Nomad Sculpting App (Keying and splitting models for 3d printing)

[@SouthernGFX]

OK I'm officially excited about this one! And for two very good reasons. Firstly, its a cool feature in Nomad that allows us to dig holes in stuff which is super useful for all you 3DPrining aficionados. Secondly, this is the first time I get to talk about our upcoming Nomad Sculpt ipad Course for Beginners! Check it out and get on our mailing list southerngfx-limited.mykajabi.com/pl/234293 right after watching the video of course!

[@tokyorose1123]

I had no idea about the hidden object Boolean operation. That’s a fantastic trick! Thanks Glen, another great video.

[@SouthernGFX]

Thanks Brandon. It's fairly new and not that well talked about it seems. I think it's the main reason to have Nomad if you are a 3DPrtint Nerd.

[@BlackCawthorne]

Yeeees, I was waiting for a video like this. I don't have a 3D printer, but I can always print my models at the library

[@SouthernGFX]

Go for it!

[@timmanning5206]

That's amazing. Wish I had a local library that did that. Good on them for moving with the times!

[@johndeggendorf7826]

Hey Glen, been working with this cool function and can think of lots of useful applications. Course sounds great...you don’t waste any time! I can tell you as a non-geek that I’m making faster progress in Nomad than any other 3d program I’ve tried. I think this will open the doors to 3d for a whole lot of artists. Thanks 🙏🎩🎩🎩

[@SouthernGFX]

Thanks for the comments and feedback John. My whole reason for starting this channel was to get people to say exactly what you just said. Could I use your quote please?

[@johndeggendorf7826]

@@SouthernGFX ...for sure. 3d modeling was a roadblock that I wasn’t sure I’d be able to pass. A graphite pencil was the one piece of technology I mastered ✏️. Now, thanks to a few ingenious software designers, my pencil (Apple) feels like a light saber in the hands of young Skywalker...I guess that makes you...Obiwan Kenobie? Yoda? ✌️🎩🎩🎩

[@SouthernGFX]

@@johndeggendorf7826 I am both Padawan and Jedi and Jabba in equal measure. Some days perhaps a little Emperor with some of Jabbas physical foibles thrown

[@johndeggendorf7826]

@@SouthernGFX ...You’re better than Jaba the Hut. Don’t sell yourself short!

[@Bertilfly]

Glen, I haven't even watched it yet but I know it'll be well explained! Thanks! You're the BEST. I love GFX Fridays. OK Back now...Another great job. Excited for the full course!

[@SouthernGFX]

Thanks man. Really motivates me hearing this.

[@FranklyWry]

Absolutely helpful, clear, comprehensive, all without being overwhelming. (Former bronze artisan, as well as copywriter)

[@SouthernGFX]

Thank you! I'm glad the videos help a little.

[@Joelousytube]

Great news about the course! Will definitely sign up for it, and hope you keep producing other nomad focused content, it's still very rare to find this kind of stuff and surely it will blow in the future, the app is being updated constantly and it's going to become a standard soon for sure!

[@SouthernGFX]

For sure Joel. I'm going to keep putting out Nomad and Forger videos on a Friday and I'm looking out for anything new that comes along. My goal is to give artists a basic, one-stop course that gives a foundation to Nomad then Forger. From there I can release weekly updates and more high-end courses over the next few months. I've been teaching ZBrush since 1999 and that's coming to this channel soon and I'm aiming at artists who just can't get going with it.

[@Joelousytube]

@@SouthernGFX Thanks a lot man, the end goal would be looking at possible gamedev related content, but I am aware that kind of optimisation and refining is not available on mobile yet. But one can still hope! Thank again for your time and efforts.

[@SouthernGFX]

@@Joelousytube this year has seen a massive jump in the quality of mobile software. I would say we are going to see some amazing advances soon. For now now we are mostly looking at sculpting and a bit of texturing

[@irblinx]

Face palm!!! I’ve been looking for subtract for ages, assumed you couldn’t do it in Nomad yet. Time to grab the pencil

[@SouthernGFX]

Go for it! Make sure you keep that Voxel resolution high while performing the remeshes.

[@darthpaul8761]

Awesome. Can’t wait to go through the course and make my ideas come to life. Just bought the Elegoo Saturn and have ideas to make custom characters for my Medco collection. Love your videos.

[@SouthernGFX]

Thanks for the kind words! I have an Elegoo Mars Pro for small stuff, a Peopoly Phenom for Large Format prints and a new Ender Pro for my FDM needs. I just love being able to make whatever I need for work and personal use.

[@darkkunst2382]

Best channel in youtube🙏

[@flyingkiwi69]

How did you bevel the edges of the cylindrical models?

