Pro Blender Sculptor: 1 h mouse / 1h tablet sculpt

Summary

In this video, the artist explores the differences between sculpting with a mouse and a tablet. They demonstrate the process by creating two heads, one with each tool, highlighting the control, precision, and comfort levels. The mouse offers a more controlled but less comfortable experience, while the tablet allows for greater freedom and speed, despite initial errors. The comparison reveals that both tools can produce quality results, but the tablet is more enjoyable and efficient for detailed sculpting.

Takeaways

• 🎨 The video compares sculpting with a mouse and a tablet, highlighting the differences in the sculpting process and the final results.
• 🖱️ The artist found sculpting with a mouse to be less intuitive and more challenging, requiring frequent adjustments to strength and radius settings.
• 🖌️ Using a tablet provided a more natural and enjoyable experience, allowing for quicker and more accurate strokes, despite initial errors.
• ⏱️ The artist had one hour to sculpt with each tool, finding that the tablet allowed for more detailed work and creative freedom within the time limit.
• 😣 Sculpting with a mouse resulted in discomfort and hand pain, impacting the artist's ability to enjoy the process.
• 🤔 The artist was initially confused by the lack of pressure sensitivity when using a mouse, which affected the sculpting dynamics.
• 🔄 The process of sculpting with a mouse involved a lot of repetition and corrections to achieve the desired shapes.
• 👀 Both the mouse and tablet had challenges with sculpting details like eyes, but the tablet allowed for more precise adjustments.
• 🆚 The final comparison showed that while the mouse sculpture was cleaner, the tablet sculpture had more definition and detail.
• 🛠️ The artist used the same set of tools for both sculpting methods, emphasizing that the tool itself is not as important as the artist's skill and comfort.
• 💡 The video concludes with a recommendation for aspiring sculptors to invest in a tablet for a more enjoyable and efficient sculpting experience.

Q & A

What is the main topic of the video?

The main topic of the video is comparing the experience of sculpting with a mouse versus a tablet, highlighting the differences in the process and the final results.

What was the sculptor's initial approach to both mouse and tablet sculpting?

The sculptor started with a cube, applied the subdivision modifier three times, and used a low level of subdivision to control the sculpting process, especially when using the mouse.

Why did the sculptor change the strength and radius settings frequently while using the mouse?

The sculptor changed the strength and radius settings frequently because the mouse does not have the pressure sensitivity that a tablet pen has, which affects the strength and radius in sculpting.

What physical discomfort did the sculptor experience while using the mouse for sculpting?

The sculptor experienced a sharp pain in the hand after 10 minutes of sculpting with the mouse, likely due to the repetitive motion and lack of ergonomics compared to a tablet.

How did the sculptor's approach differ when using the tablet for sculpting?

The sculptor used a bit more resolution and vertices with the tablet, and sculpted more freely, making more corrections and not worrying about the settings of the tools.

What tool did the sculptor find challenging to use with both the mouse and the tablet?

The sculptor found it challenging to correctly shape and place the eyes using both the mouse and the tablet.

What was the sculptor's overall feeling about the results of mouse sculpting?

The sculptor was surprised by the better-than-expected results of mouse sculpting but did not enjoy the process due to the discomfort and lack of freedom.

How did the sculptor describe the difference in enjoyment between using a mouse and a tablet for sculpting?

The sculptor described using the tablet as more enjoyable, with faster and more accurate strokes, less error, and more freedom for creativity compared to the mouse.

What was the sculptor's final verdict on the quality of work achievable with a mouse?

The sculptor concluded that even with a mouse, it is possible to create a perfectly fine sculpted head, but the process was less enjoyable and more restrictive.

What advice does the sculptor give to those who only have a mouse for sculpting?

The sculptor advises not to feel limited by only having a mouse, as it is still possible to achieve good results, but recommends getting a tablet for a better sculpting experience.

Outlines

00:00

🎨 Mouse vs. Tablet Sculpting Challenge

The speaker begins by introducing a comparison between sculpting with a mouse and a tablet. They plan to demonstrate the process of sculpting a head with each tool, highlighting the differences in control, speed, and comfort. The video will showcase the sculpting process, the tools used, and the final results. The artist admits to being out of practice with the mouse, which affects their speed and comfort, but they persist despite the physical discomfort.

