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4: Clean Retopology

Creating & Guiding Topology

5th March 2020

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Julien Kaspar

This first lesson is about the general theory and practices of working with topology and how to think about topology. I'll also give examples on how to manage loop counts, stretching & pinching.

Links mentioned in the video:
  • 05:14- Cheatsheets: A collection of cheat sheets, including the ones from this video.
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Johannes Lampert

12th March 2020 - 16:56

A precise and easy-to-follow explanation. Can't wait to watch the other videos in the series. Vielen Dank!

Francis Jasmin

9th April 2021 - 23:22

Really good explanation ! Recently, I have read like 5 hours about topology on the web. I could not understand at first what was in this video (to much new term for me), but now that I read a lot and made a few model, I think this is one of the best explanation I found about topology :-) Glad to be part of Blender Cloud !

Josh Whelchel

30th October 2020 - 20:14

Both links point towards temp.org :)

Josh Whelchel

30th October 2020 - 20:18

This is the best explanation of poles and direction flow I've found so far - thank you!

Davide Prati

16th November 2020 - 14:16

Links are Broken

Julien Kaspar

16th November 2020 - 17:16

@Davide Prati Thanks for letting me know. I'm restoring the descriptions & links now :)

Kenneth King

25th June 2021 - 13:19

Having an issue with some of these videos, as in they are playing for a while then jumping to the end after around 5 minutes in this one. Not sure what's going on.

*edit - seems if you refresh the page it plays through properly.

Rehtasme

5th February 2022 - 18:33

Hi, thanks for great tutorial! I've got a question: When you 'slide an edge loop into another' at ~1:00, what tool are you using? Edge slide? If so, how is it that the two overlapping edge loops merge?

Julien Kaspar

7th February 2022 - 11:35

@Ethan Mark Sather At the top right of the header there is a button called "Auto Merge Vertices". With this enabled any verts on the same location will be merged. This saves a lot of time but don't forget to turn it off, since it can accidentally lead to merged verts when you didn't intend for it.