COZY BLANKET - A dedicated Retopology App for the iPad

[@SouthernGFX]

This is without doubt an amazing piece of software and this video just scrapes the surface of its features. The big issues that a lot of people are commenting on is the £80 price tag. This app is a retop tool which on other programs would be a script, add-on or plugin. As a large majority of iPad users are hobbyists or new to 3D an £80 price tag is way too high. The app was updated on the day I recorded this video so things are improving at a good pace and I’m sure there will be loads more functionality added in coming weeks but it still feels like a high price for a tool with essentially one function.

[@lopoisaac]

I totally agree. I guess the main reason for that price is that there aren't similar apps for iPad. Maybe if they say "Hi! Our app is 30$" people would say "Too high!!" but if they say "It's 80$ but you can pay 50$ because it's Black Friday!" people would go "whaat? just 50$?? Omg So cheap!!". Still a good app but I miss a lot of features

[@Dodomba]

the Problem the 1 Funktion dont work very well for 90€ ... try it today an got the same bugs you got in the video all the Time

[@ztoogemcducc6360]

I just spent 90 big ones on it and definitely not worth it. It was good for sure but I still had to fight it to do what I wanted. Even if it was perfect I don't quite think 90 would be a good price point. Maybe if they added UV features too but as of right now I can't reccomend it at 90$

[@SouthernGFX]

@@ztoogemcducc6360 I’ve had a week with it now and I think I agree with you at that price point. The overwhelming feeling is that the price is way too high. The new update just added projection which I think helps me feel better but when you compare it to other non ipad options you are spot on. Let’s see if the price drops or if the functionality improves with added features.

[@chaosjoey123]

I would pay alot to save time retopologizing. But I don't have an iPad, and cannot rantionalize paying for a new iPad to test to see if this saves any time. Would love to see this on android or windows.

[@headskapes4355]

Rad. Would love to see you do a walkthrough of Armorpaint for the iPad, these two apps plus Nomad Sculpt really is a game changer.

[@christianr.5868]

My only issue with armor paint is the navigation. The model spins around when you zoom in and out

[@SouthernGFX]

Just be aware, as as I didn’t make it clear in the video, there is no save or export option in the basic version which makes the paid option hurt a little more.

[@puffinpunch]

That's why I found your comment about at 1:30 about it being quite functional without paying for the addon to be confusing. Its actually a functionally useless evaluative demo until you pay for it. In my case its 140AUD which is sadly a bit ludicrous.

[@GabrieleAgostinetto]

Love the program! Just some bugs when you paint quad, there's no merge point, and 80 euros are too much for this program. Procreate and Nomad cost less than 20 euros and there are amazing

[@SouthernGFX]

Agreed. I think his updates will add some of these quite quickly

[@ronaldbell7429]

Procreate has a far larger target audience, though (certainly more than 4x that for a specialized app like this). And I'm sure there are a lot more people who will buy a tool to sculpt than a tool to retopo those sculpts. The price is on the high side, to be sure, but the flip side of that is that we all have become laughably spoiled to low prices on iOS/iPadOS and then we wonder why apps stop getting developed. We pay not only for the work done up til now, but also for all the future work, since Apple won't let people charge for updates. Forger wound up stagnating before getting purchased by a company that charges a lot for its software. So maybe cut them some slack until you've thought about it a bit more deeply than a comparison with Procreate.

[@Xeronymau5]

Just wanted to say they have the ability to merge points and edges now

[@SouthernGFX]

Just a little note to say Cozyblanket updated yesterday (22nd April 2022. This video covers the basics and none of the updates change anything mentioned in the video. 🦊

[@furynotes]

Imagine being at a coffeeshop or something with your ipad. Some one asks. What are doing on your ipad. Then you say. I'm playing with my cozy blanket.

[@SouthernGFX]

haha

[@dirty_flowers]

I would buy this cause it’s convenient but what would be a better / smarter alternative plug in for a blender workflow?

[@tiltedelf6105]

RetopoFlow 3 for blender. also costs $ . Its 86$ for me right now (yeah, good retopology plugins are all at that cost. People complain about the app because they dont know the marked price for such things. Tho they have ofc much more features than the Ipad app for now)

[@musashidanmcgrath]

Polyquilt is a free retopo addon for Blender. Still in dev, but the best retop solution I've yet seen, including Maya quad draw.

[@benjamindameworth5351]

Will this ever come to Android? Im very much looking for something like this

[@saphi20]

loooool just checked the price, they are insane

[@SouthernGFX]

Yep. It’s high alright

[@darkcult99]

Loving it so far. And at least it’s not a subscription.

[@vapsman88]

A suggestion for a course: How to design the flow of topology.

