is Blender Good for Sculpting

[@csmemarketing]

This is a really important Blender video. I like how you show that Blender's sculpting is not as good as Z-Brush, and does not claim to be, but once you know how to use it, a Talented Sculptor can do work as good as in Z-Brush. Like Zach from CG Boost. He's the best Blender Sculptor I've seen. I've been trying out the new Sculpt mode just yesterday in Blender 2.82a, and it's very smooth and didn't slow down my low-end laptop at all. That's a good re-write.

[@martincireg3862]

I would say that there are pluses and minuses to both programs. The curve system in blender is really nice for hair, the pose brush looks great, the cloth brush to, multiple views, better shading (which comes useful only at the end, fine surfacing), instancing, the bevel for polygons, some brushes feel more smooth. The progress is impressive. Zbrush pluses are: bigger poly counts (you can extrude thousands of polygon), more robust dynameshing, a more flexible user interface (custom menus), better undo, great projection of details, better masking, clay polish, I can split high poly meshes, close holes on high poly meshes, better hard surface tools, better retopo, decimation master (you need a low static poly game mesh, one button press and you are 99 percent done). There is more, just the stuff from top of my head. There is also 3D Coat, and its cutting brush in voxel mode is the best. (crashes a lot to) Blender sculpting looks great, but Zbrush as sad in the video, is the king so far. Oh Zbrush isn't stable at all the most unstable program that I ever used, fortunately it has quick save (saving when crashing).

[@amitrana2756]

Martin Cireg the good thing is that blender is constantly evolving and a lot of care is being given to the sculpting tools. As someone with fair amount of experience in zbrush I won't deny its supremacy in its position (also the fact that the zbrush community is less toxic to blenderheads than their autodesk counterpart) but I firmly believe that blender is slowly but surely making its sculpting toolset very strong. Just a few days ago the 2.90 build kept its performance in sculpting with 8-9 mil polys and here is where we arrive at a big contrast in the principles that differ in both packages, blender's core principle (or atleast one of) is emphasis on clean topology. Most of the time people forget that blender has only gradually adapted to the industry's way of doing things and that although it has many similarities to it now than it did a few years ago, a core principle that still dominates the workflow in blender is this chase for clean topology. Blender definitely can improve in alot of areas but it is mindblowing for a software to do so many things and yet still be free.

[@mborok]

@Trantor The Troll Max doesn't have sculpting tools, Maya has barely any and Cinema 4D has sculpting that is better than you would expect, but still nothing like Blender's. This is a discussion of sculpting tools in particular, not general-purpose 3D modeling. And I dare you to find any artist who can produce a hybrid 2D / 3D film like "Hero" in any single application other than Blender. I mean, fair is fair, if we're going to compare these programs based on the total feature set and not just the sculpting tools, we need to include the cel animation features - which no other 3D program has, and yet which are in demand in certain parts of the industry. Getting back to ZBrush vs. Blender, though, NOT EVERY ARTIST NEEDS A DEDICATED SCULPTING PROGRAM. Sorry for yelling. If you just need to occasionally put a few touches on a landscape or a tree with rough bark, or just add some surface details, then absolutely you don't need a $900 program, and at the same time you do need something better than the crummy tools built into Maya (I learned this while trying to add wrinkles to an elephant's trunk in that program at one point). To summarize: sculpting tools are in demand in general-purpose programs like Maya, Max, Cinema 4D, Modo and Blender. If they weren't, Autodesk et al. wouldn't be adding them to the feature set. Out of all general-purpose programs, the sculpting tools in Blender are the best, period.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

@@martincireg3862 I believe the undoing is much better now, but probably not as good as Zbrush. Their remesher is done by that master coder. PS you can get that addon for blender. The Zbrush remesher is made by that same developer. I really wonder how he has got that to work without issues with Zbrush.

[@tamgaming9861]

Blender isnt maybe as good for sculpting like z-brush, but that is only a question of time as we saw in the past AND for free! I believe in blender!

[@mborok]

Some of the upcoming tools which allow animating sculpts in a "claymation" style may put Blender into a unique position as a sculpting program, not as a replacement for ZBrush, but as a specialized tool for certain projects.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

THis is already in test builds right. Key Sculpting or something like that. Bizarre how they can do this. Wonder though if the poly count needs to be the same each frame

[@Nova-sama420]

Don't need more brushes, need more performance.

