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Favorite programs for everything?

Ispheria
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Ispheria polycounter lvl 3
What are your favorite programs for the following? Mine are:

Modeling: Modo
Sculpting: Zbrush
Retopo: 3D Coat
Unwrapping: Modo
Rigging: Maya
Animating: Maya
Texturing: Substance Designer
Rendering: Marmoset Toolbag 2
Engine: Unreal 4
Plug-In: Meshfusion

I would have made a stawpoll or something for each of these, but I was afraid of missing some of the options and making someone mad. Plus it's more fun to see what combination of things people are using.

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  • Spiffy
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    Spiffy polycounter lvl 12
    Modeling: Blender
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Blender
    Unwrapping: Blender
    Rigging: Blender
    Animating: Blender
    Texturing: Photoshop/Quixel
    Rendering: Marmoset Toolbag 2
    Engine: Unreal 4
    Plug-In: To many to choose.

    I might have a bit of a bias going here, I should give Modo ago at some point.
  • SuperFranky
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    SuperFranky polycounter lvl 10
    Modeling: 3ds Max
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: 3ds Max
    Unwrapping: Headus Uv Layout
    Rigging: 3ds Max
    Texturing: Substance Designer or Photoshop
    Rendering: Marmoset Toolbag 2
  • Goeddy
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    Goeddy greentooth
    Modeling: 3ds Max
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: 3ds Max
    Unwrapping: 3ds Max
    Rigging: 3ds Max
    Texturing: Mudbox, Photoshop, NDO and DDO
    Rendering: Marmoset Toolbag 2
  • RobeOmega
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    RobeOmega polycounter lvl 10
    Spiffy wrote: »
    Modeling: Blender
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Blender
    Unwrapping: Blender
    Rigging: Blender
    Animating: Blender
    Texturing: Photoshop/Quixel
    Rendering: Marmoset Toolbag 2
    Engine: Unreal 4
    Plug-In: To many to choose.

    I might have a bit of a bias going here, I should give Modo ago at some point.

    Luckily someone wrote out my answer for me
  • Fwap
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    Fwap polycounter lvl 13
    OS: Windows 95
    Browser: Internet Explorer
    Modeling: Gmax
    Engine: Xtreme worlds
    Texturing: MS paint

    For the real answer;

    Modeling: Max (moving to Modo)
    Textuing: Photoshoop and or Designer
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Terrain: World Machine
    Rendering: Marmoset toolbag 2
    Unwrapping: Max via Textools
    Inspiration: You guys <3

    *edit - Oh and big shoutout to Google Search, such an essential part of my workflow.
  • Shrike
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    Shrike interpolator
    Modeling: Cinema 4D
    Sculpting: Cinema 4D (ZBrush is masterrace tho)
    Retopo: Cinema 4D
    Unwrapping: 3DS Max for anything serious
    Baking: XNormal
    Texturing: Photoshop / Bodypaint
    Rendering: Most fun: Marmoset Toolbag 2 realtime Most effective: Cinema 4D offline
    Engine: Unity
    Plugin/other: Filter forge 4 / Pixplant
  • Zack Maxwell
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    Zack Maxwell interpolator
    Modeling: Blender/Modo
    Sculpting: ZBrush
    Retopo: Modo
    Unwrapping: Modo
    Texturing: Substance Designer and Painter
    Rendering: Marmoset Toolbag 2
    Engine: Unity
  • Catzcratch
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    Catzcratch polycounter lvl 6
    Spiffy wrote: »
    Modeling: Blender
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Blender
    Unwrapping: Blender
    Rigging: Blender
    Animating: Blender
    Texturing: Photoshop/Quixel
    Rendering: Marmoset Toolbag 2
    Engine: Unreal 4
    Plug-In: To many to choose.

    I might have a bit of a bias going here, I should give Modo ago at some point.

    haha exactly what i was going to write :)
  • JedTheKrampus
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    JedTheKrampus polycounter lvl 8
    I find myself agreeing with Catzcratch, Robeomega, and Spiffy here, actually. Occasionally I like Substance Designer over Quixel, and if I need to projection-paint a mask or something I'll usually do it in Blender.
  • WilliamVaughan
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    WilliamVaughan greentooth
    Modeling: Modo
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Modo
    Unwrapping: Modo
    Rigging: Maya
    Animating: Maya
    Texturing: Photoshop/Modo
    Rendering: Modo
    Engine: Unity
    Plug-In: Meshfusion
  • Ispheria
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    Ispheria polycounter lvl 3
    Shrike wrote: »
    Modeling: Cinema 4D
    Sculpting: Cinema 4D (ZBrush is masterrace tho)
    Retopo: Cinema 4D
    Unwrapping: 3DS Max for anything serious
    Baking: XNormal
    Texturing: Photoshop / Bodypaint
    Rendering: Most fun: Marmoset Toolbag 2 realtime Most effective: Cinema 4D offline
    Engine: Unity
    Plugin/other: Filter forge 4 / Pixplant

