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S.O.S. Merging together large portions of the same mesh?

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#1

Hello again,

Could anyone please advise me with this? Say I make an image prom a plain (like the one below), and I want to make it into a closed mesh (a whole head) - what would the best way, except staring over from a sphere of course :laughing:small_orange_diamond:+1:
I’ve tried retopologizing the back, just connecting the zspheres of the borders of the plain with each other (the left portion of the image below). I also thought of making another separate subtool and merging it with thi one, but I wonder would the polycount ever be the same?

So…what you think is the best way to do it?

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 Thanks for your trouble, immensly grateful!
 
 cr
#2

Actually a sphere isn’t a bad way to go. Grab a sphere, make it a polymesh3d, and append your face as a subtool of the PM3D sphere. Then, with both subtools visible and your sphere as the active subtool, use the ZProject brush to bring your face shapes onto the sphere.

#3

Thank you very much sir! :+1:

#4

Zproject works great, just I am blocking in instead (http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/Tutorial:ZProject_and_SubTools :D). I’m having so much trouble modeling a face from a sphere so this is just terrefic! I’ll do it from a cube next time though, save me the trouble :slight_smile:

Thanks again, now I can finish my characters for the secret agent contest!

cr