Hi Glen - thank you so much for another INCREDIBLE tutorial video. I am a makeup fx artist, lots of prosthetics, creatures and monsters in my history. I love all of it and want to stay on the cutting edge - or at least stay relevant! I started working in LA, Hollywood makeup fx industry in the mid-90s. I worked for Rick Baker who introduced and turned me on to ZBrush in the early 2000's. In the last 5 years, I've learned more from you regarding digital sculpting, more here than anywhere else. The Nomad v Zbrush conversation, and the AI conversation, that you have with us all in this latter half of this video is pure gold. I thank you for that. As an "industry professional", I see so many of my colleagues being ZBrush-ers, that it makes me wonder what I might be missing by sticking so much with Nomad. I have yet to see any real reason for me to go back to ZBrush after becoming so comfortable with Nomad, mainly because - I have become so comfortable with Nomad. I have spent more hours on Nomad than ZBrush at this point because I needed to use the portability and 'on-the-go' aspect of the iPad and Apple Pencil. To this point, I worked on the US STAR WARS tv shows, and we all sat on set, trying to keep up with demands of the makeup department, when for a few years, LUCASFILM/DISNEY tasked the makeup dept with creating the a large portion of the creatures/aliens, during Season 2 of the MANDALORIAN and then the following season/show which was THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT; we makeup / makeup fx dept folk sat watching our makeups and trying to keep up with production's demands for the upcoming episodes, designing with every available minute, especially while we were 'on payroll' - using both ProCreate and Nomad - before either Adobe or Maxon had iPad versions available. So in the last years, the freedom to use fully powerful, full featured programs became tantamount and of prime motivation. So now that I'm so much more fluid & comfortable with Procreate & Nomad, why switch back to expensive Adobe or Zbrush? I'm watching this right now to try to ascertain the answer. I strive to be the best and if I'm missing out on something, I want to know! But I don't see an advantage yet to ZBrush over Nomad - especially considering the ask of going from a one-time REASONABLE payment (yes please!) to a monthly subscription (No Thank You- not attractive) I'm only writing this because you asked for comments and feedback in the Nomad vs ZBrush conversation. Btw, AI is a whole other can of worms for the film/tv industry - NO COMMENT! - Glen, I totally respect you, am grateful for your teachings & lessons, I pay for your courses to show gratitude & to continue learning from your incredible knowledge and skill-sets, and I am truly appreciative for what you share - both for free on TH-cam and otherwise. Keep it coming!! Thank you so much- Sincerely and All the Best- Jamie Kelman
Thanks for the vid. Excellent work as usual. As far as the Nomad vs. Zbrush, for me personally, I have been a hobbyist zbrush dabbler for years, but a couple of years back got a tablet and Nomad (whilst I was already paying for Maxon Zbrush sub). Immediately found out how not only much easier Nomad Sculpt UI was, but also that is had PBR rendering. Which was excellent! Went to NAB Show in Vegas last year and ran into the Maxon booth and asked them if it was possible of a Zbrush tablet version since Nomad seemed to be doing it and they denied it (cause it wasn't announced). Bought an Ipad 13 Pro for Nomad painting in PBR mode, but also for the upcoming Zbrush and now use both and am loving it. I pay for the sub anyway, so it was easy to accept. Love Zbrush for it's many features and higher poly, but love having Nomad for PBR rendering and easy of use. Both are great! And I agree, if someone just wants to sculpt for 3D printing, toy making, or dabbling, Nomad is the way to go! I like to dabble in 3D printing, and also making my own characters, but I like importing Zbrush meshes into Nomad to paint and render for art. Such a good time for 3D sculpting.
Hi.. i had purchased your previous ultimate nomad sculpt bundle. And it was an awesome learning experience. I was just wondering, is this creature course majorly focused on zbrush? I have android tablet, so no zbrush option for me. I just have the nomad SCULPT.
@@ArtFrk there is a section o. ZBrush but over all its not about which software you use. However, remember this one is being released slowly. There is 8 hours to start but its going to build over the next 12 months.
Regarding the nomad ZBrush debate, personally I prefer nomad's choices. ZBrush still has a long way to go in terms of navigation and tabs, I really don't get the mentality of having to hold down the smooth / mask / sub button when it could just be a toggle option like nomad, even going into multiple menus just to increase / decrease the stroke size seems counter intuitive, sure a user can tap and hold the stroke increase icon and adjust from there but it's still an extra step, an extra second wasted.... first world problems I know 😅 Personally not a fan of ZBrush's 3d navigation, I much prefer the nomad turntable option then occasionally activating the trackball navigation.
