The latest version of Pixologic’s ZBrush is expected to be released on May 15. Features mentioned include: real-time shadows, real-time material capture and render, full 3D sculpting and texturing with alphas and textures, up to one billion polygons using HD geometry, real-time posing with ZBrush’s Transpose functionality, perspective camera, etc. More information and a teaser video available from ZBrush Central.