I've used ZBrush before, and I've only used Blender when rendering, but I've never tried Nomad Sculpt. I want to try something other than Zbrush, but I'm not sure which one to start with Nomad Sculpt or Blender. Lately, I've seen a lot of people using Nomad, and it seems simpler than ZBrush. Between Blender and Nomad, which one would be more suitable for making BJDs?
I’ve used both. I felt like Blender had a bigger learning curve since you need to know a lot of key commands and such, but that being said I enjoyed the actual sculpting process in it when I overcame those hurdles. Nomad sculpt was easier to get the hang of after watching a few tutorials. I feel like you can get started fast in Nomad. I also like being able to sculpt anywhere on the iPad with my Apple Pencil. Overall I consider both to be good and Nomad has a cheap price compared to Zbrush (I think it was $20-$25? I forget). Then of course Blender is free.
I definitely agree with Tsukiyono. I never fully understood Blender though. I ended up using zBrush for a while but it was Very expensive, and so complicated with features I didn't really need. it was hard to navigate (i know there's a way to set up your canvas to your preference but every time I had it set up it would decide to lose it all. very frustrating). Nomad sculpt ended up being my preference. The features it has are what I want to use and it was much easier to get the hang of than blender or zbrush. Plus when it's on my iPad i can doodle sculpt on the couch with my cats lol.