Sculpting a Mermaid Character with Dynamesh - ZBrush Creature Design: Creating Dynamic Concept Imagery for Film and Games - page 389

3. At this stage it is impossible to alter the shape of the sphere further without adding new subdivision
levels because the underlying mesh is stretched beyond its limits. Using Dynamesh, we will now rebuild
the underlying mesh to support the new form. Click Tool ⇒ Geometry and set the Dynamesh Resolution
slider to 32. Press the Dynamesh button ( Figure 7-7 ). If you forgot to delete the higher subdivision levels,
ZBrush will ask if you want to freeze subdivision levels—if so, press no. ZBrush will now rebuild the
mesh into an evenly spaced all-quads topology that supports the current shape ( Figure 7-8 ).
Figure 7-7: Dynamesh enabled at a resolution setting of 32
Figure 7-8: The dynameshed geometry