    see? I knew I would have forgotten something if I made a strawpoll. Completely forgot about Cinema 4D
  • Amsterdam Hilton Hotel
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    Amsterdam Hilton Hotel insane polycounter
    max
    photoshop
    vaporizer
  • Higuy
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    Higuy polycounter lvl 9
    Modeling: 3ds Max
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Texturing: Photoshop
    Engine: Unreal, but I have some other favorites :)
  • Leinad
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    Leinad polycounter lvl 12
    Modeling: Maya
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Maya/Zbrush (some things are done faster in Zbrush)
    Unwrapping: Maya/Zbrush (some things are done faster in Zbrush)
    Rigging: Maya
    Animating: Maya
    Texturing: Zbrush/Photoshop
    Rendering: Marmoset
    Engine: Unreal Engine 4
  • iniside
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    iniside polycounter lvl 6
    Modeling: Modo
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Modo
    Unwrapping: Modo
    Rigging: Maya - hard to say I generally don't rig
    Animating: Maya - same as above
    Texturing: Substance Designer, but also use Phtooshop with dDO, dDO is still unmachted for generating normals either from photots or from hand painted height mapts.
    Rendering: UE4
    Engine: UE4
    Plug-In: ---
    Programming: Visual Studio
  • Pedro Amorim
  • .Wiki
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    .Wiki polycounter lvl 8
    Modeling: Softimage
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Topogun/Softimage
    Unwrapping: UV Layout
    Rigging: Softimage
    Texturing: Mari
    Rendering: Arnold/Marmoset/Unity3D
  • ironbearxl
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    ironbearxl polycounter lvl 18
    Modeling/Unwrapping/Rendering: Blender Octane Edition
    Sculpting/Polypaint/Retopo: ZBrush
    Rigging/Animation/Rendering: Lightwave 2015 Octane Edition
    Texturing: Photoshop CS3, Substance Painter, Toolbag 2, Google

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  • Anthony
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    Anthony polycounter lvl 2
    Modeling - Used to be Max, but haven't done anything in a while. I'm gonna have to switch to Modo, as while i can afford Max or Maya, i'm hesitant, since AD are going the Sub-only route. (like Adobe)
    Sculpting - Zbrush, though its a bit of a pain to get into, might mix with Modo.
    UVing - Used to be max, but soon will be Modo (apparently it's UVing system is very good)
    Rigging/Aniimating - Max, though was never much of a rigger, Hopefully Modo's rigging system will be good enough, i know it's no where near maya's though.
    Texturing - Used to be Photoshop, but now have Substance Designer and Painter.
    Engine - UE4, though haven't played with it much.
    Plugin - Meshfusion, when i get it, and any other scripts for Modo i can find.
    Rendering - Used to be Mentalray, but now i've got Marmoset.
  • Brygelsmack
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    Brygelsmack polycounter lvl 13
    Modeling: Maya (haven't really tried much of other apps, Modo looks really good though)
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Zbrush/Maya
    Unwrapping: Zbrush/Maya
    Rigging: I... don't do that
    Animating: Maya, not that I do much of that either, mostly for exploding parts for bakes
    Texturing: Photoshop for smaller assets, Mari 2.6 for stuff that require some more love
    Rendering: Marmoset Toolbag 2
    Engine: CryEngine
    Plug-In: Can't think of any. Lots of useful scripts though...

    Fun thread. :)
  • Joost
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    Joost polycount sponsor
    Modeling: Max (for now)
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Max polytools
    Unwrapping: uv master + headus (organic) max (hard surface)
    Texturing: photoshop
    Rendering: Marmoset Toolbag 2
    Engine: UE 4
    Plug-In: Quad chamfer modifier
  • myclay
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    myclay greentooth
    Modeling: Blender
    Sculpting: ZBrush
    Retopo: 3D Coat, Blender,WrapX
    Unwrapping: Blender, 3D Coat
    Texturing: Substance Painter, 3D Coat, ZBrush, Blender
    Rendering: Marmoset Toolbag 2, Cycles
    Engine: UE 4
    Plug-In: there are a lot available...
  • fandiwhuang
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    fandiwhuang polycounter lvl 9
    Modeling: Modo
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Modo
    UV: Modo
    Rigging/animating : Maya ??...maybe...
    Texturing: Substance + Photoshop ..
    Rendering: Marmoset
    Engine : UE4
  • Shiv
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    Shiv polycounter lvl 15
    Modeling: Max
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Topogun
    UV: Max
    Rigging/animating : Max
    Texturing: Photoshop, substance painter
    Rendering: Marmoset, UE4
    Engine : UE4
    Plug-In: miauu's MaxScripts
  • Joopson
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    Joopson quad damage
    Modeling: Maya
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Retopo: Maya (or zbrush, if flow isn't too important)
    Unwrapping: Maya
    Texturing: Photoshop and dDo
    Rendering: Marmoset Toolbag 2
  • plastix
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    plastix polycounter lvl 4
    Modeling: Softimage
    Retopo: Softimage
    Unwrapping: Softimage
    Rigging: Softimage
    Aniimating: Softimage
    Sculpting: Zbrush
    Texturing: Photoshop
    Rendering: V-Ray
    Engine: Unreal Engine 4
    Plug-In: nDo2
  • Farfarer
    Modeling: Modo
    Sculpting: Zbrush / Modo
    Retopo: Modo
    Unwrapping: Modo
    Rigging: Modo
    Animating: Modo
    Texturing: Photoshop, Knald & Handplane
    Rendering: Modo & Marmoset Toolbag 2
    Engine: Unity
    Plug-In: QSM and CombineNormals for Photoshop, custom ones for Modo
  • inflict3d
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    inflict3d polycounter lvl 7
    I'm surprised about modo' modeling, is it a trendy now?
    how about Maya?
  • Saf
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    Saf polycounter lvl 11
    Modeling: Maya
    Sculpting: Zbrush, 3D Coat
    Retopo: 3D Coat
    Unwrapping: Maya, 3D Coat
    Rigging: Maya
    Animating: Maya
    Texturing: Substance Designer, 3D Coat, Photoshop
    Rendering: Keyshot, Marmoset Toolbag 2
    Engine: Unity
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