[@jascrandom9855]

Multires is now coming in 2.90 to help with that.

[@shadowsketch926]

@@jascrandom9855 what exactly does multires do for sculpting? i like sculpting in blender but got no idea what these two things do together.

[@Supreme-Emperor-Mittens]

This is a REALLY GOOD QUESTION to ask. I don't really see lots of sculpting tutorials for Blender - but the world is flooded with zBrush tutorials - lol

[@dewbzki]

SUPREME EMPEROR MITTENS I’ve noticed that too. But tbh the fundamentals/brushes are the same. Lately I’ve been watching Zbrush tutorials and following along in Blender. Watching a lot of traditional clay sculpting videos helps a lot too :)

[@Bcr3106]

its like they made zbrush difficult to use or something /s

[@santicheeks1106]

I hate sculpting in blender but thats because I have my laptop only, and I dont have a tablet to help me out so its super hard for me

[@The_Formgiver]

@@Bcr3106 the ui is a nightmare but its worth it if you get past that

[@Bcr3106]

@@The_Formgiver but it doesn't have to be... That's my point. They could rework the UI and have it still be just as good

[@TotallyToonsTV]

It REALLY shows that you can produce the same results on a free program like Blender that you can on an expensive program like Zbrush, if you have the skill.

[@johnbiggie3630]

Look at how far Blender has come in a short period of time! Zbrush is amazing but its pricey. Now with 2.9 coming with multiresolution. I can see Blender getting very close to Zbrush by the end of the year and its free! How do you compete with free?

[@Pesto-64]

@@ElleElleElleL As a ZBrush user I think you are being too harsh. Blender sculpting at this point is like ZBrush Core +. Sure it doesn't have all the features of ZBrush but it doesn't have to. I have been pleasantly surprised at what can be done and the benefit of not having to leave the package to pose, animate and render is a huge plus. Now, yes ZBrush is a beast but most people only use about 20% of the features...and usually those features are in Blender. ZBrush's advantages in my opinion are the ability to handle very large polygon counts, ZRemesher, Dynamesh and Sculptris Pro. In Blender it's just a little different workflow to accomplish what these tools do. It's really not fair comparing the 2 as they both have their "sweet spots". The great thing is that since Blender is free, anyone can download and use it. Blender fans are just excitedly optimistic about these new features and this is not much different than when ZBrush has a new release. We are lucky to have all these tools available.

[@SVI_graphics]

@@Pesto-64 Yes, I really think you can learn with the software you want. obviusly if you want to work on realistic filsm or videogames you will have to jump to Zbrush at some point, but anatomy is the same. I only sculpt on Zbrush but i like what blender is doing, I don't think i will ever jump to blender as Zbrush is the king at what I need, but it is good to have it there.

[@PhantomGanhdi]

Is zbrush really pricey or its just not free lol. $895 for a life time license which you can work and make back all of that money. Now, if it was like 2k+ and a yearly subscription based model then I’d understand it being “pricey” but a one time price less than 1k... Sure, if you are just doing this for a hobby and have no intention of going into this field and or monetizing your work but if you are monetizing your work and or trying to learn to get a job then I see no excuse not contributing in some way back to the software which is helping you make money.

[@bam_bino__]

@@PhantomGanhdi ddpends do you want to support maxon

[@karagosi]

I never wanted to learn sculpting in blender till the time i wanted to create animation involving human character and animals for my KZbin channel, then i realized that there is so much i need to know about sculpting. Currently im learning sculpting and for sure it worth learning.

[@fasterthanthoughts1348]

But now you can do work with highpoly model using multirer modifier || blender version 2.90 alpha||

[@johnbiggie3630]

Its awesome!!

[@ArsyaUtomo]

Only on 2.9 ?

[@arianullah6257]

Arsya Utomo yes

[@WerrinLotsuvhats]

multires has been a thing in blender for a long time, even before 2.8

[@WerrinLotsuvhats]

@@ArsyaUtomo this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. multires and dynotopo has been a thing for years

[@donaldkhogan]

That clay brush change is pretty big honestly. Makes a big difference in the "feel" of the roughing out "silhouetting" phase of design.

