Technical Workflow for AAA Game Characters - Retopology | PREVIEW
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ค. 2023
- This is a PREVIEW of a video tutorial series I've created to document my game character process. We're taking the Elf character I previously sculpted in "Making an Elf" tutorial series and now making the game mesh version. The first volume will be about Retopology. Link is in the pinned comment below.
Future volumes (UVs, baking, texturing are forthcoming)
Here it is! www.artstation.com/a/27669201
I picked up your high poly sculpt tutorial of this Elf, looking forwards to seeing this game res version and seeing your substance workflow.
It looks awesome, Jesse! I purchased the ogre character sculpting course, and it is the best ZBrush I own in my library. I'm looking forward to diving into the elf character series.
Thank you! This is a great tutorial! Helped me out a lot. Looking forward to the following =)
Looking forward to the release Jesse. Cheers
Nice video. Clean retopology is so important for game artists!
much needed, ive always struggled with retopology, while other artists just lay down poly's like its the easiest thing in the world lol. instant purchase!
hope it helps!
This is so great and needed, thank you for doing this! Also will this series cover texturing as well?
I will get this as soon as I can!
@@THEINVISIBLEWARRIORR that's the plan! Next would be UVs, then baking mesh maps.....then texturing! :D
@@jessesandifer Awesome!
about to purchase both this and your high poly course! Is your retopology course done completely in zbrush as well?
well, I would have loved to do retop in ZBrush but I use 3ds max exclusively for that part. It's what I use in my own pipeline.
What can i do i cant separate the body in part beacuse i cant hide the union, the character is mostly naked, that’s a lot of polys
that's a normal problem we have as character artists. But it's done all the time with creatures that are typically whole body. It just helps to have beefy computers with good graphics cards to handle the data. Sometimes you can split the mesh into limbs and try to "blend" the mesh intersection, but I'm sure that has its drawbacks
12:00 why do you need a mid res ? You exported a low res, why not just export all high ?
Good question! Since max or maya don’t handle millions of polygons nearly as well as zbrush, I like to retain as much of the forms I need to “see” so I can trace them on the low poly. Hence the mid resolution and/or decimating is the way to go. The true high poly from zbrush would be extremely sluggish if not completely prohibitive to a fluid retopology process. Hope that helps!
When the next tutorial dropping?
the UVs video is done. At some point, I'll get to the baking part. I might include that in a texturing series instead since we're dealing with maps at that point. Not sure, but stay tuned :D