8 Blender Addons for Retopology

A good retopology is essential for efficient rigging, animation, texturing, and even rendering, but it can often be a tedious chore. That’s why we are going to talk about 8 Blender addons that can help take your retopology to the next level.
8 Instant meshes Remesh
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7 Softwrap
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6 Tesselator
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5 Speedretopo
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4 Retopo MT
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3 DynRemesh
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2 Quadwrap
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1 Retopoflow
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[@jacobkroon3797]

I'm getting into character modelling and realized how hard retopology can be. Your video just saved me a lot of anxiety, Thanks!

[@maxmaxed2887]

Dude, it's a whole process. Blocking out, sculpting, retopo, baking, texturing, rigging, weight painting. One character is often month+ worth of work.

[@geloboy123]

@@maxmaxed2887 wait really? Oh i thought people could make character modeling in like a day

[@maxmaxed2887]

@@geloboy123 lol

[@zraiarz9301]

@@geloboy123 The model? Maybe if they are that good or made a model that simple, a good character model can take anywhere from 10-20 hours so ur looking at a day to a week depending on skill and detail. That would include the blocking out, and sculpting phase. Reto depends on if you want to do it or not and some do it at the same time they sculpt. Texturing if you want to paint it which baking does and sometimes doesn't matter as much but doesn't take as long as modeling it, rigging and weight painting is in preparation for animating and maybe posing, if ur not doing that u can ignore it. So if ur just doing a character just to make one and nothing else, aim for doing it within a week, even better if the character is done good enough to then practice different things on for more weeks rather than making a whole new model

[@techbehind1197]

In a day working 20 hrs will hurt your back only 8 hrs your back hurts already and it stars getting frustrating

[@braziliandutchy6170]

We are spoiled as fuck with how amazing the available tools are. Replacing Maya in a 3D pipeline is gonna be no problem.

[@westingtyler1]

Wrap 3 or Wrap 2020 looks like an awesome tool, but it's $370. the ones on this list might be more in my price range. Maybe SoftWrap for the head and QuadWrap for the body, or RetopoFlow.

[@gamedevstanislove]

Thank you very much! Very useful addons!

[@InspirationTuts]

Glad you like them!

[@n0b0dy_know]

i love his voice, "better call saul".

[@pukey82]

Beautiful! Thank you! :D

[@adityalokapratama8495]

My favorite retopology tool is still F2 and surface constraint tools. Can't beat the classics.

[@CAgram123]

Yes, there's nothing like manual retopology. If I do it myself, I just get better. 🙂

[@HanSolocambo]

@adityalokapratama8495 : PolyQuilt (Retopo) + Poly Source (perfect visualization of the low poly over the high poly reference). That couple of free add ons beats hands down the Blender's vanilla retopo. First time I finally find something for Blender that's as good as Maya's retopo tools.

[@caseofthis3014]

Nive overview, thanks for that one!

[@Gawen.]

Would love to see a video on the top 10-15 VFX Plugins for Cinema 4D! (Stuff for Particles, Explosions, Fluids, Cloth Simulations, etc!)

[@angryduck4386]

@Leandro Travis I tried it and has a lot of virus very rare I wouldn't recommend anyone to use it.

[@kewa_design]

Xparticles and the Other tools by them is all u need

[@pietropasotti4418]

which one would you advise for cad imported files? thank you.

[@litjellyfish]

How does all this stand to the default new quad remember? Also to that. If there is a lot of free add ons that are better than the default. Why do no Blender foundation pay the creators a little or helps them to clean up code / align UI etc to get those into the core blender instead of doing similar features themselves.?

[@jeremysharps6799]

Tesselator doesn't seem to want to work for me - it'll scatter cubes across the mesh in a very pretty way, and make new topology like it says it will, but the X-symmetry and grease pencil options don't seem to do anything at all. Is anybody else having issues with it?

[@MAJmufin]

Speedretopo worked very buggy for me in the past, the grease pencil function worked 50% of the time.

