Reallusion Character Creator vs ZBrush
Reallusion Character Creator
reallusion.com
ZBrush
maxon.netSide by side
| Figure | Reallusion Character Creator | ZBrush |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $33.25/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 7 |
| Spec score · 3D modeling software | 8.8 (#21) | 9.3 (#2) |
| Spec score · 3D Avatar Software | 8.2 (#9) | 8.5 (#6) |
| Spec score · Game Character Creation Software | 8.1 (#12) | 8.5 (#10) |
| Spec score · Game 3D Modeling Software | 8.3 (#15) | 8.5 (#13) |
| Company headquarters | Reallusion lists San Jose, California as headquarters; Crunchbase describes Silicon Valley headquarters with R&D centers in Taiwan and offices or training centers in Germany and Japan. | Maxon Computer GmbH is listed at Basler Str. 5, 61352 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany. |
| Company legal name | Crunchbase identifies the legal name as Reallusion Inc., founded by Charles Chen and operating as a private for-profit company. | The legal imprint identifies the maker as Maxon Computer GmbH. |
| Documentation | Reallusion provides an online CC4/CC5 manual, tutorials, knowledge-base articles and a developer wiki with content-creation guides. | The official help system includes feature overviews, getting-started material, a user guide, scripting references and release notes. |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Headquarters | Silicon Valley, United States | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include GoZ for ZBrush, CC Tools for Blender, AutoSetup for Unreal Engine and Unity, Substance Painter, Marvelous Designer, Marmoset Toolbag, Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max, and NVIDIA Omniverse USD workflow. | GoZ connects ZBrush with Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and other supported applications. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.7 out of 5 from 20 reviews | 4.7 out of 5 from 104 reviews. |
| Rating on Trustpilot | 1.5 out of 5 from 60 reviews | 2.4 out of 5 from 25 reviews. |
| Self-hosting | The product is delivered as a Windows desktop application with Reallusion Hub/download installation; the opened official material describes no self-hosted server edition. | Maxon distributes ZBrush through the Maxon App or website and requires a MyMaxon login for access, with no self-hosted deployment described. |
| Support | The company directs customers with technical or workflow questions to Customer Service and offers a Feedback Tracker for product suggestions and bug reports. | Maxon provides a support center with knowledge-base articles, ticket support, installers, requirements, release notes, training and community forums. |
| System requirements | CC5 requires Windows 10 or 11, a 7th-generation Intel Core i5, 16GB RAM, an 8GB-VRAM GTX 10-series or Radeon RX5500 XT GPU, 30GB installation space and 200GB DDS-cache space at minimum. | Minimum Windows requirements include 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, 4 GB RAM, 8 GB disk space, OpenGL 3.3 and Vulkan 1.1 support. |
| What it does | Character Creator generates, imports, customizes, rigs and prepares realistic or stylized humanoid characters for animation and digital-content pipelines. | ZBrush is a digital sculpting, modeling and painting application built around virtual-clay workflows. |
Plans
Reallusion Character Creator
- CC5 Standard$299 a month
- CC5 Deluxe$479 a month
- Character Creator 5$299, paid once
- Character Creator 5 Standard$299, paid once
- Character Creator 365 Pro$399 a year
- Character Creator 5 Deluxe$479, paid once
- Character Creator 5 Deluxe$479, paid once
- Character Creator 365 StandardPrice not published
ZBrush
- ZBrush for iPad Free PlanFree
- ZBrush for iPad SubscriptionPrice not published
- ZBrush for iPad SubscriptionPriced on request
- ZBrush DesktopPrice not published
- ZBrush DesktopPriced on request
- ZBrush for iPad$33.25 a month
- ZBrush$399 a year
In their own words
Reallusion Character Creator
Reallusion Character Creator has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
ZBrush
ZBrush is a 3D sculpting and modeling application with desktop and iPad offerings. Its listed tools include sculpting, parametric modeling, animation, rendering and 3D print export. Desktop is listed for Windows and macOS, while a separate supported-platform list also includes Linux. The desktop plan includes ZBrush for iPad and advanced sculpting, modeling, rendering and export tools. Rendering is described as hybrid, with GPU and animation rendering and denoising. Listed workload areas include CPU and GPU rendering, ray tracing, shader execution and geometry processing. Other listed capabilities include rotoscoping, 3D camera tracking, custom test profiles and CLI or automation support. The listed result export formats are none documented, and results are not saved as a file. Headquarters are listed as both Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and Friedrichsdorf, Germany; the maker is listed as founded in 1986.