ZBrush 2027: Sculpting on the Train
ZBrush 2027 brings Spotlight and 3D Layers to iPad, proper UV editing to desktop, and a welcome contrast to Mudbox's farewell.
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Maxon 2027.0: More Trees, Fewer Detours
Maxon 2027 brings Cinema 4D scatter and Liquid FX, ZBrush UVs, Redshift fur, Red Giant relighting and Autograph MCP. More deep dives follow.
Autodesk Sets Mudbox End-of-Sale Dates
Autodesk ends annual and monthly Mudbox sales on November 7, 2026; Media & Entertainment Collection 2027 is the last collection to include it.
Maxon turns 40, subs get lighter
Maxon celebrates 40 years with 40% off first-year annual subscriptions. Great for carts, less great for anyone remembering Amiga disks.
RadialZ Gives ZBrush a Brush Wheel
RadialZ turns the ZBrush brush library into cursor-side wheels, reducing palette trips and keyboard gymnastics.
Galata.ink Ships Tamga Sculpt and Paint for Browsers
tamga brings lightweight sculpting, vertex paint, and ink style renders to web, desktop, and iPad, with quick OBJ handoff.
FlippedNormals Marketplace closes March 31
The store stops taking orders March 31 and file access ends April 30. Download your library now, then expect a leaner reboot.
Texturing XYZ puts SKAP online, pores included
Texturing XYZ’s SKAP turns 2K to 8K inputs into 16K skin maps in a browser, priced in credits at $1 each.
How I Spent Five Years Making a Solo 3D Film
Maxim Gehricke spent five years creating his solo 3D short film SEN. Here’s how he did it without funding, team, or sleep.
ZBrush 2026.1: Retopo & Assets
Retopology arrives as a sculpting native system, photogrammetry lands on iPad, and ZBrush’s assets finally move out of Program Files.
Sculpt-Offs, Anniversaries & Anatomy: ZBrush Summit 2025 celebrates 25 years
ZBrush turns 25 and Maxon is celebrating online, 7-9 November, with live Sculpt-Offs, artist sessions and a first look at what’s next for ZBrush.
ZBrush for iPad Adds ZModeler
Maxon adds the ZModeler brush to ZBrush for iPad. Artists can now use the poly modeling toolset on iPadOS for mobile hard surface work.
ZBrush 2019’s NPR Filters for Non-Photorealistic Rendering
A detailed review of ZBrush 2019’s BPR-based NPR filters, presets, effect layers, masks and render-pass workflow for illustrative 3D imagery.
ZBrush and Blender Tutorial Creates a Stylised Mushroom Character
Character artist Tarek Samaan demonstrates the design and production of a stylised anthropomorphic mushroom using ZBrush and Blender.
ZBrush 2021.1.2 Improves Tablet Support
ZBrush 2021.1.2 improves Windows tablet sculpting and delivers stability and workflow fixes across TransposeCloth, Gizmo3D and ZSketch.
ZBrush Skin Brushes Add 96 Detail Tools
The ZBrush Skin Brushes pack combines 26 skin brushes with 70 tools for pores, wrinkles, broad forms and workflow tasks.
ZBrush 2021.1 Adds Tablet Driver API
ZBrush 2021.1 adds a Tablet Driver API for Windows Ink and accelerates navigation with PolyFrame and PolyPaint models.
ZBrush Damage Pack Adds 44 Impact Brushes
Shawn Spetch’s Damage Pack includes 44 ZBrush impact inserts plus FBX and OBJ versions of the meshes.
ZBrush Tiling Tools Accelerates Seamless Textures
Lucas Annunziata’s ZTool provides canvas framing and related utilities for creating tiling textures in ZBrush.
FJ Tools 1.5 Expands ZBrush Renaming and Polypaint Workflows
FJ Tools 1.5 added revised renaming, new mesh generators, ID-colour creation and Polygroup colouring and shuffling.
DNEG Builds Godzilla’s Sunken City
DNEG’s Godzilla breakdown reveals a submerged city built from carved architecture, shipwrecks, ZBrush decay and layered marine growth.
ZBrushCoreMini Offers Free Sculpting
Pixologic’s free ZBrushCoreMini started from sphere or block meshes with eight materials, eight brushes and iMage3D sharing.
Oxford Shares Cambrian Animals in 3D
Oxford’s First Animals collection offered 19 downloadable Cambrian creature models with annotated anatomy through Sketchfab.
Softimage and Pixologic Workshops at fmx/08
Softimage and Pixologic Are Presenting a Series of Workshops at fmx. We Have Summarised Them.
Softimage & Pixologic at the fmx/08 Evening Even
Softimage has a strong presence at fmx this year Alongside the stand showing Softimage|XSI, Softimage|Face Robot and Picologic Zbrush, there are several worthwhile contributions in the fmx workshops. The Softimage Community also kicks off the congress week with an event on Monday.
SIGGRAPH 2007: Pixologic Presents ZBrush 3.1 Update
Pixologic has released in San Diego update to ZBrush 3.1. Ryan Kingslien, Product Manager at Pixalogic, explains to DIGITAL PRODUCTION the new feature of the current version.
SIGGRAPH: ZBrush Now Also for 64-Bit
ZBrush 2.5 copes better with large polygon counts and brings several new features
Pixologic Comes with ZBrush 2
In the area of modeling, texturing and painting, the 2D/3D software “ZBrush 2” from Pixologic offers new possibilities.