FYI that I’m still working on UV’ng the skeleton, but have had a bunch of stuff going on so I’m really just now getting back to it. 
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Awesome!
Glad to help =)
Yes, workflow-wise optimization and simplifying are iterative processes, to optimize something really hard in order to provide perception shift several steps are required. It is nice to have some intermediate stage for analysis and further simplification, so I provided some.
I’ve spotted several weird distortions on my model, should not be hard to fix though.
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Just now getting back to it again. 
Given lack of earlier progress, some mistakes that I now know better than make again (I now have a lot more practical know-how of data linking than I did), etc, it makes more sense to start this over from scratch. Which brings up some questions: is this still needed? If so, should I still be doing this to the wip Julien put up last September, or something fresher? Is this project still live? 
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We used LP basemesh in a couple of a projects, very handy.
At the concept level it worked pretty nice.
Something like that
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I’m back from my long break 
I do remember there were some fixes that are not bundled and uploaded yet. I’ll have a look at the current assets and make sure some updates end up online soon.
Something like that
@1D_Inc Isn’t the existing base mesh already good for this?
Even though it’s not as low poly on the base and not as detailed on the subdivisions.
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Yay! Hope it was relaxing/fruitful/refreshing/whatever you needed from it.
Just FYI that I still wanna know if there’s a more recent version of the skeleton that I’m supposed to be UV’ng, and if I’m still supposed to be UV’ng it. 
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Hi! Nice to see you)
Yes, the point of my sculpting basemesh was to provide the lowest polycount possible so it could be easily tweaked and wrapped to any blockout shape with any method, while keeping nice sculptable topology with multires.
It didn’t changed since last post.
1D_Sculpting_set_v03.zip
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@KickAir_8p As far as I can see in the thread, nobody worked further on the skeleton, so you can go ahead with that file. Also the suggestions to rename objects sound good 
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There were some feedback about current female basemesh topology.
@KickAir_8p do you remember the link?
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Yes, sure. Thank you for response.
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I think that 3-pole had to be placed there to get the edge flow and distribution right? @dan2 would know more.
In comparison to the sculpting base meshes, I see the edge flow follows the realistic direction of wrinkles and muscles a lot more closely. That’s why it should be better for animation and I thought it was a fascinating base mesh to include.
The poles could just make it a bit ugly when no additional displacement or textures are used.
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So just going to put it out there, since my comment appears in that BA topic screenshot, but I could be totally wrong.
Here’s a look at my current revised base mesh for animation.
Here’s how it holds up in a quick little animation test. This is all bones and weight painting, no shape keys or anything else.
That’s right, the pole is conciously placed to stop sliding when working on corrugator shapes. It’s more common in vfx.
There’s a sculpting friendly basmesh without the stopping poles in my repo as well if people prefer that, depends if you would like to make facial shapes or just do some facial concept sculpting.
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I also got a feeling that people trying to use animation basemesh for sculpting. Maybe providing some contextual clarifications will be useful.
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There is a bit of info in the name and tooltip of the asset, but yeah I wonder how much info is useful.
This was more of a case of not knowing why this topology is useful for animation. That would be too much info to add to the asset itself.
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So what’s the ultimate goal here now that the extensions platform exists?
This will become downloadable content from that platform, like the addons, right?
Otherwise what’s the point?
The brush assets should be there as well.
Only critical functionality should be bundled with blender imo 
I updated the Asset Bundle. It’s now on version 1.2.
Just fixes and small updates. The assets all have their transforms properly applied and fixed so it’s it’s easier to pose and reset. In general a lot of cleanup to finish existing assets.
@ThinkingPolygons Once asset bundles become part of the extensions, the base meshes will migrate there yes.
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Not sure if it takes a moment to update, but so far I am getting a 404.
Are there more people experiencing this?