🧵 Zbrush requiring a shit ton of info
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:30:34 UTC No. 993435
I'm having to purchase Zbrush for school, and have settled on the subscription liscence, but only for a while. It baffles me that Zbrush, or rather Maxon, requires so much goddamn information about you just to be able to purchase it. Did everyone else go through this? Is there a way around it? A school ID I'd understand, but it asks for your drivers liscense and a video of you turning your head. Without suggesting an alternative like Blender, is there a way around this? Or do I just have to bite the bullet?
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 04:24:20 UTC No. 993441
Ask a Indian on fiverr to do it. Not even joking. Find an alternative payment method not linked to your name too
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 05:23:36 UTC No. 993445
if you have an edu email there isnt a student discount?
And why do you "need" to "buy" it? Are they checking?
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:34:42 UTC No. 993480
>>993435
You can still buy the perpetual off one of their recommended 3rd party dealers btw
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:00:33 UTC No. 993495
>>993435
Buying Zbrush? What are you talking about?
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:03:24 UTC No. 993496
people were abusing the edu license for redshift
maxon, being maxon has clamped down on this and most of these >>993441 sort of accounts got shut down
and now op is having his face analysed by those same indians
just pirate it
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:48:47 UTC No. 993530
>>993445
They do have a student discount, it's only $60/year which is a good price. I was debating between that and the perpetual liscense. My biggest problem is that you HAVE to provide a form of ID and a video of yourself, no matter which one you buy. I have no clue why they do this, it's stupid. No other software I've had to use does this.
And no, I don't "need" to "buy" it, if I can find a reliable way to pirate it I think that'd be fine. It's advised to get version 2022.0.8 though, so buying it would probably be easiest. I just hate that you have to provide so much info for it and was hoping someone here might have a work around.
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:52:08 UTC No. 993531
>>993480
If getting the perpetual license from a recommended 3rd party doesn't require all the ID bs, I'd be very interested in trying that. I've heard ToolFarm recommended before, is that good/reliable?
>>993496
Pirate it from where? Forgive me for being inexperienced, I don't pirate stuff all that often lol
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:09:32 UTC No. 993536
>>993531
Catch an invite from some peers in cg for a torrent site
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:31:56 UTC No. 993544
>>993531
I used novedge for mine. I don’t remember having to really give anything other than an email address to Maxon once I signed up, but I could be wrong. I know I didn’t have to give an ID or anything.
Anonymous at Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:36:15 UTC No. 993557
>>993536
Are there any other good ways to do it? Any resources I can go to?
>>993544
I might have to do that then if they don't require an ID. That or ToolFarm. Tbh I still don't understand the point of a reseller that's authorized by Maxon. But thank you, I'll look at it.
Anonymous at Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:52:48 UTC No. 993708
>>993435
stupid question but can you do claymation with zbrush?
Anonymous at Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:18:47 UTC No. 994894
>>993708
you cant
🗑️ Anonymous at Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:22:39 UTC No. 994895
Still to Blender, brokie.
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:44:21 UTC No. 995015
>>993708
You can do that with any program. Its just a bunch of posing and rendering frames
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:09:32 UTC No. 998482
That's pretty unusual.
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:11:56 UTC No. 998612
droppeed
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:46:32 UTC No. 1001435
>>993435
tell your school you aren't comfortable handing that much information to a company. they may purchase it on your behalf.
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:45:25 UTC No. 1001521
>>993435
>scan your head
Kek
Just rent the normie version of zbrush, they dont ask for ID or face scans
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:06:42 UTC No. 1001525
>>1001521
what did you mean? What version?
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:31:47 UTC No. 1001581
>>1001525
The one that isnt an education edition. The one anyone can pay for from maxon? You know, normal zbrush.
The one that just asks for payment method and address.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:30:06 UTC No. 1001656
>>1001581
That makes sense. OP was looking for educational license. I am looking for regular. But, is it even worth it upgrading from the last pixologic zbrush which I have a permanent paid license for to the current maxon? I hear that nothing big has changed
Anonymous at Wed, 20 Nov 2024 23:38:58 UTC No. 1002096
>>993435
People buy Zbrush? Just pirate it.
If it weren't for a few QoL features I'd be using blender anyway.