When sculpting characters in Zbrush, is it best to sculpt the body as one piece?

Glacierfox

Hey. 
When sculpting character bodies in zbrush is it best to sculpt the body and the head as one object?
I'm just beginning a personal character project and I was intending to just sculpt the head first to get that out of the way then work on the body, but I couldn't think of a way to cleanly combine the two after. 
I could just start the whole body but I am under the impression that it might become a bit of a pain when retopologising or using dynamesh when doing the head; having to keep an eye on a lot of body areas at the same time.

I read in a post a few years back about re-projecting the two separate high polys onto a combined low poly but the process wasn't explained at all.

Thanks, Danny

MmAaXx

I guess is personal taste, I prefer to sculpt separately. I feel I have more more control and I can subdivide more.

JedTheKrampus

Depends on the clothing and accessories of the concept. I like to have a few objects (3-6) of about equal, large size where the seams get covered by clothes, jewelry or armor, because it makes my computer chug less.

slosh

If I do a full nude, I tend to sculpt the body and head as one piece...but that's just personal pref.  I will separate them by polygroup for easy isolation.

Glacierfox

Thanks for the replies guys!

The concept I'm working on now actually has a completely open neck line; leather jacket, v-cut vest underneath.

What I usually do is, as mentioned, is to just cover up the neck line with a garment or neck piece but obviously this restricts my ideas. And yea I get what you're saying MMAXX, I started a piece ages ago where the body was just one piece and even at 8 million it wasn't quite enough to lay in those secondary forms so I started using HD Geo but it just ended up getting tiresome. I always start with just the head but then I can never cleanly attach the head to the body afterwards without resorting to leaving a huge seam there.

musashidan

You can always localise you subdivision density. Just x2 or x4 the head/hands/whatever to concentrate where you need extra detail.

You can paint this in when zremeshing using 'polypaint density'