ZBrush
Maxon's professional digital sculpting, modeling, and painting application provides dynamic meshes, hundreds of brushes, polygon modeling, PolyPaint, UV tools, retopology aids, rendering, and DCC interoperability.
Why use it
Character and creature artists can progress from concept masses to production sculpts, baking sources, and marketing renders, connecting through GoZ, FBX, or Substance Bridge.
Where it fits
Use art, animation, audio, levels, and narrative to make the game easy to read and its world convincing.
What to check
The complete desktop product has an expensive subscription and a steep learning curve, while the free iPad tier is limited; dense sculpts still require retopology, UVs, baking, and target-hardware optimization.