When do you feel the need ?

[FalconCrest]

When do you feel the need to re-top (if you re-top at all) ?

[Christoph_Schaedl]

i do for most of my stuff a retopo... but thats not a must its more cause i like my topo clean...
and its part of my workflow...

if you are going to work for stills there is no need for retopo at all... except the polygons are going to be stretched like wild and you are not able to sculpt annymore...

but if you are working for animation you have to create a clean animateable topo...

[FalconCrest]

ReToping for animation is important, very important. Although overall I think it's important, as you mentioned if you don't, you can't sculpt and you get, stretching.