I love this kind of "talk show" tutorials. Can't wait for more.
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it! We have a couple of more tutorials like this on our channel, where we discuss various things while working, should you be interested.
@tionanima6 жыл бұрын
Here's a tip i learned the hard way, if the quad draw tool is sluggish (e.g. taking like 20 seconds to create a quad) make sure to delete the history on the mesh
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Good point! Thanks for sharing. It does get rather slow with history on.
@ravenrichards20894 жыл бұрын
As a game student it's really useful seeing workflow videos/explanations like this even if it's a less ~glamorous~ part of the job
@TheRustedPixel6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this guy. I love the banter between you guys, it's so fun and relaxing. I get asked "how do I create uv maps" and I always tell people it's like game where you have to clean everything up and find a space for everything yet I've struggled with retopology for years. Such an eye opener to see you use the same description for how to retopologize a mesh. Thanks so much for this.
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! It's interesting how many similarities there are between the various parts. I find that the better you understand the foundation, the easier everything becomes. Glad it helped! /H
@everett78586 жыл бұрын
I like that you guys are talking to each other during the process, it's sorta like listening to a podcast. I use this process for everything now!!
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Chad! We really enjoy doing these tutorials, so super-happy you enjoy them! /H
@arifnbd6 жыл бұрын
You guys do not know how important it was for me to learn quad draw tool and retopo inside maya....Thank you so much for sharing the info. Very easy to understand but moreover what i like most that when you 2 describing all pros and cons...it makes really comfortable to learn...thank you again.
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks! It's really fun for us to read comments like this! We try to not just describe the tool, as you can use a manual for that, but instead HOW and WHY you'd want to use a tool.
@wykapanyTata6 жыл бұрын
I've just discovered this channel. Really good stuff here.
@PoseidonArts6 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed watching your process! I would love to see more topology videos in the future :D
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks! We'll definitely do a couple more of these. Next time, we'll look into doing a body.
@PoseidonArts6 жыл бұрын
Even better :D
@danias.18337 ай бұрын
Subscribed! I just wanna say I absolutely love you commentary and your calm, chill yet funny conversations here and there. I, myself am retopologizing in maya while listening in to this and it makes me so happy because you are not only the best maya teacher I've found but you have your fun while at it too 😊❤ I'm a university student and I rely on you to quite a lot to get me through my assignments. Thank you!
@manojlogulic42346 жыл бұрын
You guy's are absolutely brilliant, one of the best concept to teach is when you two discussing about what you do and how should things be for industry. BIG thanks for everything you do!!
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Much appreciated. More to come!
@RedEyedHolloway6 жыл бұрын
My goodness, sooooo therapeutic! I love how you guys are like, what do you watch when you do Retopology? And you guys are like Netflix or a good podcast - I'm like, put on a Playlist of FlippedNormals. Lol! You guys are awesome man. I'd love to see more Retopology vids for doing complicated shapes like ears, feet, hands, wings (for creatures), etc.! And it would be so cool if you guys showed how to do this kind of stuff in Modo, as well! I know the technique is the same, but really just the proper tools, and the equivalents of this type of efficient workflow of using features like Relax and stuff like that from Maya, in Modo. Anyways, amazing vid again! Cheers!
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Awesome :D I think everyone should put on some FlippedNormals in the background, but I realise my bias :D We definitely want to do more retopo videos in the future on all the topics you mentioned! I also really want to make some more videos using MODO for retopo. It's been my main retopo tools since 501 and it's really good. In a lot of ways, I prefer it over Maya. Btw, if you like long FN videos, we just posted a super long one (over an hour) on the life as modeller in film :) Maybe you find that to be interesting.
@RedEyedHolloway6 жыл бұрын
Nice! I'm literally watching it right now! I can't wait to see what else you guys have in store! And it's cool to be biased - you are for good reason...you two are the BEST!
@BlackMarketHoney2 жыл бұрын
Great video guys. The dual commentary works great. A lot of these tutorials, although technically interesting, can be painfully boring with the wrong delivery. Nice one!
@adamdargan6 жыл бұрын
Love videos like this. Sometimes you learn a lot just from watching someone else's workflow. For instance the absolute transform tool at 19:10 is awesome! Never knew you could do that.
