Nomad for Noobs | Beginner iPad Sculpting Walkthrough

START your iPad sculpting journey HERE!
Many have asked if I would do a realtime (actual speed) video that takes time to go through Nomad sculpting a bit more step-by-step. While I hesitate to do that on a more advance sculpt as those can easily take 5+ hours or so, I'm attempting to do that here in a more basic sculpt. Joined with my production partner (my son), I tackle sculpting a cute cat drawing from my other son. Hopefully, this video will demystify more of the gui and techniques involved in a simple Nomad sculpt. Enjoy and Happy Sculpting!
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Music and Edits by oermergeesh: / @oermergeesh
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Editor: oermergeesh

[@UncleJessy]

Fantastic easy to follow tutorial!

[@eric3dee]

Dang! An Uncle Jessy comment! :) The KZbin gods must be smiling on me :)

[@UncleJessy]

@@eric3dee haha man I’ve been modeling my own little character but might start him over. Love how you simply made the hands/legs here

[@eric3dee]

@@UncleJessy Nice- looking forward to seeing him. I've been meaning to do a printing video on my Popeye Nomad sculpt :) Hopefully soon.

[@Michael-NZ]

Love the way your son asks questions, probably the one I’d be asking!

[@eric3dee]

@@Michael-NZ glad to hear that :)

[@StaleCookies]

the young person featured asked some great questions and had some awesome artistic input!

[@eric3dee]

Thanks! Good to know

[@richardfausto3796]

I wasn’t sure at first about this tutorial after having no success with others (either too boring or not simple or not too brief to even understand) however after watching this and with your son asking questions all the way through it’s been incredibly useful to me! This one video has taught me the many basics and operations of Nomad that I have been looking for as a beginner :) thank you so much!

[@eric3dee]

Wow! Very glad to hear that! Thank you for the feedback :)

[@Diemermakes]

I ran in to the image import issue also, and my solution was lifted from the Nomad forum: Open Photos and Files split screen, and drag the image in to the Nomad dir, and then import it as a file back in the app. Might save folks a step.

[@eric3dee]

Good tip- I'll try that next time I have the issue too!

[@los_on_the_track]

This video helped me a lot. Thanks for doing a normal speed video and explaining why you're doing things. Great questions from your helper as well! :)

[@eric3dee]

Awesome - so glad it was helpful!

[@AndyBtattoos]

Thanks for the video! Your son hit every question I was thinking! 😂👏🏽🙏🏽🤘🏽

[@eric3dee]

Lol perfect! Glad to hear it 😂

[@lcrosszeria7164]

I got Nomad Sculpt just a few days ago and had still no idea how to get started with sculpting at that time (I didn't know about adding primitive shapes, I thought you'd magically form something good looking out of just one sphere lol) but thanks to your video I was able to follow along the whole process and the result looks actually pretty nice for my first attempt! So thank you for this awesome video, very much appreciated 🙃

[@eric3dee]

Wow- so glad to hear it

[@a.c.2650]

Just wanted to tell you that I appreciate your videos here a lot! I discovered your channel couple of days ago, but didn't subscribe instantly, which was a mistake. I'm a med student and my passion for art is what keeps me going. Thanks to you I can exoplore it with a bit more confidence. Thank you!

[@eric3dee]

Wow- thanks so much for the kind words and the sub!

[@elyknavillus777]

Having someone learning the program asking questions was very helpful, they asked very good questions. Thank you for the video I look forward to sharing it with my kids.

[@happyartmarti]

Reeeeeeally appreciate the video!

[@patrickgc2849]

This was a great video to learn features of Nomad. Thanks

[@ruffiianx5566]

Ive had nomad a little less than a yr and im struggling. Hopefully this vid can help me get better at sculptin. Tune'n in from work!

[@eric3dee]

Good luck! Be sure and check out @SouthernGFX channel too! There are lots of great Nomad tutorials on YT these days :)

[@raviy0li]

Amazing video!

[@eric3dee]

Thank you!

[@stacykryvoshlyk9289]

Thank you so very much ! Just this one video taught me plenty. Easy to understand and very informative!

[@eric3dee]

Glad it was useful!

[@MichaelKordahi]

Great work man. You and your son rock!

[@eric3dee]

Thanks!

