Please help with mudbox retopology

Murkce

Hi I'm a student in a gaming course and I've been trying to reduce the mesh of my character for a while now however every time I try to retopologise my character the intial polycount grows larger instead of smaller. Please help and thank you for your replies!

This is the original being 3,338,240 tris 

This is the reduced mesh composed of 66,763 tris ready for retopologising


Just to show what settings I used. I won't show the outcome of the retop but trust me its terrible; mostly it just multiplies the polycount and removes all detail shown. I'm definitely just being noobish with the software. Thanks for reading

oglu

with an target face count of 200 it wont work... if you need it that low do it by hand...

Murkce

I don't really want to do it by hand. Could you suggest a target face count? Or maybe a better alternative to retopologising? And thanks for the reply

oglu

everything between 1 and 20k should be fine... 

a good face topo is made by hand... and i dont want todo something is the wrong attitude if you want to be an artist.... you have to work as hard as possible...

FourtyNights

Oglu is on the point here. I've retopologized faces with a quite dense geometry by hand until my wrist got super sore and I had to take a break and continue later.

thomasp

i'd go a step further and say you're better off investing more time in getting the head to look right first or starting over altogether before moving on to something like retopo. sculpt needs work!

try doing a topo that works for your puprose first and sculpt on that, eliminates or greatly reduces the retopo step.

Murkce

Thanks guys you've helped me out a lot. I'll make sure to put your advice into action