Why i quit Zbrush for Blender as professional 3D Character artist?

many people are asking me this question why why Nick why did you left zebras this amazing program for blender this just free stuff you know what free stuff we all know is junk but why so it's let me tell the story so it was the end of 2021 and I decided the beginning of 2022 I will try to use blender in my my idea was to try using blender to make characters only blender to make the high poly the low poly UVS and I decided to do it so in the beginning of 2022 I started exercises my sculpting in blender and I kind of did it and I made my own workflow in making characters in blender by watching some videos watching some tutorials and stuff I made my own workflow and this workflow kind of worked but the real test came when I had to do because I was working at Gameloft at that time I had to do for the for one of the games one character which was this guy he has four arms he has a lot of detail it came out 21 million triangles the high poly and you know I wasn't sure of myself whether I will be able to do this character when they gave me the concept whether I will be able to do this character in blender only in blender but I said to myself okay you have to try try to do it only in blender and if you succeed at some point you will just be able to do everything in blender if you can do this character in blender you can do have everything so I started it and I did it it was fun it was nice and it turns out that everything can be done then I did couple of more characters for Gameloft in blender some of them semi-realistic even and yeah everything was great so blender turns out to be a program that it can do the same things relatively the same things as the brush although I admit zbrush is the best quilting program in the world yes but blender is not bad at all blender is a very good even and it's so good that it should cost around 500 but it's free because you know zbrush costs above thousand dollars I think these days blender if it was like five hundred dollars it could be just normal just normal software but it's free so it's amazing and uh the guy asked me a couple of days ago he asked me okay Nicole if they gave you one work one head for example and you have to do it in blender and in zbrush which one will take you more time and I say it's the same because tools they don't matter that much skill matters so my recommendation for younger users younger sculptors is to use blender don't worry zbrush is a pain in the ass I mean you either have to get it from the torrents or you have to pay for it and it's pretty expensive so you have those two choices with blender you just download it and you just start sculpting and the excuse that you develop with blender you can easily translate them into zbrush later if you have to for some work if they want you to know zbrush zbrush is just a problem yeah it's a little bit different than most but it's just a program you can learn basic zbrush just normal things that everybody use for less than a month but scoping Anatomy working from concept these are skills that you develop over the years and even I cannot say that I know them perfectly so I I'm still learning everybody is still learning if somebody tell you that they know everything and they can do perfect anatomy and perfect working from concept uh probably they're not quite with their right mind but this was one of the reasons I just tried it just to see if it works just like an adventure and it works and I just say okay why should I use zbrush this free program is amazing blender the other reason is when I released my first blender tutorial which was with the mouse the beginner one I realized that blender tutorials are selling more than zebras tutorials and you can find all my tutorials in the link of the description but that's not the point the idea is that blender tutorials since blender is a free program it has far bigger user base then blender tutorials they are much more um buyable they people are buying them more so for me as a tutor and as a guy now who is supporting himself only from selling courses I would say this was a pretty big deal in my decision of just quitting zbrush and starting using only blender and I can do blender tutorials and for freelance use zbrush but that's what that would be a hypocrisy right because I am doing tutorials how to do whole characters with banner and then I do them with zbrush I'm not that guy so I just forgot about the brush in the last one year and a half since I started using only blender I think I don't have more than five hours in zerobrush in blender I have couple of thousands Maybe so yeah you can imagine that blender nowadays is just my tool I'm using mostly blender for everything the other tools of course are substance painter sometimes I have to use it for texturing and baking Photoshop sometimes I use but zbrush is not my tool anymore and may that may change at some point someday but for now for me blender is the tool of course as I said if you have access to blender and you want to sculpt you don't have to use blender zbrush is a little bit better in sculpting than blender but blender is not very far behind as I told you if blender had a price it would be fair to be around 500 without any issue maybe even maybe even more since it's in many areas it's better than 3D Max it's on the same level as Maya in some levels better so these programs are much more than a thousand dollars so yeah blender is I would say just a perfect tool and yeah that's the reason that I started using blender mostly mostly the reasons for money and just because I just tried it and it worked yeah basically so yeah see you in the next video of course

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Published: Wed Aug 16 2023