Character rigging: Use Displacement map, Normal map, shrink wrap?

[klonkster]

Hi there, I am taking the Introduction to Character modeling course. I’m currently retoplogizing the character’s head and am curious how does one rig and animate a character’s high-poly detail? I know you rig the low-poly retop mesh, but how do you retain the high details and have them deform properly? Is it through applying a displacement map or normal map, or do you add/apply a shrinkwrap modifier and will that do the trick? Any tutorials or details on this process would be super helpful, thanks!

[coyo]

Hello!

The typical solution to this is to bake and apply a normal map to your retopologized object. I’m not sure if there is a character-specific tutorial on how to do so here on CGC but this course covers the basics:

https://cgcookie.com/course/intro-to-normal-map-modeling-for-games

The course uses 2.78 but the theories and workflow are the same.

[klonkster]

Thanks so much!

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