Post #685584 by Gene S Morgan on Thu, Jul 11, 2013 8:02 PM

OK, I'm finally going to get to sculpting on the Ipad. As usual I will start with a collection of reference images. Some folks frown at this. I will say again: “I don't use reference images to copy from, but to inspire me.” I want to make something that looks like tiki, but in the end it comes from my imagination. I have mentioned that the main problem with Ipad sculpting apps as opposed to computer programs is that fine detail is hard to come by. To me that ruled out the big teeth that so many people love. I had to go a different way. I collected these images because they had a wide range of different mouth treatments. My goal is to take ideas from all of them and come up with something creative but still tiki.

The app I settled on to show sculpting on is 123d Creature. It is another AutoDesk app and is not free. I won't quote prices on apps because they tend to change and even free ones end up costing something if you upgrade them to add features. I never pay more than $10 and rarely over $5. This app seems to be intended for folks who what to make 3D creatures models. It starts out with a base figure model like this.

Since we just want a head for now we just go to those little blue dots at the end of each appendage and delete them.

When we are done deleting them we just have a body.

Then we go to the size shape tools and give the body some thickness.

When we are done fooling around we end up with somewhat of a log.