[@skyrimods2357]

Algo que yo siempre digo es que: El programa no hace al artista, el artista lo hace o lo convierte sus habilidades, si sabes esculpir en zbrush sabrás esculpir en blender, mudbox, sculptris, etc. Un ejemplo muy fácil es el siguiente: Un pintor tendrá sus pinceles favoritos, pero si un día se le olvidan y tiene que usar otros que no sean los suyos, no importa ya que el hará lo mismo, las broshas no hacen al pintor lo que es, si no él mismo. Por último si sabes que Zbrush es el estándar en la industria tienes que adaptarte y usarlo. Básicamente Zbrush es el rey al menos hoy en día por las cosas que te deja hacer que otros programas no tiene y uno que es la principal diferencia y por la que todos usan zbrush es por la cantidad absurda de polígonos que te deja tener a la hora de esculpir. Excelente video ^u^😊❤️

[@user-no3tu9kh3p]

Aprenda la idioma inglés antes usted comentas en un canal inglés, por favor.

[@Sarah-ew5cg]

@@user-no3tu9kh3p y tu aprende el español, por favor. Cada quien que comente lo que quiere, facil lo puedes traducir

[@jascrandom9855]

You forgot about Multires that is now coming in Blender 2.90, with the ability to recreate Subdivisions.

[@galaxyangelzz]

And cloth sculpt

[@jascrandom9855]

@@galaxyangelzz Cloth Brush

[@chopsuey4698]

I don't understand, what changes with 2.9 compared to 2.82? I use multiresolustion for sculpture in 2.82, what will be the difference please ?

[@DeejayGrafixx]

the reason why most blender artists or maya or max artists use zbrush is not because of the brushes,nor the tools..its the workflow

[@LOCKSHADES]

Recently I worked on something that was a total of 35million faces, and 11gb of data. It was quite fast relatively compared to what you'd expect

[@InspirationTuts]

Blender is getting better.

[@Userdoesnotexit]

biggest problem now for sculpting is performance handling high count polygon.. but that is only matter of time.

[@darrennew8211]

Don't forget the cloth sculpt brush, which is basically a full cloth simulation in a sculpt brush. Look at some demos to be amazed.

[@mighty2146]

Well its true that sculpting doesn't need technical skill but artistic skills are important because those can only make the end result appealing.

[@Khatri3D]

i have switched to Blender from zbrush. Blender has alot of potential and it keeps getting updated each month. Alpha beta then final Builds. they are also working on implementing GPU power to sculpting. the code to Fake Polygons like what zbrush do. that way blender will be able to handle Million of polygons soon. the upcoming 2.90 Blender update has alot of potential

[@joshuamilano3750]

3:58 Ouch! That must be bad for his back

[@ThatElfNerd]

My 3D teacher, while a big fan of Blender becoming more of a big player, still sticks to Zbrush for high-poly sculpting. His opinion is that while Blender's sculpt mode can do a huge amount of things, it's still limited in brushes, and Blender tends to lag/crash when approaching over a million vertices. Because of that, he has recommended us to save up money to buy Zbrush in the future when we're done our studies.

[@Gareathm]

I think zbrush is a valuable purchase since they have given free updates to anyone who bought a license for over a decade and it is relatively low cost compared to a lot of software. Since I do character design I find that using zbrush as my primary and first stage and then to blender to fill in the gaps is a working strategy for me.

[@sol_mental]

I'm not a big 3D guru or something alike, but I surely have done little studies with over 10 million vertices and blender didn't even blink over it in sculpting mode (well, it did get slow at editing mode xD); and the fact is, I have a total of 0 GPUs and not the best CPU and so on. I guess at the end Blender is powerful although not a specialist; it won't give an enormous support over sculpting, but it won't stop the person from doing any work xD

[@AngelCnderDreamer]

I love Blender, but I am not fond of the tools...I wish they made it better and added more. Even though there is add ons, but I have trouble on my end getting tools to work from the add ons I downloaded, still Blender is a great program and I still love it. ^ ^ Heck it is way better than it EVER was before. ;3; I love the update and the huge change still.

[@user-no3tu9kh3p]

If you want more, why don't you contribute?

