FREE Content creation software

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Sculptris
Focus as an artist on pure creativity

Enter Sculptris, a fun and engaging way to start off your digital sculpting journey!

If you're new to the world of digital sculpting, Sculptris is the ideal ground on which to get started. If on the other hand you're experienced in CG, we offer you ZBrush.

With our award-winning software, ZBrush, released more than a decade ago, Pixologic, makers of ZBrush and Sculptris, has become recognized for bringing ground-breaking innovations into the world of digital art.

http://pixologic.com/sculptris/


123D Catch is a free app
Turn ordinary photos into extraordinary 3D models.

Capture places, people and things in 3D using your Windows Phone or Mobile device, iPhone, iPad, Android device, or any camera.

http://www.123dapp.com/catch

Vue 9 Pioneer

Good for height maps etc etc...

Easy to learn, easy to use!
Breathtaking 3D landscapes!
Photo-realistic results!
Wide selection of presets!
Unrivaled natural 3D creation power!
Renders at Full HD resolution!
Direct access to Cornucopia3D content!
Helpful user community!
It's completely FREE!

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vue/vue_pioneer/

[StarFire]

It's amazing how many free development tools are out there in cyberspace, thanks for the links LIam.

[frecklepad]

Thanks for sharing this info, it's could be very helpful and useful for beginners.
Sculpting programs are pretty similar, aside from some features. For free software, I personally like Sculptris which feels very good.
Personally, I use blender and Sculptris and they both really work wonderfully together and complement each other. Sculptris can do things blender can't, blender can do things Sculptris can't. so they're indubitably supposed to be used alongside each other rather than picking one software and working only in that.
For sculpting you'll almost certainly want a graphic tablet. Its MOST useful for sculpting, texture painting, and grease pencil. I have a XP-Pen Artist Pro 16 pen display and use it daily for Blender & Sculptris work. and it's quite good.