GroBoto

"Fast, Fluid and Fun 3D Art in Minutes"

GroBoto for hobbyists, artists and designers, is an easy to use graphics program that helps you create amazing 3D images and animations that are like none you’ve seen before. The name is a contraction of ‘Grow’ and ‘Robot’ and works by combining a whole range of automatic, software robots. Create individual objects, as well as enviroscapes. There is literally no learning curve and in minutes you’ll produce gorgeous 3D images and movies. Creating in 3D is no longer tedious, technically challenging and tough to master but is fast, fluid and fun instead. The developers Smith Micro say, "Instead of wrestling with complicated software, collaborate with it."

Features:
~ Uses two basic tools: Autobots, to create detailed well ordered objects from a diverse palette and Drawbots which create the ‘bot’ automation.
~ Texture objects without any distortion by using tiled textures that overlap in a seamless way.
~ Contains a complete collection of geometric shapes with sliders and direct numeric input to control details.
~ Provides visual feedback that is lush and instant.
~ Kinetic morphing provides automatic, sophisticated and fluid motion.
~ Edit objects in real time at full render quality.
~ Layered Fog atmospherics created by using color, thickness, altitude and transparency controls.
~ Starfield Generator.
~ Self-illuminating objects and textures.
~ In-line image filters-brightness, contrast, saturation and hue.
~ 3D Polygonal OBJ export with grouping and tessellation options.
~ Optional rendering modes-Line and Outline.
~ Alpha or depth channels generate stills/sequential image or movie output. Output to TIFF, JPEG, BMP, AVI (PC) and Quick Time (Mac).

"Beautiful, whimsical, easy-to-use, fun, and specialized all fail to adequately describe this unique ,inexpensive 3D software called Groboto... begin growing your 3D world with point and click simplicity." — Mark Bremmer, MicroFilmmaker Magazine. Rating: 7.9 out of 10.