Gravity Sketch expands on their 3D design ambitions by launching an open beta for Gravity Sketch VR for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift today on their website.  Founded in 2014, this small London start-up has dedicated countless hours of research to leveraging new technology and making 3D artistic expression more accessible.

This round of BETA access will be offered for a limited time and includes a steam key that will be good for the life of the software regardless of future pricing (which has not been established).  The team at Gravity Sketch is endeavoring to expand their existing beta user base to help with guiding the development of the software and are looking forward to receiving feedback from this newest batch of users.

I received an early version of the software and have been using it for about a week.  To be honest, I was a little overwhelmed at first by all the features they have packed into this version.  I spent the first few hours just sketching and deleting stuff to get used to all the different tools.  Eventually, I was able to focus on a creative concept and built a scifi version of the Pinocchio story.

Spaceship – VRhuman

Human Concept Time – VRhuman

I use Gravity Sketch to quickly

block the volumes and proportions in 3d space. These rough 3d sketches

serve as underlay or base for further ID sketching and rendering. Such approach gives me a freedom of freehand analog sketching with the added value of the third dimension.

– Rein Bijlsma

Something Weird – Danny Bittman

– Michael Smith

industrial design sketching,

In order to find new and intuitive ways of

Full Dakar – Mike Jelinek

Now that Gravity Sketch has been released to the public we’ll be using it to create tutorials, stream it live on our Twitch channel, and will bring you updates when new features are introduced.  We can’t wait to see how you use this incredible tool to create worlds in virtual reality.  I’d love to see links to your first Gravity Sketch creations in the comments!