Zolly - Perspective Models

Proko LLC

In-app purchases

About this app

If you want to learn perspective drawing and you’re willing to break some rules, then you need to check out ZOLLY!
One of the most effective ways to draw with dynamic perspective is to play with its extremes… close and far contrasts can make your images exciting. The main purpose of this app is to heighten your awareness that position and proximity makes all the difference in how objects appear.


Zolly Key Features:
View tons of ready-made models to tackle both basic and advanced perspective challenges.
Take total control of the camera to get the exact view and perspective distortion you’re looking for.
Use grid lines, ground planes, and low-poly models to help you understand perspective.
Primitive models that ease you into more complex forms, with edges and lines that can be turned on and off to better understand the underlying perspective.
A perfect tool to go with the Proko Perspective course.

Why ZOLLY?
There's a technique in film called a Dolly Zoom (ZOLLY) where you can zoom in while moving the camera back which keeps an object the same size. It’s a trip and it's been used in movies like Jaws and Vertigo to make iconic moments. This app also allows you to play with the same mind-bending effect to see how position and proximity change everything! And the fun part? You can even experiment with other viewpoints and effects that you couldn’t pull off with a physical camera using ZOLLY.
Zolly was designed to help you practice various forms in perspective, from simple and advanced primitive shapes, to more complex objects like vehicles and buildings. Draw from orthographic view, to extreme views, to anything in between. Manipulate forms in space with surprising viewpoints through a virtual camera, to expand your imagination, and prompt you to use perspective daringly as you play with form and space in your drawings.The goal for many artists is to push past the predictable and into the impossible. Stretch space. Stretch your mind. And yeah, stretch your art with ZOLLY.

Ratings and reviews

The app is cool. But the micro transactions are awful. Their other app Skelly is a paid app. Why couldn't we just pay $7 for this app too? Instead of hiding micro transactions. You can get a few basic shapes/models for free but not enough for it to be a useful app unless you pay $5 to unlock vehicles and another $5 to unlock buildings and so on. Would have rather paid $10 up front for a full app rather than unlocking individual parts of a "free" app.

It's cool. It's not $22 for models you almost certainly got online for free level cool though. I'd say it's disappointing that you can't import your own models, but then I guess you couldn't try to charge $22, huh? To be clear to potential users these are payments of $3-5, but you only gain access to a group of specific models when you pay that. There is no option for people.

It's a novel idea and could be a very useful tool, and when you're actually viewing the model it's easy to position and setup. However, calling it free when each section has about 2 free models and everything else is locked behind a paywall is predatory. Moreover the app is buggy and the screen jumps around when loading.

What’s new

Updated billing library and the latest version of Unity to security patch.