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There are tools to somewhat automate that now. But historically and to some extent it still is.
It's necessary because game engines and animation tools require proper topology to work.
I expect that to go away in the next few years as this is typically something AI is good at.
Good riddance.

>>940108
why would you give a constructive answer to a spam thread? OP obviously doesn't model or care.

>>940090
We extract details from the initial sculpt via displacement maps, bump maps.