I want to buy the Creature Feature course (and any other ZBrush for iPad courses you come up with) but I would like to know how much of the ZBrush for iPad parts will I be able to complete with the FREE version of ZBrush for iPad…or will that be a game stopper for those areas ?
Why do you need nomad sculpt on the PC? I mean, it’s quite ironic, when we know that it was created precisely for those who did not necessarily have a PC or who wanted to have access to it on their tablet
@@midas2goste254 well because my kid broke my last ipad by exidentaly dropping it of the stairs and i didnt have inshurance in that one and it cost around the same as a new one to fix so im kinda done buying a +1000euro ipad :p and im now working on a samsung tab A8 just to pull me over and it just doesnt cut it. and i have a hullion screen laying around witch i dont use mutch so thats why i was interested in to getting nomad on pc, i have tryed the emulator route but its a big work around and kinda slow for what you get.
Gotta say... I love your videos and your Nomad courses, and this is genuinely not an angry post but... that was kind of a lazy answer to "which should I buy, Nomad or Zbrush?" I don't see how it's helpful to divide people up into the two camps who almost by definition aren't the people answering that question. People ask you that question because they want to know what one app does better than the other and how much of a difference it makes. Since it sounds like you get this question a lot, let me tell you what kind of information people might actually be wanting to know. For starters, what features in Nomad are missing from Zbrush and vice versa. Which features are present but aren't as good as the other? So for instance, you've mentioned there's better rendering in Nomad. On the other hand, you've got Zspheres in Zbrush. What's the polygon ceiling on the two? How well do they sculpt? Is the interface good or do you have to fight it? This latter is a huge question about Zbrush for me. It's got multilevel menus and you seem to like that circular pie-gizmo but it seems very clunky to me, having to sometimes hold the top and then slide over to cover a second button. Why exactly do you like that? One thing Zbrush allows which you weren't doing was 3-finger drag up/down and left-right to control that draw & hardness size. I like that a lot, but if I was having to pop that menu up every time like you were doing, it would have driven me crazy (though in general I like that panel), and I'm not sure why you weren't complaining. My instinct is to think zBrush has stuff way more buried in layers of menus, but I'm forever being surprised by your or Dave Reed or somebody posting a quick tip video about Nomad - and I'm astonished. I'll think "Well, I didn't know it could do that." So maybe they both bury stuff in hard to find places, and it might be helpful to year your opinion about which one surfaces less-used features the best (and which one hides features you feel shouldn't have been hidden). And I was following along with your video on my own iPad, making a 6-legged beastie. But after I skinned it and started sculpting... and MAN did Zbrush seem to lag compared with Nomad. I exported the model out of Zbrush into Nomad and it's so much more fluid. Also I found moving the model around with 2 fingers in Zbrush resulted in the model popping into odd and unintended positions/rotations/zoom levels. Whereas Nomad seems not to surprise me when I move things around. Selection of multiple items seems more straightforward to me on Nomad. But on the other hand, I've never gotten results I liked in Nomad with flatten brush, and in Zbrush it worked exactly as I expected. (Maybe that's because I first learned that brush in Zbrush for Mac years ago, but flatten just never does what I want in Nomad). And I don't know Zbrush for iPad enough to know what's hidden in there that I might ding Nomad for lacking. That's the kind of thing people are asking when they want a comparison. Obviously I can't speak for the people who were asking you that Nomad-vs-Zbrush question. [For myself, I paid the 1-year subscription for Zbrush, and I believe in developers being paid for their work. I'm a hobbyist who wants to use whichever one I can make the best sculpts with, so long as it isn't twice as hard to do it ;) ] But these are the things I wonder, and I suspect it's more what people are wanting when they ask you. Thanks for the great courses and the great videos though. Your talent as both a teacher and a sculptor are terrific.
