3D Coat Vehicle Sketching 

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

thank you, Kevin!

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

thank you for watching :)

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

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

thank you for watching!

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

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.

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

This kind of stuff is never going to be possible in zbrush due to how its tied to its outdated pixol technology.

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

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

Hey Aaron, I've recorded a video on paintover - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E4N4iTfKg4s.html. I will do a video how I finish full model a bit later.

Thank you! I'm not a blender power user but I really don't think it's got it. Voxel sculpting by itself is unique to 3d coat.

thank you so much for pointing at that Bohdan! Fixed

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.

@@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

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

Anton T tanks! :D

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

oh nice!!! thanks man!!!!

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?

@@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.)

@@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

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

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.

@@AntonTenitsky thanks!! that really help!!

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

@@AntonTenitsky Thanks Anton!

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.

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

will definitely keep watching your stuff! keep making more!

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 :)

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

hi, it's a default hotkey "E"

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

@@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.

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

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

@@AntonTenitsky thank you!

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

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

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

Thanks a lot!

sorry man, what do you mean?

how to do list on the left side ?

its another workspace = 0 ps thx for tutorials

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

Thank You !!!

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

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

@@EBDeveloper any constructive feedback is good :)