Quad Sphere, UV Sphere, Ico Sphere - which do you like to use as a starting mesh?

[KickAir_8P]

@KickAir_8P

@joseph

@piranha4D

I don’t like UV spheres because they’re a pain to texturemap,

Also UV spheres have horrible topology

Since I’m an all-quads fan I’d generally go with a quad sphere (aka round cube), but I’d have to say that the UV Sphere is a strong second choice with a particularly useful default UV map and topology . . .

This is what I mean (sorry it took so long, been busy):

Above you can see that the head-starter is a quads-hemisphere top merged with a UV-hemisphere bottom, the body-starter is a UV Sphere. When finished . . .

. . . the trigons at the base of the head and top of the body have been deleted, the neck area is all-quads. The trigons at the base of the body have been replaced with a tiny quads-hemisphere patch (the rubber duck’s squeaker detailed on the texture map). The final model has “good” all-quads topology with only minimal N-E poles. Although that’s a simple example, the principles are sound for more complex models.