Retopo Issue - Game Character (zipper teeth)

Rapharoncatti

Hi guys, I'm working on a game model, it's a mix of Brando and James Dean style.

The high poly is done and now I'm working on the retopo, but I'm stuck with the zipper, actually, the zipper teeths, I have no idea how to retopo them without using a huge part of my budget (10k tris)

Here is an overall look of the high poly (it's been decimated, so there's some weird stuff):


And here's the zipper teeth that I'm having trouble with:


Any thoughts?
Thanks!

AtticusMars

I would pull that fabric piece you have between each zipper tooth to the left until the left side was flat and bake it with a straight edge instead of modeling each tooth out.

cryrid

Save it for the normal map. Use an alpha channel on a series of planes if you really, really think the teeth need to do something with the silhouette.