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Cheers Adam! Glad you picked up a trick or two :D
@Raquel963 жыл бұрын
Your topology videos like this one have been incredibly helpful, thank you so much!!
@ipwn3du6 жыл бұрын
You guys are my new favorite people lol. Very funny and down to earth and your videos are so helpful!
@caseydewitt62364 жыл бұрын
12:40 This is something I'm glad you mentioned. Back in college, one of my professors insisted we couldn't have any poles/starfish in our face model project, but to this day I can't figure out how he thought that was possible.
@Mega65014 жыл бұрын
Maybe your teachers was trying to get you to learn how to not rely on poles and more on edge loop flow.
@caseydewitt62364 жыл бұрын
@@Mega6501 Well it was my second modeling class, so we were all fairly unfamiliar, which means he should have specified. Especially since the pole he pointed out while showing us a speed modeling video was on the cheek, which is very common on character models.
@Mega65014 жыл бұрын
Casey DeWitt Yeah I’ve heard that some teachers don’t really know what their talking about regarding topology. I’m knew to CG so I was just thinking that was the reason. On the side note I left a message at the top of comments maybe you could maybe give me a answer to my question I would appreciate it. Thanx.
@spundefiant39256 жыл бұрын
It's like 3d knitting.
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Hah, that's a good way of putting it!
@Farrukh3D6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. Good information and easy to understand
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad it helped :)
@Brachwah2 жыл бұрын
OMG I just found your channel and everything you do lines up with my workflow. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
@Projekt.098 ай бұрын
Amazing tutorial guys learned alot from you in this video!
@northernfreelance57886 жыл бұрын
This has been the best tutorial! Amazing results with a few clicks and one tool!
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Awesome, really glad you liked it! :D
@Dumbanana006 жыл бұрын
You guys are great, good video. Also I was the one asking about your approach for fabric retopo, and I went down the zremesh path for a hot second. I actually quite liked the results in certain spots, but in the end, ended up doing manual retopo, based on the zremesh output. For that workflow I placed a strong blinn material on the zremesh output and followed the specular highlight with quad draw making nice edge loops (with plenty of triangles and stars, hah). Just wanted to share!
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Hey! That's a really good way of doing it! :) I find that Zremeshing sometimes does magic when it comes to topo, but I prefer to do it by hand like in this video, as I know then I have ultimate control over everything. I always decimate my models out of ZBrush, which is exactly what we've done here too. This reduces the polycount a lot while retaining the details. Super handy! Feel free to look into it; it's called Decimation Master. /H
@featheredmusic Жыл бұрын
i can watch this all day
@iamron_TV Жыл бұрын
going well. For so reason tNice tutorials video struck as really concise and really cleared up so questions I had. The DAW I used back in
@bobbyfox84106 жыл бұрын
Great advice, cool video!
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot!
@user-bw2yi3mc7n Жыл бұрын
will be a fantastic journey!
@douka39936 жыл бұрын
really like your approach of teaching guys, keep it up and can't wait for more!
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks! We'll do our best
@mystyle0226 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for the informative videos, I really enjoyed the process, please keep them coming !
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Great, thanks a lot! :)
@amirbabaei70483 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much guys
@yamileorozco3796 Жыл бұрын
seriously helped thank you!!
@maarten1766 жыл бұрын
thanks! very good. maybe the best tutorials I ever seen
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks a lot! Glad it helped.
@el2themeck3 жыл бұрын
I’m listening to you guys retopologing 😉
@monsterkilstk7257 Жыл бұрын
Much appreciation.
@ponimania5 жыл бұрын
Never know where it is.... made my day dude.
@makofdahouse6 жыл бұрын
that was super helpful thank you guys and i think it would be great if you did a video on retopo-ing the body for animation/games
@emeraldeelentertainment89886 жыл бұрын
This is some very helpful knowledge, even for Blender users. Thank you!
@StephenWebb19805 жыл бұрын
Speaking of loops...this video is playing on loop while I work LMAO
@ssslava6 жыл бұрын
Amazing tutorial, thank you guys!
@alikkadoum36144 жыл бұрын
Really love your videos! Also guys, there is a smooth brush in Modo in topology mode)
@StephenWebb19806 жыл бұрын
great therapy watching
@darshanjain60614 жыл бұрын
Awesome video...you guys are amazing. Thanks a ton.
