Jinx from the Arcane Animated Series | from Nomad to ProCreate on the iPad

Jinx from Arcane!
Sculpted and hand-painted in 3D all in Nomad and ProCreate on the iPad Pro! Watch Arcane on Netflix if you haven’t already! This video includes the new AutoUV method in Nomad for getting models to ProCreate. It replaces the Forger method shown in my previous RYU video. The new AutoUV method in Nomad works really well!
I've also uploaded this model to Sketchfab, so anyone can view, download it or even repaint it in Procreate! Enjoy!
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Sketchfab model available here:
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Instagram: / eric3dee
Music and Edits by oermergeesh: / @oermergeesh
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[@pomgarnets]

Loved this! I like seeing how people start their sculpts and how they problem-solve through a project, thanks//

[@roebeanstalk]

sternocleidomastoid!!!! this is friggin GORGEOUS. i've been so fascinated with the style for arcane, and i really hope they release some behind the scenes- but this feels close and so good. SO good.

[@eric3dee]

Thanks so much! Yeah I'm such a fan. Would love to see a whole special on behind the scenes work. At least we know a second season is coming!

[@acupofhollie]

this is absolutely gorgeous. i am in awe!!! i just started learning nomad and i hope i can make things this detailed one day!!

[@dariagrabowska7775]

how is it going?!

[@DeathChronx]

Dude that's awesome! Thanks for sharing. I'm so glad I don't have to worry about forger in order to import models into procreate now.

[@eric3dee]

Same!

[@farhanaj9510]

This is so inspiring, love how you really got that arcane look in the end!!

[@eric3dee]

Thank you!

[@trevorwilliams401]

Wonderful work. Thank you for sharing. Excited to see more.

[@antonym1587]

thank you so much Eric for sharing this with us, this is incredibly well done and inspiring.

[@eric3dee]

Thank you!

[@eliwolf4172]

I agree

[@MobileTechGaming]

Wow... Incredible work! And very efficient!

[@artofalfenito]

Amazing stuff as always!

[@floraarc9518]

Super cool! Thank you for sharing your process.

[@stevekobb3850]

Master Blaster! Many thanks.

[@STICKYArt]

This came out great 👍 I’m watching the series right now! I am loving nomad so far!

[@eric3dee]

Thanks! Nomad is amazing!!

[@georges5233]

Dude this came out so good

[@eric3dee]

Thanks!

[@Yoooooo0909]

You should of bring it back to nomad and put some lights

[@EnriqShockwave]

Really awesome work. Inspiring to see how much you can accomplish without leaving the iPad!

[@mvz]

Fantastic sculpt! Great info in the voiceover too. Thank you!

[@eric3dee]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for the comment :)

[@betafra8469]

incredible!!

[@AN-tn7kr]

I love your workflow!

[@eric3dee]

Thank you!

[@qodhasjdfk]

this is great! thanks for posting

[@user-jt9qt2rv7u]

Omg!!! Great !

[@Bertbu]

Amazing!

[@iamjmiley]

I love everything about this 😭

[@eric3dee]

Lol glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheChokolatemilk]

Wow ... i just start 3d modeling last week, with Nomad on our new iPad Pro. And when I see your videos ... I need to practive alot ahah ! Thanks for your channel ! Love your work !

[@eric3dee]

Thanks! Fortunately sculpting practice on the iPad is easy and convenient!

[@jManraM]

@@eric3dee I want to get started in 3d modeling drawings and I'm thinking of buying the iPad Pro. Is Nomad and Procreate great for this? Is it pretty extensive as far as going from noob to pro? lol hope it makes sense.

[@eric3dee]

@@jManraM Nomad and Procreate are fantastic apps and will go a long way towards pro level modelling and illustration work. In fact, there are many top notch pro-level illustrators that use Procreate almost exclusively. However, at some point in your journey, you will still need a decent desktop PC with possibly Blender and Krita (both free). Not quite sure if this answers your question, but I am definitely a big proponent of the iPad for this kind of work!

[@jManraM]

@@eric3dee this is exciting. Thank you!

[@st4erry909]

Ur amazing 😭😭 this so cool

[@eric3dee]

Thanks!

[@chrisjibas]

man oh man!! i am just impressed man

[@eric3dee]

Thanks!

[@OneTyphun]

crzy u did this in nomad, great job

[@wintang85]

amazing work, full of life and emotion.

[@eric3dee]

Thanks so much!

[@Diogosetgo]

Thank you so much for showing the whole process from nomad to procreate. thx

[@eric3dee]

Happy to. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TopArtToy]

awesome work. Thanks for inspire and share

[@cyber_sek]

Love it man. I just finished the show + I got nomad and procreate !

