I don't know if we have any 3D friends here, but I've recently really began to enjoy 3D and would love to talk to people about it!
Blender (https://www.blender.org/)
ZBrush (https://www.maxon.net/en/zbrush)
3DCoat (https://3dcoat.com/)
Nomad (https://nomadsculpt.com/)
Tips and tricks, your favourite parts of 3D, things you're working on! Whatever! If anyone is more knowledgable than I & has stuff I could add to this intro post just post it. OP could be a cool, like, infopost that grows over time!!
First & foremost: what's your favourite 3D program, and why?
ooo im not a 3d friend but i deff wanna b one day!! :kirbart:
as a kid i fucked around a bit w/zbrush but whats got me most excited recently is the greasepencil in blender. it's a technology i've been following since before there were good tutorials for it and now its being used in stuff like spiderverse and worthikids bigtop burger series. i tried to do something in it for 413 (homestuck national holiday) but i kept accidentally getting out of the drawing view into the 3d camera view(almost like ots a 3d program LOL) and got 2 frustrated. i feel like if i opened up bleender again on its own terms and tried to use its 3d features id gave a lot more fun
i know @mozz wants 2 get into lowpoly 3d stuff @ somepoint in the future
deffo gonna be following this thread w a close eye! hoping 2 steal everyoned knowledge for my own personal gain LMAO
my darkest secret is that i have a 3d background... i actually learned it at school bc i went to a cg animation one, having failed to enter gobelins. but as soon as i could ditch it professionally, i did so - i want to draw above all and didn't want to be pigeon-holed into only doing cg.
idk how much i can bring to this thread bc i haven't touched any 3d program in almost a decade now... i did find it fun and interesting to learn 3d, i think i enjoyed most of the steps besides rendering, but thankfully it seems nowadays the softwares seem to have gotten a lot better at not making it as tedious as it used to be. i also believe learning how to render and composite render passes taught me a lot about how colours work and how light interacts with different materials, which is all knowledge i've been able to apply while painting!
it's more of a stray thought but it has crossed my mind to learn blender just to model some of my characters - since my partner has a 3d printer and i could surely use it if i ask nicely...
Quote from: krzchn「c」 on Mar 11, 2026, 08:42 PMmy darkest secret is that i have a 3d background... i actually learned it at school bc i went to a cg animation one, having failed to enter gobelins. but as soon as i could ditch it professionally, i did so - i want to draw above all and didn't want to be pigeon-holed into only doing cg.
idk how much i can bring to this thread bc i haven't touched any 3d program in almost a decade now... i did find it fun and interesting to learn 3d, i think i enjoyed most of the steps besides rendering, but thankfully it seems nowadays the softwares seem to have gotten a lot better at not making it as tedious as it used to be. i also believe learning how to render and composite render passes taught me a lot about how colours work and how light interacts with different materials, which is all knowledge i've been able to apply while painting!
it's more of a stray thought but it has crossed my mind to learn blender just to model some of my characters - since my partner has a 3d printer and i could surely use it if i ask nicely...
oh my god c lore dropped!!!!! I had no idea! I definitely think it'd be mad helpful to have kinda 3d brained thinking go into drawing and painting :D
I am REALLY enjoying 3DCoat above all other programs. using the voxel tools it just feels way more natural and it aint just surface sculpting & primitives & booleans and stuff. I actually don't mind booleans, though. They're cool.
I think I need a new PC though (I was gonna upgrade at Christmas last year but then the whole RAM thing happened :'( ) because my computer shits itself trying to do much of anything after a point.
But, I started a 3D general and haven't posted any! These are learning attempts at both workflow & just 3Dcoat in general. The ritual was for a prompt & was gonna be used as a paint over, the guy on the horse was just a lotta fun. I highly recommend playing with 3Dcoat its free to learn forever!
also its really easy to crackALSO ALSO I really want to get Nomad for the iPad. I don't use my iPad enough, its just for Procreate doodling in bed or Heavypaint when I am on the couch or not at home. Be rly cool to sculpt anywhere! & I bet touch is super useful.
(https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p48jyjw9wokujebqcza2c/Ritual8.png?rlkey=txcp6ks5gk5be07k0b2a6ep0c&st=36eg44p8&raw=1)
(https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lsvfjo6nmuda9xaz0kok7/Soldier.png?rlkey=jon9vhg0x06k9i968qcjtkace&st=4zqz932b&raw=1)
i started out with blender but im really loving nomad on android/pc as of late! ive made several models and sculpts over the years, but i still consider myself an amateur lol. i will say the work is very fun and rewarding once you get past that initial learning curve.
here's a lowpoly model i made awhile back! ^.^ (https://sheezy.art/splorko/gallery/yo)
Quote from: angelfaint on Apr 10, 2026, 12:15 PMi started out with blender but im really loving nomad on android/pc as of late! ive made several models and sculpts over the years, but i still consider myself an amateur lol. i will say the work is very fun and rewarding once you get past that initial learning curve.
here's a lowpoly model i made awhile back! ^.^ (https://sheezy.art/splorko/gallery/yo)
ahh thats amazing!! it for some reason takes me back to the days where I used to play ragnarok online with my best friend.
I have reaaaaalllyyyyy been sitting on getting nomad for my iPad.. maybe I just finally do it, I keep meaning to, and then forgetting, and then meaning to...