Vermillion

Vermillion is a virtual oil-painting studio where you can paint at home without making a mess. You can learn from online artists, create paint-by-numbers templates from images, or paint with others in multiplayer.

Painting tools

The studio simulates wet-on-wet oil painting: colors mix on both the palette and canvas, letting you blend smooth gradients and create effects such as reflections and grass. You can dip a brush into multiple colors and mix them on the palette. A dry brush lets you blend colors further or move paint around.

A range of simulated brushes runs from a two-inch brush to a rigger. Brush pressure controls each mark, and a hand-steadying tool compensates for not having a physical canvas to rest your hand against. You can undo, work across four layers, and merge or reorder those layers.

Learn and use references

An in-game web browser sits beside the easel, where you can watch YouTube artists and access learning resources and reference material. Vermillion includes an hour-long paint-along lesson on painting a robin. You can project the browser onto the canvas to trace a reference, and display local images in the browser.

You can also generate paint-by-numbers templates from your own images or images found online. Vermillion creates outlines that you can show above or below the paint, adjust for detail, and isolate one color at a time. It automatically fills the palette with the required colors, from 2 to 20.

Paint together

Up to four people can paint together in a studio, including in public rooms. You can share palettes, work on each other's canvases or teach a class. Multiplayer is cross-platform with Quest 2 and works with overlay mode, so you can paint together inside other VR games. Only players in your Vermillion multiplayer session can see your painting equipment in an overlay.

Vermillion can also run as a SteamVR overlay, letting you paint inside other VR games.

Display and share your work

You can mount paintings in your virtual studio to view them while working on your next piece. Finished paintings can be shared as images, exported as images up to 8K, or turned into varnished 3D models for use in a VR home. You can also share them through Sketchfab or use them in social VR applications.

A controllable spectator camera and LIV support are available for streaming or recording.