can't stress enough how important it is to map out the essential loops before you start. Retopo is so painful if you don't plan ahead. Especially if you have 50 edges going down to your arms and feet. It might not look that bad at the torso, but when you get down to the hands and feet, you will pull your hair out.
Fantastic! Grant dropin' a retopology help video just when I needed it most! You're the best! Great video! Thanks so much for all that you do my friend. 😃
Wow all your videos are amazing. You teach everything the right way. I watched all the sculpting videos of this series and tried to follow along but after some remeshing, it began to lag. It would be really great if you can make a series about poly modelling a character from scratch. I've watched the anime modelling series but I couldn't make detailed faces with it.
oh, using the snapping with a shrink wrap modifier is something so simple but so incredibly useful for more then just retopologizing, it will definitely speed up my creation of clothing for instance!
This is the right tutorial series I m waiting for thanks a lot Sir❤ I have a request sir can u complete this series faster really excited for texturing lightning parts
I think I have made a mistake going into character design for the coursework, it just takes way way too much time :) and everything that is required to know. From references to basic model to lights textures, retopology, rigging, animating dear lord.
Thanks for sharing this!!! You really are amazing. Being looking for a way to get into character sculpting and creation in Blender; and you've just given it to us. Thanks so much!
Oh I knew there was something for that! Was actively searching for a way to get some kind of 'offset' on the snapping tool for weeks now. It can become real tedious real fast to retopologise almost blindly at some point. Just try to do that on a big model with some details, only with x-ray mode to try and see what you're actually doing. Gave me some of the baddest headaches I had in years. Thanks! If by any chance you happen to have some tricks for weight painting too. At least with topology you can hide parts of the model you're not working on, weight paint mode does not allow such a thing it seems. Or I also failed to find this feature I guess.
Absolutely love what you do. I was wondering if you could make a video on texturepainting some sort of stylised greenery🌲. Like bushes trees and such its the same style as the hammer you painted a long while back. Anyway keep up the good work man you have no idea the amount of things I learned from watching you.
This is so helpful because im struggling understanding edgeflow and where to merge edge flows an create poles, then i dont know if the random flows poles create should be done better lmao, I'm doing the CG Boost sculpt course from your recommendation an im struggling with retopology and ive been binging your series about the dragon head last night actually then you post this. Crazy how things work.
Retropology is part that scaring the beginners away, about digital sculpture. It is a technical and time-consuming activity. You must do loops in the model, and be careful with e-poles, n-gons in areas of movement, be careful that the mesh flow does not affect, texturing and animation model later.
Would we need an addon to reproject a finished edge flow(like from sketchfab) and shrinkwrap it your high poly object? i suppose we need an addon to be able to do "source/target" points to better fit to the eyes,nose, mouth etc? Thank you
Having a really tough time with the retopology section. Not sure what the deal is, but when I'm trying to extrude or move an edge or vertex it just jumps to seemingly random positions and I can't put it where it needs to go. If I ctrl + right click each section is a completely different size, with some sections being 3x wider than the rest. I know it's probably related to shrink wrap, but I don't know what the heck I can do about it.
heyy! love your tutorials, i am currently stuck as my first mesh around the eyes the last extrude then f for fill worked, but it wont work on my loop around the nose.. i have tried a few things but i am stumpppped! has anyone else had this issue and figured out how to make filling the last extrude work!!! thanks :)
I'm so confused. I get how to make retopology, but what do I do with it. None of this makes sense. Why create a complex model if your going to replace it with a simple one. I am so confused.
What about "proper" topology for animated long faced characters? Like animalistic fantasy races, furry characters, and stuff like that. There is an ocean of good facial topology guides for human faces, but long faced ones are not that common and there is so much confusion when trying to apply human face topo to them.
@@grabbitt It's relatively easy to adapt it to something dog or cat-like, where forehead and eyes are on one "curve" and only mouth and nose are on different sosig, but something with long face and eyes on the sides, not just snout, that's when it gets confusing for me. Should the eye-nose-mouth "mask" be elongated, or it's unnecessary and can be in separate loops? Closest thing i can think of is shark-like sci-fi Sergal race. Something like their heads.
