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Homework Submission – Week 3

Man, this was hard stuff.  Not the actual retopology work itself, but everything ephemeral to it – I kept making mistakes and having to start over.  Once halfway through retopo I realized that I had joined all the parts of my model together but didn’t boolean them together, and it was causing weird issues with the shrinkwrap modifier in combination with the subsurf; it seemed like in some spots it wanted to shrinkwrap to the internal geometry for some reason.  I was able to copy my retopo object to the clipboard and paste it into a much earlier save from right before I joined everything together, and start again from there.  It took a lot of patience, especially with the Boolean modifier in making sure it didn’t leave any internal geometry – I had to try a few different “orders” of combining parts before I finally got a solid model.  But, things were learned.

Going with Kent’s advice I “took in” the pants a little so they weren’t so baggy.  I took a tiny bit of mass from the jacket too but very little – I wanted that to look a little puffy, it is a jacket after all.  I also did some polish on the face and especially the shoes before I started the retopo (the shoes were awful in my Week 2 sculpt).

So here he is:

The jacket and the hat are separate pieces from the rest of the character.  When looking from a distance, the wireframe from the character’s arms visually “bleeds through” the jacket wireframe in some places – I’ve tried a few things but I can’t seem to prevent that if I want to stay zoomed out far enough to get the entire character in the viewport (the effect goes away when you zoom closer).  Just take my word for it that it’s a visual artifact I suppose.

And of course my RoboOrb, from back when I first submitted it as an exercise for the Retopology course: