
Maxon acquired Forger earlier this year, with its developer, former VFX TD Javier Edo, joining the company.

The app has been regularly updated since its release, and supports current VFX production standards, importing Alembic files and exporting USD files, in addition to older formats like OBJ and STL. Other key features include sculpting layers, masking, face grouping, a LazyMouse-style option for smoothing freehand strokes, symmetry, automated retopology, and basic vertex painting. Users can sculpt either with a stylus – Forger supports the Apple Pencil – or via the multitouch interface. It provides a core set of sculpting brushes that will be famiilar to users of desktop tools like ZBrush, including Standard, Clay, Smooth, Move, Pull, Flatten, Polish, Inflate and Crease. One of the oldest iPad sculpting apps, and still a very capable oneįirst released in 2011, Forger is one of the oldest dedicated sculpting apps for the iPad. Interoperability with Cinema 4D can be unlocked via a $14.99/year subscription, or as part of a Maxon One subscription to all of Maxon’s software and training. The free edition is limited to three active files, and does not share data directly with Cinema 4D, Maxon’s 3D animation software, but is otherwise fully functional. Maxon has made Forger, its digital sculpting app for iPad, available to download for free.

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