Best tools for sculpting in 3D

3D sculpting is a way to bring characters, monster or any organic shapes to life. You can treat it as a real-ife model made out of clay, and can push, pull, smooth, grab or pinch it to create its final form as your will. In this article, let’s find out some best tools for sculpting in 3D.

Mudbox is the 3D sculpting software which was created by Skymatter and later developed by Autodesk. You can consider it as a great extension of the other tools in your pipeline, and mostly within Autodesk applications pipeline (such as 3ds Max, Maya). It can create 3D models only.

• • • • Price: 10USD/month or 80USD/year

ZBrush is also a software for sculpting. It’s originally created by Pixologic, and now is developed by Maxon. It’s very powerful for modeling and texturing. You can use it seamlessly with many 3D applications like Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini, etc.

Unlike Mudbox, ZBrush enables you to sculpt on 2.5D and 3D models. If you work in a project which does not require an entire 3D look of the model, but only a single-dimension look, this is where you can use ZBrush to create 2.5D objects. It’s more convenient and will have lower mesh and size.

• • • • Price: 795USD

Along with ZBrush, Pixologic also developed Sculptris. It’s totally free and is the best choice for anyone who doesn’t have many experience. The interface is user-friendly, the features are basic and easy to learn, yet robust enough for creating detailed base models.

What’s great about Sculptris is that it’s like a basic ground for ZBrush. The skills you have learned in Sculptris can be furtherly upgraded by using ZBrush. You can import files to ZBrush and start to modify there.

The only downside of Sculptris is the lack of functionality. But you always have ZBrush to level up yourself when you have learned enough from Sculptris.

• • • • Price: Free

Meshmixer is developed by Autodesk just like Mudbox, but more basic and user-friendly. That’s why it’s recommended for beginners or anyone who want to start diving into 3D sculpting.

Its advantage is that it is combined with dynamic remeshing infrastructure, it is possible to create extremely detailed surfaces with much lower polycounts. The downside is like Sculptris – if you want a more functionable tools for your higher level, you will not be satisfied with Meshmixer.

• • • • Price: free

This article helps you to find some of the best tools for sculpting in 3D. There are more than that, but the software above are among the most popular. Some other software like Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya also have sculpting feature, but of course they are not optimized like a software which mainly focus on sculpting.

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Source: sculpteo.com, i.materialise.com