"Programs for sculpting miniatures" Topic
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| haywire | 11 Nov 2013 1:23 p.m. PST |
Hi Everyone, I am looking to get into making miniatures with 3D printing. I have CAD experience, but not really the sculpting experience. (I can make your APC or starship, but not an alien) What programs are people using to sculpt figures? I have heard some people are using Zbrush and Blender. What others are people using to make figures and organic shapes? |
| CorSecEng | 11 Nov 2013 1:34 p.m. PST |
The free autodesk 123D suite has a sculpting program now. Even has an ipad app. 123dapp.com/creature I have no experience with it but it looks cool and the price tag is nice. |
| Jeff W | 11 Nov 2013 2:02 p.m. PST |
the 123d app is fun, but sort of limited in it's usefullness. Creatures that you make are always perfectly bilaterally symmetrical. Arms and legs for example are always in mirror position to each other, you can't pose limbs independently. That said, it could still be useful if you imported it into blender, rigged it, and posed it, but I bet there are more elegant software solutions than that. |
| CorSecEng | 11 Nov 2013 2:20 p.m. PST |
The Zbrush or Rhino also has a sculpting program that I messed with a while back. You could turn the mirroring off and it looked like it was built for sculptors. Part of the reason I didn't really get it was because of the tool names and stuff. Might have been produced by the guys who do Poser… |
| Jeff W | 11 Nov 2013 2:29 p.m. PST |
For some reason when you mentioned Poser, I remembered this: pixologic.com/sculptris Free download. I have it on my home PC, but haven't had a chance to play with it yet. |
| haywire | 12 Nov 2013 12:13 p.m. PST |
So we have Zbrush
Sculptris
123dapp
Blender
Poser
Rhino Cool… I will check some of these out. Thanks Guys!!! |
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