Design programs

[max3]

What programs are people using to design all these cool body shapes? I like the ones that actualy simulate wood.

[Jeronimofesto]

I just use Photoshop for the most part and sometimes AutoCAD to get the initial shape since I find it easier to draw in AutoCAD.

[eleonn]

First I use a sheet of paper and pencil then I go to AutoCad. I did that for my first project. For the second one I exported those cad 2d drawings into SketchUp so I can work in 3D with them. Ill keep the Cad drawings so I can get full scale blueprints for templates.

[Gone]

The Gimp - much like photoshop except open source (and free)

[BenitoBassolini]

I've been using Adobe Flash for mockups. The resulting drawings aren't great for scale but they do show an approximation of the final product.

[Nomad98]

Adobe Illustrator is great, you can make your design to scale and print it out to use for templates. It's a vector program so you can zoom into any of the design detail or zoom out to the whole design and it won't pixelate.