This 123D Sculpt from Autodesk is the coolest iPad app I have seen yet. It's free from the iTunes store as I write this, but supposedly will only be 99 cents later. Given what it does, it could be worth ten times that or more.
This is a 3D drawing app. More to the point, it's a 3D drawing app for people like me who have no artistic talent at all. It makes every other drawing/sketching tool I have look really, really lame.
You start by selecting a 3D image from their library (you can also select just a cube, sphere or torus).
Once the image is selected, you can rotate it, spin it around, turn it upside down - it's all very easy to do - just keep your fingers or stylus off the image itself and you'll quickly get the hang of what you need to do to orient your sculpture as you want it.
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After that, you can use tools (shown on left) to shape, cut and add to the sculpture. As you first touch each tool, a description of what it does appears briefly on the screen, but a bit of experimentation will help you understand. You can adjust the size and "strength" of the tool - how deep it cuts or how much material it adds, effectively.
If you gouge out a little from the cheek as I did here, you'll see that rotating the view now creates appropriate shadows.
Is that cool or what?
Oh, I know that all might be old hat to some of you. But really: did you ever think you'd see it in a 99 cent program running on something that weighs under 2 lbs? C'mon, I bet you have never seen anything close, right?
123D Sculpt from Autodesk. Cool beans.
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