05:01

🖱️ The Struggles of Mouse Sculpting

In this paragraph, the artist discusses the challenges of sculpting with a mouse after being accustomed to a tablet for several years. They mention the difficulty in adjusting the strength and radius settings, which are more intuitive with a tablet's pressure sensitivity. The artist also describes the physical strain of using a mouse, leading to hand pain, and the technical issues they faced, such as inaccuracies in strokes and difficulties in placing the mesh correctly. Despite these issues, they express surprise at the quality of the final mouse sculpture, although they did not enjoy the process.

10:01

🖌️ The Fluidity of Tablet Sculpting

The artist transitions to discussing their experience with tablet sculpting, noting the increased freedom and natural feel of the process. They mention using higher resolution and more vertices compared to mouse sculpting, allowing for quicker and more accurate strokes. The artist enjoys the ability to make corrections and adjustments easily, leading to a more detailed and polished sculpture. They also highlight the enjoyment and efficiency of sculpting with a tablet, which allows for more creativity and less restriction.

15:01

🏆 Comparing the Results and Experience

In the final paragraph, the artist compares the results and experiences of both sculpting methods. They admit that while the mouse sculpture appeared cleaner, the tablet sculpture had more detail and definition due to the freedom and precision offered by the tablet. The artist concludes that despite the higher quality and enjoyment of tablet sculpting, it's possible to achieve good results with a mouse. They recommend getting a tablet for those interested in sculpting, emphasizing that it doesn't have to be expensive, and express hope that viewers found the video informative and enjoyable.

Keywords

💡Sculpting

Sculpting in the context of this video refers to the digital creation of a three-dimensional model, specifically a head, using either a mouse or a tablet as the input device. It is the main activity being demonstrated and compared throughout the video, with the artist using different tools and techniques to shape the digital clay.

💡Mouse

A mouse is a handheld pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. In the video, the artist uses a mouse for sculpting and discusses the challenges and differences in control and precision compared to using a tablet.

💡Tablet

A tablet, in this context, refers to a graphics tablet, which is a device that allows artists to draw and sculpt directly on a flat surface, providing more natural and intuitive control over the digital artwork. The video compares the experience of sculpting with a tablet to that of using a mouse.

💡Subdivision Modifier

The subdivision modifier is a tool in 3D modeling software that increases the polygon count of a model, allowing for more detailed sculpting. The artist applies this modifier multiple times to start with a basic shape and gradually add detail.

💡Radius

In the context of sculpting, radius refers to the size of the area affected by a brush stroke. The artist mentions adjusting the radius when using a mouse, as it affects how broadly changes are applied to the digital model.

💡Strength

Strength, in sculpting, refers to the intensity of the effect a brush has on the model. The artist discusses the need to adjust strength when using a mouse, as it impacts how deeply the brush indents or builds up the digital clay.

💡Clay Buildup

Clay buildup is a sculpting tool that simulates the addition of clay to a model. The artist uses this tool to add volume and shape to the digital head, mentioning the difficulty of using it with a mouse due to the need for precision and control.

💡Draw

The draw tool in digital sculpting allows the artist to pull and smooth the surface of the model. The artist mentions using the draw tool with both a mouse and a tablet, noting the difference in control and the ability to make fine adjustments.

💡Grab

The grab tool is used to move and position parts of the model. The artist discusses the challenges of using the grab tool with a mouse, as opposed to the more intuitive and precise control offered by a tablet.

💡Freedom

Freedom in this context refers to the artist's ability to make creative choices and adjustments without being restricted by the limitations of the input device. The artist finds more freedom in using a tablet, allowing for more expressive and detailed sculpting.

💡Enjoyment

Enjoyment is the pleasure or satisfaction the artist derives from the sculpting process. The video emphasizes that while the mouse can produce good results, the tablet provides a more enjoyable experience due to its natural feel and the ability to make more nuanced adjustments.

Highlights

The video compares sculpting with a mouse and a tablet, showcasing the process and differences.

Sculpting with a mouse requires frequent adjustments to strength and radius due to lack of pressure sensitivity.

The artist experienced discomfort and hand pain after 10 minutes of mouse sculpting.

Mouse sculpting involves more repetition to achieve the desired strokes due to less precision.

Using a mouse for sculpting felt unnatural, especially after being accustomed to a tablet for five years.

Surprisingly, the final mouse sculpting result was better than expected, despite the discomfort.

Sculpting with a tablet offers more freedom and precision, leading to faster and more accurate strokes.

