performance can be fixed in blender easily with some optimisation tricks and modifiers. For most cases 10-15m poly is enough for a high-detailed model which Blender can handle without optimisation. I know that ZBrush users often go over, but it's unnecessary.
@@pyton9553 Complete nonsense. You can't apply micro details such as skin wrinkles and skin pores on a full naked character with only 10-15m polys. It's impossible, regardless of the software. The 10-15m poly mark you are referring to do only applies to head busts, and even then, not all of them. Try sculpting, a professional AAA standard dragon for film or even videogames with only 10m polys and see how far you go. All of the micro detailing will either be blurred or just not there at all. Blender sculpting is good for stylized sculpting or if you rely exclusively on texturing xyz workflow, which only really works for humans or very human looking humanoids.
Super awesome explanation 👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️
Sir, that was brilliantly explained.👍
Finally. Thank you for the *actual* review of the two.
I love your tutorials
I'm 100% with you on this.
I started sculpting in Zbrush moved to blender because I needed to do a lot more than just sculpting... I don't like to spend weeks on a project because time is important to me. Blender helped with that... I could sculpt model texture rig and animate in a single software. Fast jobs and fast results. but If I only want to sculpt Zbrush was really fun and intuitive for when I started.
So yeah Zbrush is a sculpting software easy to pick up, hard to master.
Blender is a everything 2D/3D software easy to pick up hard to master with a more ease in-ease out learning curve.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter what tools you use. What matters is, are you using the right tool for the job?
Today I use Substance for texturing and blender for everything else since blender has got cool tools for sculpting since the days of 2.6 but till today I think blender is still lacking in texturing tools.
This is exactly the thing i needed to know :) thank you.
Thank you for amazing comparison
Best Blender vs Zbrush comparison... Thank you !!
great comparison.
And besides, nothing stops you from sculpting in ZBrush, retopologizing and the importing in blender to do everything elese.
This video is PERFECT thankyou!
Excellent video. You've made up my mind about Zbrush.
Wonderful explanation thank you
Thanks for the video. This is exactly what I was confused about wanting to get in back into 3d sculpting after 10 plus years out of it. Blender wasn't really this big back then and I was wandering if it offers the same organic sculpting feel, this video confirmed to mee that it doesn't.
So clear, that I, even me (not speak english very well)
I understand perfectly your explanation.
Thank you so much!
i will learn Zbrush (to sculp) and C4D ( to every thing else)
Very informative, I greatly appreciate you Bro!
bro thanks so much, you actually made soft soft easy to understand
that really clear things up for me as im a noobie in sculpting and just 3D design programs in general. Thank you nice quick to the point and short. awesome, not a 13 minute to 25 minute of explaining the difference, i dont have time for that.
I agree with the conclusion of the video, but I'll say that it's true today and may not necessarily be true at some point in the future. Blender has an unparalleled rate of change. I believe it has something like 18 full-time coders at the Blender Foundation. Things improve rapidly, far more than any other program I know. But today, in 2022, I agree with this video.
Super well explained.
Thank you for this. Blender has one advantage for me personally. And that is cost. If I ever get into a good financial situation, I will be giving zbrush a try. And now I have a perfect set of tuts to help.
thanks! Finally an honest review to push me to use zbrush. types of videos you mentioned at start of video kept me trying in blender and failing for a year.
The best comparison video ever
Thanks for your answer! ❤
best thing for me in blender is the ability to split screen and have each one in a diferent view, seeing the resolts in real time without haveing to move around like in zbrush. its a lot more efective in seeing your model.
well understood. Thank you you are the best teacher.
Now I understand how to make loops and export everytNice tutorialng really god bless you.. your way of explaining simply aweso I loved it
Dude you deserve more subs for these vids my dude. Im working on transferring as we speak. Ive got to learn maya quickly as well.
The analogies were beautiful in this one!
love it, thank you
Sounds like a fair conclusion. I must admit this is not a series I have followed because I have no intention of picking up Z-Brush. I am a hobbyist artist that does a bit of everything in blender and its nice having a single tool with a lot of common methods, mechanisms and interfaces across it many features. I don't have to buy a stack of tools and plug-ins, don't have to keep up with the intricacies of each package and their revisions for me with my low volume of varied work I feel it saves time and lots of money (especially as these companies move to monthly subscriptions and mandatory online logins).
"I am a hobbyist" This video wasn't for you then.
Thank you so much for this.
By far the best tutorial i found to tNice tutorials in a short ti
was a life-saver. Thanks a lot.
"They get caught up and confused by how to combine the curve modifier with the array modifier" It's like you KNEW I spent about 30 minutes last night frustrated to hell and back about not getting a chain rope to work properly and I just had to guess my way to a finished decent results 😭😩😅😂
Finally soone who speaks in a calm way and getting to the point asap
Great video!
Thank U! Great vid.
Thanks for the comparison!
I’m not sure if I’d ever buy it, but I tried Core Mini and the trial and… sculpting in Zbrush is not compared. When you start pulling and pushing around it was surprised how smooth it feels. Disappointing that the free versions don’t allow subtools so you can only go so far, but I guess that’s how they reel you in.
I love Blender because it’s free and plenty HAVE made wonderful sculpts of varying styles, but sometimes I wish I could afford and justify paying for Zbrush. Like you say some of the clunky setup and settings and remeshing isn’t as smooth as Zbrush.
Thanks for your videos!
Thanks for this comparison video, it really highlights the differences between the two software. I still think Zbrush is still way too expensive for anyone who is still learning and/or not making money off of their models.
Something I would love to see is a 3DCoat vs Zbrush comparison video, as they are both sculpting specialized software. 3DCoat also has extensive 3D texture painting, texture map baking, and a 1-time purchase price model; it seems like a great package.
Thankyou... ive just come onto "build my own assets" part of my game and was acking this exact question!
conclusion: i will be learning Zbrush, rigging and level designe with blender, animating with cascader and following your tutorials ;)
Thank you so much for this
The best comparison ever.
Zbrush is quirky, strange, and blistering fast
There is so much power and customizability.
As a zbrush hobbyist I do find blender essential
because zbrush doesn't rig, and checking and adjusting uv's made in zbrush is easier in blender.
That super screwdriver paired with the swiss army knife is a great combination
You can build the whole thing game ready with 2 tools
and it is so much better than if you only use one.
I wish more blender users would try zbrush mini and consider adding zbrush core to their workflow.
They can do so much more when used together.
Even if you have things like maya/max, oddly enough blender comes in handy all the time, and there is no other sculpt tool like ZB
Its nice that both will run on kind of lame hardware too.
Great vid.
This has been very useful video for me
Cool, thanks for clearing things up. I was wondering what the real difference was like for both....also Love the Armored Core 2 music at the end....😆😆
Thank you for the clarification
You're the best! Awesome teacher
understand the basics of the software untill now. Your guide is very very good quite simple and very helpful. I gave you a like and a sub
Thank you so much for making these points about Zbrush. It all makes complete sense now as an amateur modeler whose put thousands of hours in three years into blender. When I trialed ZBrush I was like NOPE not doing this. Why would anyone use this? Now it makes complete sense with your perspective.