This lesson is all about planning and laying out the theory of retopology. As an example I will take the facial region of the example character Rain and give a complete rundown of how to plan ahead for an optimal retopology.

Links mentioned in the video:

• 04:30- Theory of Articulation: (Update) Brian Tindall's website with the link to his e-book. Unfortunately the free resources have been removed.

Other links:

• Rain - File 4: Retopology & UV mapping: The file that includes the original retopology of Rain.
• File 4: Facial Topology & Planning: The file that was used for this lesson with all the Annotation layers included.
• Cheatsheets: A collection of cheat sheets, including the ones from this video.

General Links

• Short version of the creation of Rain
• Recap video of the creation of Snow
• Rain .blend files
• Snow .blend files
• Course Resources