[@SouthernGFX]

Thanks, I will keep that in mind

[@tiltedelf6105]

@@SouthernGFX yeah pls. do that I would even buy it as a course

[@saschah9087]

Hey SouthernGFX , do i need Something Like Cozy Blanket If i want to model for 3D printing? Awesome Videos Love your Work ❤👍👍

[@SouthernGFX]

Thanks. No cozy blanket is needed for things like animation. You don’t need it at all for 3Dprint

[@chinguchimp1357]

I like to do the retopo in cozyblanket. BUT the Issue for me is that it doesn`t save the session. I found no way to resume the last session when restarting the app. It only shows the retopo mesh and the high topo model is missing, If I load up the session, that I saved manually, . There are no layers for the different parts of a model either. Doing the entire retopo, uv and baking in one go/session would maybe solve the problem. But I don`t have the time and energy for that. Btw: I bought the light version and can`t find any help in the FAQ. Would not recommend to buy it in this state of development.

[@gizmoiii206]

Great vid, will check out the program. Question: I’m still pretty new to sculpting, and topology especially eludes me. I understand that fewer polygons enables easier manipulation and rendering in other programs, but won’t it destroy detail too? After retopologizing the faun and putting it in Nomad, how did you maintain the wrinkles and creases?

[@jannes3165]

Typically you use a process called baking to project the details of the high poly sculpt onto the low poly mesh with a normal/displacement map. That maintains most of the detail, while still giving you the speed of a low poly mesh.

[@geoffreymegardon5624]

Good topology is useful if you want to animate the model (e.g. a character) or/and need lower poly count (e.g. video games). The workflow is to bake the details into a normal map texture.

[@clay-sculpting]

@@jannes3165 Is this kind of workflow possible in ClozyBlanket?

[@gizmoiii206]

@@jannes3165 Thanks for the insight. How do you bake a mesh?

[@jannes3165]

@@clay-sculpting not as far as I know, but I don’t know Cozy Blanket very well. Substance painter or any similar program would probably be your best bet. Blender can also do baking, but it’s a little harder then in a designated texturing and baking software

[@hyliansaviour9420]

Is there an alternative for Android without having to import into blender?

[@vanessad2873]

"Here, see how easy the controls are- whoops, undo that - whoops- oops- *video cuts ahead* there, see? Very easy and intuitive"

[@MichaelAdams3D]

I started doing a bit of busy work 3d modeling (bits and bobs not entire scenes/characters) while I'm stuck out and about traveling etc on my fold phone and wondered if there was a retopology option and was frustrated to find there is none for android. I got my zfold so I could stop carrying around a surface pro every single time. This app would be amazing on a fold phone, nomad sculpt is great on folds but doesn't have a retopology option.

[@callmemcgyver]

Hi there!… Love your Nomad videos… I have a question if you or anyone can answer about the price of Cozy Blanket… at the App Store I see three different prices, with no real explanation of what they are… $90 for “Retopology Pack”, $20 for “Base I/O” (so you can save/export) and $70 for “Retopology Features Upgrade”… So is that actually $180 to get the full experience or is the $90 “Retopology Pack” the full package with the other two lesser stand-alone versions? Thank you in advance to anyone who can answer this question. For an app this expensive, you think they’d explain what those different price packages are for (they do sort of for I/O, but don’t say if its some stand-alone version)… Also I noticed the Suggested Age range is “4+”… Not a lot of four year olds working in CGI that can plunk down $90 for a Retopology app that I’m aware of…

[@artofmactag7862]

That app is asking more than the price of nomad that’s why I didn’t pay it,, imagine paying 6x more to only reto ur design made by nomad or forger.. unless they ask lesser than nomad I won’t buy it simply because they offer less and asking for more

[@computer__eyez]

Being new to sculpting, here comes the noob question: is there a reason Nomad doesn’t add this feature to nomad and we can pay for the feature (since it seems expensive to develop) but yea.. why not add this retopology feature to Nomad?

[@SouthernGFX]

Nomad Sculpt is developed by one guy. I imagine he’d love to implement it in the future.

[@computer__eyez]

@@SouthernGFX Ah, ok good to know. and wow nomad developed by -> one guy? I would had never guessed. I thought developed by a team. Impressive.

[@YulRun]

Is there anyway to bake the retopo on the ipad yet? to keep the detail or still must bring to PC? It looks like we're getting closer and closer to do full 3D work on an ipad which is pretty amazing for a mobile device.

[@Xeronymau5]

You can export the retopologized mesh and bring it into Nomad, then reproject details onto it.

[@YulRun]

@@Xeronymau5 thanks for letting me know, this could be a game changer when cozy blanket works through their bugs

[@righttoexplain]

Is it £80 for a lifetime, with updates? Or monthly subscription for £80?

[@zaya14.]

Hey there question is there a way to rig a model? Edit: on ipads

[@Genie3292]

I am new to 3D sculpting. I have a question regarding retroplogy. It seems as if you loose alot of detail and potentially texture when doing this, can someone explain?

