ZBrush Retopo Preview

Using ZBrush's Retopology Tools to create new geometry, tracing details and polyPainting data in realtime.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• ZBrush
• Retopologizing
• Digital
• Sculpting
• Thomas
• Mahler

[thomasmahler]

Guys, since I still get quite a lot of requests about doing a detailed tutorial, I decided to do just that. I'm currently planning a whole video series that details a complete character creation pipeline, analyzes and simplifies every single step you'd usually take for a production model.

I'll post more info on this as I'm moving it towards the finishing line :)

[MAKESENCE7]

looks cool, but i dont get what you are doing ;( its like you are remaking the geometry to have a perfect mesh structure for the sculpt ?

[thomasmahler]

Exactly. It was just a little thing I did as Z3 came out to show some of my friends how the retopo tool could be used.

Basically, you'd sculpt away using a very basic basemesh and just design without any technical stuff in mind. Then you do the retopo and rebake all the details and stuff, so that you've got a clean topology.

Nowadays, I'm using Topogun for Retopologizing. Great application!

[Cybermonkeyy]

Why do you actually have to retopo when you can extract displacement/normal maps from the base mesh? It'll take less time like this and the result can be greatly comparable to the *retopologed* one...

[thomasmahler]

Cause you'd actually have to start with a detailed basemesh. Also, even a detailed basemesh could become rather unusable after some heavy sculpting and if the art-director goes wild after the initial vision. So it's smarter to sculpt from simple baseModels and do a retopo later on that's perfectly based on the hiRes Sculpt.

[buffyguy10]

umm where is the rest of the topology..

[thomasmahler]

Note to myself: Never, repeat, never sculpt a model that you want to retopologize with closed eyes and a closed mouth.

:D

No offense, dude, but it's not that hard to figure out the rest on your own. It was just one of my testing sessions and I thought it'd help people to see how well ZBrush actually traces the colorData from hiRes Sources to the newly laid out topology, which is just such a kickass feature.

[filipfie]

On your shoulders. ?

[Imahaxxor]

It's a great program, but I FUCKING HATE the interface, it's so hard to navigate

[Kadda67]

what is retopology good for?

[Gm3Beats]

@thomasmahler cool thank you!

[effilang]

@Imahaxxor I recommend Mudbox then, much easier and just as good ^_^

[XtremTutorials]

Its Fred!

[FSAthe1st]

@thomasmahler besides, isn't good topology essential for animating?

[dahahaka]

@Jacper60 did he mean zbrush with retopology tools?

[Seano71]

activate local and it'll use where u last clicked as a pivot when rotating

[Jacper60]

@dahahaka 3d modeling

[TERRANCIO]

boring to watch