Hey Grant, I'm planning to learn sculpting. So can my laptop actually be able to handle the high poly meshes and stuff? 12 GB RAM i5 processor Should run fine right?
I'm not even using blender at the moment cuz of my tests but here I am watching this cuz I wanna do a human portrait in the future Currently I'm planning on making a dog with the hair particle system cuz I recently made a cat And after tests I have preboard then boards the competitive exams, sadge
@@grabbitt Gotcha Grant, thanks. I was thinking about picking it up to clean up my sculpts. Do you think it's worth it? It's like 150 bucks. Maybe it's better suited to clean up boolean work in a hard surface workflow as opposed to more organic character work...
Snap with rotation! AAAARGH! How did I miss that for so long. I knew I wanted to watch this.
can't stress enough how important it is to map out the essential loops before you start. Retopo is so painful if you don't plan ahead. Especially if you have 50 edges going down to your arms and feet. It might not look that bad at the torso, but when you get down to the hands and feet, you will pull your hair out.
Fantastic! Grant dropin' a retopology help video just when I needed it most!
You're the best!
Great video! Thanks so much for all that you do my friend. 😃
I wish your videos would never end 😇, because your explanations are clear and calm 😌 😅🙏
You're so helpful Grant. Thanks a lot!!
Greetings from Zürich, Switzerland.
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Wow all your videos are amazing. You teach everything the right way. I watched all the sculpting videos of this series and tried to follow along but after some remeshing, it began to lag. It would be really great if you can make a series about poly modelling a character from scratch. I've watched the anime modelling series but I couldn't make detailed faces with it.
Check my playlist as there maybe some stuff there for you. Or look out for discounts on my low poly character course
oh, using the snapping with a shrink wrap modifier is something so simple but so incredibly useful for more then just retopologizing, it will definitely speed up my creation of clothing for instance!
Thanks.
retopo tutorial ? less goooo!!!
This is the right tutorial series I m waiting for thanks a lot Sir❤
I have a request sir can u complete this series faster really excited for texturing lightning parts
I think I have made a mistake going into character design for the coursework, it just takes way way too much time :) and everything that is required to know. From references to basic model to lights textures, retopology, rigging, animating dear lord.
Thanks for sharing this!!! You really are amazing. Being looking for a way to get into character sculpting and creation in Blender; and you've just given it to us. Thanks so much!
Amazing! Thanks for tutorial
Oh I knew there was something for that! Was actively searching for a way to get some kind of 'offset' on the snapping tool for weeks now. It can become real tedious real fast to retopologise almost blindly at some point. Just try to do that on a big model with some details, only with x-ray mode to try and see what you're actually doing. Gave me some of the baddest headaches I had in years.
Thanks! If by any chance you happen to have some tricks for weight painting too. At least with topology you can hide parts of the model you're not working on, weight paint mode does not allow such a thing it seems. Or I also failed to find this feature I guess.
Absolutely love what you do. I was wondering if you could make a video on texturepainting some sort of stylised greenery🌲. Like bushes trees and such its the same style as the hammer you painted a long while back. Anyway keep up the good work man you have no idea the amount of things I learned from watching you.
I may well do that
This is so helpful because im struggling understanding edgeflow and where to merge edge flows an create poles, then i dont know if the random flows poles create should be done better lmao, I'm doing the CG Boost sculpt course from your recommendation an im struggling with retopology and ive been binging your series about the dragon head last night actually then you post this. Crazy how things work.
thank youu this entire tutorial helped a lot
This is so well done and full of info
Interesting and amazing !
Thank you so much 💞 like I said before your videos are awesome 💖 you are the king 👑
Retropology is part that scaring the beginners away, about digital sculpture. It is a technical and time-consuming activity. You must do loops in the model, and be careful with e-poles, n-gons in areas of movement, be careful that the mesh flow does not affect, texturing and animation model later.
Grant aka the Blender God
Thank you very much 👏👏👏👏👏
6:05 : Select two edge loops, then Edges > Bridge Edge Loops (Ctrl+E ; L)
Bit more pro than pressing "F" 17 times to fill holes.