[@eric3dee]

Awesome! Yeah that show is chock full of great inspiration!

[@XAram_x]

You’re amazing!!!

[@eric3dee]

Thanks!

[@mariovasquez1019]

wow!

[@Koalanib]

HOW!? How did you finish this already!? Love it!

[@eric3dee]

Lol thanks! Spent the better part of my Saturday on this :p I still need to watch the final episode!

[@auk3542]

Nice sculpt 👌, would love to see some organic sculpting tutorials too .!

[@DsComicColours]

This blew my tiny mind! 😂

[@BrianLife]

You Rocked it! I’m a ZBrish sculptor for 12 years and I don’t have an iPad. After seeing Nomad, and Procreates new 3D paint! : I’m off to buy an IPad!!!! Yes! Great work and thanks for Sharing the process!

[@eric3dee]

Wow! So glad I could help you make that decision. I tell everyone that I have used various digital styli since the 90s including the best Cintiqs, but the Apple Pencil is hands down my favorite. The fact that the whole pen tip is capacitive rather than just the nib makes using things like tilt so much more natural. Be sure and get a matte screen protector - makes it feel more like a Wacom screen that way. Oh- and enjoy the mobility of sculpting in bed! ;)

[@BrianLife]

@@eric3dee Awesome reply! Lol! Cool! I’ll definitely get the Matt screen. Anyone you recommend? Also do you have a stand or harness for maybe holding it? I know that may be a winey. But I use a Cintiq and I’m use to drawing flat up. And also my neck gets sore when looking down., I can deal but, wonder any ways to hold or set it up. Thanks.

[@ollihoschie990]

Wow, awesome. I saw your Bob Ross on sketchup some time ango and think about changing my workflow (Zbrush-Blender-Krita) to Nomad-Procreate. Last week I got my first Ipad :-) It is so funny to work on every Place. Without my 6 Kg Alienware laptop (+ 2 kg for the power adapter)... Thank You !

[@ZacharyHutchinsonOfficial]

Does nomad work with Krita? I have a samsung tablet

[@eliwolf4172]

It’s an amazing inspiring video 😊

[@eric3dee]

Thanks!

[@johndeggendorf7826]

Beautiful. ✌️🍷🎩🎩🎩

[@eric3dee]

Thankyousir!

[@pop2147]

Woww Cool didnt expect Procreate 3D texturing come in handy. Apple is creating mobile pipeline. First sculting then texturing. Guess a lot comes next. With now M2 chip, the performance surely jinxed it. Hopefully there will be something like Marvelous Designer and retopology tools come after.

[@eric3dee]

Check out Cozy Blanket! Pretty amazing for retopo and UVs

[@wigglecado]

Nice 👍🏻

[@thaisondet7317]

Thank you for this!! I've been watching it slowed down and it really helps understanding all the steps you are taking to acheive this result! I'm wondering what to best way would be to render/showcase this piece.. I'd love to get a turntable but don't really know what the workflow would be for that, any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

[@eric3dee]

There is a turntable mode I typically use at the end of my videos. If you click on the Nomad icon in the top left you can access it. I just screenrecord using iOS' built-in function and then use the Nomad turntable view. Hope that makes sense!

[@rufdoestattoos]

Holy shit this is dope

[@3DimeMedia]

You’re really good. I can tell you’ve come from sculpting in Z-Brush.

[@eric3dee]

Thanks! Yeah I definitely have out plenty of time into Zbrush. It's really nice to now have such a friendly UI and the portability of Nomad :)

[@crispykalechips]

I'm so ridiculously impressed with the braid technique. For some reason I didn't even think it would be possible to digitally braid the tubes together, but you did it!!

[@eric3dee]

Thanks! Just takes some playing around a bit to do seemingly complex tasks :)

[@Erodent]

I just got a 3d printer a couple weeks ago and I'm having a blast printing Busts and anime figures from Patreon I follow, and the more i dive into nomad with literally base line artistic skill if any at all and want to make my own sculpts so bad, waiting a month for 3-5 prints per patreon is tough on the wallet

[@eric3dee]

Nomad is a great way to get into it. The learning curve is pretty small compared to other 3d packages!

[@tbxtaicho]

Looks good just wish it wasn’t soo fast so I could tell what’s being used

[@allenwest1986]

Ya Blender 3D also has a sculpt mode . Basically this video cab be used to learn any sculpting program .

[@eric3dee]

absolutely!

[@vidsurfer0725]

Hahaha, hey dude we are in the same Nomad group on FB. Amazing video and piece.

[@eric3dee]

Thanks! Yeah the Nomad Sculpting FB group is really great!

