Must Have Addons & Tools for Retopology

Psychoanalysts used to say that you can determine a person's personality by the flow of their topology. That's not the best joke, but it's good enough for the algorithm.

I absolutely love your reviews of "here's a bunch of tools/classes/techniques." It really helps speed up the learning, especially for beginners.

I absolutely love that you don't only show 'the best solutions', but also some that might come in handy (and their usecases too!)

I love Retopoflow 3. Still learning it, but I love the tools and being able to do fingers arms and legs in a few minutes vs an hour is GREAT!

Grant ...... That was a FABULOUS coverage of the Retopology addon ....... much appreciate it. Cheers

thank you Grant! such valuable info. for us program newbies. I am revisiting 3D, 25 years later when I was apart of a NYC 3D studio user group but gave it up in exasperation. These tools are now so much more artist friendly and only improving constantly.

You have no idea how much time you just saved for me. I was struggling so hard trying to find out the optimal way to retoplogize. Thank you so much!!! Will definitely go with retopoflow in my case. Maybe pair it up with softwrap for god-like retopo.

Hey Grant, recently I got my first commissions to do some hard surface work, and I decided to spend that money on quadremesher based on this and other retopology videos. Excited to make more organic things and be able to texture and rig easier. Thanks for making these videos!

Thanks so much for posting this. I'm using Blender for motion graphics work and converting client logos into 3D for some projects. Blender makes a mess with Font topology (or imported Illustrator shapes), and it's a huge pain to get anything clean to deform or bevel faces. Decimate wasn't helping much either from leaving triangles all over the edges. On some stuff, I just had to rebuild letters manually using planes. Quad Remesh just crushed it with one click and did exactly what I was looking for. Worth every penny.

Great video, thank you. Retopo is oddly intimidating as a newbie, videos like this are so helpful :)

I have got to praise the quality of the content you're making. Obviously, you're making money from it, so you have incentives to do well, but the quality from all the videos I've seen you make is top-notch. You manage to pack quite a lot of content in relatively short videos, and that's what most people want, to learn a lot in a short time. So thanks a bunch.

Great explanation of retopology tools. I really appreciate it.

Poly builder is amazing, it blew my mind! And it's not an add-on, it's in the package already, so that's great. I don't think the setup is very hard. Instead of shrink wrap you can use Object properties / Viewport display / In front, then snap to surface on, works quite good at the start at least. Another thing, which was huge for me, is to change the drag sensitivity of the mouse and tablet pen, see Preferences / Input / Mouse Drag Threshold, and Tablet Drag Threshold, I use 2 pixels; It changes how quickly Blender reacts when you drag a vertex or other element (when NOT using G for grab). Makes the Tweak tool work much much much (yes, 3 muches) better! Default settings has a huge lag when you drag verts/edges/faces I think. Try it!

No fluff, just info. As a developer who knows nothn bout blender and 3d art, this video was very helpful.

Thanks for excellent tutorial. It is a huge help for beginners to have a better retopology. 👍👍👍

Thanks for all your research on these tools :)

It's nice to finally see someone explain in detail more of the fundamental principles of creating complex objects in blender. Whereas, a few years ago blender modelers were pontificating as though they were God's. However, you bring us up to speed without beclouded metaphors that leave us empty handed, and scrambling in the dark after spending so much time listening. You are truly generis and inspiring to the creative community. I started out with Martin Hash's Animation Master which has fallen by the waist side, and blender seems like a great alternative because of people like you. Thank you for sharing.

Ecxellent content from your side — as always — and exactly what I needed right now. Thanks a lot indeed! See you ;-)

Bsurfaces addon was news to me. Thanks!

Very helpful !! thank you for sharing