“I would say time is definitely one of my top three favourite dimensions.” - Randall Munroe
I have enjoyed 3D modelling over the years. Products character design, I've played about with most things during my career.
I've been using Autodesk Maya for years. As with most creative software you get hooked on what you use first and the Maya interface was always something I liked. I find it less cumbersome than other 3d packages out there, but each to their own.
When Autodesk introduced Mudbox I got into digital sculpting and I really liked that too.
So when I decided to switch to my Samsung Tablet (insert plug for the previous blog post here). The 3D side of things was something I thought would have to say goodbye to, or it would have to stay on the laptop.
That was until I discovered Nomad.
Oh my god its bloody brilliant!
(G Force is not paid to endorse Maya, Mudbox, nomad or any other products connected with or to any other corporate entity... unless they would like to......Please Pay me !)
Nomad is a 3D sculpting software available for Apple and Android.
I had played with other Android apps that allowed either 3D modelling or sculpting but couldn't say I'd ever found something that would come close to the experience I got from using Maya. But with Nomad the sculpting experience is great.
(Insert shameless plug warning here)
I also have to say that considering its 'only an app on a tablet'. The quality of the work that I can produce seems exceptional.
I set myself the task of trying to 'break the app'. If I could produce a sculpt of a similar quality and texture to what I could achieve in Mudbox then I'd be sold.
I set about sculpting dragon scales on a sphere. Everybody loves dragons, (apart from zombie snow monsters).
The poly count of this sculpt is about 1.5 million. And I have over a dozen layers of texture and paint on top of that and this thing still kept going. Its ridiculous!
I'm going to keep on exploring nomads potential over the coming weeks and months and see what I can really do with it but I can see this becoming another key weapon in my creative arsenal.