I find f faster actually
@@grabbitt Depending on the size of the loop one method becomes faster ;) And it saves a bit of life of our mechanical keyboards.
riging face pleaseee!! thank u for your tutorial
Ctrl right click. That will do same size quads
I'm still learning the new interface. I'm use to the 2.79 interface.
No it depends on what your mouse is
please do a video about materials and the paint of this character
Would we need an addon to reproject a finished edge flow(like from sketchfab) and shrinkwrap it your high poly object? i suppose we need an addon to be able to do "source/target" points to better fit to the eyes,nose, mouth etc?
Thank you
I think there maybe something like this available
Ur voice is too good at this point u might as well replace David Attenborough
Having a really tough time with the retopology section. Not sure what the deal is, but when I'm trying to extrude or move an edge or vertex it just jumps to seemingly random positions and I can't put it where it needs to go. If I ctrl + right click each section is a completely different size, with some sections being 3x wider than the rest. I know it's probably related to shrink wrap, but I don't know what the heck I can do about it.
you must have face snapping on otherwise its very difficult to control with only shrink wrap
ohhh okay. I'll give that a shot, thanks for the suggestion!
and yep that's exactly what it was!
I've been trying to follow along with this stylised face tutorials, do you actually show how to make it low pol in any of them?
No but I have a retopology playlist
How do you finish the topology so that the planes are attached to the face as a new mesh?
Not sure what you mean
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heyy! love your tutorials, i am currently stuck as my first mesh around the eyes the last extrude then f for fill worked, but it wont work on my loop around the nose.. i have tried a few things but i am stumpppped! has anyone else had this issue and figured out how to make filling the last extrude work!!!
thanks :)
Tricky to say. Maybe you have doubles or it could be the face direction
Like like like!
the snapto options in 3.4 are not the same so not sure if i can follow this.
I think that's the only difference. The snapping is very similar
this may be a dumb question but what do I do about the hair? Just leave it high poly?
Probably easiest to decimate
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I'm so confused. I get how to make retopology, but what do I do with it. None of this makes sense. Why create a complex model if your going to replace it with a simple one. I am so confused.
See my video on making models for games and film
What about "proper" topology for animated long faced characters? Like animalistic fantasy races, furry characters, and stuff like that. There is an ocean of good facial topology guides for human faces, but long faced ones are not that common and there is so much confusion when trying to apply human face topo to them.
You just adapt the guides giving more loops to the extra areas
@@grabbitt It's relatively easy to adapt it to something dog or cat-like, where forehead and eyes are on one "curve" and only mouth and nose are on different sosig, but something with long face and eyes on the sides, not just snout, that's when it gets confusing for me. Should the eye-nose-mouth "mask" be elongated, or it's unnecessary and can be in separate loops? Closest thing i can think of is shark-like sci-fi Sergal race. Something like their heads.
take a look at how i do the dragons head in the playlist that may help slightly
@@grabbitt Dragon's topo works for animation?
I really, really wish blender had a "no paid " rotopology tool like Maya's Relax brush
They have a relax brush now
The only annoying part is the reference model isn't downloadable.
The link is in the description. If it's not working it might be due to add blockers
@@grabbitt Thank you :)
Hey Grant, I'm planning to learn sculpting. So can my laptop actually be able to handle the high poly meshes and stuff?
12 GB RAM
i5 processor
Should run fine right?
Probably. What i5?
I'm not even using blender at the moment cuz of my tests but here I am watching this cuz I wanna do a human portrait in the future
Currently I'm planning on making a dog with the hair particle system cuz I recently made a cat
And after tests I have preboard then boards the competitive exams, sadge
Man I thought it read "reptology" i thought we gonna make reptiles in orc course... **** im so stupid
I know nothing beats manual retopology but I would have thought the Quad remesher would have done a better job... as that's what is designed to do.
It's a pretty good job really and I could have adjusted settings and stuff but there was no need
@@grabbitt Gotcha Grant, thanks. I was thinking about picking it up to clean up my sculpts. Do you think it's worth it? It's like 150 bucks. Maybe it's better suited to clean up boolean work in a hard surface workflow as opposed to more organic character work...
@@kevinhouse7143 it depends on what your doing it for. Selling stuff then definitely worth it as it massively speeds things up