3D Coat Vehicle Sketching

[@rakshaansoogrim6566]

Amazing. All that hard work to bring out the creativity in an artist in new, innovative, ways. Truly amazing.

[@joshua42777]

I'm starting to see that the sketch tool seems very under rated. It looks like you could almost do any hard surface blackout with it

[@AntonTenitsky]

yeah, a lot of stuff can be done. I'll be publishing some videos on hard-surface shape studies soon. I hope you might find them interesting

[@TheKevphil]

As a comics artist, I can really see how this could be a huge time-saver and inspiration for a lot of vehicles' designs. It's interesting how the forms suggest alternatives when zoomed out.

[@AntonTenitsky]

thank you, Kevin!

[@SrdjanPavlovic11080]

Another excellent video - Very cool ship design, and above all you are excellent teacher! You managed to put lots of information and tips in only 13 minutes.

[@AntonTenitsky]

thank you :) i'll try to keep it short as I can

[@taraaliyeva1813]

Beautiful techniques THANK YOU for sharing!

[@AntonTenitsky]

thank you for watching :)

[@IanThompson007]

Thanks for this Anton. The carve brush and square alpha tip gives nice results.

[@pixelspring]

Youve inspired me to look into this! Thank you

[@AntonTenitsky]

Thank you! But I should really do a better sequel to this tutorial :)

[@pixelspring]

Cool!... would love to see it! I'm learning a lot from you today. Much appreciated.

[@RajaNandepu]

thanks for coat videos .. keep doing em

[@keithtam8859]

would be lovely if you can make more videos in this sketching style :)

[@AntonTenitsky]

Hi Keith, thank you! I think the last sketching stuff is inside that course Designing Mech course I've published recently - gumroad.com/products/PtkDM But to give an idea for robot or "exosuits" I was sketching on top of the default mannequin and that helped a lot.

[@fadis8267]

Amazing how you do it very creative and fast. Do you know what is the closest way to do something similar to this type of 3D sketching in Zbrush other than using Zsphere type of sketch because it's so spherich looking during the sculpt and its hard to see the forms unless you convert it back and forth which is very annoying

[@AntonTenitsky]

i have a video on Zbrush shadowbox but 3D Coat is the only software that allows to sculpt with voxels and thats unique

[@hepzibah4573]

This kind of stuff is never going to be possible in zbrush due to how its tied to its outdated pixol technology.

[@BlassKain17]

Can you make a video on how to proceed from there? Thanks!

[@AntonTenitsky]

I'll try to do one about it later. I do mainly use them for paintovers like here - www.artstation.com/artwork/mPlO9

[@AntonTenitsky]

but if you want to see a process from sketch to highly detailed model, converted to game/movie ready that unfortunately takes a lot of time and not coming any time soon. I use this technique for these projects - www.artstation.com/artwork/3kRDg www.artstation.com/artwork/42PWY www.artstation.com/artwork/zqZbZ Where I don't need to have a detailed model

[@AntonTenitsky]

Hey Aaron, I've recorded a video on paintover - kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2WxZZyKm7CaatU. I will do a video how I finish full model a bit later.

[@Julian-B]

thank you for the video. How exactly did you manage to sculpt in mid air like at 4:30 ? For me it seems I am only able to sculpt on the base model.

[@AntonTenitsky]

the video is a bit old. Unfortunately they changed the brush behaviour. Now you need to use 2D Paint with "Plane defined during Paint" to achieve the save result.

[@Julian-B]

@@AntonTenitsky thank you for your response. The brush behavior is different indeed, even with your suggested 2D paint settings. sometimes the brush snaps very far away and draws the voxels with it. Screenshot of what I just tried: imgur.com/a/qVju19U

[@jordano6162]

So cool.

[@AntonTenitsky]

Thank you stranger! I don't know you but you look like a cool guy! Not gay

[@ideascortes]

Im trying out carve in the new 3D Coat and it doesnt build up in the air like you do it. It has something called sphere and that's the closest I can get to what you are doing

[@AntonTenitsky]

Hi Javier, yeah they changed it :( Sphere, blob and using "on plane" is what i do now.

[@ideascortes]

@@AntonTenitsky Hi Anton. Thanks for replying. It would be great to see how you use it now... I've been messing around with it the whole morning but cant get to look like what you did in this tutorial.

[@michaelantonio6643]

thanks man

[@blendertutorialdotnet]

i couldn't do this sketching with the carve tool in 3DC 2021. They've changed something? Or i miss something? Any idea?

[@AntonTenitsky]

yeah they changed it :( there is a new way to do it. You need to use on plane tool. I have a demo in my latest video (pilot sketch) It's carve brush + on plane

[@blendertutorialdotnet]

@@AntonTenitsky Thanks Anton!

[@bohdan_lvov]

jesus freaking awesome! but link in description seems to broken and leading to editing page rather that to a gumroad itself.

[@AntonTenitsky]

thank you so much for pointing at that Bohdan! Fixed

[@1986DreD]

Thank!

[@androidfarmer8863]

Thanks for the video - I'm using the newest version of 3D Coat - I can't replicate the effect you're getting when you start sculpting... my sphere looks to be lower res, and the "Carve" brush simply creates LOTS of little visible polygons rather than the relatively smooth effect you're achieving. Any idea how to improve this?

[@AntonTenitsky]

Hmm, sounds a bit weird. I have 4.28 atm and I don't have those issues. Can you start with a low resolution ball and square brush dragging it outside the ball?

