Blender vs. ZBrush

Blender

94 Reviews and Ratings

ZBrush

9 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Blender	Score9.3 out of 10	N/A	Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite available in under the GNU General Public License. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline. Blender Cloud is a related service accessible via subscription, and is a training and content platform providing access to expertise from the Blender Institute for advancing one's use of Blender.	$11.50 per month
ZBrush	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Pixologic in Los Angeles offers ZBrush, a digital sculpting and painting program for the 3D industry. Built within its interface, ZBrush offers tools for digital artists with an arsenal of features that have been developed with usability in mind, to create a user experience designed to feel natural while simultaneously inspiring the artist. With the ability to sculpt up to a billion polygons, ZBrush allows users to create almost limitless models.	$39.95 per month

Pricing

Blender

ZBrush

Blender Cloud Membership: $11.50
per month

Individual: $39.95
per month
Individual: $179.95
per 6 months
Individual: $895.00
perpetual license
Companies & Students: price varies
floating perpetual license
Companies & Students: price varies
academic perpetual license

Pricing Offerings
Blender	ZBrush
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Blender	ZBrush
Considered Both Products	Open Source Verified User Chose Blender Ease of use and free, ZBrush has a very steep learning curve and Blender seems to be better at realistic image rendering. Plus free upgrades and amazing support made it a no-brainer. Lots of online tutorials and add-ons Blender comes out on top. Incentivized Helpful?	Pixologic Jacquelyn Tolksdorf Founder in Marketing at Unglitch.io (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose ZBrush Even though it's 4x as old, ZBrush is still better in my opinion. Plus, I'm just so used to it by now after 20 years. Blender will indeed become better over time and the leading industry standard soon, but for now, ZBrush is still better for me for sure. Love it! Incentivized Helpful? Salomi Rai Junior Animator at Creative Smart Pathshala (Animation, 51-200 employees) Chose ZBrush Zbrush is specifically used for sculpting the 3D object. Poly paint, Re-topologizing, and hard surface modeling are other great features of this software. While other mentioned software mainly focus[es] on animation, rigging, and so on. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Blender	ZBrush
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (25 ratings)	8.4 (3 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)