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Can't Draw? You Need The Inkulator 9000.
NTK was kind enough to point out the Inkulator 9000, software to render pen-and-ink style drawings from 3D meshes. NTK also points to a number of other handy tools and papers.
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Face it, your computer's a tracer
The title shouldn't be "Can't Draw? You Need The Inkulator 9000", it should be "Can't Draw, but you can create complex 3D meshes, and are somehow unable to figure out how to color them? You need the Inkulator 9000" The pictures looked really cool, until I realized that you had to do a LOT of work to make them. This looks like it is much more for the real artist than the average computer geek.
I didn't just do this post, I also did Yomomma!
This means you can "draw" your character once in a 3D program and then produce a million drawings by simply posing its skeleton in different positions or moving the camera to arbitrary angles. Especially interesting is the ability to produce unlimited in-between frames with simple 3D interpolation of object positions instead of expensive, laborious hand drawing.
main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}
I can /draw/, I just can't 3D model.
I'd love something to turn sketches, or a series of sketches, or whatever, into a 3D model.
inkulator looks like enculador, that is a person (usually a man) who places something (usually something residing between his legs) into some very dark output opening all humans have and that you can see very clearly in a much known webpage that starts with go and finishes with atse ;)
Having said that, I must remark I have to be very sleepy, because I had not noticed this similarity until it has been noted.