The tablet allows for more corrections and adjustments, making the sculpting process less restrictive.

The artist found tablet sculpting more enjoyable and less physically demanding than using a mouse.

Despite the tablet's initial speed advantage, the mouse sculpting result was more polished.

Tablet sculpting provided more time for details and muscle groups, enhancing the sculpt's definition.

The artist struggled with the eyes in both sculpting methods, highlighting a common challenge.

The tablet offered more creative freedom, allowing for quicker and more natural movements.

The final comparison showed the mouse sculpt was cleaner, but the tablet provided more detail and refinement.

The artist recommends getting a tablet for sculpting, even if it's not expensive, for better results and experience.

The video concludes by emphasizing the importance of enjoying the sculpting process and the potential of a tablet to enhance it.

Transcripts

once there was a person

who didn't know the answer

to his mouse or tablet

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hello and welcome back today i will

talking about tablet and mouse

in the video you will see me sculpting

one head

with the mouse and the next one with the

tablet

at the end of the video we will compare

two of them

as well i will try to compare and tell

what are the differences

what's happening and what i do with my

tools while sculpting so it becomes

much more clear what is happening

this is a mouse sculpting part so i

started from the cube

i used the subdivision modifier three

times and applied

as you can see i'm using a very low

level

of subdivision and not adding a lot of

polygons right away

to make it a little bit easier for me to

control what's happening

while using the mouse as well you can

see i'm changing a lot of

radius and a lot of strength uh

options because when you're using a

tablet

it depends on how strongly you press

your pen on the tablet

and that refers on how much strength and

radius you get

in your scoping and i was very confused

because i didn't sculpt with mouse for a

very long time

so i had to keep changing my strength

and my radius over

and over again which

made it a bit slower for me to scope

as well as sculpting 10 minutes

with my mouse i start peeling feeling a

sharp pain in my hand

and i actually thought i'm going to stop

after 10 minutes and go

have some break but i didn't want to

give up

so as you can see i'm using a lot of

clay buildup

a lot of crap some draw

and it's pretty hard for me to

get a strokes correctly with using mouse

so i'm going over and over again the

same part

grabbing and moving everything into

place

i tried making eyes a little bit

different way

with the mouse i thought it's going to

be a bit easier

well modeling with the mouse is very

usual

even when i'm sculpting with the pen i

usually

add the spheres with my mouse

as you can see i have a lot of problems

with

placing my mesh into the places with

mouse

controlling it and it just felt not

too much natural especially after not

using mouse for so long

because i have my tablet for around five

years so

after that moment i stopped doing it so

this scope

is literally five years

last time i i used mouse

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and actually i was very surprised by the

result i got while using the mouse

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it was way better

but i definitely felt very uncomfortable

and i wasn't feeling too much joy

using mouse i had that

uncomfortable moving it was especially

hard for me to

have a consistent uh breaststrokes

and those areas which i had to go

over many times felt uh

very horrible it

it's not just very awkward to keep your

mouse button pressed

and move your mouse over and over again

it cramped cramped up the muscles in my

hand

and it just felt not enjoyable

as you can see i'm adding the muscles

i was having a lot of trouble getting

the eye right

with using the mouse so i

most of the time i went i believe over

over the eyes actually one thing

which i noticed about

mouse which is good and bad as well is

i didn't i

didn't have so much freedom but i did

very

everything very statistically and

everything like i already knew how it

should be

and it didn't have so much freedom so

the head started looking

good very early in the process

but i wasn't enjoying it a lot and there

was

not much freedom in sculpting

but i'm almost

finished with the scope actually i had

one hour

for each scope so one hour for

mouse sculpting and one hour for tablet

sculpting

and in the beginning tablet was faster

but in the end the results actually

shocked me with

the mouse

and i actually liked the

mouse scoped a bit more but the process

i hate it way more

so what you can get from this is that

the tablet

is way more enjoyable to scop which i

think

is the main thing why i like sculpting

because it's so much

enjoyable and of course getting a good

result is very important too

and if you have only a mouse don't feel

like

it's

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not letting you release full potential

