Jason BablerInterview
Creative Director (MAKE), sculptor
Adapted from Jason Babler's interview on Uses This, published 11 September 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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My mouse is a Logitech M510 wireless, fully mapped with hotkeys.
When I illustrate, I use my Cintiq 12WX tablet.
When I shoot, I use a Canon EOS Rebel T2i.
When I sculpt, I use a set of dental tools, silicone-tipped Clay Shapers, and an array of custom tools, rakes and loops I've made from guitar strings and steel hacksaw blades.
I airbrush with an Iwata HP-C Plus airbrush and use variety of craft paints.
We use a MakerBot 3D Printer for small prototypes and I'm experimenting with creating a plastic posable armature you can print out for sculpting.
For staying alive on the road, nothing beats my iPhone 4S.
Communication
OS X Mail for sorting through 8 email addresses.
Coding & Development
Transmit for FTP serves me well to this day.
Design
I am teaching myself Zbrush for 3D modeling with hopes to not only create 3D models for work-related stories but also to create 1/6 scale statues.
I also use Maya for hard-surface models (and for the iPhone games I've created), but I haven't touched it in a while, now that I have Engineering interns at MAKE.
Storage
I'd be lost with Dropbox to work on projects with people remotely.
Other
Yojimbo is my junk box and I simply throw screenshots, PDFs and other riffraff into it for future ideas.