Sculptris
Introduction
Sculpris is a very easy, yet powerful artistic modeling application. Basically you start from a geometric form (e.g. a ball or whater and then sculpt/deform with various tool "brushes". E.g. you can crease, grab, draw, flatten, smoth, etc.
Sculptris (alpha aka 1.02) was developed by Tomas Pettersson and will be further developed by Pixologic: “Sculptris has captured the hearts of artists with its fun, intuitive and user-friendly interface - indeed a perfectly sweet companion to our big monster ZBrush! Tomas will be moving to California, from Sweden, to join our team. It is our pleasure to welcome Tomas and we look forward to a fruitful collaboration on future Pixologic projects [...] Pixologic would also like to give you a little appetizer ‘goodie’, an Alpha version of Sculptris for Windows - a unique, very ‘cool’ artistic modeling application still in raw baby stage and now incubating at Pixologic HQ. The current version, formerly known as Sculptris 1.02, will be renamed under Pixologic banner as Sculptris Alpha 5.” (A Gift From Pixologic, 07-23-10, retrieved nov. 18 2010.
Links
Download
- Version 1.02 aka Alpha 5
- Pixologic announcement (link is at the end)
- direct link
- Download at Sculptris.com (this site will probably go away).
Tutorials and Manuals
- Sculptris Cheat cheat. Nice cheat sheet that includes all the shortcuts (nov. 2010).
- Specialized stuff
- the hideous - character workflow
- retopo in blender 2.5
- Repairing Simple Non-manifold meshes with Blender (this is of general usefulness, Such happen a lot with CAD programs when you position two objects just next to each other instead of overlapping).
Support
- ZBrushCentral forum
- Old forum (closed for writing, but does include more useful stuff for beginners).