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I love this update on the flying creature - having 3 in the same picture gives a much better feel of the design of the beastie.

Timelapse Sculpting a character from "The Seven Deadly Sins" by Otto Dix. Complete modelling and texturing took 1 hour, the timelapse shows the modelling part at 2x speed. Timelapse Video http://www.curvy3d.com/images/Sins-Dix.JPG This video shows Aartform Curvy 3D 2.0 quickly sketching a character ...

Aartform announces Curvy 3D 2.0 London - December 31, 2009 - Aartform, the software publisher and development studio, today announced a major new edition of its sketch-based sculpting program for Windows®: Aartform Curvy 3D 2.0. Currently in beta testing, Aartform Curvy 3D 2.0 is scheduled for a Q1...

Aartform Curvy 2.0 is now ready to try out in the Beta Test.

The beta is open to anyone who has purchased Curvy 1.0 or 1.5, and is also available to Journalists / Reviewers.

For Press - request a review copy here


Simon de Rivaz

If you increase the resolution of each part before Merging you can get a smoother surface without the blocky edges.

(Of course if you want blocky edges you can also reduce the resolution!)

When you use Project Dogwaffle Fun, Fast & Affordable PC Software for Artists who love to Draw, Sketch, Animate and Paint! - you can easily swap the textures in and out of this paint program from Curvy 3D using our new built in Dogwaffle Integration. This is nice and handy for things like smoothing ...

My three Coffee Muses in the steam. I modelled the cup and steam in curvy and imported some Poser models for the Muses.

It is much easier to see the 3D effect in the avi - looks like a magic eye picture, the 3D just jumps out of the screen. Very cool.

This is my own engine, StormRaid (Based on DirectX), and it has AI agents written in C++. I use a fairly simple little Finite State Machine to drive their aggressive behaviour mixed with a Flocking Algorithm to stop them colliding into each other. It is a long way from perfect - I think the horses s...

I would love to see this moving in parallax

Aartform Games Blog - Send in the Cavalry

Here is the Lo-Poly horse in an action scene, complete with rider! I feel sorry for the horses who will get deafened when they start shooting...

Cool - like a sculpted popup book. Might look better with a brighter lightmap so the Curyv lighting is less confused with the painted lighting.

Yeah, it would have taken days without that Curvy + Meshlab magic!

The animation itself was made in another program I wrote to help with making games - it is optimised as a character rigger/animator, very fast to use but not so user-friendly as Curvy

And here is a go at the walk cycle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1c6QCl4r8

It's early days for the animation - but the Lo-Poly model is holding up well under the strain.
I am planning for these to appear fairly small on the screen so they can be a bit rough

Animated version of lo-poly horse:

Lo-Poly Running Horse Anim (Youtube)

See the Sculpting Process Here (Curvy 2 Beta)