There are many resources available online for learning Zbrush, starting with the master classes offered via Zbrush Central or those from online learning websites like the Gnomon Workshop, Pluralsight,, etc., to get you up and running.

On television, the most famous and illustrious showcase for the use of Zbrush is in Game of Thrones, the HBO show based on A Song of Ice and Fire saga by George R.R. Zbrush has enabled these and many more games to achieve a level of photorealism in their visuals comparable to the cinema and enabling more story-based games to be created. Practically every AAA video game worth mentioning has been created with the help of Zbrush, including but not limited to God of War, Paragon, Ghost Recon Wildlands, Fallout 4, Mass Effect Andromeda, Dragon Age, and many more. The support for the high poly count and a large set of tools to enable the creation of detailed characters in a manageable timeframe allowed the vast and diverse worlds of Middle Earth, Pandora, and Narnia to come alive with creatures you would find only in your imagination, in acute detail. Movies, where Zbrush has been used for visual effects include blockbusters such as The Lord of the Rings series, Marvel’s Avengers series, the Incredible Hulk, Ironman, Captain America, Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia series, Pirates of the Caribbean, and more, for visual effects, and in animated movies like Rango, Wreck-It Ralph, Despicable Me, Tangled and many more.

It has a proven track record in film, and visual effects and AAA video game production pipelines the world over for a bit more than a decade now. To use Zbrush for free, you need a graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.3 or higher, Intel Core2Duo CPU or AMD equivalent, 4 GB of RAM, 8GB of Hard Disk Space, Mouse/Wacom compatible tablet, and a monitor with the minimum resolution of 1280×1024 with 32-bit color.

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