[@RawGlovin420]

Music is sweet! Thanks for tutorial man

[@eric3dee]

Awesome! Glad you liked it!

[@aldraias1]

Awesome video. I made this!!!! Gives me the encouragement to keep going. Thanks!

[@eric3dee]

Awesome! Glad to hear it!

[@willemijnschilten7602]

This was the best video!!! Thank you so much. This helped me a lot.

[@eric3dee]

Awesome :) Glad to hear it!

[@tayeberhanu01]

Thank you Eric Very helpful video!

[@eric3dee]

No problem! Glad it was helpful

[@myram1631]

I think I'm using a more updated version so some things look different, but I think mine came out kinda nice, for my first time

[@AwesomeVids2024]

You are a magician! Love your work man! (And son, in this case)

[@eric3dee]

Haha thanks!

[@thedigitalnoodle4021]

youre stuff is amazing, cant wait to learn from you.

[@eric3dee]

Thanks!

[@Roonnam]

great stuff.. it's hard to hear a new term..yet with all icons present it is often impossible to see or understand what icon is connected to the procedure/term.. not only this tutorial.. this is actually the best so far.. keep it up thx.

[@eric3dee]

Thanks so much. I've been doing 3D since the 90s, so sometimes it's hard to remember what terms might be new or strange. Very glad this was helpful!

[@Roonnam]

@@eric3dee i understand.. if someone does a tutorial and they use a arrow for mousevisibilty i would reccomend to use a mouse with trail or something grotesk.. to remind them and automaticly direct the eye.. yet no arrow or mousemovement here only very fast taps and color changes.. to fast often for a newbee.. to record i actually need to pauze? the screen often.. frankly i can not come up with the right solution and would not directly say you need to slow down..slowing down often destroys the pace of a tutorial.. although i am not the fastest of student.. nothing destroys my attentionspan more then awfull slow pace lectures..

[@mariaolivia5938]

The song in the background was a lil too loud.. also, I missed some use of normal words, like… literally for NOOBS 😂 some people like me have no idea about angles or anything, but overall is a good video!

[@Rice_Wolf]

Thanks for making this. I might be using this because I am thinking of possibly owning a 3d printer to make fursuit mask bases. (I do better with 3d printed bases than foam bases). This was in my recommended and I thank you for showing me the basics

[@eric3dee]

No problem! Nomad is a great starting point for 3d printing :)

[@MubarakMarafa]

Just what I was waiting for! Thank you so so much!!

[@eric3dee]

No problem - hope it is helpful!

[@aleph-tav]

This is great thanks man!

[@digitaljeepney4440]

You guys are awesome.

[@eric3dee]

Thanks!

[@philokrynx1456]

Brill! Thanks a bunch!

[@eric3dee]

No problem!

[@javisartdesign]

thanks for the tutorial

[@cd.ceedee]

Hello I can't find the cube top right.

[@dugy40]

A few things I cannot figure out. Like when you make the coke can. How you rounded the cylinder. My edges are sharp.

[@eric3dee]

You have to dial in the cylinder settings before subdividing. The fewer the y divisions, the more round the top will be when subdividing.

[@dugy40]

@@eric3dee thank you. Now having trouble with tail flat on floor. I wanna 3D print this so I don’t want to add the floor. Good tutorial though. Actually leaning stuff.

[@eric3dee]

@@dugy40 there are a few solutions to this the easiest though is to use the trim tool and trim off the bottom

[@hakaiyou4532]

Also works on Android perfectly.

[@_mdb_]

I’ve only just discovered Nomad but im looking forward to seeing what I can turn out with it. This is definitely going to help with getting used to the basics, it’s a really great tutorial and super helpful. Thankyou 🙂

[@eric3dee]

Thanks!

[@wigglecado]

Great tutorial, simple and clear. By the way I like your company :)

[@eric3dee]

Thanks so much! :)

[@M0mmys.Milk_]

say we made a cat like this, would it come out of the 3d printer like this? (no colors obv) but the same shape

[@eric3dee]

It would!

[@darkcult99]

👍

[@MrNobodyX3]

So with the new Procreate update you can paint on 3D objs do you think it’s more worth painting in Procreate?

