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I dream of sculpting professionally some day, (hay, we all need a dream.) and I want to learn how to do so with computers, but the programs for this can be difficult or expensive. 3K for Maya anyone?

But I stumbled upon a free tool from Autodesk (The people who make Autocad and Maya) for the Tablet that works well. I am still learning but you can get to sculpting quite quickly and it runs quite well on a modest tablet. I am running it on my Ipad mini (the original, not even the one with retina.) I have not produced anything worth posting yet, but some of the work others have made is quite nice. I never thought I could do this kind of stuff on a tablet. Kind of amazing really that we have come that far that I can do this on a $230 handheld device.

It is 123D Sculpt+

I imagine there is or will be other apps that do this as well, but this is the one I found and have been working with for a few days.

Please feel free to comment on this or your own computer sculpting experiences.

Thank you

Blender is a good program
Have yet to use it on my tablet, as I have a SP2. But I use it alot for painting apps.

Ugh. I made the mistake of getting the two-week free trial thing of Maya. I played with it for said two weeks and THEN downloaded blender when the license expired. That's like downgrading from Dom Perignon to Milwaukee Ice Light. There's a reason one is three grand and the other is free.

Which is a shame as there are some open source things that come vaguely close to their proprietary equivalents, but not here.

I haven't bothered with 3D modelling myself since then, but I guess I'll eventually have to. Future and all. I might have to give this a try.

Autodesk have most of their software free on student licences.

http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/all

z-brush is the standard for sculpting resin figures and geomagic's freeform is what GW (and everyone else) uses for plastic sculpting.

The Wacon Cintiq Hybrid allows for sculpting on a tablet.

http://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-displays/cintiq-companion-hybrid

It is a 13" display, in an HO Android Tablet, which will run just about any Autodesk product that is available for the Android OS (currently they only have a few products)..

I believe that ZBrush is available for it.

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