Five Topology Tips Every 3D Artist Should Know 

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Don't feel too bad about it, the Blender community is just bad about teaching certain basic things like topology. I chalk the main culprit up to the subsurf modifier. To a newbie who doesn't know anything about topology, the subsurf modifier simultaneously encourages them to use overly-simplistic shapes (which means they don't learn best practices for adding complex topology), while also making the actual topology of the object far more complex, while *also* being reliant on good underlying topology to work correctly. And unfortunately, a LOT of Blender tutorials aimed at beginners just train said beginners to throw a subsurf on damn near everything. That's why I tell people who are just starting out to avoid using the subsurf entirely. When I started out with Blender like fifteen years ago, I fell into the same trap. Then a few years later I went off to university and learned Maya, which forced me to learn good topology. I switched back to Blender a year or two ago now, and I barely ever use the subsurf modifier for anything.

@@zackakai5173 This sounds a lot like my experience. I am in the process of starting over with some of my old unfinished projects that I dropped due to learning roadblocks, most of which were stymied by overuse of the subsurf modifier, which made my scenes unwieldy. Starting over with good topology means I can, in the long run, work faster and have better looking models, because unwrapping & texturing become much easier & the scene is just much more efficient with a bazillion fewer vertices.

Hey bro, can i ask u something? how did he make the top of that form got straight in 7:10??

This is so true. I started out a month ago and even though it's been going steady, it wasn't before I looked up stuff like this I really started realizing how to make solid shapes that doesn't need constant re-fixing. Great channel this!

Now that you have experience, could you recommend basic concepts that I should study? I'm starting and that's happening to me

Default cylinder should be like that

​@@markzaikov456 No, he means with the top face being inset and having a grid fill center.

@@logosrule No no, I meant the default cylinder SHOULD be the better version. Like the round cube rather than the default sphere.

​@Mark Zaikov OH. That makes sense haha

If I see a shape a lot I just keep an organized library for reuse.

Same here!

How are these topology things on Maya?

​@@ivensaurothe technique is the same.... We just do it with different keyboard strokes else everything is the same

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This is actually slowed down for the video compared to how I'd normally work. The result of spending all day using blender.

It really is a never-ending learning curve.

This video has been pretty well received so far, so I'll almost certainly make more since people seem to find them helpful.

we were on the same page, now we are on the same page

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