Hi Glen - thank you so much for another INCREDIBLE tutorial video. I am a makeup fx artist, lots of prosthetics, creatures and monsters in my history. I love all of it and want to stay on the cutting edge - or at least stay relevant! I started working in LA, Hollywood makeup fx industry in the mid-90s. I worked for Rick Baker who introduced and turned me on to ZBrush in the early 2000's. In the last 5 years, I've learned more from you regarding digital sculpting, more here than anywhere else. The Nomad v Zbrush conversation, and the AI conversation, that you have with us all in this latter half of this video is pure gold. I thank you for that. As an "industry professional", I see so many of my colleagues being ZBrush-ers, that it makes me wonder what I might be missing by sticking so much with Nomad. I have yet to see any real reason for me to go back to ZBrush after becoming so comfortable with Nomad, mainly because - I have become so comfortable with Nomad. I have spent more hours on Nomad than ZBrush at this point because I needed to use the portability and 'on-the-go' aspect of the iPad and Apple Pencil. To this point, I worked on the US STAR WARS tv shows, and we all sat on set, trying to keep up with demands of the makeup department, when for a few years, LUCASFILM/DISNEY tasked the makeup dept with creating the a large portion of the creatures/aliens, during Season 2 of the MANDALORIAN and then the following season/show which was THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT; we makeup / makeup fx dept folk sat watching our makeups and trying to keep up with production's demands for the upcoming episodes, designing with every available minute, especially while we were 'on payroll' - using both ProCreate and Nomad - before either Adobe or Maxon had iPad versions available. So in the last years, the freedom to use fully powerful, full featured programs became tantamount and of prime motivation. So now that I'm so much more fluid & comfortable with Procreate & Nomad, why switch back to expensive Adobe or Zbrush? I'm watching this right now to try to ascertain the answer. I strive to be the best and if I'm missing out on something, I want to know! But I don't see an advantage yet to ZBrush over Nomad - especially considering the ask of going from a one-time REASONABLE payment (yes please!) to a monthly subscription (No Thank You- not attractive) I'm only writing this because you asked for comments and feedback in the Nomad vs ZBrush conversation. Btw, AI is a whole other can of worms for the film/tv industry - NO COMMENT! - Glen, I totally respect you, am grateful for your teachings & lessons, I pay for your courses to show gratitude & to continue learning from your incredible knowledge and skill-sets, and I am truly appreciative for what you share - both for free on TH-cam and otherwise. Keep it coming!! Thank you so much- Sincerely and All the Best- Jamie Kelman
Outstanding, thank you very much
Thanks for the vid. Excellent work as usual. As far as the Nomad vs. Zbrush, for me personally, I have been a hobbyist zbrush dabbler for years, but a couple of years back got a tablet and Nomad (whilst I was already paying for Maxon Zbrush sub). Immediately found out how not only much easier Nomad Sculpt UI was, but also that is had PBR rendering. Which was excellent!
Went to NAB Show in Vegas last year and ran into the Maxon booth and asked them if it was possible of a Zbrush tablet version since Nomad seemed to be doing it and they denied it (cause it wasn't announced). Bought an Ipad 13 Pro for Nomad painting in PBR mode, but also for the upcoming Zbrush and now use both and am loving it. I pay for the sub anyway, so it was easy to accept.
Love Zbrush for it's many features and higher poly, but love having Nomad for PBR rendering and easy of use. Both are great! And I agree, if someone just wants to sculpt for 3D printing, toy making, or dabbling, Nomad is the way to go!
I like to dabble in 3D printing, and also making my own characters, but I like importing Zbrush meshes into Nomad to paint and render for art. Such a good time for 3D sculpting.
Hi.. i had purchased your previous ultimate nomad sculpt bundle. And it was an awesome learning experience. I was just wondering, is this creature course majorly focused on zbrush? I have android tablet, so no zbrush option for me. I just have the nomad SCULPT.
@@ArtFrk there is a section o. ZBrush but over all its not about which software you use. However, remember this one is being released slowly. There is 8 hours to start but its going to build over the next 12 months.
@SouthernGFX thank you for the clarification 😃
Regarding the nomad ZBrush debate, personally I prefer nomad's choices. ZBrush still has a long way to go in terms of navigation and tabs, I really don't get the mentality of having to hold down the smooth / mask / sub button when it could just be a toggle option like nomad, even going into multiple menus just to increase / decrease the stroke size seems counter intuitive, sure a user can tap and hold the stroke increase icon and adjust from there but it's still an extra step, an extra second wasted.... first world problems I know 😅 Personally not a fan of ZBrush's 3d navigation, I much prefer the nomad turntable option then occasionally activating the trackball navigation.
