Okay, you know better than the observers what you think while doing it, to me it looks as if you have most of the time no doubt what to do next. Maybe, its because of the speed as well.


Sure, but that's normal, because its an additional constraint.

In this version, one can load a background picture as well. I will try that, when I get more time.

BTW, I tried to reduce the polycount in blender and got quite nice results. It was quite near to a retopology try that I did before.

It is the modifier 'decimate'.
Deleting one half of the mesh helps to keep the line in the middle and assures that you finally still have a symmetrical result. Just double and mirror the half afterwards.

Groovy. I've been meaning to use one of these sculpts for the normals/AO/base-model for some in-engine stuff, but the procrastinator in me doesn't want to retopo. But if the decimate modifier does well enough I'll be stoked!

Jibb

Oh I didn't know about Sculptris, I've tested ZBRUSH in the past but I can see that they work more or less the same way.

Not quite. The key thing here is that Sculptris can add in more polygons automatically when necessary. So in ZBrush if you just start with a sphere, you could run into trouble when you try to extend limbs and the like (although they might have features that accommodate for that). Sculptris handles situations like this automatically and beautifully.

Although all in all its feature-set is very limited, I love Sculptris.

Jibb

"you could run into trouble when you try to extend limbs and the like (although they might have features that accommodate for that)"
Well they have Zspheres , creating a base to work from using Zspheres is as easy as it gets.

Absolutely, but AFAIK once you've started sculpting details you can't go back to the ZSpheres.

Though I wouldn't really care if I'm wrong, since Sculptris is free

Jibb

handy tool.
i tested it and did a first freestyle model:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSQ7k5X4-Mw

sculpting-time it tooked: about 16 minutes


About sculpting details:
don't forget, you can sculpt the basic in the sculpt mode, and some nice details with using the draw-mode. In the draw-mode you find "draw bump-map". That's very handy, very cool, and you can delete, chage it whenever u want.

.... an another sculpt:

cgforum

when on symmetric mode, i dont like the line that you see in the "middle" ..

Then disable it in the options panel.