[@mari_artist21]

Thank you!

[@nikinikzad486]

I have a question about 3d max; i wanted to know was 3d max ever for os at any time? And if autodesk made when was the last time?

[@MeshVoid]

Polyquilt is the BEST and free add-on for retopology!!! It's all you need packed in a very coherent way.

[@AKThem06]

retopoflow is the best free add-on for retopo

[@dzubyyy]

@@AKThem06 retopoflow is not free :)

[@Albert_Sierra]

@@AKThem06 That one (retopoflow) is not free, is it?

[@berringervids]

@@Albert_Sierra No it's not, but totally worth the money. $86 as of now. ( I do not own it, but it's amazing from what I've seen)

[@USBEN.]

@@Albert_Sierra It is free, get it from their github.

[@georgezaky-gzrart31]

I will add the new Quadremesher on this list for sure

[@wernerbros8099]

Indeed. That was my first thought.

[@sorrowinchrist3387]

@@wernerbros8099 tessa is not updated to the latest so this is an issue!

[@kritzstudio]

Quad Remesher is the best i try, very expensive but the best!

[@hicoolvideosyouhave]

@@kritzstudio Hi, have you tried other of these tools, or any for retopology? I have really only tried Quad Remesher and I really like it. I want to of course compare or try others, but what are your thoughts? Thank you!

[@kritzstudio]

@@hicoolvideosyouhave If you already have Quad Remesher, as we say in our country: "if it is not broken, do not fix it!" , I really tried many addons, and I know the effort it takes to create one, but really the neat way to solve the geometry that the Quad has is impressive, but it is very expensive! Another option you have is if you are already a Zbrush user, is to import the models and use the ZRemesher, is from the same coder Maxime Rouca, there is even an addon call GOB to import and export directly. Greetings!

[@eblgraphics]

Baby Jesus, send me this video. That way, I won't go insane doing the retopology of my models manually. THANK YOU...

[@cd-dao]

I don't know why, but i like doing it the hard way, i select each vertice then extrude it, and join all 4 together manually lol. It takes me 2 days to retopo a full body character but i like it

[@Hominoid_for]

Miracle!!!

[@iamvartist]

thanks that is great

[@alexrusu2905]

Thanks!!

[@deadAdzy]

When making low poly characters I would have to adjust these so much with the tools it would be way easier to just retopo manually, and it's pretty relaxing anyway

[@boitahaki]

Quad Remesher is another good one, its not very customizable but it gets most of the job done for me.

[@euclois]

i love quad remesher, use it every day

[@vladyslavlavrenov9167]

@@euclois I do use it too. But you gotta remember that it's not suitable for models that are gonna have transparent materials (glass etc.)

[@euclois]

@@vladyslavlavrenov9167 why?

[@vladyslavlavrenov9167]

@@euclois Because it doesn't have the right vertex order when it does the remeshing. You can check for yourself

[@euclois]

@@vladyslavlavrenov9167 what do you mean by vertex order?

[@juanseverino5651]

Can quadwrap be use to retopo hard-surface model?

[@actiongamemaster8082]

They're coming up with all the ideas LOL!!!

[@kitsunez]

So which is the most beginner friendly addon?

[@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051]

Any good Blender adorns for character creation or generating Head models from photos?

[@AKThem06]

keentools' facebuilder

[@gariats5282]

OOO in 4:04 its my free model of raptor hehehe

[@blenderzone5446]

Great!

[@Kazooples]

There's an article that is word for word the same as this video and I can't tell which came first but either way, thank you!

[@Oldman_F]

What about Quad Remesher?

[@flodupuis4897]

Thx 😊

[@mcreviews9369]

which is the best one for a total newb?

[@sircasino614]

Downloaded Dynamesh and enabled the addon... so... how do I start using it?

[@lexiferenczy9695]

Is Retopoflow better than Mayas built in retopo tool?

