First High Poly Bust

Haftoof

So I'm still building out the mesh and extruding it along the frame of the head. I've found the sculpt geometry to be especially useful in terms of keeping the mesh in a nice form. Here's the current status:




Currently its approx 3000 faces, the back of the head and side/ear are not complete neither is the neck. I have half the face special duplicated over as an instance so I could get a better look.

Let me know what you think or suggestions on tools, I mainly use the extrude, soft select (which I discovered this morning by accident) and the sculpt geometry tools.

Brian "Panda" Choi

Do you have something like Zbrush or 3Dcoat to do this? Cuz you're gonna have a way easier time with it to both sculpt and retopo.

Haftoof

I wish, I'm mostly just practicing the process of creating the mesh and working within Maya. I know Zbrush is a more powerful tool for sculpting high poly meshes but its on my too do list to learn. Is there anything that particularly stands out? Would it be better if I included the wireframe also?

Brian "Panda" Choi

If you're worried about topolgy, then it's a must for the Wireframe.

Ruz

the bottom lip should fold underneath the top lip at the corners. you have them in the same plane
anyway, no harm in building a nice sub d model first and then zbrushing the fine detail
looks ok so far

Haftoof

Here's the wire frame. I'll look into the lip, you're right now that I look at it.



Appreciate the feedback

Haftoof

JadeEyePanda wrote: »

Do you have something like Zbrush or 3Dcoat to do this? Cuz you're gonna have a way easier time with it to both sculpt and retopo.

I'm looking into a academic license on zbrush. Here's a question, any links to something covering the topic of the term retopo?

Brian "Panda" Choi

Dyou check the Polycount wiki?

Haftoof

JadeEyePanda wrote: »

Dyou check the Polycount wiki?

Now I will! Didn't know there was a polycount wiki!

Haftoof

So here's the mesh including the back of the head and neck. I need to clean it up a bit look wise. I wanted to ask about topology. Are there any resources for how to better segregate or define the topology so it shows up nice and uniform? where do you build the "splits" in the topology where you end up with a 3-sided shared square (If that makes any sense?)?

anyways here we go:


I'd say the main problem is the back of the head. I ended up hiding the extra detail edges just behind the top of the ear but I believe it was bad topology along the cheeks, chin and eyes that really caused all the extra edges. How do you improve your mesh building to address something like that? How do you begin to understand the number of edges needed for detail?