Hey Folks,
There have been some nice updates to wings3D in the stable 1.41 release. Notably, there are basic scultiping operations(pushing and pulling), and the bridge operation allows for some nice boolean-like way of creating holes in models(that have previously been missing in older versions of wings).
http://www.wings3d.com/
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There has also been a major release of Sculptris recently. This is an excellent free tool that started out by an indpendent developer, and is now supported by Pixologic. I highly recommend this tool in combination with wings3D to use as a sculpting and painting tool. I am very happy to see that this tool remains free(unlike when Autodesk acquired MudBox, another great but now expensive tool)
http://www.pixologic.com/sculptris/
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I hope these items aren't old news, but I wanted to make mention of these two free tools that I like to use. When I get some time, I will try to make a proper post about my modeling pipeline so this post doesn't sound like a pure advertisement.
Keep on modeling folks!
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