Funny that this is a mystery somehow.
Just try to build what ancient egyptians did, what ancient greeks and romans did.
To steal all these and have them in the british museum wasn't enough to trigger your logic?
Why Stonehenge will make this miracle possible? Because it exists there?

To carve a piece of marble like Pheidias did, to have this drapery in marble... well, even Michelangelo's masterpieces look rather as caricatures side by side with such incredible moments of art. Michelangelo knew it very well. I hope you know it as well.
Do you know a way to carve a clean curve on a piece of marble? From another side of view this becomes a clean straight line. Can you do this "simple" LOL thing? Does anyone knows today how to do it?

You need some more tools now, like loop cuts etc.
You don't also have a UI for making this work fast and easy.
You also need artisan to make it smooth.

Yeah
eh, I mean the sculpting club.

Thanks Rich
Why don't you join the club?
The more civilized people there, the better it is.

Pilou, you...
Indeed this was the reference for the turban and possibly for the face, though I just made it from memory.
ha ha
Pilou, the greatest and the kindest troll around the net.
Van Eyck's tremendous portrait in national gallery of london.

Already here, in it's alpha release if you like to have some fun. It's stable alright.
read about it. The whole topic is interesting.
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?257749-The-Dynamic-Topology-Branch-is-here!&p=2168306&viewfull=1#post2168306
Download experimental but stable enough builds if you know a little about blender.
For OSX, 64 bit
http://graphicall.org/979
For WIN, choose 32 or 64 bit
http://graphicall.org/962
http://graphicall.org/963

Meanwhile, it seems that it's the more innovative system I know.
Let me explain why. It looks like another sculptris.
But,
The ability to sculpt under GI pathtracing, the ability to see under physically correct lighting what you sculpt in seconds... this is innovative alright. *
The ability to vertex paint without the use of UVs,
to have a fast box blended mapping for a fast texture,
to even UV and paint directly on texture map,
to have many sets of these and combine them without using the archaic Ps layers methods but to use the cycles node system...
to directly sculpt on beautiful ready made (by me) procedural shaders...
All these are innovating indeed. IMO.
Meanwhile the following are blender only projects-ddodles. No other software is used.

the alter ago of my dog LOL

*some personal thoughts on sculpting, art, 3d etc...

@unknownuser said:

"Sculpting has little to do with anatomy or such things. Does it sound heretic?
Sculpting has to do with scale. But what "scale" really means?
Sculpting is all about light and shadows. It's how it captures the light. There isn't any short of clipping path around a mesh, this may exist in our imagination only. Light "eats" the mesh and in the end we have a space full of shapes of light and shadow. This is what a renderer provides, this is what you'll notice in a real museum (under the influence of such ideas)
So, to keep watching the surrounding space while sculpting, trying to achieve a flow of shapes all around, to find references of the surrounding shapes into your sculpt... this is the essence of sculpting.

A little about drawing/2d painting.
Have a square piece of paper, draw a shape. What you have done is to divide the square face of the paper in two pieces of equal importance. "

@solo
This is a well known breed of dogs around the world.
Like mine, I could not take a better picture to show you what he can do.
But the most important in such cases is the master.

On the contrary, please stop!

Yeah, please don't stop.

Two days later, ... so sorry.
Happy birthday

Well

I hope it's not to late to say
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FREDERIK

Are these 32 bit hdris ?
I'm asking because we have a new ipad here. It's for my wife of course.

@Dave R
You can go to Mlion from snowleopard.
I don't know what apps you have there.
Most of problems may come from installers.
So.
Just install it directly on the OSX10.6.8. It will work.
Or...
when installing a fresh MLion, only then and never after, use the migration assistant. (when asked for activating a user, just chose to bring an older existing user with all apps.) . You probably used timemachine backup already, right?
Never use migration assistant after having a full running OSX. Please avoid it.

@unknownuser said:

so as long as it doesn't reboot you can use it longer than 30 days

Thanks.

No collada thomthom, it will never work right under blender to SU workflow.
Thank you, anyway. Importing heavy meshes into SU is never an easy to do task. Even the 64 k limit of 3ds format is more than reasonable for the SU viewport engine.
Much easier to export all SU scene as obj to blender and set up a scene there. (tig's exporter)

Gaieus,
The question was about importing larger than 64k single mesh with UV maps applied.
If the model is divided to more than one mesh, 3ds format will work, it will import lot of groups as these aren't larger than 64k each.

Anyway, it's impossible to divide a nude like this one. The whole statue is actually three meshes but nude aphrodite is one piece.
I tried all the tricks, excellent zb plugin-decimation master, UVmaps, baking some AO and cavity. It's not enough. If I could only go for a 128k mesh...
A podium render.

Thanks for reply Gaieus
So, what format-importer should I use?

It may sounds weird,
But is it possible to import a single mesh (with applied UV textures) in SU, larger than 64k faces?
I use the 3ds format, but you may have some better idea.

Thank you andybot
If you have any difficulties with my nodes(noodles) set up ask for help. You will probably have.
I'll group it for you. I'll write some tuts on this, though it's easy to post the blend file without textures, append it (ask for materials only) and apply it. Insert any texture you like. That's all. In the near future we'll be able to share a library of materials. In a more appropriate way.

@unknownuser said:

Although a real Windows would make sure that she had hopefully no need for additional support questions...

Exactly so. You have to pay for WIN OS only and that's it. She is blond if I recollect correctly.
Let's be practical Frederik. The set up is not for your needs after all. Or... is it?
I mean... I didn't mean that you're a blonde... Maybe something is running... I mean... well, are you gonna use this macbook in the near future?