Pixologic releases the long awaited ZBrush 3.0 to a hungry community.

Pixologic releases the long awaited ZBrush 3.0 to a hungry community.
CGSociety :: Software Release

ZBrush 3.0 has continued the development of artist-friendly digital art tools. Pixologic has boostedZBrush’s speed; added real-time shadows, real-timematerial-capture and render (MatCap).

ZBrush 3.0 also now allows full 3D sculpting and texturing with alphas and textures and has activated advanced ‘digital clay’ with up to one billion polygons using HD geometry.

Within this long-awaited release, three years in the making in fact, Pixologic includes real-time posing with ZBrush’s Transpose functionality; perspective camera; 2D / 2.5D /3D mesh projections; mesh retopologizing; topology/cavity/color based maskings; one-click turntable recording and QuickTime export; support for 32- and 64-bit systems and multi-threaded support for up to 256 processors.

“With ZBrush,” says Ryan Kingslien, well known Product Manager at Pixologic, “we have set out to create a tool, which alleviates restrictions imposed on artists, and to unleash the ‘artist within’. We want nothing else but to create an environment that is an extension of your own creativity; an environment that will not only allow you to ‘get the job done’ but will also encourage you to experiment and go the extra step. Ultimately, our goal is to enable you to create and then be truly impressed with your own creations.”

ZBrush 3.0 continues Pixologic’s development by putting the artist in an immersive digital sculpting environment. The developers have boosted ZBrush’s speed, refined its functionality as well as expanded its capability by adding real-time shadows, real-time material capture and render (MatCap), full 3D sculpting and texturing with alphas and textures, advanced ‘digital clay’ with up to one billion polygons using HD geometry, real-time posing with ZBrush’s Transpose functionality, perspective camera, 2D / 2.5D /3D mesh projections, mesh retopologizing, topology/cavity/color based maskings, one-click turntable recording and quicktime export, support for 32 and 64 bit

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