3D GENERAL

[guespiere]

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
ZBrush
3DCoat
Nomad

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?

[kringle]

ooo im not a 3d friend but i deff wanna b one day!! 

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

[krzchn「c」]

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...

[guespiere]

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...

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 crack

ALSO 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.