A New VR Sculpting Tool by Foundry

Have you heard about project “Kanova“? Foundry has recently revealed a new sculpting tool that will let artists manipulate and sculpt assets on a desktop in the usual way, and in virtual reality. Kanova is said to be based on 3D Adaptive Distance Field technology which the company got after the Mischief acquisition. Another thing worth mentioning is that the tool will allow you to generate models with adaptive tessellation.

Feature Highlights

• Editing scenes using Kanova in desktop mode and within the VR environment
• Selecting different modeling tools
• Creating multiple layers
• Sculpting and painting in color
• Exporting to Sketchfab format”

FAQ 

Why Early Access?

“Kanova is a new VR enabled sculpting application from Foundry. Before we go too far with the development we’d appreciate more user input into how the features are implemented. Do you enjoy creating with new 3d mediums? Click that buy button (it’s FREE) and provide us with your honest and constructive feedback. We appreciate the support of the Steam community during this very early phase of Kanova’s development.”

Approximately how long will this software be in Early Access?

“We anticipate the Kanova early access program to run for a period of 6 months. At which time we will make the decision to go forward with a commercial product or go back to the R&D Lab to come up with another more suitable product idea.”