3D Modeling/Sculpting Art Question

jeredfarrell 2024-04-20 06:37:46 UTC #1

What retopology is taught through out this course? I noticed that it makes mention of Topogun, is this course using Topogun2, or 3? Also, does Marc go over retopology in 3DCoat at all? I tried doing some research into the course but couldn't find much.

ori.conceptarts 2024-04-23 01:25:30 UTC #2

Does it matter ? Topogun is just an expensive software to do one thing that you could just as easily do in 3dcoat or in Blender. The funny is that I checked topogun 3 introduction by Flipped normals and they're "wow this is an incredible tool" and what I see are stuff latest 3dcoat already does and also Blender if you get some extra addons.
So Topogun seems like just another idea of the industry to try to gatekeep artists and you'd probably have no problem learning it if you really need to. The main thing to learn about re-topology is what does good topology looks like.

jeredfarrell 2024-04-23 09:30:45 UTC #3

I actually own Topogun 2 and 3, and know the maker. I don't have a problem with the software, but I agree with you. 3DCoat is my go to software for retopology, and a bunch of other things. Blender does have Retopofolow, which is pretty good (and free if you download it yourself from Github if I recall),

I'm not sure if it's made to gatekeep or anything like that, it's actually cheaper then buying 3DCoat outright. Though I like the software, I just think 3DCoat has a far better Retopo and UV suite.

ori.conceptarts 2024-05-03 05:57:34 UTC #4

I didn't mean imply that the developer made it for that reason, it's just that what it ends up happening. Topogun standalone is 150$ just for doing retopology which is one relatively small task , 3d coat costs much more now but It used to be cheaper and of course it can do much more .