Overview

ZBrush sets the industry standard for digital sculpting and painting. Its features enable you to use customizable brushes to shape, texture and paint virtual clay in a real-time environment that provides instant feedback. When you use ZBrush you'll be empowered by the same tools employed by film studios, game developers, toy/collectible makers, jewelry designers, automotive/aviation designers, illustrators, advertisers, scientists and other artists the world over.

In short, ZBrush is an art tool created by artists, for artists. It allows you to create models and illustrations limited only by your imagination, at a speed that allows you to stand out in today's fast paced industry.

What's New

ZBrush for iPad

The newly released ZBrush for iPad is revolutionizing digital sculpting by making it possible to take the power of Academy Award-winning ZBrush on the go to sculpt, paint, and bring creations to life anywhere in real time with Apple’s touch-based capabilities!

It provides the same multi-resolution mesh editing capabilities found in the desktop version, but now you can create on the go!

Sculpt realistic characters and creatures, lay the foundations for new and never-before-seen environments, or just experiment with ideas and whatever inspires you.

ZBrush for iPad offers many of the same tools and features found in the desktop version, including our unrivaled collection of over 200 proprietary digital sculpting brushes created with real-world sculpting techniques in mind.

Highlights

BORN IN CLAY ZBrush sets the industry standard for digital sculpting and painting. Its features enable you to use customizable brushes to shape, texture and paint virtual clay in a real-time environment that provides instant feedback. When you use ZBrush you'll be empowered by the same tools employed by film studios, game developers, toy/collectible makers, jewelry designers, automotive/aviation designers, illustrators, advertisers, scientists and other artists the world over. In fact, we have even received an Academy Award for the technology that powers ZBrush. In short, ZBrush is an art tool created by artists, for artists. It allows you to create models and illustrations limited only by your imagination, at a speed that allows you to stand out in today's fast paced industry.
	DIGITAL SCULPTING Get empowered by the world’s leading digital sculpting solution. The powerful systems inside of ZBrush are designed to eliminate the constraints of traditional modeling and allow you to create freely, just as you would with clay. When you’re ready to move your 3D sculpt into a pipeline for animation, rendering or 3D printing, the tools to do so are at hand. BASE MESH CREATION DYNAMIC SCULPTING BRUSH SYSTEM SCULPTURAL FREEDOM POLYGON MODELING OPTIONS REMESHING OPTIONS FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS
PAINTING & TEXTURING Because ZBrush works with tens of millions of polygons in real-time, you can paint directly on the surface of the model without first assigning a texture map or UV’s. This offers significant advantages compared to a standard workflow. The resolution of the texture map does not need to be decided in advance. You have the freedom to visualize, explore and create textures in 3D, and in real time. POLYPAINT UV MASTER SPOTLIGHT ADVANCED FEATURES
	READY, SET, RENDER Whether you are using ZBrush by itself as an illustration tool or as part of a production pipeline for animation, you will at some point want to show your work to others. ZBrush makes this possible using Redshift, as well as a powerful rendering system called BPR (Best Preview Render). REDSHIFT IN ZBRUSH BPR LIGHTCAP® SYSTEM MAP GENERATION CUSTOM MATERIALS
TOOLS PIPELINE The intuitive approach of ZBrush doesn’t end with sculpting and painting. Interoperability is at your fingertips, with support for key file formats and real time integration with a number of popular software packages. FILE FORMATS UNIVERSAL CAMERA INTEROPERABILITY
	COMMUNITY ZBrush is not just an application. You’ll be welcomed into one of the largest communities of artists gathered around any 3D software. From our active online community at ZBrushCentral, to our community events, ZBrushLIVE streams and online learning platforms - we believe in helping artists elevate one another. ZBRUSHCENTRAL ZCLASSROOM #ASKZBRUSH ZBRUSHLIVE ZBRUSH SUMMIT INSTAGRAM
REQUIREMENTS ZBrush is available in the following languages: English, German, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, French, Japanese ZBrush is available for both Windows and macOS platforms, and the licensing is dual platform so you can run on both or change between them at any time. Thanks to its processor-based engine, ZBrush runs well on most modern computers regardless of their graphics cards. A graphic tablet (such as from Wacom) is strongly recommended. It will give you more control and easier interaction. Support now extends to include Apple M1 and M2 Silicon Graphics chip processing. Take advantage of the latest technology while working inside the world’s most powerful digital sculpting software.

All Features

SCULPTING Base Mesh Creation ZBrush provides an arsenal of tools that will help you take your models to the next level.	SCULPTING Brush System Utilize your graphics tablet to enjoy the natural feeling and precise control of working with clay using a real brush or sculpting tool.	SCULPTING Sculptural Freedom Utilize your graphics tablet to enjoy the natural feeling and precise control of working with clay using a real brush or sculpting tool.
SCULPTING Polygon Modeling ZBrush’s capabilities are not limited to organic sculpting: You can also use it to intuitively create low poly hard surface models.	SCULPTING Remeshing Options Stop thinking about the topology of a model and just start creating. ZBrush can convert your sculpt to a clean base mesh almost instantly.	SCULPTING Flexible Workflows Combine multiple sculptures together, contract, expand inflate or drape any surface with gravity or populate your model with instanced geometry.
PAINTING & TEXTURING PolyPaint Polypainting offers improved flexibility over the standard workflow - start working on textures even before the final low-res mesh has been created!	PAINTING & TEXTURING UV Master UV Master will generate UV coordinates for your models in a single click, resulting in an optimized UV map which is understandable to the human eye.	PAINTING & TEXTURING Spotlight SpotLight is a projection texturing system for preparing your source texture directly in ZBrush, then paint your model with it in 3D.
PAINTING & TEXTURING Advanced Painting & Texturing Morph a 3D mesh into its flat UV shell to paint long continuous strokes using MorphUV or use ZColor to achieve consistent coloring results.	RENDERING Rendering BPR (Best Preview Render) quickly renders any model in edit mode with Shadows, 3D Fibers, Ambient Occlusion, Transparent Subtools, or HD Geometry.	RENDERING LightCap® System LightCap® is a way to create both Materials or Matcap® in real-time by manipulating directly the lights they simulate.
RENDERING Map Generation ZBrush offers several types of mapping to create the most dynamic surfaces on your 3D models, including Texture, Displacement, and Normal Maps.	RENDERING Custom Materials You can make your own custom materials or get them from ZBrushCentral, the Pixologic MatCap Library and elsewhere.	RENDERING Redshift in ZBrush Redshift in ZBrush integrate fully GPU-accelerated, biased rendering into your ZBrush pipeline.
PIPELINE Universal Camera ZBrush’s universal camera is a physically accurate camera which can be imported from or exported to other 3D applications.	PIPELINE Interoperability With the GoZ dynamic bridge, you can send your ZBrush model back and forth between supported applications with a single click.	PIPELINE Supported Formats ZBrush supports various formats for the import and export of 3D geometry as well as most industry-standard image formats for texturing.

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Discover What's New In ZBrush4R7

What it's about
Join us, as Pixologic’s own Paul Gaboury takes on a tour through ZBrush . He will be covering all of the new exciting features, which include ZModeler, Array Mesh, NanoMesh and the ZBrush to Keyshot Bridge. He’s even going to share a couple other additional features of you may not have been aware of in ZBrush4R7.

Who is presenting
Paul Gaboury works for Pixologic helping to bring the next generation of sculpting software to the world. He has trained at nearly every major film and game company and has developed training programs for universities and educational institutions around the globe.

Who should watch
Any ZBrush user or anyone interested in adding ZBrush to their pipeline

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