of what you can do

because at least in this one hour scope

i saw that the mouse

even with the mouse i can create

perfectly

fine sculpted head and still be happy

with it

so i'm ending i'm ending my mouse

scope very quickly just fixing a few

mistakes

and this is where i end with my mouse

scope

i start my tablet sculpting the same way

as i do my

mouse sculpting and as always i do start

with the cube subdivided and as you can

see

i'm using a bit more resolution a bit

more vertices than i

did with the mouse sculpting and

actually i this was the first scope

so i started with the tablet and when i

got

a bit warmed up then i went to the mouse

but as you can see i am

sculpting way much more freely

and i do have a lot more errors in the

beginning of the sculpting

but i'm relaxed i'm not worrying about

it

i have a lot a lot more corrections

as you can see and i'm not really

worried about

the settings of my tools and i'm moving

very very freely

as you can see i have a lot of error in

the beginning

but i'm not worried about that so

just a lot of scraping adding moving

all over the place not really focusing

and i feel like my hand

is moving so natural way

while using a tablet and the way brushes

works

feels a bit more natural to me i guess

because i'm very used to it that way

but i feel much more enjoyment

having everything feeling this way

than using the mouse

and as you can see i definitely have a

lot more

action happening while using my tablet

so i get a lot of things

in way faster like the features like

eyes

nose mouth ears i did a really quick

ears

and i looking

at the errors i created and look how

much

grab tool

fixes adjustments i do

and just in general it feels like much

quicker

and my strokes are way more

accurate and just look how freely i

feel with my scoped

moving everything around

and not being afraid to add the shapes

the way i want them to be

i tried few new things not really

worried about

one hour mark because i was so sure

i'm gonna have enough time and more than

i need

and this is not i believe even

the half time of

one hour okay this is like 30 minutes

and you can see already my face is kinda

almost finished so i thought

okay i have a lot of time so i'm gonna

play with

the expressions so you can see how much

faster while using the tablet i'm not

sure if it's just because i'm so much

more used to using tablet i got it much

quicker

but i believe it does have the fact that

with the tablet i can get my strokes

much quicker i don't need to worry about

the settings of my brushes and

everything

feels so much more natural to my hand

that while not doing

much more adjustments i feel so much

better in my hand

and then the actions i do and

in the end i actually got very surprised

that my

scope didn't look

didn't look as good as my mouse

sculpting

but my

tablet sculpting had way much more

thought put into it much more details

i did a lot more muscle groups

i did a lot more work and

getting my shapes right but

i was having so much freedom and error

into the scope that in the end i think

that it became so unpolished

that another one started looking better

but i had so much more fun

and the time flew so much faster with

the tablet

and you can see how much more strokes i

do

how much more adjustments

because i'm this is like so much more

freedom

for creativity

and i don't like my tools to restrict me

and i feel like the mouse is

a big restriction

i use the same tools clay build up

draw and grab of course crease and draw

sharp

is one of those tools where i always use

as well

and again i had a lot of problems with

the eyes

as i did in a pen sculpting part

i mean mouse sculpting part

and as you can see i am even adding a

small details to the eyes

doing a lot of small tweaks so i had so

much more time

in one hour with the tablet that i felt

comfortable

using

making more errors because i know i'm

gonna have more time in the in

so this is where we end up with our

mouse and tablet scooped

so third thing you probably can see is

that

the mouse scope is way more clean

and it's not exactly a good thing

because if we look closer you can see

that

i have a lot more definition with my

tablet scope

i have a lot more muscles even if i

tried to put

them in i think i had

a lot more shape corrections

on the scope

and let's look from the side view

i actually had a lot of problems fitting

the lips with my mouse and making the

shapes

correctly so my tablet work has

a lot more work put into it

in all these small shapes and i think

it's just because

when i was sculpting with the tablet i

had i felt like i had more time

and more enjoyment and everything i did

i wanted to do more and

with the mouse i was just trying to get

get my scoop done

and look decent and it definitely turned

out to

to look very great but

i think that in this one hour

as much as we can see how much more work

i could i put it in my tablet scope

and and just in one hour and

it means if my scope is take 100 hours

to finish

it's going to be 100 times better why

using the tablet

now is it just because i'm faster with

the tablet

and by that mean i'm more used to the

tablet

maybe but i think it's not i think for

sure

that with the tablet my strokes are way

more accurate

way more quickly way less error way less

fixing

and in the end the result is visible

so thank you everyone for watching this

video i hope you liked it

and i said i hope you finally understand

that there's

not really that much different in the

quality

you can get with the mouse i definitely

recommend

everyone getting a tablet and you don't

even have to buy an

expensive one but i hope you like this

video

and i hope i'm gonna post the new one

soon

and see you in the next one bye