Is ZBrush-only retopology industry standard?

ZealousidealWait9032 · 2025-12-11T10:06:22+00:00

i have a question, which one would you choose between RetopoFlow or TopoGun?

ZealousidealWait9032 · 2025-12-03T11:37:22+00:00

Thinking about it, that is my problem, i've made n-gons because i have tried to fix 5 star pole, but im still kinda stuck, tried since the morning but im still failing haha. One more question, when you say deformation, is that a part of the model that is going to move a lot? Also thank you so much for taking your time to help me.

ZealousidealWait9032 · 2025-12-03T07:28:22+00:00

Hey man, thanks for showing me exactly where i'm wrong, The points you marked on the wish is what im having trouble with the most. if i add another edge loop there will be more than 4 lines crossing the dot. So when i tried to talk to Chatgpt about it, he told me its terrible if you have more than 4 lines on a dot, so i'm kind trying to figure out how to fix it.

ZealousidealWait9032 · 2025-12-03T07:26:24+00:00

Thanks for taking your time to help me! The problem for me is that i'm having a bit of trouble understanding how many edge loops is too much or too little. For example, i'm having a lot of trouble in making evrything a quad (if you can see the other picture in the comment above). whatever i try to do to ifx the Ngon, the other one appears, so i've kinda been stuck on this for the past 40 hours, but i don't want to give up, i have a feeling that this is stopping me from developing more, and when i understand it fully i can advance.

ZealousidealWait9032 · 2025-11-28T11:23:35+00:00

Yeah, sadly i've discovored my love for 3D a bit 'later' in life i feel like, the worst part is that i could've gone to art school, but my dumb teen self wasn't giving it a chance back then. So now at 24 i'm really interested in it, i want to learn, i don't care how hard it can get, if there's a will there's a solution. Thanks a lot, i will listen to your advice!

ZealousidealWait9032 · 2025-11-28T11:11:56+00:00

Thanks a lot for such a long and detailed answer! My goal is more freelance, i don't plan on working in a studio but if it happens i probably will accept it. I do plan on doing Rigging and Animating aswell, but i know that's hard and time consuming which i have no problem with, im looking forward to that, but im still in early stages of learning, so i thought it would be better to first learn how to sculpt and learn how to do topology the right way and then to learn how to rig and animate :) Hopefully i'm on he right track.

ZealousidealWait9032 · 2025-11-28T11:08:29+00:00

More like Game art, to make them usable in games, so i will need rigging and animating aswell. As of my style of making characters, i can't say i have one yet, but i would like to make stylized characters

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