This is a selection of personal notes on some of the technical aspects I’ve made over time using a program called 3D Coat. 3D Coat is for sculpting and painting 3D models. I mainly use it for painting models at the moment although I would like to use the sculpting tools more. Because the program…
The point of this blog is (hopefully) to help like minded people find resources and inspiration to perhaps try new things. I am still learning how to do digital sculpting myself and I have written a few things about that on the blog. I started learning general 3D art skills in 2018 (perhaps I dabbled…
There is an open Beta for a new 3D sculpting application being developed by Adobe called Substance Modeler. You can read more about this and sign up here. At present it is Windows only software. Interestingly it looks like this program is designed to work for both VR and desktop and uses a voxel based…
For this article I focus on how I turned an Illustrated 2D dragon into a rough base mesh using a program called Curvy 3D. I tried a few methods but this one was the easiest way to do it. I will discuss some other things I tried toward the end of the article and some…
One of my recent projects to practice 3D sculpting and painting was a frog. I decided to do a 3D sculpt of a frog study I had painted using Krita. I used Curvy3D Go to make the base mesh for the sculpt and then I took it into ZBrush to do more work. I like…
Earlier this year I sculpted this rabbit in ZBrush and then painted it using 3D Coat and Krita. It is also available on my Sketchfab page to view as a 3D model. Handpainted Jumping Rabbit by Christine on Sketchfab If you would like to see the process for the texture painting I recorded all of…
I’m currently working through texturing some 3D models I’ve made and in the process I’ve been learning a few more things about the software I use and trying some different workflow and technical approaches. At present I am using a program called 3D Coat to do the UV mapping, baking and the PBR based texture…
Baking is the process of transferring high sculpt details onto a normal map texture for a lower resolution version of the model for texture painting. I’ve made a few new videos for my YouTube channel you can watch if you are interested in this subject. Baking a Goldfish in 3D Coat 2021 Baking a Rabbit…
3D software can be intimidating to beginners. This article describes how I gradually overcame my fear of using 3D software and lists some 3D tools here: Solutions for making 3D art easier. My experience so far I’ve been learning Blender and 3D Coat since late 2018. I found that the learning curve was steep and for…
Painting in real-time on 3D models is a lot of fun to do, it is a nice reward once you have finished all the other things you have to do in the creation of a 3D model. The first software I used whilst learning how to UV map and texture 3D models was Blender 2.79….
This article describes more technical things than usual about the 3D workflow for texturing models. I wanted to write something that might help explain things I mention in future articles. I’ll keep it at an introductory level and I’m not going into too much detail at this stage. I hope this article will be useful,…
This article will describe some ways that primarily 2D Illustrators, comic and manga artists, concept artists and digital painters use 3D software in their workflow and give some examples of 2D artists utilising 3D technology in their creative process. I’ll keep it basic because 3D is a rabbit hole you can quite happily fall into…