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3D Modeling made easy

 3D middling is generally hard for people working in 2d art to pickup. There have been attempts at making  it easy in various tools

  • Maya introduced the world if sculpting
  • Sketch introduced the union/difference way to model
  • Voxel editors made it like Lego  building
Recently I’ve come across a new roll called KenShape from @Kenney.nl. This tool takes an interesting approach of creating 3D models from 2D art. There have been attempts at this before. In fact I’ve worked on creating a 3D model from sketch as a blender plugin as part of my college work. It was hard to create something polished with it .

KenShape roll takes an interesting approach by imposing a limitation of pixel art. This makes it similar to the union of shapes kind of modeling and can get pretty impressive results



This sendsy like a very good  trade off between ease of use and results quality that you get it if it.  This obviously can be integrated into blender. I might spend some time on that this week. 

As part of using and pasting gifs from the tool I learned a bit about gimp scripting which saved me a lot of time while I was sorting things out for adding the pixel art as part of the gif image.

Here is the script if you are interested

 

 

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