The purpose of these creations is largely personal. I find the first step in designing to be one of the most difficult. In the early stages of design I think it's crucial to have some sort of inspiration behind what you're designing, whether it be a human character, a monster, or whatever. I sometimes wake up in the night and have the most awesome designs in my head, but I find that that rarely happens in the day, when I can actually use it. While photographs, art books, and artist blogs are good for referencing when designing, I've always found the initial shape designing to be the most difficult step for me. My hope is that these engines will provide the inspiration there that I need and will hopefully be useful to other artists as well.
We've only been working on it for 2 days so far and we're coming up with some pretty incredible results. I plan to create alternate versions of the application for a variety of purposes. This one we've been working on will be for vehicle design. There will also be versions for:
Humanoid Design
Alien Design
Monster Design
Prop Design
Background Design
...and probably some more as I think of them
For those wishing to create designs based on their own custom art, that may be an option, though I doubt the source code will be made available.
Here are a few samples, enjoy! (If any of you artists use any of these to create some cool designs, I would love for you to send me what you come up with so I can show some examples. Thanks.)
You can e-mail me at: flashpotatoes@gmail.com
