Yeah there's the sculpting tool and also another one that is part of the poly modelling toolset. In Maya it's called the Edit Mesh : Average Vertices tool. Yeah that's what I was thinking: manipulate the shading after you are happy with the geometry as such but perhaps still need to get rid of little visual glitches. I can…
This was a very helpful answer, thank you very much for taking the time to share this. Maya (2026). poly modelling with the end goal of ending up with sub-division ready model, so am working with maya's smooth preview to constantly preview the sub-divided model For Sub-D/poly-modelling I would normally use the relax…