Kia Ora hello to all you awesome creators, I was looking for some program to design my own xmas cards & stumbled across shapeways,now I can do a whole lot more. But for me a bit at a time, I am used to making 3d forms by hand so its gonna be a awesome learning. looking forward to connecting & sharing what I can..
Welcome from Texas! Lots of free tools to take pictures of a sculpture or live model and import to a SW compatible tool-set. http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/photofly/ This is not free but looks cool http://www.photosculpt.net/ good luck!