@yuido6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video! Easy to understand and very clear. I really like it. It would be great if there was a Texture Baking video! Like: What are the important points? What should we pay attention to when we are making low poly models for baking? What is the minimum polygon limit to use in this way?
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! That's something we might do in a separate video. Good suggestion.
@erenjaeger20836 жыл бұрын
thank you alot guys i really love what you are doing for us it's make our work easier can u make a long UV Video like this one too
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks! We'll for sure make a couple of UV videos like this too :)
@ronydey26962 жыл бұрын
great and helpful
@aday47116 жыл бұрын
Really helpful for my video games course, thank you very much.
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Much appreciated. Good luck with your game course!
@andresfelipecalderonfranco24156 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@AerysBat6 жыл бұрын
I'm watching you guys retopo when it's already something I know how to do, just because you are fun to listen to, hahaha
I love your tutorials! These are awesome! I just have one question - you mentioned in real production work, you don't usually start from scratch to retopology models, you use some existing retopologized shell and wrap it up to a new model. How do you do that? For example, how do you snap those vertices to the new model? It'll be greatly appreciated if you can talk about it further!
@amey_13376 жыл бұрын
If it's 3rd person game's main character... back of the head becomes super important
@florianristea6 жыл бұрын
I love the tut and you guys are presenting the stuff super easy (especially for stupid people like me that are hard learners ) . I'd love to see on your channel the entire workflow for a model, from Zbrush-retopo-texturing-render
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks! We'd love to make a video like that too. It's on our list.
@viniciusdominiquini2416 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video, your channel is great!
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@btaalaibekov95656 жыл бұрын
Thanks!! Great!! Really cool lesson!!! Waiting for anohter Tutorials)
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Cheers!
@priderice30786 жыл бұрын
really nice informative video keep ehm coming!
@sonhoang-sq9fw6 жыл бұрын
THank you alot! That's so useful
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@masterami39426 жыл бұрын
Thanks i love all of u guy
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Much appreciated
@SleepyMatt-zzz5 жыл бұрын
This is pretty handy information. Even for someone like me who mostly uses blender.
@jekaabdullayev53466 жыл бұрын
Really , a lot of thanks for u guys, i have one question about relax , how do u increase or decrease of smoothness?
@firemartins Жыл бұрын
Michael, tNice tutorials is the best soft soft Video Tutorial ever.
@MuazzamShahzad6 жыл бұрын
please do a in depth tutorial for z-remesher
@BU-sj2gn6 жыл бұрын
thinking about sticking to box modeling!
@6Z3N96 жыл бұрын
Amazing vids, thx a lot! :) keep it up
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks - will do!
@supatrupa136 жыл бұрын
Nice videos keep it up
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Cheers! Will do.
@acpokefan97425 жыл бұрын
The area where you put the three quads make up a subdIvided TRIANGLE! You could have just them into ONE QUAD!
@arminbox39866 жыл бұрын
a big thanks ;) but the point is the more I enjoy watching it, the more I realize that I'm still a Beginner :)) and a question ... is there any way to retopo a hard surface model ?! I was trying to model a round and hard surface shape but it got messy !
@marcbingobingo77274 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial, but I still have a question : what happens to the small wrinkels and folds ? Baking the High mesh on the retopo one ?
@FlippedNormals4 жыл бұрын
Good questions! You can do it either way. Its often a good idea to bake the big folds into topo
@darksteelyurius6 жыл бұрын
My retopology tool keeps making the new quads translucent. Any way to update/change that?
@toddlawrimore35775 жыл бұрын
Great watching you guys work. Would love to see when you're not doing "quick and dirty" work. ( your words, not mine. :) ) Question: Do you really prefer Modo? Is it because you learned it first, or is it more sophisticated? ( like having a more mature tool set or better work flow )
@alifstarfath5 жыл бұрын
thank you so much very helpful n detail video, more video like this pls XD
@colinmcevoy14364 жыл бұрын
Damn, I was literally watching this to see how they tackled the ear!
