How to Sculpt Complex Characters 

I mean, that's the workflow allright. But people, if you just begun sculpting, expect your first few dozen characters to be nowhere even near this. You have to have solid anatomical knowledge, know your software, generally experienced in sculpting all kinds of shapes, and just develop the raw knowledge base needed for it. There are no shortcuts in the end. But this video certainly clears up some workflow related questions, and thanks for that :)

Hey thanks for this video! Just starting to get into 3d character work and this is a great workflow for guidance. The likeness is there from the original character for sure! Very inspiring and encouraging content 👌

Hey! I came because I recognized Patrick's art and I'm amazed by your 3D sculpture of the Djinn character! I love your control of the smooth hard shapes and you capture the likeness super well! Especially with the smoke, it's so incredible you were able to translate the trail in 3D space. Great work man! 😁👍

this guys art is phenomenal. he has a beautiful painting style. you should link his socials in the description btw

DUDE! ur doing every thing right!! good music, good thumbnail, good beginning hook, good art, good mic/cam. u will get popular!!!! keep it up❤❤❤

beautiful sculpt. thanks for sharing the work flow and process. you make it look easy.

Beautiful work, this is called a job well done 👏🏻

Amazing stuff, maybe a more detailed timelapse of the process could be a really cool video. Keep it up!

Watching the beginning of the tutorial I was just thinking where are the thieves from OpenAI gutting our models and sculpts (god forbid that ever happens) and you put up this poster of Arnold the Predator vs. the Deal hand to hand combat and banter with AI hands and laugh. Great tutorial. It was a lot of fun for me to watch. and there is meaning in your words. But I don't spare time and effort to do the "annoying" and boring things that raise nothing at work. I even love them. All this basic shape geometry is a very fun level to work on. For Bao's geometry inspiration: the first Playstation and PC games, especially Resident Evil and Sin 😁😉😛

i cant believe you only have 464 suscribers, you will be one of the best artists there in the world and now you became my favourite

Love the work flow and I noticed you are blocking out each subsection on the lowest voxel count. Gunna try this

Hello very nice video thank you for sharing but music is kinda loud

Nice sculpt. Learning characters is definitely a labour of love :D So worth it though!

Im so lucky to have seen your video in my recommendations. Im certainly gonna keep this message to heart and strive forward >:D

looks really nice! abit more contrast in the colors, but sick sculpting, i especially like the part where you break the character down in forms, the study phase as you called it, thats a really good tip.. thnx for the breakdown of your process ^^

beautiful work, you inspired me with your workflow. Glad I found your channel.

Thank you for sharing your style.

Nice video Andy! appreciate the breakdown of your process, I think its good to chunk stuff out and do proper planning to try to reduce the amount you end up going "back" steps. Only thing Id say is the music is a lil too loud lol. Also, what application are you using for sculpting? I am new to 3d and have just been using blender but if I could use something on my Ipad (looks like you are at least) thatd be great since I already am on procreate a bunch.

I gave this video a LiKE cus you shop at costco --- MY MAN

damn ,can draw nice and sculpt ,cool hope can learn like you doing

Man, I know what I gonna say is out of context, but u look like Aphex Twin ( Richard D. James). Good video.

Super helpful video. Glad to be here before you can no longer answer comments.

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Gained a new sub! Love this, cuz I just started using nomad. Would be awesome if u did a tutorial on how u did some of the components because I have no idea how to sculpt hair

I see 3d sculptors sculpting in freeroam mode while I have to go into the orthographic view to see how much I actually messed up XD

What is the software used for sculpting?

Really good video, if i may give a bit of feedback for the initial part of the video and the sections where its you in front of the camera. First off, the music is a bit too loud, it feels very overwhelming to have your voice, the echo from the room and the music all at once. Second, a slight zoom in on the shots really helps to make it more easily watchable. you just have a zoom in and then you reset after a cut. Also it would be beneficial if you move the camera a bit more way from your face, that way the viewer can see your hands and that makes more easy to relate and understand the body language you are using hope that helps ^^

Hey man, great stuff!! I would love to know more on nomad sculpt and really liked your video! Maybe something on hard surfaces next? Or retopology? I beg.

Cool video keep creating

More drawing if you can

Hey, good video, could you make a video teaching how to blockout the character or a tutorial from scratch from nomad sculpt to creating the character or at least finishing the blockout? You explain well, keep it up!

Hello Andy! I was wondering, is the blockout stage at 2:25 in blender or it is a different software ? Thank you very much!

New subscriber here! Love your content man🎉

this tutorial is short, but learned a lot!

One thing i struggle with is when to go higher resolution and also when to remesh or start building subdiv levels. I also use nomad and blender. For example, in the refinement stage. What were you using?

just need to stick some texture and that would be even better

In the block out did you have pre-built shapes?

Really GOOD! what sculpting app do you use?

Wow! Amazing work! The beginning you blocked out the shapes in color then when you were in the program they were in 3d from your drawing, what is the called? Does blender offer that? Seems amazing for getting shapes

you used a Yami reference therefore I will sub lmao

Can you recommend a course to learn Nomad sculpt?

Thank you! but the music was a little loud it was hard to understand.

Nice vid ❤

Which application are you using?

noice man

what are these softwares?

seeing videos like this both inspire me and make me feel inferior when it comes to making 3d sculpts/models... (I use blender)

With your blocking out, do you actually shape it in as low poly as possible as shown in your initial objects?

What!? I was expecting to see you going from blob to character, but the blob part was like nothing happened and suddenly there was a character there! 😕

yo! its impressive and maybe working on more details before adding color would be great for your sculptures

What device did you use?

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Nice. What software did you use?

What was the program you used in blockout stage where you seemed to drag presets?

The sculpting is just incredible but the colours looks a little bit off.

i saw pecs in the thumbnail so i clicked

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the music in the video is too loud

It’s the crappy UI in every. single. sculpting app.

7:14 That's the final result? You left out so many details plus the left forearm is too thin compare to the concept. You rotated the left hand. The bracelet's position is off, also the belt, the belly part has just the six pack outlined and the rest looks like a balloon. You should spend more days into this and pay attention to the details and volumes.

7:21 it's not the same character than the ref

I wanted see u block out lol

This isn't a how to video, this is a "It takes a lot of work uhhhhh let me not show you my process at all and only small irrelevant snippets so I can plug a product at you and promote myself" video. Horrible for actually learning.

i really wanted to watch your video but the music is too f.. loud man!!

that is not a complex character bro

The modeling looks way too smoothened out though What does it look like when it's rendered?