[@GregStenson]

The neck muscles you were referring to are the sternocleidomastoids Awesome vids, BTW. Love the work and the commentary!

[@eric3dee]

Haha yes! I need to get the pronunciation down so I can mention it next time :) Thanks so much!

[@rdtx2049]

That’s hell of a creepy jinx.

[@eric3dee]

Haha thanks

[@rdtx2049]

@@eric3dee love the videos. I wish you make videos on techniques and teaching topics.

[@womball]

Incredible work! I need to spend a lot more time in nomad. What size textures are you using. I would think you would run out memory fast in procreate.

[@eric3dee]

Thanks! I didn't run into any memory issues :) There are maybe 8 2k textures on this with only one or two layers each.

[@skysgo1420]

Super awesome sir. Inspiring me a lot 🤩😍 May I ask a question, what program did you put the filter glitch I saw in sketchfab?😄 Thanks you

[@eric3dee]

You are welcome! The glitch filter was done in Procreate :)

[@ZacharyHutchinsonOfficial]

This is awesome! Do you know any other programs that do 3D painting, my tablet is a samsung ;-;

[@eric3dee]

Armor Paint I think? But last time I used it, there was much to be desired. I'm on an iPad myself. Nomad's vertex paint can be great too if your poly count is high enough

[@verygoodfreelancer]

Beautiful work!! Love the teefs. Wondering, have you found a way to bring UVW maps *BACK* into Nomad for rendering?

[@eric3dee]

Yep. Nomad can do that now. Just share from Procreate to Nomad and it should work. If it doesn't, you may have to turn the UV shading on in the material settings in Nomad

[@verygoodfreelancer]

@@eric3dee interesting! i’m not seeing any option in procreate to share to nomad?

[@eric3dee]

@@verygoodfreelancer tell Procreate to export an OBJ, then it will give you an option to share it to Nomad

[@verygoodfreelancer]

@@eric3dee you are an absolute champion, may you enter heaven without issue

[@TabletopRPGMusic]

Amazing! How do you do those post effects?

[@eric3dee]

You can now pull models from Procreate back to Nomad for postFX. However, at the time of the recording it wasn't possible, so I uploaded to Sketchfab (link in description) and did post fx there

[@corimyers4985]

Wow……

[@mattdub9524]

Love your style man! So Nomad can unwrap now? I've been thinking about grabbing it... I think this is the selling point for me

[@eric3dee]

Thanks! Yeah Nomad does a pretty good job of auto unwrapping. I've been really impressed how easy it has been to get from Nomad into Procreate.

[@mattdub9524]

@@eric3dee did they just add the auto unwrap feature recently?

[@eric3dee]

@@mattdub9524 They added it a couple weeks back. So, fairly recently. I go over it a bit more in my Bob Ross video. @SouthernGFX also has a great video about it.

[@snoopycharlie8718]

Your description is really informative! How do you find Nomad compared to Forger/ Sculptura/ any others you've tried? Obviously it's not a Z brush replacement but can you use it for professional work? Thanks man :)

[@eric3dee]

Nomad is on a whole other level compared to the others. Really great sculpting tools combined with an excellent realtime render engine. I think it is more on the level with Blender's sculpting tools. You can absolutely use it for professional work (I do!) but there are definitely limitations. You can use it for printable or static meshes, but if you want to create animated characters, you will need to retopo it among other things in a proper 3d dcc package.

[@snoopycharlie8718]

@@eric3dee Thanks so much for such a detailed reply, you've convinced me to get Nomad and invest time into it. Had a look at your other stuff, subscribing when post this 👍🏻🙂 Thanks again man!

[@xd-qi6ry]

Any tips on topology starting with the sphere i always end up needing more then i use too much resulting in those orange things that cant be removed and it gets really annoying Also crashes / screen freezes resulting in me losing hours of work I want that like sharp pixelated topology with the clay tool but i can’t seem to find it working at all its always smoothe even on the very small resulutions

[@crumblebee6728]

How come when I paint on a model from nomad in procreate the texture is all pixely! It’s weird, yours looks so clean and smooth - why can’t I get that?

[@eric3dee]

Would be hard to say without looking at it. Most likely you need to decimate the model more before doing the auto UV unwrap. Chances are your uv map is broken up into too small of pieces

[@jayjayy4368]

Can i do this on forger and procreate?

[@Kolba_Team]

Nice work what iPad pro u use? 8 GB ram

[@eric3dee]

It's the iPad Pro from about this time last year. Not the M1s. Not sure how much ram-I'd have to check.

