All along for me the Zbrush interface has been a turn off and a hinderence . Ok maybe it takes a while to get used to but that is because the interface design is so terrible . I look forward to trying mudbox !
Zbrush has a terrible user interface, where Mudbox is just like maya's, its so easy to use its amazing 'Zed brush' is how french people pronounce it btw
Lupus posted this earlier over in 2D/3D, definitely worth a look though, good that they're really focusing on areas to improve. Hopefully they've streamlined the interface too. Customisable hotkeys would be good too.
unless they hired some humans to completely redo the interface on zbrush i think i'm going to stay a mudbox fanboy, i could use mudbox the first tiem i opened it up, it was not mysterious, or alien, it just worked
Arsh... zbrush was all the rage for a little while. I deffinatly remember comming onto PC and seeing everyone all giddy about this new program that let you do all these amazing things called zbrush. But yea, time to move on. The interface makes me want to scratch my eyeballs out. :|
Tulkamir: It was all the rage because it was new and allowed a whole new level of detail to be easily worked in - however during everyone saying how cool this new opportunity was, everyone was also saying how dumb and weird the interface was. I don't think anyone ever proclaimed ZBrush to be the best thing since sliced…
I think Pixologic should should include a (free) training DVD such as from Gnomon or Kurv, I'm sure that would help many people get to grips with the program. I found it very strange to start with, started to get the hang of it with practice and some tutorials. Then I watched some training DVDs and that helped a huge…
i dont ever think zbrush has been the cats meow.. everyone i know has pretty much always hated the interface and how bonkers it is to work with, you just had no other choice. now someone got it right and thats nice, people are happy. i dont know if you remember but zbrush 2.5 was suppose to come out in december, well…