Nomad Sculpt

Name: Nomad Sculpt
Rating: 4.69826 (633 reviews)

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Nomad Sculpt

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User Reviews for Nomad Sculpt

Traveling artists dream come true

I held off on writing a review for awhile. Wanted to get the full experience of Nomad Sculpt. I’ve worked with Zbrush before so I came in with some sculpting experience. I have to say, I am in awe of this app. The power this program has to exist on an IPad is insane. I don’t get to sit down and work a lot, so I’m a big fan of procreate and the likes. This app is exactly what I’ve been dreaming of. Now of course there are it’s bugs and glitches and sometimes it’ll crash. But it’s running on an iPad, and that is a truly impressive feat. I work zbrush on my custom built computer, and after an hour it sounds like its going to take off. I can work hours on this app and the only thing stopping me is the iPad battery life. The app is gigantic, and needs a fair amount of storage but honestly, not as much as I thought for an app this powerful. If you’re a experienced sculptor or just wanting to start out, spend the money. Seriously, it’s worth it. I am excited to see how Nomad grows in the next few months. Seriously impressive, I cannot rave enough.

^-^ OuO ~(°-°~), Nov 15, 2022

Incredible versatility, power, and value

Anytime I speak to other artists or hobbyists about Nomad Sculpt I end up sounding like a salesperson.If you have previous experience with sculpting software Nomad Sculpt is incredibly easy to pick up and experiment with. If you do not have said experience however, there are plenty of easy-to-follow tutorials out there to get you started.Of course Nomad Sculpt is not as robust as your expensive full-blown sculpting programs but for the price you pay you're getting an incredible value and I've personally made and seen pieces that rival anything made on your typical PC/laptop software.The versatility and power of what Nomad Sculpt can do are the highlights for me (on a recent iPad Pro.) Currently I'd say the material painting would be the least intuitive part of this lovely program. Recent updates to other features are encouraging that hopefully soon smarter methods of material painting will come online.The absolute best reason to love Nomad Sculpt is that it allows me to casually create art on my couch while passively watching stuff. That kind of convenience simply cannot be beat and has exponentially increased my personal art production and creativity.

Blast Hooligan, Oct 31, 2022

One of the most exciting apps ever for iPad

Within the first 10 mins of downloading and playing around with this app, I new I had found something truly amazing. Coming from a few years of a zbrush experience on the Mac, this gives me everything I use regularly in zbrush, in a buttery smooth package. Not to mention a far better UI and enjoyable experience than zbrush. All for 15 bucks!? That right there is a steal of a deal my friends. Truly incredible app. Thank you so much to the wonderful developers that spent their time to polish and create such an amazing app for us to enjoy. Truly hats off to you! Such a joy to use.Update: I’ve been using this app nonstop since it came out, and I love it more and more the more I use it. On top of that, the newest update is INCREDIBLE! The post processing controls, render options, camera updates, lighting updates, etc. Are all truly mind blowing. That you so much for creating this app! It really is something special.

CapitanCrunches4Days...aYear, Jan 07, 2021

It’s a no-brainer for sculptors with iPads

I got this expecting it to only be a travel companion when I’m away from my computer. BUT OH it’s way more than that! It’s very similar to Zbrush in a lot of ways, but it also contains many features I never knew I even wanted until now. It has layer based sculpting, kind of like Photoshop layers, but for sculpting. And you can adjust the opacity of each layer even, or use layers for vertex painting. This is only one example out of the many in this app that’s blown me away. THIS APP NEEDS MORE USERS! I can also easily export sculpts with color data to Blender for finalizing assets. I can’t think of a single reason to sculpt in Blender instead now. It’s an amazingly capable professional piece of software that you can take wherever you go.

DedicatedGhost, Jan 20, 2022

The best app ever

I have learned so much and came from the bottom of knowing nothing, it unlocked a whole community of interest I had no idea of. I am building a portfolio for my local digital media institute and I’ve already piqued the interest of the admissions folks and how little time it took for me to get a hang of this sculpting stuff, and all on this app. Just as features I hope to see in the future, I think it would be neat to be able to rig models in app instead of having to export and go into Adobe mixamo, and then go to blender, just to get a certain pose. Another would be the addition of photoshop brush support possibly? I honestly am not a developer and don’t know if any of what I’m saying is possible in the specs of an iPad but I’m just wishful thinking. Have a great day!

Disastrous Doodles, Jul 17, 2021

Probably the best iOS sculpting app

This is by far the most robust sculpting app on iOS, except for maybe forger from what I’ve heard, but being honest you can ignore forger bc it’s a subscription based app and I’m poor. A one time fee, including all future updates and features? He’ll yeah! A sculpting app with nearly as many features as zBrush (ok maybe not quite but as close as you’ll get on mobile)? Also he’ll yeah! Really there’s no competition. Even against zBrush you have to consider how much cheaper this is in the long run… unless you’re a professional, it’s just not worth it bc you probably won’t even use half of the features.A very long winded way of saying: ZBrush is not just the best sculpting app for iOS, it may also be one of the best non-subscription sculpting apps in general!

