Library of 4K Alphas and ZBrush Brushes - by Grzegorz Baran
This product is a life-long* access to the library of my best 4k photogrammetry based alphas and ZBrush brushes. The library is a service and it grows over time, so please make sure you always have recent available package downloaded.
Actual amount of ZBrush brushes available in the library:
'111' ZBrushes
'105' alphas
Recent library update: 26-12-2021
By purchasing this product you get not just a full life-long* access to the library of high quality alphas and ZBrush brushes I already made but also to these I am going to add in a future.
With the material library growing I am considering to increase the library access price. By purchasing it sooner, you can be sure that any future price increase will not affect you.
Brushes were designed for ZBrush 2020.1.4 and higher and dont support lower versions of ZBrush.
Due to gumroad limitations I can present just 8 preview images. This is why I uploaded full preview list of brushes at Artstation:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/q9xeme
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Each brush is based on seamless alphas stored as 16bits PSD files in 4096x4096px resolution.
All alphas are also available as a separate PSD files. Each alpha map can be used to paint depth on your 3d models using either blender, zbrush, substance painter, 3d coat, etc.
By getting access to this library, you get access to ZIP archive files split by themes.
Currently existing files:
gb-ROCK-4K_ZBrushes.zip
- set of 65 photogrammetry based ROCK/STONE brushes that can be used directly in ZBrush, stored as ZPB files.
gb-WOOD-4K_ZBrushes.zip
- set of 19 photogrammetry based WOODEN TOP and FACE GRAIN brushes that can be used directly in ZBrush, stored as ZPB files.
gb-PLASTER-4K_ZBrushes.zip
- set of 27 photogrammetry based seamles brushes of PLASTER (concrete, stucco, plaster, painted stucco wall) that can be used directly in ZBrush
gb-ROCK-4K_Alphas.zip
- set of 59 seamless photogrammetry based ROCK/STONE alphas (height maps) stored as grayscaled 4096x4096 16bits PSD files.
gb-WOOD-4K_Alphas.zip
- set of 19 seamless photogrammetry based WOODEN TOP and FACE GRAIN alphas (height maps) stored as grayscaled 4096x4096 16bits PSD files.
gb-PLASTER-4K_Alphas.zip
- set of 27 photogrammetry based seamles ALPHAS (height maps) of PLASTER (concrete, stucco, plaster, painted stucco wall) stored as grayscaled 4096x4096 16bits PSD files.
You can find more info about the process I use on my youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/GrzegorzBaranArt
or more detailed material breakdowns on my Artstation profile in material section:
https://www.artstation.com/gbaran/albums/86576
* by life-long access I mean that everyone is going to maintain access to these materials through this library as long the gumroad exists, but everyone who purchased access can download all existing materials and keep using them forever.
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License Info
Commercial use of the Alphas is permitted but nothing can be included in a asset pack or sold at any sort of asset/resource marketplace and must be embedded components in media such as a video game, movies, or similar products.
The Product is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties. You are licensing the Product and the right to access, install and use the Product in accordance with this Agreement, not buying the Product. As between you and us, we own all right, title and interest in and to the Product, and you are not acquiring any ownership of or rights in the Product except the limited rights granted under this Agreement.
If you are a corporate entity (Small Business License, Studio License), you may make the Product available for use by your employees in accordance with this Agreement (for example, by storing the Product on a network server).
You may only share the Product with external people or entities where:
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In addition to any other restrictions in this Agreement, you will not:
- publish, sell, license, offer or make available for sale or licensing, or otherwise distribute the Product except as part of a Work or through a form of sharing that is authorized in this Agreement; or
- publish, distribute or make available the Product through any online clearinghouse platform.
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Q&A:
Q: Will brushes work in ZBrush 2020?
A: Brushes should work fine from version 2020.1.4 and any higher. In case anyone wants to use these brushes with any other software or any older version of ZBrush, the library includes all original alpha maps used to set all brushes with corresponding to them numbers.
Q: Are there plans to support older ZBrush versions?
A: No, because it is not possible to activate ZBrush in version below 2020 anymore. It was blocked by Pixologic. 2020.1.4 is the older version supported. But please keep in mind that ZBrush is free to upgrade for any user to the recent version.
Also if ZBrush ever introduces a brush system which would limit brush functionality for any backward compatible ones, and therefore backward compatibility would become a feature-ballast, to avoid that I will probably drop backward compatibility for new brushes. To give you example, if ZBrush would introduce support for 32bits data, all new brushes and alphas would be made in 32bits, even if they cannot be opened in old ZBrush versions.
Q: How do I know when new version of brushes is available?
A: I plan to send info about every big update to the email used for the product purchase. Also I set the date of the last update on the product page.
Last but not least, the library contains 'ChangeList.txt' file which contains list of all updates. Please re-download the recent version of this file to preview all changes introduced to the library.
Q: What does these v1, v2 next to the achive files mean?
A: These are archive file versions. If anything has changed in any archive file, I marked it by changing its version number. So if you downloaded rocks-v2 and you have found that the version name has chanfed, to lets say rocks-v6, it means that you missed 4 updates. These updates might be just bug fixes, brush tweaks but also new content added. For better organisation I plan to split archive files by theme so if I create more rocks brushes, I will add them to the existing archive file and increase the version number.
I have added a change-list to the file to the library so everyone can see what has changed from version to version.
Q: Where can I find any license details and what license should I get if I run a small freelance business?
If you plan to use these brushes commercialy and your company dosnt earn over $100k per year from it, you should get the 'Small Business License'. With the annual income over $100k, you should get the 'Studio License'. Brushes and alphas under these licenses can be shared within a company between different users and have no any restrictions regarding the amount of projects they are used for or time limit. This is a life-long license and every single brush added later to the library is part of it.
'Personal' license is a non-commerical license under which all brushes are only for personal use. So if you are a student or a hobbyst this is the license for you.