[@Xeronymau5]

That depends on how dense your retopo is. With the right edgeflow and enough density you can keep most of your details. The idea is to retopo your mesh so that the edge flow follows your forms, which will look much nicer in the end. Then you can subdivide the newly-retopologized mesh and project all of your sculpted details back onto it. The trick is projecting details back onto the mesh after retopo, which you can do in any sculpting app (including Nomad now)

[@lindenmoon3d986]

Its great but its just too expensive. I will definetely buy it when price drops to 20 dollars. Otherwise I will stay with traditional way of retopo.

[@SouthernGFX]

I think the price will hurt sales. I’ve bought it but I’m thinking it will drop quickly

[@AScribblingTurtle]

This is the first step in the right direction, but like most stuff on the iPad, it is held back by utter greed. They are the first to offer that kind of functionality and they capitalize hard on that. The Markting doesn't seem to see this as a tool and more as an expensive toy / overprices a novelty. Quote from the App description "...app designed as an accessible and relaxing experience,..." and "...retopology as an enjoyable, game-like process similar to solving a puzzle. ..." Look at all thouse buzzwords. "Accessible", "Relaxing", "Game-like". All within the first sentence of the Descritpion. Lets hope that something good will come out of this App. As it is right now, it is not worth the 90€ that it want's me to pay

[@CrimzonRX]

NGL I wish pablo kept devving blender's sculpt branch instead of this

[@musashidanmcgrath]

Judging by the comments, a lot of users new to 3D and with no idea what the purpose of manual retopo is. They would be better off just using an autoretop if not working with animated assets. Pity Dobarro didn't just add this to Blender when he worked on it. 😂

[@johndeggendorf7826]

Awesome power tool for iPad. 🤔 Yeah, maybe we’re spoiled by having powerful apps like Nomad & Procreate & Luma Fusion at such a sweet price point. Cozy Blanket might want to reevaluate the market…and sell a whole lot more product! ✌️🍷🎩🎩🎩

[@neshiah4747]

Great app. Prohibitively expensive. No purchase happening here.

[@aroid_artist]

Yeah that the overwhelming feedback across the board. Let’s see what happens!

[@keithtarrier4558]

Awesome... but as everyone is saying... that price is RIDICULOUS!!!! If Nomad is way cheaper, why would an app that does one thing be so expensive? If it was under $20 US, I would probably buy it, as it just what I need for some of the models I work on, even low poly aircraft I need to make a better UV map from etc... this would be great.. .but that price... um.. sorry developer, no thanks.

[@thomass7140]

Bc nomad is insanely cheap. Other 3D software costs 200 a year.

[@mdoumdou4085]

cozyblanket how to save file in app inside,next time open it continual

[@SpunkMonkey]

I could see this as useful if you were only using an iPad to develop your models, but even then, why? If you have an actual computer for building your models and preparing textures, why in the world would you push a model over to an iPad to retopologize and send it back again? I could have retopo'd them cleanly and accurately in the time you futz with mistakes and inaccuracies on the pad. This really has the same vibe as watching people hack DOOM to play on weird tech.

[@jcsfx710]

too expensive you can do that inside blender for free... $89 is way too high for an iPad app.

[@darkzeroprojects4245]

And kind of sad it's iPad only.

[@sekkataziz1644]

Too expensive

[@SouthernGFX]

Agreed

[@shark3D]

I think after years and years of modelling / rigging / animating, I find the obsession with "good topology" to be mostly stifling and useless, you really only have one use for topological cleanliness and it's making selections easier on the original artist and this becomes doubly useless when you start by sculpting a mesh in something like nomad, apps like this are fun and relaxing bu in a way it's a holdover from old school box modelling! as far as the computer, the renderer the engine / app are concerned all topology is triangles, and an auto-topology algorithm like the one in meshmixer or zbrush are simply plenty good for any professional work

[@Kaelarts_vt]

I would argue good topology is important for the sake of render so you don't have, say, artifacting or faceting of random areas of the mesh. I'd also argue good topology is important if you're doing work for games or for feature animation. When you go to deform an arm with 13k poly vs 1200 poly you really feel the difference in the amount of chugging your PC will do to try and calculate that movement. That's just my take on it anyway

[@shark3D]

@@Kaelarts_vt right what you're talking about is polygon density and yes topology, in the mathematical sense, but I think there's a difference between that and the cult of quad, everything has to be perfect quads (when really people forget that quads and polar edge structure are actually opposite, the more you have of one the less you have of the other)

[@roofoofighter]

This app hasn’t been updated in a year, is development dead?

[@onwardsumo5189]

Cozy blanket = blender mini Nomad sculpt = mini zbrush Procreate is probably the best one to draw with but no clue

[@onwardsumo5189]

If nomad gets updated in the future for topology and other stuff I’ll be extremely happy and even pay a few more bucks for that if the guy did that

[@PIPOXO]

for 3D procreate is a mini Substance Painter

[@VadimAndreyev]

90 euro? is it a joke?

[@SouthernGFX]

Sadly no. My gut feeling is that it will drop quickly as it must be hampering sales.

[@janosgyerman]

@@SouthernGFX just register to my network, you will have many customers.