[@androidfarmer8863]

@@AntonTenitsky Thanks for the quick reply! I'm assuming you mean beginning the drag on the ball? If not, I don't know how to do that (still new to 3DC). But when I start with the low resolution ball and drag from the ball, it creates geometry, but as noted, it's really noisy. I'm running 4.8.25 on PC. (Have a Mac too but haven't installed.)

[@AntonTenitsky]

@@androidfarmer8863 yeah dragging out from the ball. It will be very noisy you then need to use cut tool to clean up a bit. But it's hard to know without seeing a screenshot

[@androidfarmer8863]

@@AntonTenitsky Thanks again - I'll experiment a bit.

[@moodnamoodnai8742]

very cool! thank you

[@AntonTenitsky]

thank you for watching!

[@tackmoo3795]

In the sculpture room How do you set up real - time lighting? I really want to know

[@AntonTenitsky]

Hi, you go to Geometry (at the top) - Cast Shadows (at the bottom)

[@tackmoo3795]

Anton T tanks! :D

[@keithtam8859]

and may I ask what is the difference between the depth percentage of the brush and the "depth limit" in the "E" panel? thank you

[@AntonTenitsky]

depth percentage is the brush strength against the surface and depth limit is the maximun cutting limit. Say it can't cut below 3 units.

[@keithtam8859]

@@AntonTenitsky thanks!! that really help!!

[@Cosmic-books]

I am trying to duplicate this technique but I can't get any brush to paint the mesh beyond the scope of the surface! Not sure what I'm missing?

[@AntonTenitsky]

Hey Bryan, they changed brush settings :( now it's blob or plane tool that you have to use

[@Cosmic-books]

@@AntonTenitsky Yes I guess you have to enable the 'plane' setting and then draw withing the limits of x-y-z separately. thanks!

[@erantron]

hello' i have a question when use 'carve brush' in 3dcoat 4.9 i use this brush on a sphere ball. but it can only sculpt on the surface of the sphere it cant makes some new shapes on the sphere like you. thanks

[@AntonTenitsky]

Hi, yeah they changed the brush in the later versions. I will complain to them about it now

[@AntonTenitsky]

here's the thread - 3dcoat.com/forum/index.php?/topic/24753-bug-carve-tool-is-wrong/ They are usually very fast with fixing this sort of issues. Meanwhile I can only recommend to use 3d coat 4.9.19 the workflow is the same really

[@erantron]

@@AntonTenitsky thank you!

[@danielwalton8475]

curious how you think this program compares to zbrush if goal is concept art, which is quicker/ easier to get what is on your mind into the computer

[@AntonTenitsky]

I think 3D Coat is much better than Zbrush for concept art, hardsurface specifically. You can split objects on a fly, very easy to cut, make holes, shapes. Very easy to iterate. It's much easier to deal with hundreds of layers there than with subtools in Zbrush. I just wouldn't have been able to make this gun - www.artstation.com/artwork/DK5zy in Zbrush, for instance. Zbrush is better if you need to get 100% production ready high-poly with live booleans and poly tools. Also, I still do organic sculpting in Zbrush, it's just I've had so many years of experience of doing it there that I couldn't really switch.

[@danielwalton8475]

thanks! I'm looking to learn one mainly just for personal projects/ ideation so from everything I've seen, 3d coat is the one for that

[@danielwalton8475]

will definitely keep watching your stuff! keep making more!

[@AntonTenitsky]

Thank you, Daniel! Also they always drop price on 3D coat during any regular major sale: Christmas, Black Friday. I think Cyber Monday is next. Discount is $100. I'll try to keep videos coming :)

[@coachdanielmorris7509]

I think ZBrush last update closed the gap on hard surface. I do think overall 3d coat is better for concept because of the painting tools. 3d coat texturing is way ahead ZBrush, but ZBrush brush engine is top of the line. Zbrush to this day still dont have a smoth modifier and and uv texture painting

[@thevilbrain]

Hi anton! How do you get the realtime lighting? f5 does nothing for me and I don't see anything in the menus. is it a plugin?

[@AntonTenitsky]

Hi, it is F5 by default or you need to Geometry/Cast Shadows (at the top menus) that will do it. You can assign a different hotkey there

[@thevilbrain]

oh nice!!! thanks man!!!!

[@Xenormous]

Hey, how do you access this shortcut menu at 4:10 ? Thanks

[@AntonTenitsky]

hi, it's a default hotkey "E"

[@_TAUTI]

Please can you give a link to your dark shader

[@AntonTenitsky]

just right click on your shader in shader panel "create new shader" and make a gray one with less specularity, its very easy

[@_TAUTI]

Thanks a lot!

[@77W7_]

how to make the same desktop ?

[@AntonTenitsky]

sorry man, what do you mean?

[@77W7_]

how to do list on the left side ?

[@77W7_]

its another workspace = 0 ps thx for tutorials

[@AntonTenitsky]

its at the top of the left panel, icon with big T, it cycles the panel look

[@77W7_]

Thank You !!!

[@EBDeveloper]

mic volume bud

[@AntonTenitsky]

yeah, it was one of my very first videos 3 years ago. Now I have a mic :)

[@EBDeveloper]

@@AntonTenitsky I assumed that since it's from 2017. ..Just felt important to mention. Enjoy your weekend. ;)

[@AntonTenitsky]

@@EBDeveloper any constructive feedback is good :)

[@fadis8267]

yeah I have seen that one is not as good as 3DCoat