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MARI + Digital Sculpting Timeline

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Digital Sculpting Timeline


  1. Alias - Maya Artisan Tools
  2. Pixologic - ZBrush
  3. Skymatter - Mudbox


ZBrush has MANY UV options including painting directly on a model.
What makes MARI a better pipeline candidate than ZBrush?

“The most appealing thing about MARI is, of course, the ability to paint and texture a character while seeing the exact results in 3D,” he says. “It’s way better than having to work on a flat UV layout, save your texture, reload on your model and then render to see the results. MARI’s projection tool set is very powerful.”
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#2

MARI = working layers.

They are just a different approach to texture work. Mari is bound by UVs (which it auto generates for you).
Zbrush is bound by mesh density.

That is really the only difference, other than mari’s layers work. It also has a realtime 3D viewport for more than just diffuse.
It also costs more than 2x as much. Bodypaint and DeepUV are also great tools for texture work, if you’r looking at painting software you should check them out.