Emp800, Sep 30, 2023

Okay... 20 stars.

The mad lad behind Nomad fulfilled one of my long time dreams of being able to work just as well as I do on my computer but on the go. I can use a stylus with my IPHONE and it will recognize pressure FROM 3D TOUCH?! What a BLESSING! Sir, you have no idea just how amazing you are. I really appreciate the wonderful reply you gave my review the last time and even more that you actually implemented that 3D Touch pressure sensitivity! I think Nomad (for non ipad users) just became like, easily twice as good. If not even more. I’m loving it!! Ps: did I mention I’ve had meshes of 6-7 million polys on Nomad on my iPhone XS Max? It wouldn’t let me save without crashing at that point but maybe at around 5 I still will be able to. Still, forger won’t let me go past 1.5 millions on a phone, which is ridiculous and really simply not enough to get the job done. It’s also worth mentioning this happened to me on Nomad’s previous update. So perhaps it has been fixed on this one.Nomad is just simply a beast. It is such a beast that I’ve decided I am going to buy an iPad Pro just cause music production and sculpting on iOS have become around 100 times more enjoyable than their PC-based counter parts. Thank you sir, you are a legend 🙏🏻

Enrique Raphaël Page Pérez, Sep 05, 2020

The app I've been looking for

Before now I've struggled to find a sculpting app that I enjoy using, but after using this one for a couple of hours I'm glad to say that that's changed. The UI is simple and intuitive, especially if you're at all familiar with desktop sculpting applications. I never spent more than a minute figuring out how to do anything I wanted to, and usually the tool or option I was looking for was either right in front of me or a tap away. Even more important than that, the sculpting simply feels good. It's quick and responsive. All the basic brushes you might expect are present, and at least for me they cover 99% of my needs. I have yet to dive into the brush options, but they seem quite in depth. I obviously have not fully explored the limits of the app, but I know that I'm going to spend some time with it over the next couple of weeks and figure out how best to use it. I can easily see myself using this app for basic work to export and finish in Zbrush.

GaladanWolf, Aug 06, 2020

Fantastic

I’ve been a professional in the games industry for 18 years as a 3d character artist. Nomad is a incredible piece of software for the iPad that allows you to do a lot the things you would expect with high end sculpting software on the PC/Mac. I now use nomad to do full block outs and even a good amount of detailing on character ideas and it’s held up incredibly well. I highly recommend a small blue tooth keyboard as it really allows you to gain back the navigational fluidity you get on the PC/Mac (and yes all shortcut keys come set up by default).Major thanks to the devs for creating this, you’ve really given 3d artists the ability to have a 3d sketchbook. As someone who can’t always get on the computer, this has given me increased access to practice my craft and get ideas down much more.

gridops, Feb 07, 2022

Overall Amazing and intuitive, but lacks a few key features.

Let me start with the positives. This software has so many capabilities that other similar softwares don’t. It is easy to work with, very customizable, and produces great quality renders at high numbers of faces. Easily the best software out there for the IPad Pro. One minor issue is that the software lacks the ability to more finely control the topology of models. Often i will find formations of quads that are unnecessary, or that meet in weird ways and create visible seams on my models upon smoothing. However, using dynamic topology is an easy workaround if the character you’re sculpting doesn’t need to be animated.Materials could also use more customization options, and UVs would also be nice, but the main issue i have with this software is how much battery it drains. It drains battery so fast that even when plugged into the wall, the charging cannot keep up with the power demands.Overall an amazing software (nearly on par with some professional sculpting softwares ive worked with before) but is not very optimized in terms of power usage.

MantacidTech, Oct 18, 2021

Description

- Sculpting tools Clay, flatten, smooth, mask and many other brushes will let you shape your creation. Need hard lines? You will also find some lasso/line/curve cutting tools. - Stroke customization Falloff, alphas, tilings, pencil pressure and other stroke parameters can be customized.

You can save and load your tools preset as well. - Painting tools Vertex painting with color, roughness and metalness. You can easily manage all your material presets as well. - Layers Record your sculpting and painting operations in separate layers for easier iteration during the creation process. Both the sculpting and painting changes are recorded. - Multiresolution sculpting Go back and forth between multiple resolution of your mesh for a flexible workflow. - Voxel remeshing Remesh quickly your mesh to get a uniform level of detail. It can be used to quickly sketch a rough shape at the beginning of the creation process. - Dynamic topology Refine locally your mesh under your brush to get an automatic level of detail. You can even keep your layers, as they will be automatically updated! - Primitive shape Cylinder, torus, triplanar voxel and other primitives can be used to quickly start new shape from scratch. - PBR rendering Beautiful PBR rendering by default, with lighting and shadows. You can always switch to matcap for a more standard shading for sculpting purposes. - Post-processing Screen Space Reflection, Depth of Field, Ambient Occlusion, Tone mapping, etc - Files Save and open glTF, OBJ and STL files. Layers and PBR painting are only kept through GLTF files. - Interface Easy-to-use interface, designed for mobile experience. There is also a lot of customization possible!