@krzhao1774 жыл бұрын
me too! that's the part I'm most curious
@antonjilg86312 жыл бұрын
At min 24 when he centers the object. Can someone pls describe what he does?
@Kennnyboy8884 жыл бұрын
Hi guys, how do you access the Absolute Transform dialogue box that you use to zero the co-ordinates of the verts when you do the mirror function? I'm new to Maya 2019, coming from 3DS Max and I'm finding it tricky to find things that I'm used to. Thanks for the awesome video.
@dantertart51186 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video! Do you guys have any clue why then working with a high density mesh, around 90k, my quad draw start to run super slow? I can't find the problem with it. It is not the history since I turn it off when using the quad draw.. Maya should be able to handle more polygons than that...am I right? Any help would be super appreciated!
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
I know exactly what thats happening: Performance in Maya is, well.. crap, when it comes to retopo high poly meshes, unfortunately. I find that I have to split my model into separate parts sometimes when it gets too dense, and then stitch it all back together afterwards. It's rather annoying, and unfortunately I dont have any good fixes for Maya. I prefer to do my retopo in Modo, as I find performance to be better there. /H
@dantertart51186 жыл бұрын
Ok thanks for the reply!
@NebulousOdious6 жыл бұрын
Good day, I'm a total beginner and I have, perhaps silly, question about mouth - should I add cavity and gums and teeth and tongue during sculpting, or insert them after retopology as a standalone model? Thanks in advance.
@winky82013 жыл бұрын
How did u close the mouth?
@lukeinator_5 жыл бұрын
I’m new to this haha so do you retopologize the low or high poly model or both? Also, do you have a video on how to go from a good high poly model to a low poly one?
@HPHyenadon3 жыл бұрын
I'm brand new to maya and retopology. What commands did you use to extrude and create the mouth 'bag' and eyelids?
@_._._raine_._._6 жыл бұрын
Hey guys! First of all thank you! Your videos are awesome and easy to understand :) I just have a question: after this process, how can i reproduce details?
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Cool, thanks a lot! I made a tutorial on this many years ago. Hope it helps! henningsanden.com/2013/03/06/reprojecting-details-in-zbrush/ /H
@_._._raine_._._6 жыл бұрын
thanks man, you saved me
@nikitavidonov19594 жыл бұрын
Thank you, you really help me, but (there is always some "but") there is a plugin tool "Decimation master" in ZBrush. I think it is better than Zremesher and can ease face retopology. What can you say about it?
@markusschille756 жыл бұрын
Nice talk on the topic of retopology. I find the whole process of doing retopology manually can be quite relaxing and you go into a sort of Zen mode, unless you are pressed on time... then it becomes a bit stressful! ;) btw the tools you are using here looks very similar to the retopology tools in Max (which I use). I have however seen some interesting videos on retopo in Blender. Seems very nice. Have you tried it? I’m very keen on investing some time in learning Blender.
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, Markus! I also really enjoy doing retopo, as it's relaxing and not terribly hard. I haven't used Blender, but from looking at it from time to time, it looks like a really excellent tool. Maya is great and all, but if getting a job wasn't a concern I had, Blender would definitely be on my list of tools to learn. /Henning
@raashid_kf3 жыл бұрын
what are you guys' take on stars in Topology? i.e. when a vertex is connecting 5 different edges, is it the same stance you have on triangles? Also, thanks for this video, very nice 😁☺
@emiliovera48876 жыл бұрын
Thank you.. i´ve been for 2 days doing retopology on a dinosaur trying to not get stars and it´s just giving me nightmares!
@boulaawny44205 жыл бұрын
Can i now use Sculptris Pro in ZBrush to create my own creature/character , then doing some Retopology whether in Blender/Maya/ZBrush to make UV Master be apled to my model again after making good topology ?
@SeanSpitzer5 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to Mirror retopo as 3D Coat has in place?
@thebigjago5 жыл бұрын
are you guys making a reducing polys vid at any time ?
@Tom.19935 жыл бұрын
Hey im doing a retopo of a dragon and i was holding shift and RMB and draged by accident then the mesh tunrned grey and i wasnt able to get the color back i got no clue how do fix. I googled for like 3hours without succes. Maybe someone here can help me . When i start a new quardraw mesh its all fine again...
