In this videos series, artist Adam Gibson shows 3D students how to use 3D Coat and Lightwave 3D together as an easy and functional workflow and pipeline in your 3D projects. Although this video series uses Lightwave 3D as the final output for your 3D Coat work, the concepts and principles used here will work with all the most popular 3D programs like 3D Max, Maya, Softimage, Modo, Cinema 4D and many others. In this first volume on retopology for 3D Coat 3.5 for Lightwave Users, Adam Gibson demonstrates all of the retopology tools in great detail. Basically this is an A-Z reference for anyone who wants to understand what each tool in the retopology menu does and how.

Table of Contents for Retopology

Chapter 1- Intro Chapter 2- What is Retopology? Chapter 3- How to Import a Mesh for Retopology Chapter 4- How to Import a Voxel Object for Retopology Chapter 5- Retopology Groups Chapter 6- Add Split Tool Chapter 7- Select Tool Chapter 8- Quads Tool Chapter 9- Points and Faces Tool Chapter 10- Cap Tool Chapter 11- Strokes Tool Chapter 12- Brush Tool Chapter 13- Delete Polygons Tool Chapter 14- Delete Edges ToolChapter 15- Collapse Tool Chapter 16- Split Rings Tool Chapter 17- Move Vertices Tool Chapter 18- Slide Edges Tool Chapter 19- Move Faces Tool Chapter 20- Move Edges Tool Chapter 21- Move Edge Loops Tool Chapter 22- Move Edge Rings Tool Chapter 23- Slide Edge Loops Tool Chapter 24- Relax Tool Chapter 25- Clear Tool Chapter 26- Subdivide Tool Chapter 27- Quads Tools Mode Chapter 28- Snap Tool Chapter 29- Symmetry Tool Chapter 30- Importing and Exporting Retopology to Lightwave Chapter 31- Spin Edge Tool Chapter 32- Spin Back Edge Tool Chapter 33- Extrude Edge Tool Chapter 34- Split Edges Tool Chapter 35- Collapse Edges Tool Chapter 36- Delete Tool Chapter 37- Edge Loop Tool Chapter 38- Edge Ring Tool Chapter 39- Sel Sharp Tool Chapter 40- UV Mark Seams Tool Chapter 41- UV Edge Loops Tool Chapter 42- Bevel Edges Tool Chapter 43- Delete Faces Tool Chapter 44- Subdivide Faces Tool Chapter 45- Hide Faces Tool Chapter 46- Invert Hidden Faces Tool Chapter 47- Unhide Faces Tool Chapter 48- Final Level: Beginner Running Time: 3hrs. 24 mins. High Quality (Screen-Res 1440 x 900 pixels) Quicktime Video