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3D Modelling for Kids

Posted by timothy on from the gooey-gui dept.

An anonymous reader writes "E4engineering has a story on Cosmic Blobs, a 3D modelling tool designed for kids and marketed as a game. Blobs breaks new ground both on the UI side (for instance, the UI has no text whatsoever) and on the modelling side: an object stays smooth as it is pushed and pulled, and animations are automatically adapted to arbitrary shapes. I tried the demo and it's fun, but sometimes unintuitive ( tutorials on the website are useful). I could make animals and get them to hop around with relative ease even though I have no artistic talent. Could this be the way real artists model in the future?"

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  1. No text by patternjuggler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Blobs breaks new ground both on the UI side (for instance, the UI has no text whatsoever)

    I'm pretty sure that isn't new ground.

    It sucks when I have to figure out what the icon artists were thinking when I'm trying to learn a new interface, telepathy or something like that would come in handy there. There's a standard way to express symbolically- it's called letters and words. At the very least, make hovering the pointer for some amount of time over a purely graphical icon have some text popup to explain what it does.

  2. Real Artists? by schild · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If modelling becomes this easy, paying for "real artists" won't even be necessary. You can hire fake artists. In India.

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    schild
    editor, f13.net
  3. LEGO by idiotfromia · · Score: 4, Insightful
    a 3D modelling tool designed for kids and marketed as a game

    LEGO anyone?

  4. pretty ignorant by jeif1k · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The fact that Indians are paid poorly compared to US corporate graphic designers doesn't make them "fake artists".

    India is actually full of artists, craftsmen, and designers that will create whatever you like (physical or virtual) at a fraction of the cost that the US corporate designer gets paid.