[@ranikgoyal2282]

Why blender is very small in like 180mb but if u go for a dedicated software like zbrush it is around 2-3gb why is that

[@imaginaryash1807]

cuz they need to sell them yearly and add a ton of tools every year for the customers. and that leads for programmer to add alot of library s to get stuff done faster and that add to the size and lower the performance to do the same thing every year. but blender codes are clean and its pure python so the codes are just mostly texts that dont need lot of space. zbrush still good on size and performance imo. autodesk is horrible at this like 3D max... in the ammount of time you need to spend to install it and run it you can just download blender and finish a model 😂

[@Mr.Sozzled]

sloppy and complicated coding

[@geoffreymegardon5624]

Blender is mostly written in C, with some parts written in python. The python parts basically call parts of the C code. At least, that’s what I understand from the source code :) In the 2-3 gb of ZBrush, perhaps a large parts is allocated to assets (brushes, textures, images) and documentation (images, videos?) ? But that’s true that sometimes games or apps are packed with a particular distribution of C++ or other dependencies, and that can take quite a lot of storage space.

[@ranikgoyal2282]

@@geoffreymegardon5624 thanks for info. Very educational 👍

[@litjellyfish]

Ashkan Bakhtiar Zbrush has much better performance than blender...

[@JC-bh2dm]

Very informative video thank you!!

[@hydraulichydra8363]

5:13 that is amazing

[@Cyber_Kriss]

05:55 That pose brush... I never have been able to understand how to use it. In this video I see the brush can be "subdivided" with many articulation points. All I can see when I use it is a simple line (2 points, literally), which destroys my sculpt when I try to move anything. What I see at 06:00 blows my mind away... How do you do that ? Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to use this ?

[@DanniTheL]

So the points are controlled by the amount of IK segments. I found a very short tutorial on how to change that. hope it helps kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpqyhWSGgaiHrNE

[@murdocklesban6836]

yes this pose mode its a crap

[@freakydayz7211]

Blender is Amazing 🤗

[@LOCKSHADES]

I have a problem....I'm addicted to your channel, regardless of what you post. Is that weird

[@InspirationTuts]

i think it is a completely healthy addiction 😁 . thank you for supporting this channel.

[@kimsonone]

love 3d with Saul Goodman!

[@janreyducay2698]

Who needs intro? Great vid

[@timothycottrell2635]

Good video I enjoyed that

[@kelvinwilliam4787]

Which laptop are you using

[@miaa.pariss]

Is blender completely free?

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Would be nice if you had links to the artist which we saw in the video. I saw some pretty sick models!

[@Luis-Guilherme]

Yeah, great video. I just don't think it's a fair comparison at all. Blender is a general, all-purpose 3D software and should be treated as such. If you compare it against most competition in this category (Maya, 3DS, C4D), Blender is actually one of the best, if not the best all-around 3D software when it comes to its sculpting capabilities. To be honest, even comparing it with ZBrush (THE ultimate sculpt software, dedicated solely for sculpting) says a lot about how far Blender is going. Imagine comparing something totally out of their league and not only that: actually being considered as an alternative without even trying to be a sculpt tool. To me sounds like some Rocky I type of thing, where Blender was never even supposed to be compared against ZBrush, but when it does, it is goes surprisingly well. Just like Rocky was never supposed to win Apollo or something. Anyway, as of today Blender is far from being ZBrush and that's fine, it's not meant to be. However, I'm confident that in the future it may be equally as good as an alternative for different types of projects and workflows, specially for indie studios and freelance artists.

[@diamand1st]

Great vid!

[@sanjayk2444]

Due to performance only autodesk didnt intregate the sculpting feature in maya....

[@aleksandera75]

They bought Mudbox.

[@cricguru301]

Bro which blender version are you working onn plz answer

[@jeffspinner6579]

Did I hear you say ZBrush? All I hear is ZBrush. I did use the native brush tools yeasterday, to create non-perfect cubes as my ice cubes because using the warbling musgrave node was hard to understand given even if it's a Lazy Tutorial, it takes GREAT EFFORT to understand the guy at 4x speed. I'm gonna move his video into Pr, slow it down, and pitch shift his freakin voice so it doesn't sound so creepy slow. 70% speed makes voices sound creepy. He's like a magician, laughing at you in those videos, ty for having GREAT VIDEOS to watch, btw. Did you say ZBrush? All I hear is ZBrush because after a billion hours it took to learn and use, I don't see a reason to stop doing it wrong longer. Or am I wrong? Is Thoreau wrong about experience, i.e., "doing it wrong, longer?"

