This poor attempt at a SpiceRex had a face that only a mother could love. The result was a rather blobby shape that I then painted orange, applied an eyeball sticker to, and added 3D cones to for teeth.Īs expected, my first 3D model looked pretty terrible. My first order of business was to try freehand drawing SpiceRex, the beloved Spiceworks Community mascot, using the '3D doodle' feature in Paint 3D. When a Windows 10 Insider Preview build with the new drawing program became available, I decided to give it a whirl. But a demo and actually getting your hands on new tech are two entirely different things, so I set out to get my hands on Windows Paint 3D to see just how easy it is to make art worth sharing. Several months ago, when I first watched Microsoft demo the new features in Windows 10 Creators Update, I got excited because it looked relatively easy to produce high-quality imagery using the Paint 3D application. Sure, I'm pretty good at editing photos in Adobe Photoshop, but creating art from a scratch using my own (virtual) paintbrush has always been a challenge. It is easy: Go to the A-Painter website ( ) with a WebVR enabled browser (More info on ) and put on your HTC Vive headset on.While I've been using computers pretty much my whole life, I've never actually managed to draw anything great on a computer.

Over 30 brushes with a custom Brush API to easily create new ones.

Save and load local binary files of your drawings.

Drag and drop images and OBJ models from your desktop to the browser, for a template or starting point to paint over.

Paint on top of other people’s drawings and make them your own.

View 3D drawings anywhere with or without a headset.

Share drawings with the world just by copying and pasting an URL.

Paint in 3D using tracked controllers.

This is what you can do with a-painter today: Unfortunately the only one available today is the HTC Vive on Windows machines (we hope this change soon!). To browse paintings you just need a browser with WebGL available, but to fulfil your artistic urges you need a system with hand tracked controllers.

Paint 3d browser