Testing Sculptris under Linux Mint 13 64 bit. I need to keep on trying until the happy Alien face turns out to be Apollo's countenance...

Asimoid works at blender

http://www.pasteall.org/blend/13906

As soon as I will succeed animating it, I will post a clip! ...stand by.

Morenaments

A must have program to build patterns easily. http://www.morenaments.de/

Future Sculpture

Zbrush is a surprisingly plastic application for an informatic program...A whole universe to discover.

you can start with: http://www.pixologic.com/sculptris/

Tom Thumb's LINUX path

Just that: my ubuntu track to achieve the comfort windows denied me.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

http://www.gimp.org/

http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus

http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Home.aspx

http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.openshotvideo.com/

http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php

http://k3b.sourceforge.net/

and...of course:  http://www.blender.org/
I must admit it has been anything but comfortable for me since now though...