Retopology for Beginners in Blender 2.8 - Retopo the Correct Way 

Thanks! We really enjoy our format, makes it a lot more fun to do

great chemistry

There was a SoftImage one with three, that was pretty crazy, felt like you where in a class :o)

exactly my thoughts :)

so retopology is just spawning in a plane and remaking the entire mesh by just wrapping skin around the base?

How to get respect 00:00 - 30:00 Thanks for the help mates!

Thought the same - thanks for pointing it out! :D

@@bezoro2008 true.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CuQzPDs99yM.html in the subdivision modifier select "simple" to have more geometry to work with.

Also - F2 addon is sensitive to mouse position agains the selected point or edge. if there are more than 1 posibility to create a face, it will look at mouse cursor

@@BaptisteG yes!

Thank you so much! We'll do a longer retopo demo soon too.

Thats a great idea!

Second that! That would make a great series.

I third that !! That would include "seam positioning" and reason behind it (always struggled with that)

OMG YES!!!!!!! A full character retopo all the way through rig ready. Including baking high res, laying textures, painting, etc. Really interested in retopo for rigging when it comes to deformation and weight painting.

id love to see that happen

I really hope they do! They are one of my favorite teachers and people, that I love to watch do sculpts and explain what they are doing and how they are doing it. But I don't use Maya :P.

I was about to ask them if they are interested in making some, but looks like they are 😊

eagerly waiting for more such quality tutorials from them.. thanks

Thanks! We'll make all the blender tutorials :D

@@FlippedNormals All of them!

Glad it helped!

Damn, thanks for this

A god among men

Love you homie

Bless you thats the exact thing i was looking for

why it does nothing

Thats one of the things we'll really try to get across :D

Thanks Danny! We love your 2.8 tutorials

@@FlippedNormals sorry for being off topic but since you have a reply here I wanted to share a little trick about Alt+M since you mentioned it in the video. Thing is you can use it with one hand if you can get used to hit Alt with your pinky finger and M with your index finger, which might be unconfortable at first but you can get used to it really quick. Hope it helps and thanks for the video.

Pretty Nice but i still rather use 3DCoat, it's just way too good.

Omg haha. Nice to see u here. - Subscriber

You bet, Mark!

Thanks for the support!

@@FlippedNormals omG gurrrl

It'll send me an email when ready for 2.8x : )

I never seen anyone use it or recommend, or even acknowledge it as an option. Its actually slows you down.

same here

Ctrl right click is the shortcut for the extrude. You can also do that with vertices (mesh and curve).

if you select a vert with right click select and hold down the button, just drag mouse and the vert follows. confirm with left click. That is the fastest way to move verts.

Completely agree .. and as a sub-d modeler, if you're outside retopo .. it's perfectly OK to model under sub-d, even Catmull-Clark, *if you know that's the production resolution*. Sometimes block out a level lower than final resolution and then apply sub-d to get all quads before moving on to detail. It can save a lot of time. In hard-surface, sometimes it's essential to model under sub-d to know the dimensions of the finished object.

The only downside is now you have unnecessary vertices.

@@afish2281 And you need to apply the subdision so you can edit the model or move it.

@@FaithWasntTaken One of us is misunderstanding the other. So I want to keep my model below 5,000 verts but also want to fix the mesh: I can't just subdivide, that'll likely make my mesh go above my limit.

I love you lol

Thank you so much! We'll keep getting the Blender content out. We have another one coming out on Thursday.

Brilliant! Thank you

@Zed O Not for long. And given the fee (which isn't nothing, to be polite), the only place to be for Maya truly is the trashcan.

CobraA O “wElL mAyA cAn Do tHiD, blEndeR cAn’T” or ”maYa iS a iNdUsTrY sTanDarD, bIg sTuDioS uSe MaYa” well do you work in big studio? Even if you did I wouldn’t care that much because you probably haven’t used another software other than Maya. And if you did use Blender it was not a recent version. I use whatever I want, I don’t care if it is Houdini or Blender. I use the tool that is best for the specified task. No one asked for your opinion. So shut up and don’t be toxic.

Actually they added merge vertices commands in the vertices menu(Ctrl+V)

Well there's beginner course, and then there's opening any modeling software for the first time so you need 30 minutes to learn how to navigate course.

Just wanted to add a thing in regards to how ppl sometimes regard blender - Blender has TONS of pro users, the thing is that it's used for so many industries not just entertainment so that might make it a little obscure in our sight (even though there are tons of pros from our industry using as I've stated above). What I want to say is that a big part of why blender is important is that It's being used by tons of different areas, I've seen simulation projects, Product and Arch viz, Medical/Dental viz, engineering, Archeology reconstruction etc etc. Another fact that is some times overlooked is the 'social' importance of the 'pure free' of the tool. A group of kids with barely any working conditions are suddenly enabled to create their own videogame, animation, vfx films, etc, bc it runs on a potato (almost) and it's free it democratizes the technology which is amazing. That's why its community is so big and from so many walks of life :). That's it, just wanted to add this little curiosity that I find is particular in Blender. The rest (the "is x better than y" discussions/arguments) is a useless discussion these are just tools what matters the most is still the guy using them, as you've said in the video :D.

It will probably be used more by professionals, but it will not replace Maya at the current state. It could reach higher levels of adoption in the future though!

Ubisoft notably announced they'd be doing so, at the very least. That's a far cry from wide adoption, but they also said they'd be contributing developers and financial support to the project directly while they're at it. They've been posting update logs showing off what features they're working on with the additional resources, which is pretty interesting to keep an eye on.

@@FlippedNormals Hope to see more blender tutorial! Just another question: I wanted to know it is important to have a diploma to work in the entertainment industry? My environment keeps telling me that if i don't get a diploma, i'll not have a job in a studio, And even if i'm employed, people will exploit me, and i won't be paid as good as those possessing it , Even if i have better technical skills than them.

This is my advice: If it works for you and you can do all your projects with it, it shouldn't matter who uses it or not. There will always be sects in everything. Just focus on your own work and let others do theirs.

@@magnumbollocks9320 Do you have a link to those update blogs from Ubisoft? Really interested in what they're up to. :)

Same here... even when I have 4 connections like they said

You need to enable the F2 add-on first

no idea why that isn't a native Blender tool xD ps. Pro tip! : machinetools (add-on) has an even better tool than f2.. called f3 ! go check it out :)

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I had a lot of complication because I can't completely understand about the add on "f2" you save me, thanks

Awesome! Thanks a lot. We have a lot more CG videos on our channel, and a bunch more Blender videos coming.

Glad it helped!

Welcome aboard!