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When to retopologize

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#1

Hello,

I’m working on a bust, and it looks like I might need to retopologize in order to render out of Maya. I have the symmetrical sculpt, and then I posed it on a different layer. If I retopologize the sculpt, will that information transfer to the pose layer? In other words, does retopoing a sculpt carry through to other layers, or is it better to sculpt, retopo, then pose?

Thanks for your help.

#2

if you retopo, you have to re-pose. That doesn’t mean that it is better to sculpt, retopo, then pose…but you won’t have to pose 2x. It’s really up to you.

but the retopo process won’t carry over the posing

#3

Ok, that is pretty much what I had concluded as well. Thank you!

#4

no problem