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Take customization and capability to a whole new level. Deliver what your competition cannot - astounding artworks quickly and easily.
Take customization and capability to a whole new level. Deliver what your competition cannot - astounding artworks quickly and easily.

Relief Maker beats The Pants off ZBrush Relief

We love ZBrush! But Relief Maker has superior relief generation in several aspects that are critical to professional jewelry, coin, and CG asset designers and manufacturers.
Tutorial: Use Relief Maker Reliefs In ZBrush

Fine Detail Comparison

Relief Maker's fine detail capture is the new standard for professional reliefs.

Relief Maker Captures Everything

The smallest details are captured so you get every nuance of the source mesh.
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ZBrush Loses Detail

Detail becomes lossy and is compressed into a shallow z-height. Notice the hair and fingers in this example.

How Depth is Achieved

Relief Maker's depth capture is the new standard for professional reliefs.

Relief Maker Rivals Hand-Crafted

Results from Relief Maker truly capture the feeling of depth with a huge dynamic range during the Z-capture process. The result is very lifelike results that pop in the finished product.

ZBrush Reliefs Have Vertical Walls

ZBrush reliefs achieve depth mostly through elevating the entire model. The detail inside is compressed into a very narrow dynamic range in the Z, making details less likely to come through at manufacturing.

Per-Asset Options

Relief Maker's asset-level options let you tweak your heart out.

Relief Maker Has Asset-Level Settings

In this example we set the relief height of the bell pepper at 55% and the height of the ant at 150% so the ant pops relative to the background. You can tweak multiple settings for each asset individually and generate new reliefs very quickly.

ZBrush Treats Multiple Assets The Same

ZBrush compiles all assets in the view based on the same BasRelief-wide settings. Tweaking per-asset settings requires making multiple reliefs of each asset separately, but the detail of the interaction between models is not taken into consideration with this approach.