I'm just done learning Zbrush and my friend tell me that a new app is out and it is apparently better than Zbrush. I've looked into it a bit but I don't feel ready to burn my head for another week.

If anyone can fill me up on ''why is better'' or ''why is not''. I'd like to hear your tought about it.

http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php...;gonew=1#UNREAD

well i for ones love ZB ..
and ZB is comeing out whit 2.5 sone

Zbrush was nice for a time because basically that's all there was. But now there is more competing products emerging like mudbox and others (other pure modeling programs are integrating the poly sculpting tools). It is still too early to say which one is the best though. I personally like mudbox because it is all about the poly sculpting. It's not some facet to an odd 2d/3d paint program that slapped in model importing in the worst way possible. To me mudbox has an easy to learn interface because of that same reason. It's geared primarilly for poly sculpting, and is not cluttered by all the painting and other junk.

It's kind of the same type of thing as how Bodypaint is. I really like using it to paint most of my models in, but it has too much of the cinema4d tools lingering around making it confusing to new users. If there was a straight up model painting app that focused on emulating photoshops psd layers 100% and had a decent brush system, I'd jump to that in a heartbeat.

It's all about what's easier for you, though.

i taught my lil sis at 12 to work with mudbox in 5 minutes.
she's never worked with a 3d app, and can barely draw in photoshop.
in comparison, she just stares blankly at the zbrush interface.

... Any news about the price of MUDBOX ?