Need your professional opinion

[polyvin]

im not a professional, but still a student myself, but i've taken a rigging class.

i think it's all up to your system, if your computer can handle 200,000 polys without bogging down then go for it. normally i'd have a switch to go from the low poly to the high poly version.

[archanex]

short answer is no

I think it really depends on what you need the rig to do though. If you need such a high level of detail that you can justify rigging a 200,000 poly mesh then be my guest. However I have never seen a single rig that needed that many polys.

[thebrianproject]

thanks. I was worried that I was being too picky by requesting that there be a reduction in poly's. When I saw that model though I started to panick at the prospect of handeling it's deformation.

[anoopak]

hi,
Rigging a character of that much poly count wont be a difficult task if you have that much powerful system.But in an actual production scenario the role of the rigger will be to achieve the same quality of deformations by combining the efforts of modeling(correctives), rigging and Texturing(displacement and normal maps), which works in almost all the cases.So rather that hitting the extremes in a particular department better approach will be to analyse the output quality that is demanded out of it and then test out what kind of workflow fits in.

[dunkelzahn]

If you are new to rigging, then 200.000 polys is too much for you. Tweaking envelopes and adding corrective blendshapes on such a high poly mesh won´t be fun. Request a lower poly version for rigging. It is possible though, had to rig a 250.000 poly mesh of the human anatomy. It was a hell of a job, but it was possible... ;)

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