[@maxleiva6828]

5:14 what is that video?

[@beatallmighty58]

KUDOS and well done..............

[@topramen7431]

My beef with blender is the fact you can’t cut out unneeded mesh in sculpt mode

[@AlexNguyen_Design]

blender is the best because its freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@pedrobraun1534]

Can you do a video about if I use Blender worth it buying Maya if 3d modelling (and other 3d stuff) is not my work ?

[@angryvaginasfromspace7718]

I think not. Blender has A TON of features to go through, esp. if you are a hobbyist.

[@stana1980]

Maya is available for free download from auto desk site for non commercial use a single version is licensed for 3 years then you have to update the software and acquire a new free license from them for another 3 years. If you are going for commercial purpose then get a commercial license or indi licence. What good with blender is you are not tied with any licence and you could use which ever version of blender you like.

[@ChristinaMcKay]

@@stana1980 not anymore. They changed the education license. You now need to submit paperwork to prove you are really a student and you only get Maya for 1 year.

[@Evasi0m]

to sum it up (in my opinion) it's good, but there's better

[@Mikekiller740]

Is there a list of the artists visible in the video ? Nice video btw !

[@l9139]

Bottom left

[@integragemi7234]

Not at all for extreme details, but you can get decent works zbrush still extreme far superior for CGI. But blender is awesome for games sculpting.

[@ChristinaMcKay]

Look at the high detailled sculpts done by Yan, CG Boost, Julien Kaspar and Pablo Dobarro, to name a few. All done only using Blender and proving your statement "not at all for extreme details" to be wrong. 😉

[@gabrieldodge5861]

Blender is now good for everything

[@WerrinLotsuvhats]

Short answer, Yes it is. as long as you are a skilled sculptor. if you cannot get by with blender's tools, then you aren't a good sculptor

[@rajshree3252]

Where did you get Pablo Dobbaro's Girl blender file ???

[@ChristinaMcKay]

He didn't. He is showing other peoples videos.

[@rajshree3252]

@@ChristinaMcKay i didn't even find Pablo's video anywhere

[@DeathDealer-DD]

HD details sculpting : zbrush is the king SD details sculpting : blender it is

[@BobbyJ529]

lol...what. For box modeling blender is better for sure but for any kind of sculpting zbrush smashes. I do like being able to sculpt with eevee and have multiple views though. I've been starting to prefer blender for early stages when design is already "fixed" but no way is it because of blender's sculpting ability.

[@Roule_n_Scratche]

@@BobbyJ529 agreed, and plus, zbrush peformance is so good,blender slows down my laptop

[@_Chad_ThunderCock]

@@Roule_n_Scratche i heard blender is going to further improve modeling performance

[@_s_s_world_]

Ok/ blender is first 3d soft that I start learn and think its very intuitive and friendy. few days ago I m trying a Zbrush... my God! Why everybody jerking on ZB? its so weird! and not usefull, I was schocked and thing i stop with it. Blender one love

[@SlayerDUDE1993]

3:50 kzbin.info - an amazing artist, ex-lightwave power user

[@yrussq]

Lol) Looks like it's time to rename your channel from InpirationTuts to Shallow3DRants. No tuts for a year..))

[@TJPet2]

think of it this way. 1. get free software 2. use free software, get good at, make money on things you make. 3. save enough, use money to buy professional software 4. if free software still good, keep using it, if not, replace with paid better software

[@misamalirizvi1610]

NAAAICE!

[@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418]

Blender does no try to imitate z-brush.

[@thatoneuser8600]

5:06 WHY IS HE ZOOMING IN, NO ONE'S GOING TO SEE ALL THOSE LITTLE TINY DETAILS, what a waste of friggen time jk I've never sculpted before

[@SebastianCavazzoli]

I guess you could give some credit to all the artists that made this video possible bro

[@Mysderdragoness]

There is in the left lower corner, like one of my fav sculptors on KZbin Hokiroya doing the indoraptor sculpt

[@arthasmenethil381]

Did they paid you to promote ZBrush?