[@coulterjb22]

Nice! I'm looking forward to the course.... I need more popcorn. I have a small resin 3D printer and wanted to hollow a model, chop it into print-sized parts (can a tool be made with the build plate dimensions to speed the cut-to-size operation?), and add inner scaffolding that would help attach everything together once printed? Example: Bronze sculptors do something like this and then put them together and weld them all into one part.

[@SouthernGFX]

I have EXACTLY that tool. It's a pack of scaled models that are the size of common 3D printer beds. Get on my mailing list as we are giving it away before the Nomad Course. - southerngfx-limited.mykajabi.com/pl/234293

[@mylazyeyedesignandillustra3109]

Awesome! Are there any other Boolean functions?

[@SouthernGFX]

No, not yet. To be very clear these aren't true boolean operations rather a system to do voxel removal using a other shape. The process does a voxel remesh and yields the new shape. It's not perfect and you have to go really high poly on the models for the time you are running the operation but it's a great start. True booleans and live boolean's would be the goal for me.

[@fixxlee]

Great vid! Can you only use simple shapes such as rectangle to split or can you for example use splines or brushes? I would like to split the model but follow a contour rather than a straight line.

[@SouthernGFX]

With the current release you can use rectangle, ellipse and a lasso

[@xrok1]

Good stuff! FYI when your site loads 2 videos start playing automatically and the volume is through the roof!!

[@timmanning5206]

Interesting. I've been trying to figure out how to get some hard surfaces for tech type things and this will do the job. Thanks a lot. Are you planning on doing a vid on explaining clay alphas? I've tried some and they look like crap and have no doubt it's user error!

[@SouthernGFX]

Thanks Tim. This Friday :)

[@timmanning5206]

@@SouthernGFX who's Tom?! 😁😉

[@SouthernGFX]

Slip of the vowel Tim. Corrected in post lol apologies

[@timmanning5206]

Ha, don't be silly. Even my bloody autocorrect changes it to Tom half the time!

[@AT-gu8by]

Can you suggest a reasonable priced 3D printer for making casting jewellery model, for under £300?

[@SouthernGFX]

Elegoo Mars Pro

[@AT-gu8by]

@@SouthernGFX Thank you.

[@davidcormier5560]

@@SouthernGFX Is an LCD printer better than an FMD for a figure like Panoramix in your video? Superb this panoramix by the way!

[@SouthernGFX]

@@davidcormier5560 thanks Dsvid. There are two core technologies that you need to consider. Filament (FDM) and Resin (there's a few types). Filament basically gets heated and heat bonds to a lower layer so however thin those layers are there are always lines. Most of the resin technologies use a UV (405nm) laser to cure a layer of resin so that's more of a chemical bond and incredibly smooth on newer machines. I just upgrade so the Druid was done on a Peopoly Phenom which is insane quality for the price.

[@davidcormier5560]

@@SouthernGFX Thanks a lot!

[@xrok1]

Would it not be more straight forward if you scaled your cutter up by 1 or 2% first then your copied part would fit right in?

[@CanalDojogames]

Hello, with your course for beginners on ipad, can i do The same on android version? Thank you

[@clautzenheiser]

Soni have a problem when i voxel merge my two layers. My ipad crashes, i assume due to a high poly count. What do you recommend i do to prevent this? I assume i would need to make the keys before I do my detail work, but what do i do after i have already remeshed and subdivided and still need to voxel merge? Simple merge doesnt work because it messes up the sculpt for 3d printing. Suggestions?

[@aaronpiper5150]

Trying this out, for some reason I do not have the multi-select tool? Any ideas?

[@IAcePTI]

This is a god send video :D

[@SouthernGFX]

Glad it helps.

[@IAcePTI]

@@SouthernGFX im just having an problem. My remech voxel resolution cant get higth enought to mantain the detail of my model. Is it Device dependent? I imported the obj File from Blender. Im on ipad pro 2018 model

[@SouthernGFX]

@@IAcePTI same model as me. It has 4gig so you should be good

[@SouthernGFX]

Go really high while doing the function then come back down after it’s done

[@shanobix]

Hi, I know the course is for iPad sculpting but can this also be used to grasp the basics of blender since the tools are similar ?

[@SouthernGFX]

Not really. They are very different programs. I will be doing Blender videos soon.

[@shanobix]

@@SouthernGFX will be keeping an eye out

[@kenpachi465]

nomad need to implement a boolean function for intersect and subtract.

[@SouthernGFX]

100% agree

[@konstissfx]

Is there a good way to remove about 1 or 2 mm from the key, so you could get a tolerance for a better fit?

[@SouthernGFX]

I’m just doing a new video about that exact point

[@konstissfx]

@@SouthernGFX Do you also use the Extract Shell Function in the Masking Settings? The ability to specify the thickness of the shell is gold for 3D printing. Also keep up these wonderful tutorials.

[@stephystuff2955]

Can you also show us how you take that character in animated because that is something I'm going to do from The Nomad.

