3D Coat?

[rcallicotte]

I'm thinking about getting the Educational version, since it's easier on the pocketbook and I work in a university.  Would anyone be willing to tell me your experience and point of view about the 3.5 version of 3D Coat?  I value the people within this forum's opinions.

[Walli]

I tried the demo a while back and I found it very powerful. Price/value ratio seems very reasonable to me and if I hadn´t already ZBrush, I probably would go for 3DCoat.
Perhaps I will do anyways, as the retopo features seem very powerful. Probably not perfect if you have to do game ready models, but for what I do..

[rcallicotte]

Thanks Walli.  Seems to me the auto re-topology piece might be useful, but is it worth the entire package just for that?

[freelancah]

You should try the trial. You pick up the tools quite fast and the learning curve is very low. I bought mine bit before the voxel version and got it pretty cheap

[Jack]

eh I like it 3dcoat zbrush seems overhyped to me i dont do character sculpting i only use it for organic tree modeling and landscaping, but 3dcoat will probably be bought out by pixologic sometime in the near future as they did with Sculptris