[@Kolba_Team]

@@eric3dee thx

[@albertoma84]

Sorry One cuestión your primitive esfere is 81mb for memory , i started with 188mb ,how do you make to begin with so little memory?thanks so much.. your tutorials are amazing

[@eric3dee]

Check the geometry tab on your starting sphere. Or delete the sphere and create a new one, go into the geometry tab and lower the subdivisions. Hopefully that will help!

[@TamaraKane]

Decimate low? Vertex? Different axes? I…like clay. 😊

[@TamaraKane]

Also, how did you add the model to Procreate?

[@eric3dee]

It sounds more complicated than it is usually. Most of this terminology just comes from more traditional poly modeling on a computer. Decimate = make simpler geometry (less polygons/vertices). Vertex = a point/corner of a polygon/face that makes up the model. Axes= X, Y, and Z directions. Y is normally up. As for getting the model to Procreate, you have to decimate (make the geometry simpler) first, then have Nomad AutoUV the model (unwrap the coordinates so a flat texture can be wrapped onto the model). Then, export the file as an OBJ which can be shared to or imported into Procreate. I hope that all makes sense! I go through the same process in my Bob Ross video if you want to check that out too. If it's still confusing, perhaps I should consider doing a primer video on 3d terminology and techniques?

[@TamaraKane]

@@eric3dee oh, my goodness! This helped me more than YEARS of tutorials! Thank you so much. You are a genius!

[@eric3dee]

@@TamaraKane haha glad to hear :)

[@TamaraKane]

@@eric3dee subscribed! Going to watch the Bob Ross vid, too.

[@josemreyes]

how long was the whole process?

[@eric3dee]

It's been awhile, but I think maybe around 4 to 6 hours?

[@esmokebaby]

Can you use sculptures made in nomad in animation? Iam sure you have to port it into somthing like blender if so could I make one and make a show from it on blender?

[@eric3dee]

Sorta. You can definitely pull it into Blender, but to animate a character or something you will first need to retopologize the mesh, UV it again and then bake the paint back to the new mesh before rigging. Perhaps I will do a walk through at some point...

[@esmokebaby]

@@eric3dee oh wow awsome definitely don't sound like a beginner task tho 🤣 definitely gona get my modeling skills up first..oh and my name Erick too 😂

[@karinalarasart]

I have the same question, and would love a tutorial as well:)

[@theluc1f3r93]

Jinx from Wish :D

[@PillowheadRides]

U can import 3d models in procreate?

[@eric3dee]

Yep. OBJ exports from Nomad to Procreate. You need to UV your model first (and ideally decimate before that)

[@zaya14.]

How do you make the tube for the hair flat for hair?

[@eric3dee]

Just scale it flat before shaping it and it will remain flat. Supposedly profile curves are eventually coming in an update!

[@zaya14.]

@@eric3dee thanks for the quick reply!

[@frontoni514]

Is it possible to use Nomad Models in a unreal engine project?

[@eric3dee]

Absolutely. You will need to decimate the model like in this video, though with UE5, that may not be necessary. Rigging/animating a character model is another story. You can still start with Nomad, but you will need to take it through another app to retopologize and rig.

[@frontoni514]

@@eric3dee thank you :)

[@jayjayy4368]

Can i do this with forger & procreate?

[@eric3dee]

Yeah. See my Ryu video where I take things through Forger. That said, you'd be doing yourself a huge favor to switch over to Nomad. The Auto UVs are much better and you can pull it back into Nomad for post processing fx.

[@jayjayy4368]

This is dope and honestly thinking of buying Nomad right now

[@jayjayy4368]

Have you 3d printed any of your work

[@eric3dee]

@@jayjayy4368 you wknt regret it. Nomad is by far the best mobile sculpting solution out there imo

[@eric3dee]

@@jayjayy4368 Lots of it. Take a look at my Popeye print video to see the process involved.

[@creationbeatsuk]

Is this not jinx from lol rift?

[@eric3dee]

Yes, but as someone who doesn't play LoL, I know her from Arcane, an absolutely incredible animated series.

[@AxelS]

i am really not a fan of painting the light on 3d instead of letting the light do her job

[@rodrigoceron7593]

Is this a tutorial? Pretty bad.

[@eric3dee]

Definitely not meant to be a tutorial. Sorry you didn't like it.

[@Cellardoor_]

"Jinx from Arcane".. and definitely not from the very popular e-sport League of Legends 😂😂😂 (jk)

[@eric3dee]

Haha- unfortunately my LoL knowledge is sorely lacking. Fortunately that didn't prevent me from enjoying the heck outta Arcane :)

[@Cellardoor_]

@@eric3dee Riot Games built a great world around the League franchise. Arcane was definitely a work of art, but if you need more inspiration the lore of League has so much content! Arcane was just a nice slice.