[@nikhil22bhardwaj]

Any tool for Capaturing Facial Expressions for animation purpose...?

[@FlamingFoxProd]

That's something already built into Blender. It's called facial motion capture, look up some tutorials on it.

[@gomolemomolefhi8929]

which one of them is free and good for making a low poly game asset or character though? I have a project for a mobile game

[@HanSolocambo]

If it's low poly for mobile games and you don't intend to bake normals or anything : you don't need retopology tools. But the usual 3D modeling tools.

[@mussqissa2472]

I can't find the software in any of the links

[@MarcinHRN]

I use Surface Constraint

[@blackswan6386]

hi, im looking for something similair to zRemesher from zBrush. but i dont want to pay for it. is there so9me free who is close to this ? thanks tho

[@josephcornell3083]

I just downloaded QuadWrap and its not working as i expected it too. It is not making a nice mesh over my sculpt. I feel i just wasted 30$ =(

[@mordecai1484]

RetopoFLow is the addon you want.

[@MersadieOlit0n]

why am i wasting time playing video games when i cam be bettering this skill

[@richard_robert]

Same here bro.

[@AKThem06]

when i get bored of games (there's something wrong with you if you don't), I do 3d stuff that I've seen in games it works

[@richard_robert]

@@AKThem06 dude you have any platform where you put your art?

[@MrShroombot]

I here that!

[@outlander234]

So you can make models for videogames? Do you see the irony? Everything in moderation there is no harm in playing videogames as long as you keep it under 10 hours a week .

[@matsy7450]

What is the best AUTO-retopo tool for hardsurface?...non only for Blender, in general.

[@NicotineStars]

who knows. BUT he did list some automatic retopo's on here which you could have easily just chosen one. If there were any kinks you could manually fix them or use a diff addon to fix it,,

[@HanSolocambo]

Best auto-retopo so far, nothing I know beats it, is the "Retopology Tools" of 3DS Max. I keep this app installed just for that. Amazingly efficient, and super clean results. Never got anything close to that level of clean retopology with Blender (+add-ons), Maya or Zbrush. But I'd advise manual retopology (Poly Source + Polyquilt). The best retopology tool remains the artist hismelf ;) All auto-remeshers try to generate a similar polygonal density on all the mesh, even on parts totally flat that could have been fine with just 1 quad. So it's a retopology all right, but in terms of optimization (especially for real time engines)... it's terrible ;)

[@matsy7450]

@@HanSolocambo Thanks

[@fernandosantanadoamaral3950]

Whats is the best addon??

[@ito78]

Retopoflow

[@mixchief]

Guess that depends on how and what you want to retopo. For manual workflow, Retopoflow is the best I've used. For automatic, I'm guessing Exoside's Quad Remesher.

[@ashdalat.]

I didn't know that i have seen you almost a year 😏😏 video after video

[@ryandinh4238]

hmm... I wonder why Quad Remesher didn't make the list

[@jeremypajotart]

Why don't you mentionned the best one : quad remesher

[@richard_robert]

1:33

[@genericyoutubecommentnumbe1946]

wdy mean its not BaSeD?!

[@jerome_guigue]

Nothing about QuadRemesher !

[@juntojano8938]

I would like to ask you several questions. i'm very interested in game development. do you have facebook or something we can write? that would be very, very nice.

[@goodies4314]

why you dont give old blender versions videos also......my pc dont support blender 2.8 only i can use till 2.7

[@eng3d]

Old blender rip, f

[@alexrusu2905]

I don't get how bad of a pc you have? I've got a Microsoft Surface Pro 2, it's pretty old and it's got bad specs and still can use blender 2.92. Have you tried the latest version? It might work

[@goodies4314]

@@alexrusu2905 bro your 2.8 runs or not

[@goodies4314]

@@alexrusu2905 btw its a great idea i will try to run the latest one thanx bro

[@jeka_stolenko]

35 fucking us dollars

[@rsunghun]

have you ever considered adding beats on your video? you talk like a rapper.