how many polys for professional character art?

suwhan

Hi everyone, I'm teaching myself Zbrush and just had a quick question. I've been watching a lot of instructional videos, but none answered this question... 

how many polys are there generally for a finished sculpture in character art? for both portrait and figure used for games and film.

Thanks and advance!

slosh

This varies DRASTICALLY depending on the game.  You need to be more specific.

JordanN

In Zbrush, your geometry count shouldn't really matter. It's going to have tons of polygons no matter what, if your goal is to capture every single detail. 

Film artists aren't really concerned by polygon count since all their renders are handled by supercomputers, making the theoretical polygon count infinite. For a game, you will almost never see the final high poly mesh rendered in a game. That's information that only gets saved to a low poly mesh via normal & displacement maps. 

Eric Chadwick

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Polygon_Count

Andreicus

In Horizon Zero Dawn the main character has 100k tris only for the hair so...