Man, these types of programs really make me nostalgic and brings me back to when I was a child. I was obsessed with 3d software like blender and sketchup.
Loved Lightwave 3D back in it's Commodore Amiga / Babylon 5 heyday. Also Cinema4D, and Imagine3D. Switched to Windows for a while (for gaming purposes), and the 3D software landscape oddly enough just wasn't great for "hobbyist" level folks, so I kinda put that on the "back-burner" for a while. By the time I got back into 3D again, I was heavily hooked on Linux (the most "Amiga-like" OS I'd yet found on PC), so skipped 3DS Max entirely and went straight for the (at that time) recently open-sourced Blender 3D. The learning curve on it was horrific but once actually over that bit, the software itself is crazy powerful and easier to actually use than one might at first imagine it could be. For me, the last little push over that initial learning curve was Blender Guru (Andrew Price) on YouTube. His beginner tutorials are pretty much the best (at least they were for me). Nowadays Blender is pretty much my first and only "go-to" tool for everything 3D that I find myself in need of (except Godot, for "game-enginey" realtime related bits, but Blender's involved there also, for modeling, ofc).
TLDR; Wall of Text: Blender 3D is awesome!
(Godot + Blender = Even Better.)
Boy, this makes me feel old. When I was a kid the only way to learn 3d software was to pirate one of the commercial offerings like 3D Studio Max or SoftImage
I remember being obsessed with being able to 3D model as a preteen and devoured dozens of tutorials for Maya and 3dsmax but they were so complex that I never actually build anything myself until I used a much simpler program named MilkShape where you drag vertices into position manually.
And now over 20 years later I’ve made more textured 3D models in picoCAD, the ultimate simple software, in a month than I did in a couple years of the above tools.
I used to use one called Milkshape3D, I even bought it. I vaguely remember there was some controversy about it after a certain version though, like it was doing something dodgy to your computer if it detected that it wasn't registered or something.
Milkshape was such crap, i loved it haha. I learned modeling using it too, i think it had two tools extrude and merge vertices, so i had to learn some dumb topological tricks to do anything. Still by the time i moved to 3ds Max i did pretty well.
My favorite early learning app was wings 3d, really fantastic modeling flow and creates clean messages by default
Golly, when I were but a lad the only way to learn 3D software was to sit in front of easel for hours on end, learning depth perception by painting naked form after naked form.
You had eyes? Back in my dat6, we hadn't differentiated into multi cellular organisms yet, and had to model 2D worlds as an amoeba because that's all the dimensions we had at the time. An Amoeba! You tell kids these days, they don't believe you. It is the most annoying thing.
Life has taught me so many lessons. No matter how good, humble and honest you are to them that doesn’t mean that they will treat you the same way. I married my husband for almost five years now with no idea that he was cheating on me. I noticed some changes in his character and I decided to confide in a friend who introduced me to a hacker whose name is Vladimir. This guy did a wonderful and perfect job for me by hacking his phone call log, facebook messenger messages, phone messages, whatsapp, Skype, database and so on. Contact: ( SPYRECOVERY36 @ GM AIL C OM )
I don't know if it still exists but there was one that was built on top of blender that was easier to use.
Crocotile3D is not as easy to use as it seems, the dude who makes it is an artist who is very specialized in using their own tools - they have their own pixel art tool too.
The other tools that have somewhat similar spirit are the voxel ones and the ones that are using stacking sprite as main way to create things.
"Sprytile" is the open-source Blender addon inspired by Crocotile.
Seems last updated a few years ago from a quick googling; I never used either, so no idea how they compare or how Sprytile works with the newest Blender.