[@eric3dee]

Yes absolutely! See my Jinx and Bob Ross videos. Procreate is a much better painting app :)

[@petethorne5094]

Yes! Paint in procreate! It’s so much fun!

[@St_Dali]

Oi! É... Eu pretendia comentar em Inglês, mas com certeza eu não iria saber me expressar direito com meu Inglês do Duolingo ksksks (Risos). :] É sobre como eu faço para transformar dois objetos modelados no Nomad Sculpt em 1. Pois, quando seleciono a opção: (Simple Merge) para unir os dois objetos, e depois uso o: (Smooth) para aliviar onde os dois objetos se colidem, acaba que eu não consigo mexer, sem que um dos objetos saiam do local. É como se ainda estivessem separados, e por causa disso eu não consigo fazer uma junção perfeita. :( Me ajuda por favor! E me desculpa se eu não soube me explicar direito. :>

[@user-br7jf3it3q]

Do you think nomad can be used to make cosplay weapons? Something big. I have never 3d modeled or printed, but I'd like to start. However, I do not want to spend money on this app if it cannot support what I am after.

[@eric3dee]

Absolutely it can. Though it isn't a cad modeler, so if you are after precision, you may want to take the time to learn Blender. But if you are after something sculptural, Nomad is pretty inexpensive for such a great sculpting solution.

[@user-br7jf3it3q]

@@eric3dee Thank you so much! :)

[@AlphaAmericanJoe]

How do i make things smooth I’ve been trying for hours Im ready to give up

[@eric3dee]

I'm not quite sure what your specific issue might be. A couple of thoughts - make sure the "Relax" option on the smooth tool isn't turned on. If your voxel mesh resolution is too high either consider lowering it (lower resolutions smooth more easily) or just use the flatten tool. The flatten tool doesn't smooth exactly but it can definitely be used to help smooth dense surfaces.

[@YulRun]

Sorry still early in the video maybe you'll touch on it, but do you know if nomad supports keyboard shortcuts if you have a bluetooth keyboard attached to your ipad?

[@eric3dee]

Last we checked it did not. It does seem like someethat should happen though!

[@1337FLINT.]

Hello sir, is ipad 9 2021 is strong enough to sculpt in nomad?

[@eric3dee]

I would assume so, but I have only used it on the iPad Pro models

[@1337FLINT.]

@@eric3dee Ok sir, thanks for the answer

[@coffeetime1001]

At 46:32, When I did the ear "paint all", it overwrites the inner red part and it turns all white. I wonder if I missed a step?

[@eric3dee]

The Paint All action I'm doing at that point in the video is only to adjust the Roughness value, so I have Color unchecked when hitting Paint All. Sorry I wasn't as clear there

[@coffeetime1001]

@@eric3dee Thank you for your reply. And thanks for the tutorial. It helps a lot.

[@Ritzyl]

I just realized you sound like Christian Slater.

[@eric3dee]

Lol that's a first :) I figured if anything I'm closer to the nerdy Mr Robot (Rami Malik) than his cooler counterpart

[@Ritzyl]

@@eric3dee Christian Slater was the narrator of the Cryptocurrency episode of the Netflix/Vox docuseries "Explained". There's a lot of similaries on how you both speak. Thank you for this tutorial by the way. I've learned a lot.

[@eric3dee]

@@Ritzyl Good deal. Thank you!

[@xevenau]

What software are you using for designing 3d art pieces?

[@eric3dee]

I use everything from Nomad to Zbrush to Medium to Blender and more! These days I do most everything in either Nomad or Blender

[@AlphaAmericanJoe]

What would you charge to make a 3d character?

[@eric3dee]

I don't do commissions too often as I typically don't have the time. If you are hiring someone else, I would expect to pay several hundred if not more depending on the character. Consider the amount of time it takes x the artist's level of expertise.

[@bodycode]

It’s very difficult to concrete on what you are saying with the constant music in the background,

[@johndeggendorf7826]

What did you just call me?! 🤔🍺🍺🍺🎩

[@eric3dee]

Lol!

[@michaellaviola6540]

8:47 this is why you shouldn’t let your child edit your videos, the music is so loud I can barely follow along and actually hear what’s being said.

[@eric3dee]

Lol sorry bout that. We try to keep a good handle on those things, but certainly sometimes it gets in the way :)