Autodesk 123D Creatures lets you create monsters on your iPad

New App for iPad Unleashes 3D Creatures From Your Imagination Into Reality

Autodesk 123D Creature Lets Users Create and 3D Print Fantastical Designs

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) unveiled Autodesk 123D Creature, a new iPad app that gives anyone the ability to create and 3D print amazing 3D characters. Inspired by the same technology preferred by professional designers and 3D artists, Autodesk 123D Creature makes getting started as easy as drawing a stick figure.

"Now, for the first time, 123D Creature makes it easy for anyone to create a sophisticated creature on an iPad, and then have a 3D print delivered to their doorstep with a few swipes of their finger," said Samir Hanna, vice president of Consumer Products at Autodesk. "With our 123D family of apps, we strive to put powerful 3D technology into the hands of anyone who wants to be creative, and we look forward to seeing the original creatures people will create and share with the community."

Create and Showcase Incredible Creature Features

Making original characters with Autodesk 123D Creature starts with a simple skeleton creator where users lay out the basic anatomy of their creature in digital clay. Multi-Touch gestures allow users to thicken, stretch and sculpt their creature with many of the tools familiar to users of the popular 123D Sculpt app. Once finished sculpting and shaping, a creature can be airbrushed or adorned with decals and textures imported from the user's iPad photo library. To show off a finished creation, users can bring the creature into the render room where they can customize lighting and shadows, apply filters, and import background photos to generate amazing images to share with their friends.

Users who want a sculpture of their masterpiece that they can hold in their hand, can order a 3D print of their creature, with a few steps, that will be mailed to them from Sculpteo's 3D printing services embedded within the app. Artists can also enhance their characters at a professional level in other Autodesk 3D visual effects and animation software includingAutodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max.

The Autodesk 123D Creature App is exclusively available from the App Store on iPad or at http://appstore.com/AutodeskInc/123DCreature. The retail price of app will be priced at US $7.99, but at launch, the app will be offered at a special price of $1.99 for a limited time.

Autodesk 123D Creature Lets Users Create and 3D Print Fantastical Designs

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) unveiled Autodesk 123D Creature, a new iPad app that gives anyone the ability to create and 3D print amazing 3D characters. Inspired by the same technology preferred by professional designers and 3D artists, Autodesk 123D Creature makes getting started as easy as drawing a stick figure.

"With our 123D family of apps, we strive to put powerful 3D technology into the hands of anyone who wants to be creative, and we look forward to seeing the original creatures people will create and share with the community."
"Now, for the first time, 123D Creature makes it easy for anyone to create a sophisticated creature on an iPad, and then have a 3D print delivered to their doorstep with a few swipes of their finger," said Samir Hanna, vice president of Consumer Products at Autodesk. "With our 123D family of apps, we strive to put powerful 3D technology into the hands of anyone who wants to be creative, and we look forward to seeing the original creatures people will create and share with the community."

Create and Showcase Incredible Creature Features

Making original characters with Autodesk 123D Creature starts with a simple skeleton creator where users lay out the basic anatomy of their creature in digital clay. Multi-Touch gestures allow users to thicken, stretch and sculpt their creature with many of the tools familiar to users of the popular 123D Sculpt app. Once finished sculpting and shaping, a creature can be airbrushed or adorned with decals and textures imported from the user's iPad photo library. To show off a finished creation, users can bring the creature into the render room where they can customize lighting and shadows, apply filters, and import background photos to generate amazing images to share with their friends.

Users who want a sculpture of their masterpiece that they can hold in their hand, can order a 3D print of their creature, with a few steps, that will be mailed to them from Sculpteo's 3D printing services embedded within the app. Artists can also enhance their characters at a professional level in other Autodesk 3D visual effects and animation software including Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max.

The Autodesk 123D Creature App is exclusively available from the App Store on iPad or at http://appstore.com/AutodeskInc/123DCreature. The retail price of app will be priced at US $7.99, but at launch, the app will be offered at a special price of $1.99 for a limited time.

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Pudding Monsters (iOS)

The good: Pudding Monsters has a polished interface, smooth and interactive animations, and supports eight languages.

The bad: So far, the game only has three multistage levels and its mushroom boost hints are pricey and unnecessary.

The bottom line: Pudding Monsters offers a fun and quirky twist to the age-old concept of puzzle games, but until it gets more levels, opt for the free version.

ZeptoLab, the creators of the incredibly popular game Cut the Rope, just released its newest game yesterday called Pudding Monsters and as you can guess, it's just as addicting. I played the 99-cent game on an iPhone, but there's also an HD version for iOS and Android tablets, as well as a free Android that includes ads.

The premise of the game is to combine little pieces of pudding to make a bigger pudding monster, capable of fending off humans who want to eat them. You'll first help them escape from the kitchen, where they have been (carelessly and wastefully) laid out on a table, to the living room, and out to the neighborhood.

Pudding pieces collide and stick together and you move them by sliding them across the screen. As always, though, there's a catch: Unless they run into each other or another sort of obstacle like a book or a cup of coffee, the pieces will slide right off, causing you to fail the level.

These sleeping pudding monsters are quite lazy and need to get a job.

(Credit: Screenshot by Lynn La/CNET)

To pass a level with the least amount of energy and thought, you just have to get all the pudding pieces on the table to stick together. But the real challenge is to get the whole pudding monster in a certain area of the playing field to cover stars that have been laid out on the field. Do this and you'll pass the level with the maximum number of points.

Along the way, you'll run into different kinds of objects and puddings that have different characteristics to help you in your quest. For example, blocks of ice that have been left lying around (seriously, who does the cleanup around here?) work as a one-time-use obstacle that will break into bits once a pudding runs into it. There's also a cloning machine that produces even more pudding every time a little monster goes through it.

There are also puddings that leave a trail of sludge when you slide them across the field. Although it sounds pretty disgusting, their trail will help you stop other nonslimy pieces of pudding from sliding off. And if you see sleeping pieces of pudding (read: lazy puddings that aren't pulling their weight for the overall cause), you won't be able to move them. You'll need to use movable pieces to slam into them to get them going. Another kind of pudding moves in unison with others, signified with their hypnotizing eyes. You'll have to be extra careful with these because if you slide one, you'll slide them all.

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