Thank you !

Good info, I'm a complete newbie learning to sculpt digitally on blender and its been a bit confusing figuring out how the workflow should work for minis in particular, a lot of video tutorials show you how create a model but those are aimed at animation/games purposes so they make a t-pose first and pose it later, so it like you gotta make a whole poseable model before even adding any features, seems like a lot of unnecessary rigmarole when you could just block it out in the desired posed from the start. The posing functions always make a mess too. How do reference images work in the process? do you draw a character reference with front and side views etc? or just work off a single image?

Found this video when looking for methods to convert 3D printed Sunland knights into Middenheimers. Great video and easy to follow! Thanks :)

Rokksville really is a constant source of inspiration, their use of disparate bits to make wholly new looking figures is sometimes mind blowing! Love your personal take on the conversion and creating another wonderfully characterful miniature. Carry on being awesome and take care. (Premature commenting there before I got to the end of the video 😅 ) I haven’t played any games for quite a long time, it’s the converting and creating characters I love the most about the hobby. Even when I kinda dropped out of the hobby and going to stores etc I was converting the odd miniature here and there just for my own creative outlet. There’s something to be said for creating your own characters in a setting you love, a bit more of a personal investment. And I absolutely love seeing the things that other people create and that feeds my inspiration and urge to convert further.

Soon, I'll tip my toes into sculpting. I'll start with conversions, and then try to build minis from scratch.

warlands posters !?

Is it the shovel handle clipping through the brim of the hat? Or is that deliberate to provide extra support?

12:01 on the right foot there is a hard edged connecting section to the shovel end.

I find all two part epoxy putties best for layers and small details. It fine for filling out body, but find moving it around in hand chances of damage on work and may distort. Sculpy and fimo, have advantages in doing large areas quick bake and do another area. Sadly sculpting on comp I find too perfect with symmetry and you lose alot of personality, but great to build up parts and repetition. if I had a 3d printer it be great to use 3d sculpt parts merged with putties?

Hmm, not spotting any issues with the final. Guess I don't have a refined enough eye.

Perhaps similar to others, I've felt that digital sculpting would be giving up something I valued in traditional sculpting. I think what you've shared here is gives me hope that I might one day download Zbrush :D

He's so great! So much character :) I think the perceived complexity and need to know all the bells & whistles are what have put me off digital sculpting. It's all a bit overwhelming. Your approach here makes me want to try again, but with the digital clay mindset. When sculpting for minis, as opposed to for gaming or animation, it makes perfect sense to work this way.

Oddly, I've been doing some digital sculpting over the past few days. One of the problems I have with it is that it's way too easy to sculpt details that are too small. I'll sculpt something then print it to gauge my progress. Then make about 1000 updates before I get something that is big enough to see and paint without looking freakishly out of proportion.

This is such a great sculpt! I really need to adapt making hands like this to streamline my workflow.

Interesting. As I first learned mesh modeling before digital sculpting was popular, I didn't really understand how to use the sculpting mode of Blender. Now that I have done a few clay sculpting, I understand the digital tool better, and I would use it like clay sculpting. Mesh modelling and sculpting seems to me to be different philosophies.

Great little sculpt, he's got some serious personality. I'm going to start exploring such an approach to my digital sculpts, although I do larger busts and figures.

He looks fantastic! This is actually the first time that I feel any inclination to try digital sculpting as it has always seemed too... sterile I guess. Thanks for snother great video!

Painting on canvas is a magical experience. On screen… meh

I just can't get into digital sculpting. I am sometimes thinking about trying to turn it into a career, but it doesn't seem possible as traditional sculptor only. If I ever download zbrush again, I am definitely going to watch this video again :)

Thanks, its nice to see a "conventional" artist tackle the digital form. Regardless of the medium, there is still an organic feel to the sculpt, and choosing to work on him in his final pose, I think helped a lot. I've made a couple of miniatures for scale modelling, and tried to keep it in a generic A pose as long as possible, to get the benefit of posing via armature for multiple variations, but it didn't do any favors on the end result. I guess by the time I reached what I considered a good result, I had spent too much time on the generic design, and didn't spend enough time to make each figure unique. Your approach seems a lot more... enjoyable :) And a question: did you make any changes in your process, to make printing and support removal easier? The way I see the model, I would print it head down. *Just saw the short about this, ok, not how I would print, but it turned out nice, and the final painted result looks awesome!

Hiahhh ... soulless 3D!

i started sculpting because i didn't have enough a lot of money but a lot of free time to sculpt...

Hey! I watch these on slower days at work and just getting to this one. I loved being part of the Havoc history... such an amazing line and glad I helped people get their hands on your great work during that time.

Mind if I ask what is that pen display tablet you're using?

4 score and 7 years ago!

cara seu canal é demais, muito bom mesmo. pretendo aprender escultura para fazer soldadinhos para jogos de guerra

Hi, thanks for the videos, i'm making my own rpg miniaturas an 15 mm is a really hard scale, i tried to make a goblin but he ended up beeing too bulk lol, so i decided he is now a general goblin lol

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I'm an old school and draw everything out with paper and pencil. Sometimes I just start with a figure in my head, set up the armature for it and just start sculpting.

That tablet looks awesome... What would you say is a good budget one pc wise as I'm not a Ipad/Mac person though I'm sure there are some that want to know them one. To help with didgitally sculpting and recomended software (and po other tools/periferals you may advise)? Do love the Goblins, hope the show went/will go well.

Nice. Got recently a Samsung Tab9s ultra - was wondering if there is a decent 3d sculpting app you reckon will be good to use for Android; not expecting a 'mobile' app to be like ZBrush.

Watching your struggle getting back into it is inspiring. It's always helpful to be reminded even the pros get "rusty."

A lot of fun to watch the Z Brush process

Why didn't the elbow and heel not print?

40:03 thank you so much for answering my question!

I was about to ask if the Facebook photo was a 3d print. Question answered!

Aww you missed the corn cob pipe.....😢

Magnificent. That's a hell of a turnaround time.

who is that man in my microwave

Tom, i expect to see some video of the game being played at Adepticon also some of the players feedback.

I like Blueberry Bandits too! The figures look great and I hope you are a big success at the show.

Thank you for your answer. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.

Is there body sculpting tutorial for male and a female?

Looks awesome Tom! love the proportions and pose!

Is Aves the make I'm just looking to see what i can find in the uk. Def love to see that wizard.

i just started working with fimo pro and fimo soft before i would work with supersculpey firm only and i have to say its a game changer. still trying to find what better suits me, so i'm working on like 1 to 1 to 1 mix of all of them but also working with just one of them at the time, still haven't found a good mix but its way better than working with just supersculpey firm

wish i'd catched this one live

Thanks for the video. Try to join in live next time. Hunter

Helped alot I was a little upset cuz i only had resin clay which dries quickly it's like putty so happy to see that I can work on it too!!!

Helped alot truly very detailed and the way u placed camera it is clear even tho i watch at lower quality hope to see more