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Creating your first 3D Model with Nomad Sculpt (Udemy.com)

Beginner Character Design Tutorial creating a Cute Expressive Carrot

4.7
98 reviews

Created by: Dave Reed

Last updated April 2023

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What you will learn

  • Canvas setup in Nomad Sculpt
  • Adding Primitives (Simple shapes)
  • Blocking out our 3D model
  • Using Tools, Lighting and Post Process to make it perfect!

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Course Description

Get started with Character Design and Development by learning the basics of 3D and using Simple Shapes.  After finding and using the best shapes for our design, we'll begin discovering how to manipulate and adjust them into the look we're after. In this case, a cute carrot. Even the most simple 3D sculpts can actually be quite complicated depending on how much fine detail you want to put in. The good thing is that is what makes 3D with Nomad Sculpt fun! 

- We'll then move into adding eyes, eye lashes, and details to get it looking a bit more "real".

- Setting up our carrot with the most flattering lighting possible and then adding color. Feel free to experiment

with colors and textures! Remember, this is your art so you don't have to follow everything that I do. Rogues are welcome!

- Once we've finished with coloring and lighting we can start post processing and adjust the scene and character before export.  Exporting or "Rendering" means you've successfully created your first 3D character! Or maybe it isn't your first, but I hope you learned some new tricks and ways of thinking throughout!

The ideas and ways of thinking are most of what I want to leave you with...shapes are very easy to make, so just think of everything as shapes or part of shapes. Shapes within shapes even. I've found that even the most complicated sculpts aren't so bad when I just break them down into one shape after another. Veggies for instance: A grape is pretty much a sphere. Banana is a stretched sphere. Cucumber slice is a cylinder. A snow cone is a cone with a sphere on top. As you continue to sculpt more and more you'll find the shapes much easier and your sculpting will get faster and faster.

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Instructor Details

Dave Reed

I'm a 2D & 3D illustrator living in Brooklyn, NY! I'm currently a content creator and also work behind the scenes on TV & Films. I've been creating art for over 30 years, and am a School of Visual Arts Alumni. I've recently discovered my passion for teaching, and have found that both creating are AND teaching at the same time is a power play for me. Looking forward to seeing you in class!

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By Євгенія Сагай on 10/9/2025

I highly recommend this course for beginners! Dave explains everything simple and clearly. It is easy to follow. Modelling in Nomad is fun ^^,

By Yohann Pannetrat on 9/26/2025

Excellent cours ! Même s’il date de 2023, les différences entre Nomad 1.92 et 2.2 restent minimes, principalement au niveau de l’éclairage et de l’environnement. On peut donc tout à fait suivre ce cours avec la version 2.2 de Nomad Sculpt.

By Gerald Sumpter on 7/20/2025

The presenter is easy to follow along with. The pacing is very good as well.

By David Stewart on 3/25/2025

it was easy to follow, simple instructions and well explained. Much appreciated. i will certainly run through it again soon.

By Kyona Mennie on 3/21/2024

Nice and easy to follow

By Justin Walter on 12/28/2023

I am rushing to learn 3d modeling to help with my art business and this is all new to me and Dave is the first one that has made sense .

By Amanda Corazza Dias on 9/26/2023

Great course for beginners, easy to follow and learn, cant't wait to start with the others! :) My only suggestion to Dave would maybe be a course more focused on the software itself (all of the tools and functionalities of it) guess it would also be nice!

By Linhua Wu on 8/7/2023

I bought nomad months ago, and was frustrated to how to start. I feel I find right course to start. I am learning Blender, part of those is to sculpt. Nomad is my flat way to start with iPad.

By DAngelo Perrier on 8/4/2023

Very good walkthrough and tutorial. Only issue I had was the import environment step. I was getting errors trying to import the file from the provided resources. It may be an issue of different software versions between the tutorial and what I was using. In the end, I was still able to follow through the actual sculpting.

By Robert Castaneda on 7/28/2023

This is a pretty good way to get our feet wet with Nomad Sculpt. There were some discrepancies because I was using a newer version of Nomad Sculpt, but I was able to figure things out and finish the class.

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  • Updated: icon April 2023
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