Retopololgize General workflow

CreativeSheep

When Retopologizing a Mesh I assume it should follow the same rules as when modeling from scratch, especially if it may be animated; whether organic or hard-surface ?

oglu

Yes that would be optimal. But in a lot of cases you end up with a lumpy mesh cause the artists start to create meshes with an even quad distribution. Sometimes its better to remodel the object by hand with the highpoly as ref.