Thanks so much!

"ho do you time your videos" by doing what most KZfaqrs don't bother doing : Video Compositing. Record your work. Edit the raw video to keep only what's necessary. Record your voice while playing the edited video. Mount video+voice. Upload to KZfaq. It's clean but it takes more time (and eventually skills) so very few people do it. That's why KZfaq is filled with a huge amount of shitty tutorials with 10 seconds of something important, surrounded by 5 minutes of useless content.

@@HanSolocambo You try to act smart, yet you didn't understand the things that I was saying. I'm not asking about editing, I'm asking about releasing a video about a topic I'm currently working on. Smartass.

yep! came here as I forgot to enable backface culling when enabeling viewport in front setting, straight to the point and good info, I quite like blender's retopo tools lots of freedom !

I agree!

Fundamentals are king

Well, you can certainly use a Shrink-wrap modifier if you want! It can be useful to add and apply one at the end, so you are certain that it's all snapping to the surface.

A Displacement modifier? Please explain! :-)

@@BlenderSecrets a displacement modifier about on Strengt .1 so the faces won't clip through the high poly mesh. so like this you don't need in front, but in front is also good I think

@@JaKlaro That’s pretty interesting. I’ve never seen anyone do that. Maybe that’s even better than In Front.

Thanks for the tip!

@@darkflamesquirrel no problem :d don't forget to turn on the modifier for edit mode and also delete it if you are ready

Hmm, not sure what you mean (timestamp?) - I will dive deeper into each part in the next 4 short videos, not to worry! Perhaps you're referring to the F2 addon which ships with Blender. You can add Faces with just one key (F). Or Grid Fill, you can add a lot of geo with just one click. All shall be explained!!

i think it's the Ctrl+right click for extrude.

Oh, that's a good idea, I will definitely share the model when it's completely finished. If you want the current model prior to retopo, you can find it here. drive.google.com/file/d/1h2GW1JnsO0H0rcdGjKO4v6EWPeaBoF2a/view?usp=sharing

@@BlenderSecrets thank you. Very good. Loving the book. Printed for study and reference. Maybe some more lenghty tutorial in the Future? Great book!!!

Shrink wrap is a modifier

@@BlenderSecrets yes i know But did you add shrink wrap because the plate will not stick to the model without selecting the model as a target ???

For mecha retopo, I like to do it manually so I can still think about the design while I work, and improve the shapes in some places. But for organic models I would probably retopo automatically in Zbrush or with that paid add-on for Blender (I have Zbrush, so that’s my choice).

@@BlenderSecrets if only they had z-remesh in blender

@@BlenderSecrets is zbrush worth it?

I'm not an expert, just an animation student, but I think it depends on how clean the geometry of your object/mesh is. If there's a lot going on, it might be a good idea to Retopologize in sections so your Object/mesh behaves like you want it too. I hope that helps you in some way 🙂

When you grid fill there is a mini pop up window in the bottom left that you can adjust offset with

Definitely need that.

haha, blew my mind as well

Yeah it's insane, it even correctly guesses curvature. I'm going to post a full video about it.

@@BlenderSecrets Awesome! I will definitely be waiting for it.

@@BlenderSecrets Is it available in 2.79 too?

That is still not the final product?!?!?!

@@RandomGamePlayer697 Haha far from it!

The biggest discovery of the entire video and it's half a second long

Don't worry, I will show all the steps in detail! There are 4 more videos about retopology coming, one of them dedicated to Grid Fill.

Everything is baked to keyframes?

@@BlenderSecrets I tried baking keyframes also, nothing is working, applying rotation changes the child objects positions It will be a lot of work to delete all animations and apply rotation and then animate again Is there any solution