(chimp sculpted in forger starting from the provided generic bust basemesh)

Finally, about a year after starting to work on it, and over two years after writing the first rough version, is available on the AppStore. (note that this was originally known as iSculpt)

forger is a sculpting app for the iPad. For a full description on what forger does and does not do visit forgerapp.com.

Whilst is true that it won’t let you sculpt super detailed models, it should have enough features for you to block in the initial subdivision level of a model, and then export this model to a computer to continue working on it  on some professional 3D package, since it imports/exports Wavefront OBJs. (like it or not, it’s pretty much the industry standard when it comes to simple, non animated meshes. Its easy to parse, and I would say that nearly 95% of all 3d software supports it.)

forger also comes with some really generic basemeshes (sphere, cube, plane, bust, body) so you can start sculpting as soon as you download it!

I would like to say that for me this is NOT a finished project, is will be an ongoing thing, I have already planned the full roadmap up to forger v2.0.0 (but I am open to suggestions ) I do not have a date for it nor I know if I will ever get enough time to invest on it and finally get to v2.0, so please, if you find it useful or you are curious, and want to see how it turns out, support it by buying the app! (and convince your friends and colleagues to buy it too!) I don’t want to make any promises, that is the reason why I am not showing (publicly) the roadmap nor talking about features that will be added in the future as the fact that I have now about an hour available every day to work on it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will always be the case.

As a modeler I feel that I have a pretty good idea on what is needed and I know in which direction this app should go, but like I said I am always open to suggestions. For any feedback or any kind of feature requests, please do not hesitate to email to: support at forgerapp.com or tweet to @forgerapp .

forger’s special introductory price is: $2.99/€2.39/£1.99 .

PS: ok, I’ll tell something in advance… an iCloud-compatible version is in the works, so you will be able to sync all your works across all devices and save them in the cloud. (If that is any useful )

I really don’t have any time to play around with this stuff so I’m giving up! I’ll use the CGPortfolio, thanks to whoever is responsible for the screw up.

To view my (rather old) works, please visit: http://exavi.cgsociety.org

I spent the last few months doing some low res sculpt tests to see if it would be worth for me to start working on a project that I have in mind, and the truth is that I am pretty happy with the results.

I have always said that the details in a sculpt don’t make the model, it is the low subdivision levels that make it good or bad, but one thing is to say it and another one to prove it. With these works I wanted to prove (at least to myself) that this was true.

All of these busts have around 60k triangles <hint>(which is what some handheld devices would be able to draw at a decent framerate)</hint> and no adaptive/partial subdivision trickery was applied to them. Meaning that they are consistent on all levels in the sculpt, ie (the back of the heads is just as subdivided as the front of the face is, I did not attempt to subdivide the face separately from the back of the head, which would result in more triangles where needed)

I would like to finish and detail them, but that’s outside of the scope of the initial research for my project, so I might pick them up and finish them at some point in the not-so-near future.

Having seen the results, I have decided that I am going to start working on my little project, even if no one likes it, at least I would be more than happy to use it.

To see some more of these tests visit http://exavi.cgsociety.org .

Probably I will start sculpting more personal stuff at home over the next months, right now I am not sculpting at all, because I can’t find time for this… hopefully during the following months I will have enough time to work on some personal projects that I have had in mind for a loooong time…

On another note, I was one of the winners of the 2009 Pixologic Turntable Gallery Contest. Cool huh? During the following days I will update my gallery with some more works.

Some more cool stuff coming soon, stay tuned! ^^

This is my 2009 Modeling reel. I am looking for work as a Modeler.

Everything is improvable, and the more I look at it, the more I hate some models or parts of these models, but I had to finish it at some point, and I think that this was the correct time to say “stop”. It is also good the fact that I am able to see some errors, for me that means that if I am able to find them, I might be able to correct them too, the “real” problem would be if I were unable to see any of them, I guess…

That being said, I still like my reel and I hope it can get me a work.

You can watch/download my Modeling reel in the reel section.

Well, this is my 2009 TD reel, in this demoreel.
I talk about a iSculpt, a really simple piece of sculpting software that I have developed. I did this reel just in case I am not able to find a job as a modeler given the hard times. Hope you guys like it.

More info:
iSculpt is the core of a simple sculpting application, this core has been developed in C++ and OpenGL|ES 1.1 for maximum compatibility.

In this video I’m showing an iPhone version and a cross-platform Computer version.
As of right now I have absolutely no intention in continuing the development of iSculpt.

You can download the TD Reel on the reel section.
Be sure to read the TD Reel Breakdown before or after watching it.

I went to Siggraph in New Orleans, where I met a lot of people and asked stuff concerning my reel, now I finally know that not only a modeling reel is about the “quality” of the models included, but also about the different range of them that you show, (say variety) so I decided to include two models more to my reel.

I think that that’s all for now, I have done so much stuff since my last post that I could write an entire book about it, but I prefer to continue working on my modeling reel, instead of telling stupid stories. That’s all for now…

I’ve been really busy lately so I didn’t had time to update.
From October to December I did my end-of-degree internship at CeVI (graphics R&D department of Jaume I University) where I did some 3d Generalist work and helped in a couple projects.

Since October I’ve been also at the same time working on my end-of-degree project which is going to be great (I hope so) can’t tell much about it yet… Its still under our own NDA (sort of) lol but as far as I can say its going to be something playable for a mobile platform… ok, maybe too much info

Also, in the meantime I am doing a bunch of speedsculpts just for practice before I start with the actual reel models.

BTW, yesterday the spanish government agreed to take a look about Computing Engineers thoughts regarding government’s disrespect to computing engineery.

“El pasado 23 de octubre el Ministerio de Educación presentó las fichas de los nuevos títulos de grado y master de todas las ingenierías menos la de informática cumpliendose así los peores presagios. La excusa ha sido que nuestra ingeniería no tiene atribuciones y que la informática es una materia transversal y por lo tanto no debe de concentrarse en una titulación concreta.

Las consecuencias de esta situación son:

- Desaparece la ingeniería en informática. Se cumple el deseo de muchos. Por fin desapareceremos y dejamos el camino libre al ejercito de aficionados y “reciclados” para erigirse como los nuevos y verdaderos informáticos. Dejaremos de ser un problema.

- Nuestros títulos no serán homologables a ninguno al no existir correspondencia con los nuevos títulos.

- Nunca tendremos atribuciones profesionales. No la hemos tenido hasta ahora y al desaparecer ya no las tendremos nunca. No sabemos que pasará con los nuevos títulos aunque por su caracter local a cada universidad no parece posible que lleguen a tener atribuciones.

- Los títulos actuales no tendrán validez. Al no poder homologarnos con los nuevos títulos que pudieran aparecer en el futuro nuestros actuales títulos iran perdiendo validez y se quedarán como el recuerdo del mayor engaño del sistema educativo español.

- Los actuales estudiantes están siendo objeto de engaño. Las universidades no informan temiendo una huida en masa que dejarían vacías a las escuelas de informática.

- No podremos trabajar en Europa. Al no existir por lo dicho en los puntos anteriores, nuestros títulos no se corresponderán a ningún título europeo. Las nuevas fichas de ingenieros de telecomunicación recogen las competencias de la informática por lo que serán ellos quién se queden con nuestra parcela de trabajo.

- Las universidades tendrán autonomía para inventar títulos relacionados con la tecnología de forma local y diferente entre ellas. Las universidades privadas harán su agosto y por fin todo el sistema universitario cumplirá su sueño de que todo el mundo pueda ser informático con independencia de sus estudios.

http://www.cpiia.org/ ::-::    http://www.huelgainformatica.es/“