Game Art Design - Project 2 Retopology, UV Mapping & Baking

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10/11/2025 - 08/12/2025 / Week 7 - Week 11

Lim Pei Jiun (0372548)

Game Art Design / Bachelor of Design (Honor) in Creative Media

Project 2 Retopology, UV Mapping & Baking

TABLE OF CENTENTS

INTRODUCTION


PROJECT 2

For project 2, we required to create a clean low-poly mesh based on the high-poly sculpt. I start doing the retopology on Maya. I think this part is the most difficult part on this project. I spent a lot of time on this part and redo it twice. The fingers and toes were the most difficult for me, and I revised them repeatedly here.

Fig 1.1 Screenshot on Maya

Fig 1.2 Process

Fig 1.3 Process

Fig 1.4 Process

Fig 1.5 Perspective View

Fig 1.6 4 View

After doing the retopology, I do a turntable follow the tutorials video.

Fig 1.7 Turntable Video (Retopology)

After that, I start doing the UV Mapping and apply the UV checker. If an error is made in the retopology part, it will affect the UV mapping part. Therefore, it is necessary to go back and make corrections. This is why I think retopology is the most difficult part. It will affect every subsequent part.

Fig 1.8 UV Maps

Fig 1.9 Turntable Video (UV Maps)

At last, I colored the character and make a turntable video in ZBrush,

Fig 1.10 Turntable Video (Color Concept)

FINAL OUTCOME

Fig 2.1 Project 2 Retopology, UV Mapping & Baking

FEEDBACK

Week 10: The necklace and nail you can just use ZBrush to ZRemesher. For the fingers with webbing, connect the fingers with one line first, yhen build the topology outward from that line.

REFLECTION

This project was quite challenging for me. The retopology really needed to be done very carefully. If I made a mistake, I had to spend time going back and fixing it. In this part, I made the wiring too dense, and my computer could not handle it, so I could not open the file and had to redo it. Another time, after completing a retopology, my computer screen suddenly went black when I clicked save, and the data was not saved. Redoing it so many times does have its advantages, the retopology speed has increased.

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