Character Retopology question

Jonas Ronnegard

I was wondering what program and method you use to do Retopology
for characters, I'm not a character artist myself, but my Japanese workmates
are interested to hear if western workflow differs to theirs.

Scruples

3ds max- Import decimated mesh and Using Freeform>extend, build polygons 1 by 1 with homogenous medium density throughout and then collapse loops, half-loops, drop swift loops in areas you want greater density...then celebrate with poutine, not a tutorial or recommended workflow, but I am fond of it.

cryrid

I personally use either Softimage (shrinkwrap + surface snap) or zbrush (qremesh or zspheres).

Topogun and 3D Coat seem to be popular choices.

Torch

3D Coat - fast retopo and really good tool, check it out

JohnnyRaptor

I use a combo of 3D coats retopo, zbrush qremesher, decimation master and manual modelling in maya for various parts.

Would be interested in hearing about your japanese coworkers approach to retopo as well..

poopipe

combo of zbrush, 3d coat and wrapit for max.

wrapit is awesome, everyone should buy it

BARDLER

3D Coat is super fast and easy to learn.

ysalex

Damn, I thought everyone just used zbrush retopo like me. I'm going to have to look into some of these tools and see if I can't find something to speed up that process.

Out of curiosity, Jonas, what is your friends pipeline?

poopipe

zbrush is much better than it was. i think most people started looking for alternatives a few years ago when it was really clunky and have stuck with them since.

its not the best at everything but it'll do...

Aardschok

combination of ZBrush (Decimation Master & qRemesher) and Topogun

nyx702

poopipe wrote: »

combo of zbrush, 3d coat and wrapit for max.

wrapit is awesome, everyone should buy it

+1

WrapIt is pretty awesome. This is what I primarily use. Just wish it crashed a TAD less....

Autarkis

I still haven't played too much with QRemesher but it looks awesome. For me, it's 3d-coat and some maya modeling with a srinkwrap plugin.

Ace-Angel

Wrapit and ZB for me. ZB to create quickly my new base-mesh, Wrapit to fix it up.

nyx702

I am not sure if anyone is interested but I was doing some experiments with Qremesher. Trying to find the best combination of guides and masks to get some decent starting topo for the body. The annoying thing about Qremesher is that it's unpredictable. You can run it, then undo it, then run it again and get totally different results.

Jonas Ronnegard

Thanks everyone for your replies, helped out a lot, they decided to try out Wrapit after checking it out.

Before this they were using Topogun.