Maya Retopology: Ultimate Beginner's Guide

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In this project based Maya Retopology Tutorial for Beginners, I walk you thru step by step on how to retopologize a creature's head using live surfaces and quad draw. I provide the high poly sculpt for those who wish to follow along.
In this Tutorial, I will cover the following Maya Retopology Topics:
► When is Retopolgy needed.
► Assessing initial topology for a character.
► Working with Live Surfaces.
► Working with Quad Draw.
► Retopology in Passes.
► Using primitives to speed up Retopology.
► Turning off Quad Draw to create cavities.
At the end of this tutorial you will have a good understating on how to use Maya along Quad Draw for retopology even if you are a beginner.
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[@jlmussi]

Let's test your Maya knowledge! Think you can catch the most Maya references in the intro skit? First person to name the most references, I will give them a big shout out in my next tutorial!

[@eobiri]

You are the best! Your tutorials are great and simple to understand! Kindly make a video on how you send the retopology to the smaller object on the timeline after you are done retopologizing. Thanks

[@BadNewsBerrington]

Great video JL. Love the intro. Here's my list... Blinn, Phong, Lambert, Mental Ray, Lamina Faces, Non-Manifold Geometry, Tri's, Ngons, History, Auto Map

[@jlmussi]

@@BadNewsBerrington You got it Justin, only one missing was Arnold :-) Check this out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKi4Y42XZpxgpck

[@wanka89]

You make a great and wonderful job, big respect! Is it possible to export a quad draw surface as a stp file?

[@marcellwebb3799]

What's funny is that I ran into your channel at least two years ago, if not like more and I knew nothing about 3D. Now here I am following a tutorial that you made!! Man life is great!! Thanks man this really helps me out a whole lot!!

[@MauroSanna]

Hahahahaha! That intro is dope! :D

[@TheJoker3031]

Agree agree agree

[@necko46]

Just wanted to say how much I appreciate this channel. These videos are top notch and so easy to follow. As someone who wants to keep getting better at 3D modeling, I'm glad I found this channel. This video and all your other ones are so helpful, keep on making these amazing tutorials!

[@jlmussi]

Glad my videos are helping you in your learning journey.

[@Gr33nDeman]

The loop cuts in the intro are killin me 😂😂😂😂

[@jlmussi]

I came out looking like a GTA character 😂

[@Gr33nDeman]

@@jlmussi 😂😂😂 i’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda 😂😂

[@Gr33nDeman]

@@jlmussi Great vid as always brotha!

[@jlmussi]

@@Gr33nDeman lol

[@newmicro]

Great video and I learned some things I can use in other apps that do retopology. Thanks for putting this out!

[@AnIndieCindy]

Thank so much for all of this. I just had a lab of this in uni but you explain it so much clearer.

[@jlmussi]

Glad I could make it click for you Lori.

[@TUSH4R451]

Man you're a legend!

[@AgresivePerfector]

Super helpful video, JL, thanks for sharing so much of your knowledge and experience with us all. Much appreciated!

[@jlmussi]

Glad to see you in the you in the comments section Toni.

[@MichaelHurdleStudio]

Really good video bro. I need to up my game.

[@jdamagedgoods]

Thanks for sharing these tricks

[@Caipiranha]

Great video!

[@xXbananaXxist]

Just What i needed 😍

[@jlmussi]

Glad I could help.

[@asier7400]

Muchas gracias. Tus tutoriales son lo mejor :)

[@jlmussi]

De nada!

[@user-hc8yt2xo3w]

Amazing !

[@ankurgoyal2277]

Thanks for some tip of reto.

[@nikhilnair5246]

hey ! can you please make a tutorial on zbrush to substance painter? and also how to get a somewhat clean UVS in zbrush ? please help 😅🙏

[@rg3dart778]

Thanks you sir

[@utkarshchourey4178]

Is it okay to first create a low poly model(with topology), then sculpt on it to make it high poly .Then use high poly sculpt's maps on the low poly model version for that sculpted details ? Will it work or not 🤔

[@krisreed5536]

Hey man, awesome vid! Much appreciated how clear you are with your instructions. I got a couple questions, but I'm not sure if you read over comments on older vids, but here goes: Did you set your teeth in a Referance Layer? You bring them back somehow, I'm not sure what you do (hotkey?), since they are not hidden in the outliner. Is this a model for a game? It seems a bit high in polys for a game, but I might be wrong... also there might be some baking involved later on. I can't see any vids on baking model for games, so I'm not sure if you mainly do model work for movies/animations and so on. Any chance we could get a basic tutorial on baking normals onto a lower poly model in the future? Cheers dude!

[@jlmussi]

1. I hit "H" on the teeth to hide and unhide. 2. The model I would say is closer to film resolution, but games are getting higher and higher in polycount. In a couple of years there won't be much difference. For personal work that's not going in an engine, I don't see much point in skimping on the polycount 3. I will probably do a baking video in the future.

[@krisreed5536]

@@jlmussi Awesome! Thanks again!

[@therealKrak]

So when you are done with the retopology you put a normal map of the highpoly on the lowpoly so it looks like a highpoly right? I hope thats right... would you mind creating a tutorial how to actually create normal maps in maya? As a student I just can't afford zBrush and a lots of Adobe products are draining my wallet already.

[@slickdude2]

Any tips on baking? If it's more of a hard surface item would it be easier to use primitive shapes and try to make it fit?

[@olegshtolc7245]

Put bevel on 90 degree edges

[@anwarhussain5875]

oh yaah, thanks

[@ahi6315]

Great tutorial, but how to make those pointy edges on teeth? I'm really struggling with that

[@wairimu-nguyo]

What mic are you using? Nice tutorial

[@crimsonBen]

Super useful, thanks! When I have drawn quite big faces (like at @14:45) and i now split them up by adding loops via "ctrl + middle-mouse", the new vertices (of that new loops) arent conform to the mesh, they are basically inside of the mesh so i can't "operate" with them in quad draw... i than have to switch the to "vertex" and pull those vertices out! Did you ever found a solution to this?

[@jlmussi]

Is your sculpt set to "live". Make sure you are splitting you mesh using Quad Draw.

[@crimsonBen]

@@jlmussi sure, live is on for the target mesh, also using the quad draw tool :)

[@tahalsonkar9438]

Please Sir mobile modeling tutorial upload this

[@ipi223]

not only i learn a LOT of stuff listening you're video.. you make make me laugh! (welcome modeling beast!!!) keep on man! you have a special way to say thing and for me it so useful (shortcut, way to divide geo.....and so on) THANKS

[@SMC-TRADING]

next use sp to bake highpoly ?

[@jlmussi]

Yup you could, or take into Zbrush and re-project details onto mesh and keep refining.

[@ZephrusPrime]

Ngons, Octagons ALL TYPE OF GONS!!!

[@jlmussi]

Good start, but there's way more :-)

[@Fetteremo]

Also qui-gons :D

[@kennybolo7564]

How long you been doing this for ?

[@jlmussi]

Lost count after the first decade :-)

[@kennybolo7564]

JL Mussi well can you do a maya for dummies ?! Lol like basically take us to school

[@meshwgesh9696]

9:00 starts retopologizing c:

[@Jorfu57]

LOL

[@devjitpaul1191]

video would be 110% better if it had some mild music while you talk 100+10%