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Interface may be a challenge for new users to get used to. While you don't see Blender in any Hollywood effects pipelines where Autodesk and Houdini are deeply ingrained, Blender has steadily carved out a niche in motion graphics and visualization, similar to where Cinema 4D excels.
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The software was given a thorough overhaul recently and emerged with a fresh interface and a feature set that aims for parity with the best.
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The software is good enough to have produced numerous impressive short films and is in use by several professional studios.īlender was criticized early on for having a confusing interface, but don't let outdated complaints steer you away. To this day, it stands as one of the greatest open-source development projects ever conceived.īlender is full-featured, offering a complete range of modeling, surfacing, sculpting, painting, animation, and rendering tools. Heavy use of shortcuts to execute commands can be daunting for new users learning the software.īlender is easily the most versatile entry on this list, and in many regards, it compares favorably to top digital content creation tools like Cinema 4D, Maya, and 3Ds Max. Hope this helps get you started with sculptris anyway! Using the sphere alone is great fun (see examples in posts below as they were all from spheres alone).Less useful in designing architecture and objects like furniture. Very basic R.Leifield style arm (muscles on muscles!)

My main idea is to do a Warhammer Style Ork eventually. Here's what I knocked up in 10 minutes with the imported model.
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Not going to teach people how to sculpt but will do a tutorial on the basic tools for people if needed. Sculpt away! The imported models will be a workable 200-9000 triangles generally if working with simple models which will give you loads of room to add detail without crashing the software or your pc! Just remember to use reduce selected or the reduce brush now and then to keep the triangle count low and to allow you to use those saved in more detailed parts! Remember when importing tools like grab will have Global switched on as default (which will make the whole imported model move) - to turn this off untick Global (or with the tool selected press 'g' to toggle global < a good shortcut to remember!) It may ask you that UVs are loaded, Go to paint? Tick no. Nice simple step - load up Sculptris and go to import - tick New Scene. If you have this go to Window > Settings/Preferences > Plug in Manager and make sure OBJexport is loaded/auto loaded (see image below) If you are specifically using Maya you may come across an issue where OBJ isn't visible when trying to export. You should just be able to export as OBJ in whichever 3d package you use. I build it out of basic geometry (in this case a Cylinder with a few simple rotations and scaling) then before exporting I Triangulate it (Not sure if this is needed any more but you used to need to when exporting as. I only use the 3d programs (I use Maya) to make a very simple base model to work on as if it were a basic trad sculpture armature.
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I'm going to work on doing one for Blender as well for the completely free route (using only open source/free software) I did this in Maya but this should work with all main 3d programs. You can take them in to your selected 3d package and put them together like a multi-part action figure to render.Īgain as a note this is just for practise and for proper modelling use regular 3d techniques or build it in zbrush/ use the GoZ feature in zbrush. Using multiple models allows you to concentrate and practise if starting out (remember it won't be usable in games/animation really, sculptris is really just an entry level/free flow practise tool but will get you going with digital sculpture/ moving to something like Zbrush).
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If you can create full models from the base sphere you get from loading a new scene you'll find it can give you an extremely high poly count. I'm planning on writing a tutorial on creating a 3d statue/sculpture with multiple models to build up the overall image using only completely free software but thought I'd start with moving models from Maya to Sculptris just as a starter Īs there isn't the ability to create layers or use zspheres it can be tricky to make a complete figure from 1 base sphere.
