I sculpted a character head in ZBrush using perspective view. When I thought it looked perfect, I sent it to Maya for retopology. I was shocked when the seemingly perfect head looked like it was being filtered through a fish eye lens. What I discovered is that the ZBrush perspective view is way different when compared to Maya. I found some articles on how to adjust the Angle of View in ZBrush to more closely match Maya's default perspective view. However, these seemed a bit hackish and none worked very well at all. In the end, it was clear that the ZBrush perspective view could be very misleading if you intended to use your sculpts in Maya. Apparently, this is a well known problem (except for me). The consensus work-around seems to be 1) sculpt in ZBrush, 2) correct in Maya (using modeling tools), 3) finish in ZBrush.
I then sent my sculpt to Mudbox. The appearance was the same as it was in Maya (i.e., fish eye lens look). I then corrected the sculpt in Mudbox. When I thought it was perfect, I sent it to Maya. The sculpt looked perfect in Maya. This is attributed to the fact that perspective view for Maya and Mudbox are similar (as one would expect).
I understand that ZBrush has great tools. However, to me it seems that you must put on Grandpa's prescription spectacles to use them, then take them off in Maya to see how well you did. If you missed the mark, then make corrections, put Grandpa's spectacles back on and send back to ZBrush. I know this is an overstatement, but the process seems very silly to me.
Mudbox wins on this issue 🙂