@TheBritMonk6 жыл бұрын
Is their similar tools for doing this in 3ds max or zbrush? Like the smooth function seems really useful
@ZNeutrenoHD6 жыл бұрын
what about areas the need to deform, in joints you want more vertices around the bending areas, does the same apply to faces/heads or should all be even?
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
Good point - you should definitely have higher density around deform-able areas.
@zielonebutelki5 жыл бұрын
If I go out of the quad draw tool and correct something or add new polygons, like you guys in the inside of an eye, in the end my mesh has new seams (after in UV mode view) in these places and I can't get rid of them. Is there any way to delete these seams?
@ricardoao195 жыл бұрын
Hey guys! Nice channel you got over there! Congrats for both of you. Wouldn't ZRemesher with guide lines (or even polygroups) do the trick? Or do I have to do it mannually either way? Thanks!
@FlippedNormals5 жыл бұрын
Hey! Zremesher even with guides is deceptive. When you get the topo from it, it looks awesome, but the more you try it out, the worse it gets. You realize that you didnt get a perfect loop around the mouth, so you're now doing this by hand, and now connecting the new mouth you made to the zremeshed topo is a real pain. In short, doing topo by hand doesnt take that long, and it means that you have full control over everything you're doing - saving you a *lot* of time in the long run.
@ricardoao195 жыл бұрын
@@FlippedNormals So I will do my topo on Maya. Thanks for the answer guys!
@Mega65014 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video I learned a lot from just this video.. I use blender since I’m still learning and want to know if I will continue before signing up on a yearly subscription with Maya or Zbrush. I have been starting out retopology on high poly count which takes me 24hrs within 3 days, didn’t know to start with less dense poly count. My question remains can I retopologize the mesh in little amount of vertices and then at the end subdivide the whole model to add the necessary detail?
@caseydewitt62364 жыл бұрын
There are a lot of methods to high and low models! You can definitely start with a low-poly mesh and add subdivisions for a higher model, then transfer detail from the high to the low using what's called "projecting" or "baking." I do this for objects that don't need TOO many details, but need beveled edges or something simple. Otherwise I'd suggest starting with high and building a low version. This method works really well with sculpting like in ZBrush (or Blender), because ZBrush is usually for models with a lot of texture details like characters or important objects. One thing I learned over the years is that you can do things in 3D modeling a lot of ways; some just might be slower for you.
@Mega65014 жыл бұрын
Casey DeWitt Oh okay, my goal is to learn the industry way mostly so that I can cut down my learning progress time and produce workable models in a productive way. My focus is around realism which pertains to detailed models but I’m trying to see what would be exceptional enough in poly count and what I can get away with to accomplish this task without taxing render time. Thanks for your answer as of now I understood you need to be clever enough in graphics to reach an ultimatum that is compatible to current technologies for usability.
@caseydewitt62364 жыл бұрын
@@Mega6501 I'd suggest: -looking at polygon counts on asset stores like Unity or Unreal (I do this when I make trees) -finding ripped models from video games and importing them into Blender Both of these can give you an idea of what is a good polygon count.
@Mega65014 жыл бұрын
Casey DeWitt that’s a great idea thanks I will do that I don’t know why I didn’t think of that earlier.
@caseydewitt62364 жыл бұрын
@@Mega6501 I'd love to see what you produce, so remember to come back to this video when you're ready to show your work!
@milo20060 Жыл бұрын
The only big problem that I kinda don't like about quad draw is the symmetry. I really don't understand. HOW hard is it to get POLYS symmetriezed CORRECTLY?????
@nialismcreates3 жыл бұрын
Whenever I highlight the centrepoints and type zero, it trashes my model and drags everything to the literal centre of the viewport
@ElRixSape5 жыл бұрын
besides this, there is newer retopologize style?
@raymonddicksen51966 жыл бұрын
do a body topology. i want to know how it effects in rig
@FlippedNormals6 жыл бұрын
On our list! Thanks.
@vitaliitartachnyi56166 жыл бұрын
what computer config and screen resolution did you use in this video?
@anushriyachaurasia6884 Жыл бұрын
how you doing extrude edge in quad draw? can you please help.
@milo20060 Жыл бұрын
One Edge = tab + left mouse Edge row = tab + middle mouse :)