3D sculpting - Modeling characters and organic shapes for 3D printing

3D sculpting is a digital equivalent to traditional clay sculpting. You start with a piece of (digital) clay that you can push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch or otherwise manipulate. That’s cool and all, but it seems pretty difficult to learn, right? Well, there are several great, beginner-friendly use-cases for sculpting aside from making models from scratch. Let's take a look.

[themakerken]

I've been looking for hours for a video just like this one. Thank you

[studio]

Such a comprehensive tutorial for modeling software. Really satisfying!

[joeman]

Very cool video! But I thought plumbuses were made with Schleem, a dinglebop, and fleeb juice

[RyanKhoo]

What a coincidence! I just picked up sculptris a couple days ago to pass the time! Will definitely enter that contest!

[ivanperez]

Awesome video Josef; I started recently modeling and i love it

[dovibricker]

Jo you are the best keep doing what you doing

[cuated]

I learn so much with ths, thnks guys !!

[UNVIRUSLETALE]

Nice, I'll definitely give it a try on my yoga laptop with pen, I didn't even think of sculpting when I got my printer

[hanspeterson]

Josef- I enjoy all of your videos, and the use of CAD is no exception.
I do like Blender & Meshmixer, but I recently got Geomagic FreeForm+ and love it (expen$ive as it is!).
Wishing you continued success.

[jefbed]

Awesome! I definitely need to step out of only making practical openscad models.

[dcadtutorials]

SelfCAD is pretty decent choice for beginners when it comes to overall modeling. + you can always export files to other programs

[ColdFuse]

Wouldn't it be cool if they made Blender Sculpting for Virtual Reality? You could be in like a big empty room with basically every tool you could think of, sculpting out your thing like if you were clay sculpting in real life!

[DJapan]

As a professional I recommend 3D-Coat for sculpting. On top of being fantastic for sculpting it handles retopology, uv mapping, and texture painting. Plus it's cheaper than many of the other options.

[arianullah]

And Blender 2.90 has mesh filters (sharpen, smooth and surface smooth) that allow you to clean up Photoscanned objects easily

[_Simon]

my prusa mini says it will arrive sometime very soon! I'm super excited!

[Pesto-]

Long time Blender user (and ZBrush) and I just ordered my Prusa MK3S about 2 weeks ago. So glad you did this video. Also, don't forget CGBoost for Blender training!

[kevinmcintyre]

Shout out to my VR Peeps using Medium for sculpting!

[theferalcanadian]

If you're gonna recommend people/channels, you really should add the links in your description, good info though thank you

[skrillixwolf]

Is there an apple app version? And transfer to a 3D printer? I’d be very interested and would make my life so much easier

[toyotaboyhatman]

I discovered sculptGL the other day. Very similar to zbrush but obviously no installation necessary since it's web based. Also seems a lot simpler, and I mostly use it to tweak models I made in solidworks. Stuff that's organic that's nearly impossible to model in solidworks (or not easily).