KITBASH ON THE GO

AUTHOR

Adam Dewhirst

Adam Dewhirst is a build supervisor for Double Negative London. He has over 15 years of experience in VFX spanning games, film, TV, commercials and children’s television.

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At Vertex 2019, I gave a demo on how to create a city in a day using new and innovative techniques. A large part of that talk was about the resourcefulness of using kitbashing. Kitbashing is nothing new, but making perfectly usable, pipeline-friendly kitbash pieces on an iPad is! In this tutorial I am going to show you how to make three kitbash pieces in Shapr3D on the iPad Pro.

Shapr3D is fast becoming one of my favourite tools to bash out ideas and produce useful pieces of kit. It’s fast, clean and its interface is very intuitive; this is definitely the direction I see the 3D industry moving to – not larger, more powerful machines, but more accessible, more usable software, available in VR and AR, and on mobile and tablet devices.

I use Shapr3D on my commute on the train. I doodle on the sofa, I jot down quick ideas in meetings. Anywhere I can take my iPad, I can be producing 3D geometry – in that sense it’s much more useful to me than Maya could ever be, because