I want to buy the Creature Feature course (and any other ZBrush for iPad courses you come up with) but I would like to know how much of the ZBrush for iPad parts will I be able to complete with the FREE version of ZBrush for iPad…or will that be a game stopper for those areas ?
@@japanesepokemoncardsbuydir9657 all of it apart from using the Dam Standard brush (creasing)
IM HERE
Hey hey. Let's get into the chat. This video is SERIOUSLY rambling on purpose...lol
Will you be able to make tutorials on Armor Paint?
if annyone got some tips on how to use nomad on a pc using a drawing tab anny advice would be welcome if it is at all possible
Why do you need nomad sculpt on the PC? I mean, it’s quite ironic, when we know that it was created precisely for those who did not necessarily have a PC or who wanted to have access to it on their tablet
Anyway, you can use an emulator or it seems to me that there is an equivalent of nomad sculpt on PC, but I don’t know what it is anymore
@@midas2goste254 well because my kid broke my last ipad by exidentaly dropping it of the stairs and i didnt have inshurance in that one and it cost around the same as a new one to fix so im kinda done buying a +1000euro ipad :p and im now working on a samsung tab A8 just to pull me over and it just doesnt cut it. and i have a hullion screen laying around witch i dont use mutch so thats why i was interested in to getting nomad on pc, i have tryed the emulator route but its a big work around and kinda slow for what you get.
Gotta say... I love your videos and your Nomad courses, and this is genuinely not an angry post but... that was kind of a lazy answer to "which should I buy, Nomad or Zbrush?" I don't see how it's helpful to divide people up into the two camps who almost by definition aren't the people answering that question. People ask you that question because they want to know what one app does better than the other and how much of a difference it makes.
Since it sounds like you get this question a lot, let me tell you what kind of information people might actually be wanting to know. For starters, what features in Nomad are missing from Zbrush and vice versa. Which features are present but aren't as good as the other?
So for instance, you've mentioned there's better rendering in Nomad. On the other hand, you've got Zspheres in Zbrush. What's the polygon ceiling on the two? How well do they sculpt? Is the interface good or do you have to fight it? This latter is a huge question about Zbrush for me. It's got multilevel menus and you seem to like that circular pie-gizmo but it seems very clunky to me, having to sometimes hold the top and then slide over to cover a second button. Why exactly do you like that? One thing Zbrush allows which you weren't doing was 3-finger drag up/down and left-right to control that draw & hardness size. I like that a lot, but if I was having to pop that menu up every time like you were doing, it would have driven me crazy (though in general I like that panel), and I'm not sure why you weren't complaining.
My instinct is to think zBrush has stuff way more buried in layers of menus, but I'm forever being surprised by your or Dave Reed or somebody posting a quick tip video about Nomad - and I'm astonished. I'll think "Well, I didn't know it could do that." So maybe they both bury stuff in hard to find places, and it might be helpful to year your opinion about which one surfaces less-used features the best (and which one hides features you feel shouldn't have been hidden).
And I was following along with your video on my own iPad, making a 6-legged beastie. But after I skinned it and started sculpting... and MAN did Zbrush seem to lag compared with Nomad. I exported the model out of Zbrush into Nomad and it's so much more fluid. Also I found moving the model around with 2 fingers in Zbrush resulted in the model popping into odd and unintended positions/rotations/zoom levels. Whereas Nomad seems not to surprise me when I move things around. Selection of multiple items seems more straightforward to me on Nomad.
But on the other hand, I've never gotten results I liked in Nomad with flatten brush, and in Zbrush it worked exactly as I expected. (Maybe that's because I first learned that brush in Zbrush for Mac years ago, but flatten just never does what I want in Nomad).
And I don't know Zbrush for iPad enough to know what's hidden in there that I might ding Nomad for lacking. That's the kind of thing people are asking when they want a comparison.
Obviously I can't speak for the people who were asking you that Nomad-vs-Zbrush question. [For myself, I paid the 1-year subscription for Zbrush, and I believe in developers being paid for their work. I'm a hobbyist who wants to use whichever one I can make the best sculpts with, so long as it isn't twice as hard to do it ;) ] But these are the things I wonder, and I suspect it's more what people are wanting when they ask you. Thanks for the great courses and the great videos though. Your talent as both a teacher and a sculptor are terrific.