not god not bad..."awesome" ;)
see Dr Petter words ;)
http://drpetter.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=sculptris&action=display&thread=954

""""""""""not god not bad..."awesome" ;)""""""""""""""

Well, as the app is now, it give people the free ability to work with sculpting programs. This may not remain the case.

It could be good if they take the approach of say "Camtasia", where you can buy the big, full featured app, or just use the free version, which does a great job, just doesnt have a bunch of extra tools.

Most likely though, they are just aquiring the ability and it will integrate into their Monetary structure. Say goodbye to sculptris.

Except, the Dr. didnt plan any real further development AND I have a standalone app the way it is now, so I guess no loss. Only pixologic gain.

Not the equivelant of say.... "Michael selling out to Siemens" or something like that....LOL (Sorry Michael. I do hope that if you decide, you could retire with some kind of 6 million dollar buyout scenario) On that note, I wonder how many have already tried!!!!! :o

if you want stay free you have now today the new Blender ;)
http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/

So sculpt in Sculptris ( now Sculptris Alpha 5) then export to Blender and have free fun images or sculptures! :)

Yeah, given that his previous plan was to not develop it any further this sounds like good news.

It's maybe too bad that he didn't approach it more as a low cost commercial project more from the start instead of as a hobby project. Something like that might have let him stay independent and continue developing it on his own.

But being an entrepreneur means doing all kinds of other work apart from just coding, some (actually most) developers don't like that.

- Michael

""""'But being an entrepreneur means doing all kinds of other work apart from just coding, some (actually most) developers don't like that.""""""""""

But your just a glutton for punishment!!! Hehehe.... (Or JG helps out more than we know :o)

awesome news. lets hope Zbrush gets some UI facelift from DrPetter...

Man, zbrush and blender have the 2 worst interfaces lol

I told my wife when I first tried Sculptris that the ZBrush people would grab it. As one of the posters on the Sculptris forum said: "I cannot say that I am suprised that they wanted to snatch you up and drain your brain. Sculptris must have really scared the heck out of them".

Inevitable I'm afraid and who could blame him?

If I told my wife that, she'd probably roll her eyes and call me a dork. But hey, that's just mine. :-)
I am very happy for him getting the job at Pixologic. Seems a perfect match. And I'm excited to see what evolves from this...

PILOU did you have try unlimited clay from blender?

I have seen the developper site ;)
http://farsthary.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/unlimited-clay-sculptris-hollygrail-soon-in-blender/

Sculptris Alpha 6 realised Windows and MAc (always free)
Have fun organic modeling!
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=143386

Sculptris Artist: Barry Croucher