ZBrush sets the industry standard for digital sculpting. Its features enable you to use customizable brushes to shape, texture and paint virtual clay in a real-time environment. When you use ZBrush, you'll be working with the same tools used by film studios, game developers, toy/collectible makers, jewelry designers, automotive/aviation designers, illustrators and artists worldwide.
ZBrush 2022 continues in the path of creativity and productivity with major new features allowing artists to work even faster, especially focusing on creating hard-surface and mechanical shapes with greater ease. While working, or as a final during creation you will be able to produce stunning nonrealistic rendering with instant feedback. ZBrush 2019 also helps you to be more efficient with its new Folders organization system, it's rewritten automatic retopology tool, and a new camera system. Your art will change forever.
2022 RELEASE NOTES
- Bas Relief
- Bevel Pro
- Dual Alphas and Textures
- Brush Surface Noise
- Alignment
- Knife Brushes
- Stroke Interpolation
- XMD Toolbox Access
Become a Master of Bas Relief
Create embossed surfaces in stunning detail with the new Bas Relief features in ZBrush.Pose your model as desired and create a special new alpha from that view which can be used to create raised sections of detail that more closely resembles the results of traditional relief sculpture.
Put A Bevel On It
The new Bevel Pro plugin allows you to create complex bevels for meshes at any resolution without low-poly modeling. Suitable for meshes of medium-to-high resolution, Bevel Pro allows you to use masking and PolyGroups to determine exactly which edges to bevel. Adjust and preview your results non-destructively, and even create your bevels as separate sections of geometry for use with Live Boolean.
Start Spreading the Details
Apply any image, graphical noise or noise presets to a brush for local sculptural surface noise details. Use Brush Size or pen pressure sensitivity to adjust the noise scale on the fly. Local Projection will give a unique way to reapply any noise by position of the brush. This feature shines when creating environment pieces or applying skin details.
Just the Right Alignment
Instantly redistribute multiple SubTools, or the geometry within a single SubTool with a single button press. Similar to alignment features found in other programs, you can now align meshes to the left, right or center, and by the top or bottom edges.
New Ways to Slice and Dice
The new Knife brushes now support the Circle and Rectangle stroke types. Cut through meshes cleanly with these tools where the resulting cut accurately reflects the stroke.
Intersection Masker
The Stroke Interpolation feature can now use ZIntensity, Brush Size, RGB Intensity, and Front and Back Colors to transition between strokes with a set number of steps. Create dazzling blends and intricate patterns of color and detail between two strokes on the surface of your mesh.
Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
- OS: 64-bit editions of Windows Vista or newer. (32-bit operating systems are no longer supported.)
- CPU: Core2duo or AMD equivalent with SSE2 technology or better.
- RAM: 4 GB (6+ GB strongly recommended)
- HDD: 8 GB of free hard drive space for ZBrush and its scratch disk.
- Pen Tablet: Mouse or Wacom compatible (WinTab API) pen tablet.
- Monitor: 1280x1024 monitor resolution with 32-bit color.
- Video card: Must support OpenGL 3.3 or higher and Vulkan 1.1 or higher.
Highly Recommended Specifications:
- OS: 64-bit editions of Windows Vista or newer.
- CPU: Intel i5/Xeon technology and newer or AMD Ryzen/Threadripper and newer.
- RAM: 8 GB required for working with multi-million poly models. (16+ GB preferred.)
- HDD: 100 GB of free hard drive space for ZBrush and its scratch disk. (SSD drive highly recommended.)
- Pen Tablet: Wacom or Wacom compatible. (WinTab API.)
- Monitor: 1920x1080 monitor resolution or higher with 32-bit color.
- Video card: Must support OpenGL 3.3 or higher and Vulkan 1.1 or higher.
Mac
Minimum System Requirements:
- OS: Mac OSX: 10.14 or above.
- CPU: Core2duo with SSE2 technology or better.
- RAM: 4 GB (6+ GB strongly recommended)
- HDD: 8 GB of free hard drive space for ZBrush and its scratch disk.
- Pen Tablet: Mouse or Wacom compatible (Carbon API) pen tablet.
- Monitor: 1280x1024 monitor resolution with millions of colors.
- Video card: Must support OpenGL 3.3 or higher.
Highly Recommended Specifications:
- OS: Mac OSX: 10.14 or above.
- CPU: Intel i5/7/Xeon technology.
- RAM: 8 GB required for working with multi-million polys. (16+ GB preferred.)
- HDD: 100GB of free hard drive space ZBrush and its scratch disk. (SSD drive highly recommended.)
- Pen Tablet: Wacom or Wacom compatible. (Carbon API.)
- Monitor: 1920x1080 monitor resolution or higher with millions of colors.
- Video card: Must support OpenGL 3.3 or higher.