Trying Every Free 3D Software

♡Thanks♡ for watching. I am a beginner please go easy on me!

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Music (none owned by me):
ELFL - Digital Chaos
Boba Date - Royalty Free Music from @Stream Cafe
The Dress To Impress Music from Roblox (briefly during gameplay clip)
Dex 1200 - The Lost Forest_Dramatic_Eery_Cool
All rights reserved to the artist(s) and label(s). No copyright intended.

Tutorials Used:
@moaly_studio - BLENDER TUTORIAL - How to make a cute and simple character
@Womp - Easy 3D Posters with Womp
@Dave Reed - Nomad Sculpt Tutorial: 3D Painting and Facial Details
@ZenArtDesign - Different Ways to Sculpt Hair | Nomad Sculpt
@SouthernGFX - NOMAD SCULPT - How to use the Curve Tool
@Follygon - ZBrush Core Mini Tutorial for Absolute Beginners
@AL Howell - Add Multiple Objects in Zbrush Core Mini (Sort of...)
@Prusa 3D - ZBrush Core Mini Sculpting Tutorial: Baby Dragon
@Womp - How to make an EASY 3D Character Base in Womp
@Houdini - Creating a Mega Character (Both Part 1 and 2)

Software:
Blender 4.2
Houdini Apprentice
Womp
ZBrushCoreMini
Nomad Sculpt

Hardware:
MOBO - ASUS Prime B760 (DDR4)
CPU - Intel Core i5-12600K
GPU - XFX 6700XT
RAM - TEAMGROUP DDR4
CASE - LIAN LI Airflow
NOT LISTING MY COOLER BUT I HAVE AN AIO (It was cheap on Amazon, risking leakage)

[patrickcasella]

the nomad sculpt model turned out surprisingly good! It's mind blowing that sculpting characters is even possible on an ipad. Sick video.

[houdini-course]

Haha, As a Houdini teacher, I can clearly say trying to learn Houdini in only 5 hours is insane. Hats off for trying though, I wouldn't even have dared.

[rohandalvi]

As someone who’s been teaching Houdini since 2012, it’s impressive and crazy to see someone dive into it with zero knowledge and actually make something. As for the various character models you made, you definitely have a good sense for character modeling and design. 😊

[AdobadoFantastico]

You're very brave to dive into houdini for modeling an object, that's a super uphill battle for basic 3d. The shapes and design of your nomad sculpt are indeed super cute.

[matticarts]

Nomad is absolutely amazing! And your sculpt is super cute.

[realg]

please never stop doing it either you make video or not but keep the consistency of learning. 🙏

[historiasmuychidas]

I am a graphic and web designer with 25+ years of experience and I also begun learning Blender (5 days ago). And I know how hard is it. I admire how fast have you learned to do what you do with it. Amazing Job Daisy! Don´t give up. You are very talented

[swiftleah]

I'm a big fan of your videos <3. It's obvious that you love learning and I know it rubs off on your audience (including me). It helps keeps me motivated with my own studies and hobbies :)

[WhyWeWatch]

For jumping straight into characters like this, you’re a natural

[JoeTheis]

Fellow newbie 3D modeler here: really enjoying your series! Maybe an idea for branching out in the future could be trying a low-poly style? I've been spending a lot of time doing that recently.

[damngoodtea]

Your willingness to learn is very inspiering, in stark contrast to your willingness to join us on the dark side of blender ; )

[statebeyond]

Nomad is actually amazing. people are asleep on what it can do lol the retopo features are super helpful. allows you to prep/optimize the topology of your creations when finished. it’s super easy to export too and be able to send to blender for rigging/animation

[marcusholst]

So interesting watching your journey in the world of 3D. Houdini has a steep learning curve and as mentioned you're very brave for giving it a go. The power of Houdini is the node based workflow that can give you a procedurally generated result. It's hard to learn but when you do you'll basically end up a wizard. Best of luck!

[yujinyujin]

Great video! As someone who has ZERO experience in any of these programs I feel like they are all more approachable now. Demystifies all of it just a little bit more for me. Thank you!

[simeongprince]

No matter what 3D Software you use, you have to remember that, Modeling, UV editing and Texture Painting, Material Creation, Lighting, Rigging, Animation, Motion Graphics, Physics Simulation, are all different and separate disciplines. That's why you needed different specialized software back in the early 2000s.
Also, Houdini is for 3D Gods who exist at the 33 Level of Heaven.
Do not expect to get good at Houdini in a short time (so I've heard).
That being said, Blender 3D is one of the greatest opportunities we have at getting into 3D and learning most of the 3D Disciplines.

[Arjjacks]

Cute! All of them, even the unfinished one in ZBrush :) For character design and creation in Blender, though, hands down you wanna be using the skin modifier for the whole shebang. Mirror > skin > subsurf modifiers turns half a stick figure into a base mesh all too easy. The skin modifier is a little fiddly to get to grips with, but it's unbeaten once you do. Hands and fingers are a bit of a process, but basically what you want to do is extrude a vert to where the centre of the palm would be and then hit Mark Loose in the skin modifier. This'll make it behave better when you extrude the knuckles and then fingers from there. The knuckles will look weird at first when you extrude them, but once you have the first four, scale their radii (ctrl - A) all down together and then extrude the fingers. Then do the same with the thumb. You can adjust the length of each digit from there.

The other reason the skin mod is so good for characters is that it has a handy-dandy little button called Create Armature, once you're done and ready to apply it. This will add the central and half the limb bones for you for rigging later on, which you can then add constraints to and symmetrise once you do get to the rigging stage. The bones follow the underlying vertices and edges that the skin mod generates around, so it's worthwhile inserting verts where all joints should be, i.e. in the knee, elbow, fingers, and thumb, before hitting Create Armature and applying.

[junpeixix]

The guts you have to try out new 3D software - free or not - rather than sticking with Blender is craaazy. I make music, and I haven't the patience to pivot from FL Studio and try out different DAWs.
Respect.

[dominicdavis]

A for effort. Love your enthusiasm. We all have to start from somewhere and from what I have seen in this video, you have a huge positive attitude. Love that. Keep practicing, keep trying and you are gonna master all that for sure ❤🤗.

[arthurdanielles]

Nothing in life worth having ever comes easy! Love your vid!

[MessyLyra]

babe wake up, blender lady uploaded again