Key Features
Best-in-Class Sculpting Toolset
Sculpt, design, and detail any organic or hard-surface
model and achieve smooth, accurate, and refined results:
• Select from an extensive range of intelligently
designed default brushes that replicate real-world
sculpting paradigms: Sculpt, Smooth, Grab, Pinch,
Flatten, Foamy, Spray, Repeat, Imprint, Wax,
Scrape, Fill, Knife, Smear, Bulge, Contrast, and Freeze.
• Create custom brushes with user-defined falloff curves
and image stamps for an infinite range of effects.
• Sculpt both sides of topologically symmetrical
models simultaneously—even when they are in an
asymmetrical pose—with the powerful tangent
space mirroring functionality.
• Use stencils to quickly add detail, and curves to
precisely control brush movement. Brush textures
directly into your mesh in 3D, and add high-quality
detail by displacing your mesh with images.
• Model using reference images, with multiple
cameras each with its own image plane.
• Accelerate design, sculpting, and approval phases with
powerful new tools for deforming and posing models.
• Sculpt complex forms immediately using vector
displacement maps as stamps and stencils.
High-Quality 3D Paint
Paint multiple layers for multiple texture channels
on multiple high-resolution objects:
• Apply paint directly onto high-resolution 3D models
and see the results immediately.
• Apply detail precisely where required, regardless
of UV distortion or surface complexity. Paint in
true 3D space, in UV space in the 3D view, or with
screen-space projection.
• Paint Diffuse, Specular, Gloss, Emissive, Bump,
Normal, and Reflection maps directly on your model.
• Select from Paint, Erase, Clone, and Dry brushes,
and customize their shape with image stamps and
adjustable falloff curves.
• Selectively edit and manipulate existing paint and
photo-based layers with new image adjustment
brushes: Blur, Dodge, Burn, Contrast, Sponge,
Hue, Hue Shift, and Invert.
• Selectively paint reference images onto the model
from a particular viewpoint.
• Control how paint layers composite together to
create a final image by selecting from one of the
new blend modes: Multiply, Screen, Add, or Overlay.
Flexible Layering System
Explore creative options and iterate freely to create,
compare, store, and blend multiple versions of your
paint and sculpting work using the flexible,
nondestructive layering system:
• Selectively edit, erase, and blend layers
nondestructively, using paintable layer masks.
• Duplicate, merge, flatten, and reorder layers.
• Blend layers using interactive multiplier sliders
and layer masks.
• Mirror or flip the detail stored in one or more layers.
Images courtesy of Kenichi Nishida.
Images courtesy of Kenichi Nishida.
