Glen Southern
Glen runs SouthernGFX, a small Cheshire-based studio specialising in character and creature design. He has been using and training ZBrush in the UK for over 15 years.
Mike Griggs
Mike Griggs is a digital content creator with over two decades of experience creating VFX and CGI for a wide range of clients.
Antony Ward
Be it game development, rigging or recording in-depth courses for his YouTube channel, Antony boasts experience in most areas of 3D.
Pietro Chiovaro
Pietro is a freelance 3D artist and YouTuber. An expert in the creation of game assets and environments, he shares many of his creations on his channel.
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SOFTWARE: COZYBLANKET FOR IPAD CAN I RETOPOLOGISE MY SCULPTS ON MY IPAD?
Daniel Torres, Manchester
Glen Southern replies
In recent Q&As we have discussed how we can retopologise in programs like ZBrush and Blender, but we’ve never actually answered the question about whether it can be done on an iPad. Up until April of this year, we couldn’t. Then CozyBlanket hit the App Store, and it is a fully featured retopology app that rivals the major desktop programs and add-ons. Just for the uninitiated, retopology is where you take a high-polycount sculpt (3D model) and you effectively re-make it with better, cleaner, more animation-friendly polygons and polygon flow. The new topology adheres to the surface of the high-polygon model while you are rebuilding it, which means you can grab all the high-res detail onto texture maps at a later stage.
CozyBlanket comes with a demo version and a paid full version with all the extra features and options you might need to use it professionally. Most 3D programs on the desktop have
