Zbrush v bodypaint 3d & maxon v max

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Zbrush's power lies in its normal map and displacement map generation, and its displacement modeling system. While it can be used for UV editing and texture painting, its workflow and paint system (while having really smooth brushes like painter) is pretty bad, not its strong point by any means

Bodypaint on the other hand cannot do normal maps or displacement generation, you can paint displacement maps, but no realtime feedback. As a UV editing solution and texture painting solution it is a far more ideal package with better image layer handling, better support for the photoshop format, and more consitent workflow to photoshop then zbrush. Also it favors a one click transportation of object and textures to BP and one click back rather then dealing with exporting and importing back and forth.

in terms of third party solutions for character animation, max is definitely ahead of cinema no doubt about it. max's built in animation capabilities are designed more consistently with the rest of the industry then cinema's as well. both are very capable though. Max has a nicer timeline and fcurve then cinema, but I'll warn you now, compared to cinema, max's speed when editing multiple keys in either manager is horrible. Moving keys on 20 objects at one time in max ins a painful experience regardless of its timeline being nicer to deal with.

one last thing to consider, BP integrates directly into cinema,which is awesome, it has a one click back and forth solution with max, which is good, and zbrush does not have a direct connection to either.

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