The big Blender Sculpt Mode thread (Part 1)

[Metin_Seven]

@anon67654891

This is often such an off-putting thread full of people comparing blender against zbrush, when I imagine those of us who can’t afford that app are pretty happy with the new capabalities and fixes that we’ve seen recently.

I am a fan of not only the changes Pablo has brought but I’m also happy to see the publicity gained for blender with his twitter posts. There’s a joy there in those responses and a positivity that I’m surprised to see on such an otherwise usually toxic site.

This isn’t to diminish any of the valid criticisms made here or the feature requests. Sometimes we get anxious and don’t consider how our words will affect others. I just imagine there are others like me intimidated by the more professional users here and less likely to participate due to the tone of a lot of these posts. And for those users, yeah, maybe follow Pablo on twitter instead or in addition for some balance.

I understand, and I definitely don’t want to discourage anyone. I’m a big Blender fan for many years now, and my feedback list is purely meant to inform Pablo what he could focus on to make Sculpt Mode even better than it already is, because I know ZBrush quite thoroughly and think that knowledge might be useful to Pablo.

Until recently I had even said goodbye to ZBrush in favor of Sculpt Mode, by means of an experiment, because I thought Sculpt Mode was already sufficiently on par with ZBrush to facilitate that.

Right now I’ve rediscovered GoB / GoZ for Blender, which provides a convenient bridge between ZBrush and Blender, and I’m looking forward to utilizing the best of both worlds, while keeping a close eye on Pablo’s upcoming Sculpt Mode candy.

I don’t see the need for blender to be maya or 3dsmax or zbrush or any other software. I wish it had all of what they had but I understand they don’t have the resources for that sort of polish and functionality.

Looking at the level that Blender has reached, the number of full-time developers and Ton Roosendaal’s frequent reports of Maya and other DCC users transitioning to Blender, Blender has definitely become a big player that is competing with Autodesk, The Foundry, Maxon and other major publishers.

Blender is free to use, but is on its way to reach a level of funding that is approaching the application development budgets of the large publishers. Lots of hobbyist, professional and corporate Blender users financially support Blender, and they’ve got the right to expect a competitive level of capacity.