Feather: Draw in 3D 4+

Tl;dr great concept, didn’t land for me. Feels more like a toy than a robust solution for 3d art. It’s cheap and no sub so if you have the cash it’s worth checking out for yourself.

I had hoped for something like grease pencil, but with a more intuitive interface. I like the ideas presented here but the execution falls short. The clearest example of course being fill. WHICH they’re working on to be clear. Right now, surfaces must be filled with a series of strokes, which at least appear to me like separate 3d objects. I have some difficulty wrapping my head around the “draw a guide and sketch” workflow, which I grant is user error (there are a plethora of tutorials on their official channel). But it leaves me frustrated and wishing for something closer to box modeling to create draw surfaces.

More than anything, it seems useful for annotations and sketches. Load a model in and then create floating notations nearby for example. And there are plenty of architectural doodles I’ve seen with the software. If you want more than that, you’ll be frustrated I think.

Short wishlist of features, in no particular order, and understanding the huge lift some or all of these might be: fill finite surfaces, rigging and animation, simplified box modeling for surface creation, custom shaders, optional shrink wrapping the planar brushes to the draw surfaces, textured planar brushes (not going back and applying a shader to a stroke you’ve already laid)

I still feel wrong for using this app like I would my normal 2D art programs - Filling in shapes and sketching lines with thin strokes feels almost counterintuitive to every thing I’ve learned about 3D rendering, but you know what? Somehow, this actually all clicks for me! If you’re frustrated with Blender and software like that, but you know how to do so much as a simple sketch, then all you really need is about an hour to learn the basics of using the Apple Pencil (or a trackpad, mouse, or finger!) with this app, and then you can quickly be off to the races. My only complaint is that I wish there was a more intuitive way to learn about how to properly use 3D guides and brushes - the documentation and tutorials help, but for newcomers, myself included, it can take a bit of fiddling before you get a grasp on how you’re supposed to make things. Otherwise, Great app, 10/10, and it’s a one-time flat fee, to boot!

A few days ago I purchased the app to test how intuitive it would be to create 3D sketch designs that I will ultimately export as OBJ files to work in other tools. It took a little time to understand how to use the drawing guides as the first step, but once I got the hang of it I felt the workflow process of sketching in a 3D space is incredibly intuitive. Very smooth experience and I love it! And the OBJ files I've exported and imported into other software works great as well. Thanks so much for creating such an innovate piece of software for sketching in 3D for iPad....it really is next level in terms of what can be created in an efficient workflow process.