welcome back to the channel today we're
going to be exploring digital sculpting
for makers this is going to be extremely
basic beginner stuff i'm going to
explain to you the kind of software you
would use to create
this and print it and what kind of
printer you'd want to use
for the best results thanks to our
sponsor for this video
flashforge we're going to be exploring
some very
very cool stuff
i know a lot of people out there get
very
daunted by the thought of trying digital
sculpting they see
files like this absolutely
stunning sculpt here link to this one
down below so you can download it
yourself this is not mine
and they get really discouraged thinking
i'll never be that good
but the fact is i personally am not
trained
uh i'm i'm not even a particularly good
artist
and i've been able to sculpt some fun
stuff like this
and this for halloween last year and i'm
going to share some tips with you to
help you get started and
once you give it a try you may find it's
not quite as insanely difficult
as you thought so let's start with the
basics there are
different software packages out there
that you can use to digitally sculpt a
lot of the time when you picture 3d
modeling you're imagining
like cad drawing but digital sculpting
is different it's like working with
digital clay
it takes a little bit of getting used to
but with some experimentation you may
find
that it is a little bit more intuitive
than you think
so let's start with software there is
free software you can start playing with
right now to you know get dip your toes
in the water and see what you think and
kind of explore a bit
for the pc free software you can use
are sculpt and
zbrush core mini it used to be called
sculptris now it's
zbrushcore mini and both of those
packages
totally free actually sculpt gl runs in
a browser so you may be able to
run it on you know even a raspberry pi
or
a tablet or possibly even your phone
as for paid software there is of course
on the computer
zbrush core as well as
zbrush's full package that is the
industry leader
probably it's the one that gets used the
most referred to the most
and it has the most tools then after
that there is
mudbox made by well i guess autodesk
owns that
as well as curvy 3d which i've not used
but i see that it's out there
now there are other packages on the
computer that have sculpting
inside them for example blender has some
sculpting
sculpting abilities and it's free by the
way but
that's kind of one piece of this huge
package and i'm trying to keep this kind
of limited
just to sculpting software i personally
really enjoy using an ipad for my
digital sculpting so that i can draw
directly on the screen
and for ipads specifically there are two
apps that stand out they're not free but
they are
cheap and that is forger and
nomad sculpt and today i'm going to be
showing you some basics in nomad sculpt
that kind of apply to digital sculpting
as a whole okay here are some basics
this is
nomad sculpt on the ipad it's the
package that i enjoy the most
and i'm just going to show you some
stuff that kind of applies across the
board to
most of these digital sculpting packages
when you load it up you're going to have
something here this is
usually referred to as a primitive it
will be a cube
or a sphere or something like that
and then as you draw
on it you can see it changes shape there
it's like working with clay
the most basic things you're going to
find in most packages
are that they'll have some type of
symmetry
enabled which allows you to do things
it mirrors what you do on both sides
and that's really great for like you
know doing faces and things like that
you have on one on the sides you're
going to have things like your different
tools
available and then the strength and size
of those tools you're going to see that
across
all packages usually there are different
types of things
that give you like different shapes or
effects on the surface
and then there will be the ability to
change the
material itself
so let's undo a bit here the first thing
i usually
recommend people do is just fire up any
of these packages
and try making a face it sounds
complicated but if you just add in some
kind of eyebrows here
and a nose in the middle a little bit of
a mouth here on the side
and then i'm going to switch to
subtracting instead of adding
and i'm going to kind of push in these
sides here rotate it a little bit
pushing those sides there a little bit
more
maybe push in under here
and then push in some eye sockets
this isn't the prettiest thing in the
world but you get the point
it's a face i did it yay
so after you've played around a bit
you've you know
tried a few digital sculpting sessions
and you've got your feet wet
i highly recommend you going and finding
more tutorials and classes
personally i've really been enjoying the
series of videos
by southern graphics i'll put a link to
that in the description below
okay let's jump into some actual
hands-on practice
i'm going to show you the extreme basic
process that you're going to repeat
over and over and over and even the pros
kind of repeat this same process
when it comes to digital sculpting first
you would really be best off with
reference material i did a very quick
drawing of this ridiculous frog and that
is what i'm working towards
you start with a primitive in this case
a ball
and you move things around in big
broad shapes to get roughly the shape
you want
then you start going over and adding
very
rough shapes and details the idea here
is
that you're going to work in broad
strokes and then refine things down
and with these digital sculpting
programs every step of the way you're
pretty much going to be
adding shapes and then going back over
it with a smoothing brush to clean it
all up a little bit
and then adding shapes and then cleaning
it up then adding shapes and then
cleaning it up
slowly working your way down towards
more
small and small shapes it takes
a lot of practice
so don't worry if for the for a long
time
your stuff just looks like weird blobby
messes
if you're like me a weird blobby mess is
you know what you're going for
and here you can see the final result
after you're done with your sculpting
it's time to print
so when it comes to digital sculpting
what you see a lot of people using are
resin printers like this one
this one is from our sponsor flashforge
and this is the
photo 8.9 s it's got a 192
by 120 millimeter by 200 millimeter
build volume and can get incredible
precision on your surface now i'm going
to show you a comparison of something
that was printed
on a typical filament based printer and
something
that was printed on a resin printer the
reason you would use
a resin based printer is just because
they can get
such tiny little details in such
beautiful surface finish
here just compare these two
now this printer specifically is quite
nice they use
linear rails for the the vertical axis
so it is sturdy as can be
it's got this big touch screen here on
the front that gives you previews of the
file you're about to print so you know
for sure which one it
is and you can even connect to it
wirelessly or directly over the network
so that you don't have to lug around
a usb stick every time you want to go
print
thank you for watching i hope you
learned something and i would love to
see
your digital sculpts you know uh maybe
leave a comment below hit us on twitter
or instagram
and share those digital sculpts with us
also a big thank you to flashforge for
sponsoring this video i've had so much
fun with this
photo 8.9 s and the results have just
been
absolutely stunning off of this thing
you