[@user-no3tu9kh3p]

Wouldn't be surprised. Zbrush tries to get as many sponsorships as they can. It's the RAID shadow legends of software.

[@MangaGamified]

Why is there still a Is Blender good for sculpting video in 2020? maybe in 2015 but in 2020? Blender just skyrocketed and got a ton of funding amidst the pandemic, Please educate me what comes close in free tier, I know there's Zbrushcoremini as the name implied it has mini features compared to it's paid counterpart.

[@InspirationTuts]

Because new people have no idea about what Blende can do, and they are looking for answers.

[@CGKey]

Where is that Sculpt Vertex Color option??? I'd never seen it before! *EDIT* This feature is beyond experimental, Pablo Dobarro, the Blender Dev in charge of the sculpting branch is currently working on it. The feature should be added to the master branch at some point in the near future

[@izat-x]

I wont traslette your video. Can are use it?

[@tomeryud]

learn english first lol

[@izat-x]

@@deadhorsecorpse8576 я знаю, я хочу выпускать переводы его видео об этом я и написал ему нуу попытался я сейчас заметил что в дело вмешалась т9

[@khhnator]

is this video made for a class or something? it definitely written like something made for homework

[@ApexArtistX]

Can any modellers scupt something which is not a demon ? Like something beautiful ? It seems 2020 is age of monster

[@bigboomer1013]

Ok what on earth is that? I want to make an action figure so I need that. Is it on blender? 9:19

[@BossBabyBestAnime]

You can do that in blender too, but the clip is from zbrush

[@SVI_graphics]

It's Zbrush booleans

[@vigneshlakshmivision7167]

The stuff showing in this video...is that done by you? ..or....if it is yours kindly make that's tutorial...

[@InspirationTuts]

Source/Credit is in the lower left corner. you can check out the artists KZbin channels.

[@vigneshlakshmivision7167]

@@InspirationTuts sorry bro I didn't notice....I read your video description too I think it might be added there😅

[@csmemarketing]

He tags the artists below in the bottom left corner.

[@mikeben9587]

I think there is a mistake in the credits at minute 1.44. As far I know is that model not from jaynam, as it is from the sculpting course from Zacharias Reinhart alias cgboost

[@pr1meKun]

it crash

[@twelvethousandths1698]

2:28 sh00keth

[@philosophyfrog2653]

In terms of performance blender is one of the best 3d softwares out there. There's no other 3d software that has so much functionality as blender, it's basically 3d photoshop. However in terms of workflow it is the absolute worst. It has terrible UI which is a very big deal because by the end of the day productivity controls the market. It is the only reason why blender is not a pipeline software in the modern industry and probably won't be for quite some time despite being free and more easily accessible for beginners.

[@cyrillimoges9372]

Really don't agree with you for ui, and Blender is less powerfull than 3dsmax for manage point cloud. But UI on Blender is the best, greater than 3ds and Maya. I customize my ui in the way i want, with pie menu. When you work on production with Blender TD pipeline, they customize our ui for our purpose ( i recently test a Blender ui for layout and it was just a gift of god ). The most problem with Blender is lot of Blender guy don't want to use Blender with other software ( zbrush, painter, speed tree, marvelous, Houdini ). But, time begin to change.

[@gug8774]

Meh ill keep sculpting LOctuses

[@survivalsmallkitchen1447]

hello brother

[@InspirationTuts]

What's up?

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Sculpting is not a complicated process.... ehmmm you sure about that?

[@olegcherkasky2755]

Blender is already catching up to professional grade software and I suspect that in the next 5-10 years it'll catch up to programs like Zbrush.

[@digitalsketchguy]

Blender is becoming too good. I fear it might go supernova and collapse into a black hole aka an Adobe buy out. Hope not.

[@ahrimandelivor568]

Blender modelling program and its onlye for amateur,blender not working for high poly sculpt animation and vs ..its modelling basic program because onlye 180 mb :) but zbrush 3dcoat good for sculpt realye good performance its not amateur realye high price.u are amateur go blender u are jobs go zbrush 3dcoat vs

[@grentirek8168]

Sculpting human is haram in religion İslam!

[@Christophersarts]

Nooooo. Just Zbrush. 👍