Putty 3D 4+

UPDATED:

Devs have since fixed the exporting issues. I am now able to bring my sculpt into any 3D program on my computer by emailing myself the file!

Thanks Devs!

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Before I review... I literally just spent 25 minutes doing a sculpt, and when I went to render a photo it completely closed the app. And I didn’t save.

Review.

I use Zbrush and been looking at this app and another for about a year now. Never wanted to spend $5 or $10 to get a stupid app that I would never use.

But truthfully, I think this app feels worth it especially with the option to have a stylist or something like apple pen.

Pros:
-Fairly easy to use / play around with
-Familiar tools if you’re used to Digital Sculpting programs
-Affordable price for what you get

Cons:
- apparently can just crash while exporting a photo (maybe while exporting the obj too)
- the buttons and switches have no title and the images are kind of hard to understand.
- as far as I know you can’t open the intro tutorial again, which is a missed success point.
- fingers and hand gets tired about 15 minutes in on your first few runs.

Overall worth for me.

I am a blender and forger user and decided to give putty a try just because it looked like it might be really good and it does a lot of things a lot better but not enough to keep or pull me over completely. What I like about putty mainly is the speedy sculpting which is very quick and responsive, it has fantastic lighting - the best I’ve ever seen on ios, camera control, visual mirroring. However, I am rather annoyed with everything else, it’s just not intuitive, makes no sense, nothing is recognizable by standard 3d modeling which isn’t friendly to most artists from other software unless you’ve never used any others so it is confusing until you try to play with and figure it out, a grab brush is a must to push and pull geometry - just the add subtract smooth cutting and extrusions aren’t enough, no landscape mode for iphone, no good tutorials other than the quick one or a few sped up demos which isn’t all that helpful, and can’t even texture paint. I’m gonna keep trying to get the hang of it anyway and will update my review if I change my mind about it later on but as a Blender 3d Artist I find putty more frustrating than forger and blender combined even though I know there’s a learning curve for everything.

So, right off the bat, I’m not enjoying the moving around controls. Yes your can move it around, but to just look at it and rotate it instead of turning, is non-existent and makes getting back to upright orientation extremely difficult. You also have to press on your project to make rotating work. Another thing that I noticed that’s difficult to work with, is how fast the add/subtract tools work. It’s too fast to make minimal changes, even a quick little tap is sometimes too much, and adjusting the size doesn’t help, I’ve tried. Not only these but the light source is absolutely blinding if you turn to look in that direction. The symmetry is a little annoying with it lighting up every time to rotate but its bearable. Other than those, I can see the potential, it’s just a little difficult to control on phone/iPad