Can I sculpt this --> in blender?

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Hi guys

So, I’ve been sculpting for several years but always in a physical medium, and always just for myself. Lately I’ve started doing some commission work and realized I ought to try out digital sculpting. I picked up a Zbrush trial and it was amazing! Yeah it took about a week of watching youtube tutorials to figure the program out, but I quickly realized that sculpting digitally is the way to go. Long story short, my trial ran out, I went to check the price, and…HOLY *@&#. Ok, that’s not happening any time soon lol. So I looked at the options. I’ve played with Blender a very little bit before (my previous job was doing CAD design, but never anything as complex or organic as sculpture), so all I looked at was the plane building tools.

Now I want to sculpt. And I saw blender (at least this current iteration) has sculpting tools. Cool! But before I go spend another 20 hours learning the program, I want to make sure it can accomplish what I want to do.
Could blender sculpt something like this?

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That’s the kind of sculpture I did by hand. Or tried to haha. But I mean, that level of detail, possibly more, and those flowing organic shapes.

Can I do that in Blender?

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I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to

Obviously it would be easier to do in Zbrush because I see a lot of things in this sculpture that could be made easily with the clay tubes tool.

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Absolutely. Check this guy’s works for some of what you can accomplish with Blender’s sculpt tools if you are skilled enough (and have a good enough computer)

http://blenderartists.org/forum/search.php?searchid=4859652

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Thanks guys!
Link doesn’t work for me tho :frowning:

I sculpted this in Zbrush the other day as practice (before my trial ended). I don’t need to sculpt anything very complex, just need to make sure I can do the curved shapes and such.

Guess Ill start on Blender then :slight_smile:

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Moved from “General Forums > Blender and CG Discussions” to “Support > Modeling”

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Don’t skip the basics and you’ll have easier time getting to know the sculpting portion of it. Interface stuff is important, including the emulate 3 button mouse setting which is handy with a graphics tablet https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0AfIdK08E7_PKsXOO_yuAql9b3hdcwPR