Zbrush 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Zbrush

4.7

(36)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Zbrush

ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting tool created for artists and designers who want to unlock their full creative potential. Its robust processor-based engine ensures seamless performance on most modern computers, while its versatile tools make sculpting and painting a breeze.

ZBrush's customizable brushes, real-time environment, and instant feedback allow you to shape, texture, and paint virtual clay with unparalleled precision. ZBrush's powerful tools have been trusted and recognized by film studios, game developers, toy makers, jewelry designers, and many other artists worldwide.

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Zbrush Pricing and Plans

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Zbrush Features

Popular features found in 3D CAD
2D Drawing
Animation
Bill of Materials Management
Data Import/Export
For 3D Printing
For Architects
For Manufacturers
More features of Zbrush
3D Design & Modeling
Annotations
API

Zbrush User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

75%

22%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.5

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.1

Functionality

4.8

Marcin M.

Verified reviewer

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

The combine harvester program can do so much that it's hard to grasp it :)

A great program for normal money, with virtually no competition. It worked great for me in designing jewelry and optimizing complex geometries. I highly recommend it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Versatility, speed of operation, functionality, multitude of applications. Lighting works well in quickly calculating and optimizing large meshes, works great in jewelry design.

Cons:

it is very extensive and therefore requires time to learn it well and use its full capabilities, but this is such a small disadvantage against the background of many advantages.

Micalen R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Games

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Zbrush: A premium 3D creation tool.

Zbrush is an amazing premium tool to use that offers professional quality. My experience with Zbrush has been very positive! The tool is incredible for 3D creation and modelling. Definitely worth the price if you can afford it!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Zbrush is a premium software and that means it's incredibly professional. The UI has become very easy to use and looks less dense than before. Zbrush has amazing transform and sculpting tools that I use to create characters and objects. The texture paint tool offers a large amount of texture brushes that easily transform the material with the texture. Zbrush is also great for creating landscapes which I would then export for games.

Cons:

The biggest con of Zbrush is the price. It can be a steep price to pay if you are an indie creator or it's just a hobby for you. However, if you can afford it or you are more of a professional who requires premium tools then Zbrush is worth it. I have experienced a small amount of crashes when using Zbrush but the updates then to reduce that amount.

Reasons for switching to Zbrush

Both are paid software but Zbrush had features Maya didn't have.

Janet V.

Verified reviewer

Computer Games

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

Difficult to get into but otherwise very versatile

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Though I have now switched over to Blender, during the earlier years of Blender, ZBrush was the go-to for sculpting game assets. It's still a very powerful software once you get over the hurdle of learning how to use it.

Cons:

The approachability for new users is is quite bad. Unintuitive UX being the worst offender. The price is still not that high compared to Maya, but it is probably still quite a lot for a lone developer.

Eliseo T.

Verified reviewer

Animation

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

One of my favorites design softwares.

My overall experience is a good one.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that it’s very different in terms of tools and design functionality. I switched from blender and I found this software way more useful and easy.

Cons:

I don’t like that if you are a beginner this is not a software for you.

Reasons for switching to Zbrush

Because I found the other softwares too simple and for beginners.

Nicholas C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

3D software for modeling

It's takes time to learn the systems but once you get a hang of it you can produce exceptional quality models. Besides the price Zbrush is a great tool for high poly work.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great tool to produce high-quality poly work. Extensive range of brushes

Cons:

The pricing on it is high, however free upgrades are available

Reasons for switching to Zbrush

To try out the new higher end technology I heard Zbrush has

Verified

Reviewer

Arts and Crafts

2-10 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed September 2023

My sculpture

ZBrush gives you access to a variety of workflows and unlimited creative possibilities thanks to its library of tools

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

it's a very popular tool in the industry,Zbrush allows you to paint directly on the surface of the model without first assigning a UV texture map, which makes the work more realistic.

Cons:

several materials and textures cannot be viewed at the same time in the display window with its rendering engine

Reasons for choosing Zbrush

easy to use

Verified

Reviewer

Oil & Energy

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Don't brush off this reccomendation

As I said. Once you get over the learning curve this is one of the most powerful 3D tools out there. Hard and soft sculpting, characters, animals, there's a lot to this.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

I've tried many other sculpting apps and programs and this one is probably the best one I could suggest. Once you get over the original learning curve, you will quickly realize how powerful this program is.

Cons:

I would like a lot more tutorials for each tool which would cut the learning curve down a bit. There are some really awesome tools that have little to no explanation.

Verified

Reviewer

Education Management

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

The first program in the design of objects and characters

It is classified as the first class in the programs of making objects and anime characters, it has a large platform of readily adjustable libraries, you can find what you are looking for easily, and I can use files downloaded from it in other engineering programs to execute the project and appear to the fullest, an application that cannot be dispensed to suckers, engineers and technicians

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

I like his library to examine I like his tools include intelligent evolution the size and tall and skin everything I like to explore characters and edit it

Cons:

occasionally can't work without a mouse, can't use well may Trackpad

Verified

Reviewer

Animation

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

It takes time to get use to it but is an amazing 3d modeling tool

I tried other 3d modeling software and i really like how zbrush gives me the liberty to model like in real life

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Zbrush is a really complex software where you can make 3d modeling in a more didactic way, you can easily move around and model without having any restrictions, its just like modeling in real life

Cons:

It can crash sometimes beacuse of polygons but you just need to get the hang of it.

Verified

Reviewer

Animation

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Zbrush a great way to learn sculpting

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great tablet support, so useful in making 3D sculpt models, is easy to learn and the tools it has are excessive so you can do organic or inorganic models.

Cons:

The UI of zbrush is confusing if you're learning for the first time and the controls are not intuitive if you are coming from another sculpt program.

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