3D Modeling, Design: Shapeyard

I’ve been a 3D artist for almost 30 years. I’ve used a lot of 3D software and apps. I’ve also been using Shapeyard for about a year now. Here’s a tip from a veteran in the industry: This app is NOT worth the price! I’ve watched Shapeyard change several times over the last year. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been for the better. One thing that has stayed consistent is the many, many crashes that happens when trying to use it. Additionally, the limitations are beyond frustrating. It feels like the simplest of features are missing, and the ones that are there are incredibly frustrating. Another thing that really bothers me about this developer is that they have become dishonest. Several of the images they have on here were NOT created in Shapeyard. I can guarantee that the devil mask and elephant were not created anywhere near this app. I’m also 99.9% sure that most of the positive reviews on here are not real. Here me out, for the price of less than 3 months of a subscription for Shapeyard, you can buy Nomad Sculpt and do hundreds more things than you can do in Shapeyard - no subscription.

Much like it’s documentation, this app is extremely non-existent. I mean simple. You take primitive shapes and mush them into each other. If you want to adjust them, there is a “Bend” button that slightly mushes them in one pre-determined direction. Yay. If you are patient enough to mush and bend an appropriate number of shapes together, you CAN come up with a shape that resembles an object others may recognize. At the end of the day, it’s just a different way to work in 3D. But if you have experience with more traditional 3D apps and their workflows, working with Shapeyard is going to feel like trying to make a PowerPoint presentation using crayons and Play-Dough. As one of those people, this app is a massive disappointment. Buy Nomad Sculpt for yourself. Buy this for a nearby child or it’s adult equivalent. Give the both of you two hours to work. If the child comes up with anything halfway decent, steal it from them by exporting it as an .obj, load it into Nomad, finish it off there. 👍

This is so far the best modeling game i've encountered, but there needs to be a few things added.. Please add a "import" so we can import models instead of only being able to export them. Also, please make it so we can copy and paste images off of google and make it so we can add it to the 3d model as a texture. Finally, please add a way for us to make "layers" for the individual parts, and so when we want to move the individual parts up together we can just collide the layers and so the pieces don't split apart when we move it. I will change my review to 5 stars if this is added!