Zbrush Spotlight and Lightbox

[MyPeople]

Link (http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=071829)

2 more months...going to be so nuts!

[seven]

The less I have to move between apps or the transition is less painful and less clicks... the more I'm happy.

[DreameR]

~ It's making everything so easy I'm also upset. Why is this?

[Mrpearlzildjian]

I think after this comes out, 99.9% of regular joes will be able to do 3D.

Amazing nonetheless.

Oh, and the funny part comes when you're cycling through your nude reference photos and your parent/roommate/girlfriend walks in. lol

[3D Skillet]

man It gets more and more exciting

[Marcus Dublin]

Hmm I'm a bit skeptical and would have to use it to see if it's better than my current work flow of Zbrush/Mudbox, Phtotoshop, and Body paint. I could see some of these tools at least in the beginning being very buggy and really slowing down my app. I mean do I really want to look for images on the web through Zbrush, really...? Also, rotating a million poly head bust is far different than rotating a full character on screen. The additional windows also seem to steal screen real estate away from the main mesh tool which isn't all that appealing. Nevertheless the new tool could be helpful especially to those who use Zbrush for 2d purposes but I'll restrain my enthusiasm until I try it for myself.

So far Decimation Master is the best update they've had in a while and I'd like to see more practical tools like in for Zb4.;)

[sinz]

Looks way easy to model and texture now, what was the point of learning lol!

Get ready to welcome every joe schmoe!

Still a great application to be had by those who pay, this is indeed some good news after all. Animation should be added to zbrushes list what next year if not this year, they are moving pretty fast over there at pixologic. Autodesk better watch there back if they want to compete. :)

[Frump]

Every Joe Schmo still has to be a good artist. They just will be able to avoid some technical stuff. ;)

These new features are nice and all, but I wonder if anyone asked for them. For me, I don't think I will use any of these commonly and I could have continued on fine without them. The image browser will be good for browsing my local folders but I doubt I will be using zbrush to access web images... And I will probably just use photoshop for my image editing needs. The only one I see being useful is more streamlined texture projection. The girl's face at the end was impressive, but seemed too easy.

I just used zbrush not long ago to project a texture onto the back of my character where there's a seam. I used Zapplink which is a pain in the butt. When I have to do more of that this will be good.

I sound extremely cynical in this post, but I am truly super exicited for ZB4; I just would rather see cooler stuff pre-release! I'm hoping they've been watching 3DC and get some voxel sculpting!

Edit: I guess this comes in handy for the ZBC competitions where you have to do everything in ZB. I suppose Pixologic want people to be able to do as much as possible in their app, but it's not like they lose business to Photoshop.

Edit, Edit: I just remembered how awesome GoZ is and was satisfied again.

[SinisterUrge]

These features are available in bodypaint 3d, so its nothing new really