Since sculptris is dead and blender devs have no clue on what

I guess it's not the only decent app now is it?

blender sculpting is fine if you polymodel your base meshes

you shouldn't make base meshes with blender

zbrush?

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>>536062
>dynamic resolution
3D-Coat has that.
It generates voxel geometry as you sculpt, literally out of nowhere. It just creates density as needed.

>Sculpting
>Retopology
>UV mapping
I haven't even touched it's texturing tools and rendering, but it's easily the BEST $99 [spoiler] I ever spent. [/spoiler]

inb4
>But you can't use it to make porn.

>>536099

This

I'm going to buy it at the christmas sale.

>>536099

I bought this too. Much easier interface to learn than Zbrush and a really good set of tools. They continue to improve the autoretopo tools too.

>>536066
"free decent app>>536100
>>536099>>536112

shills, cant even spoiler right
3dcoat has a bad brush engine in voxel mode

>>536144
>3dcoat has a bad brush engine in voxel mode
Then rough sculpt forms then switch to surface sculpting?

-And he didn't say free.

Just
pirate
Zbrush

You'll come to your senses eventually
Got me after 2 years. I'm 7 years deep now

https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?405035-Addon-SpeedSculpt
check this out,

ZBrush is a great tool for high-detail sculpting. It's retopology tools are a fucking mess though. They are years behind the times.

3D Coat has good retopo tools and a layer-based painting workflow a lot like Photoshop.

Use each for their strengths.

>>536259
3D Coat is excellent for hand-painted stylized stuff.
It also runs well on older machines.
I regularly paint on models with several 4K texture maps on my 5 year old Lenovo laptop.

>>536291
but you are not allowed to model waifus with it

>>536323
wtf who cares about the "whishes" of the devs.

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>>536240

That's pretty cool anon, do you know of any good retopo tools?

I tried contours retopoflow and it does a great job of drawing important geometry around mouths, eyes, and so on but it really falls down in the "patching" department

BSurfaces seems to be really good except last time I tried to use it (2.77) it was broken (global undo bug, grease penil fuckups, script errors)

There's this really interesting set of add-ons called MiraTools but I can't make sense of the author's explanation of how to use it (I could draw verts but couldn't get them to form a mesh, or editable splines). The SpeedSculpt guy actually made videos about it but they're in french

Gif related, one of the MiraTools add-ons

>>536435
how good is bsurfaces for retopology?
i do retopology by hand so far

>>536435
>>536438
try Sketch Retopo and instant meshes, they r both external but there's and addon to link blender with both

>>536435
>>536438
try this one out.
https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?406224-Addon-SpeedRetopo
https://gumroad.com/l/speedretopo#

Workflow looks easy, lets just hope it works without bugs/crashes.
I downloaded it, but have not tested it yet.

>>536438
>how good is bsurfaces for retopology?

Skip ahead 5 mins, he jabbers on uselessly about how startling it is that bsurfaces isn't the standard for retopologizing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMj7u-VyTm8

Basically you draw a curve using the grease pencil and then you can adjust how many quads fill in the space between the two lines. A bit like Maya Quad draw but with quite a bit more fiddling to get the results you want

This speed retopo add on >>536495 linked seems to basically be an extension of Bsurfaces (define an area with grease pencil, noodle with settings to fill in quads)