Camels? anyone mentioned Camels?

love it.

no, it's not Fran here, but she might like this too.
http://thebest3d.com/archipelis/index.html#camel

Archipelis is a neat proggy to turn some 2D images to 3D shapes. For quick prototyping and making 3D models by tracing 2D outlines. Once you have the shapes, they're uv-texture mapped with the original image showing right on it. You can save that to Wavefront OBJ and other formats and take it in for rendering and more, in Poser, Carrara, Bryce etc...

Another neat modeler in that broad category of 'Drawing 2D to make 3D shapes' is Curvy 3D, and I just saw that there is a free copy on the latest 3D World magazine of Curve 3D 1.0. More details at www.thebest3d.com/curvy