[@UncleJessy]

Wait what? Had no idea that’s possible

[@SouthernGFX]

Hahaha yeah it’s a little hidden if you don’t know it’s there. It’s not as good as live booleans in ZBrush but it’s a great start. I’m doing a ‘Drogon’ Bust from Game of thrones and just putting some keys in now. I’d love to see you try it on one of,your print runs.

[@SouthernGFX]

Trying to break the iPad but 15million is holding. www.dropbox.com/s/ac1j72mt67lhccl/Drogon%20GOT.PNG?dl=0

[@mira-wall]

6:03 😳

[@KUROSHURA]

How can I get on the mailing list for the 5 hour course?

[@SouthernGFX]

Just check the description and the link is there. We are almost finished so possibly launching next week

[@davidcormier5560]

Hello! When i want to use voxel merge, I am limited to 121 in the voxel remeshing is it because my iPad pro is a bit dated and I am limited in terms of RAM

[@SouthernGFX]

If you mean the number when you are merging multiple objects then you might find it changes with different sized models. I only record on a 2018 iPad Pro which is the one that had 4gig so I doubt it’s your machine limiting you. I’ll ask the developer what limits it.

[@davidcormier5560]

Thank you very much for your answer. I found the option Max detail range in the settings, by setting it to the max, I was able to gain quite a bit more attitude in the voxel remeshing.

[@SouthernGFX]

@@davidcormier5560 oh man I totally forget you could increase it in the display settings! I remember seeing the option and leaving it well alone until I get the newer iPad. I'll be honest I haven't had many times when it hits the ceiling. What sort of poly count are you getting up to?

[@davidcormier5560]

@@SouthernGFX I want to model a character to print it in resin on Elegoo Mars pro. So I want to add keys and split it as brilliantly demonstrated in your video. The level of detail is therefore quite high, which forces me to push the number of polygons to the max. (scene Faces: 2.06M)

[@SouthernGFX]

@@davidcormier5560 gotta. It really does need that high level as you must know by now. The voxel removal solution is great but it's not as good as live boolean's in ZBrush yet. But its an iPad right lol so cool that we can do this. I bought a Mars Pro this year and I love it.

[@divineart2637]

Wish you would offer it on Skillshare...🙏🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

[@SouthernGFX]

We are going to offer it from our own site and it's the first of many. I've been teaching this stuff for years and we are going back online with everything.

[@divineart2637]

Often I find courses for beginners thought by experts often talk like experienced.. and not talk from the perspective of a total beginner... I’m a beginner and curious if your course will explain details like file sizes for 3D print.. and does this program do animation and what some of these terms mean in saving files...also I’ve been trying to figure out an easy way to delete a project to start over .. would like to learn that too but it’s all over my head at this point.. maybe you might know where one should begin... my big obstacle in these programs are understanding file sizes all totally foreign to me .. how it all works ..importing and exporting. I’m fascinated about the skills you have., amazing... thank you kindly for y our videos thus far even if they are over my head.

[@SouthernGFX]

Hi there. I'm sure I can help if your goal is to to use Nomad Sculpt as a 'sculpting program' on an iPad. It doesn't do any animation in any way and it has no rendering capabilities. I've been teaching this subject matter since it was invented and recently we have had the amazing breakthrough of being able to do it on a mobile device. This first course is for beginners wanting to sculpt on an iPad and it is NOT focussed on 3DPrinting as that is not for a person just picking up an iPad and sculpting for the first time. I will cover that in its entirety but this course is about understanding every part of the program in a logical way and then putting it all together in a single character sculpt session. Here's some helpful pointers...

[@SouthernGFX]

1. To delete files just go to FILES on the IPAD. Find where you saved it (usually NOMAD/PROJECTS or similar and delete it that way. In that FOLDER toy will see file names and FILE SIZES. Save a few as tests and you will see how big your files are. The file names end in .glb.lz4 this is the files type that Nomad chooses to save its default files in.

[@divineart2637]

I guess I wasn’t very clear with my question < thank you for taking the time to answers my concerns... much appreciated..🙏🏻 I meant to say how do you delete a project you haven’t saved to files yet without hitting back arrow or deleting all the layers.. I stumbled upon a start new project button. . And it answered my question. .. haha 🙃🙃. Any how I’ve been using procreate for work.. and just started to learn a little animation but wondering if there is a better animation on iPad and do you teach that? I’m also learning affinity... love your expertise..and amazed at your knowledge... 👌🏻🙏🏻 thank you kindly.

[@nejibfx]

why nomad over forger

[@SouthernGFX]

At the moment because of the trim and split brushes. They are very similar but Nomad is better for 3D print for now. I love them both

[@90sfresh40]

Price?

[@amolkumar1488]

Can I use this model for animation in blender Like exploded animation