SKETCH-BASED RETOPOLOGY FOR BLENDER

Your sculpt or scan is done. Now let's make it usable.

Sound familiar?

They all have the same fix. Retopology: building a clean, low-poly mesh on top of the original.

Retopoflow helps turn heavy sculpts and computer generated meshes into clean, lightweight topology you can rig, animate, texture, and take into a game engine, and it works by sketching directly on the surface right inside Blender's Edit Mode.

★★★★★

I love sculpting, but retopology was always a daunting task. Sometimes I even preferred to create low poly models right away and just add some details in Substance Painter to save some time. Retopoflow changed that. [...] I actually started to like it a lot - it's a lot more like sculpting now.

Maciej Szcześnik, co-founder of Vinci Games and lead gameplay designer on The Witcher 2

★★★★★

Retopoflow is my favorite tool for manual retopology among all the different software that I have tried. The developers are passionate and are always finding new ways to make the addon better. Thank you!

Daniel Bystedt, senior character artist and creative lead at Goodbye Kansas Studios

CONTOURS

Wrap loops around arms, legs, and fingers

With Contours, you can quickly place and adjust loops around any cylindrical form. Just hold Ctrl and left click drag, and a loop will wrap around the high poly surface. You can adjust the number of vertices in the new loop by scrolling.

In the example above, the loop wraps perfectly around the finger even though there are several fingers overlapping in the view. Contours gets it right where other tools routinely fail because our advanced algorithm walks the loops around the mesh instead of using a simple shrink wrap or screen space approach. Our new SDF method can even handle flipped normals, split edges, and overhangs.

★★★★★

[...] The Contours tool for example feels almost like magic after having to try to create the same kinds of loops manually.

Vard

POLYSTRIPS

Lay down the loops that matter most

Quickly sketch to define your most important loops with PolyStrips. Just hold Ctrl and left click drag to draw out a strip. Drawing on or near existing geometry will snap the new faces right to it. You can quickly add or remove segments with Ctrl Scroll and change the width with Shift Scroll at any time.

The best part? You can also use PolyStrips to manipulate any selection of quads like a Bezier curve. It even works with proportional editing! Everything is automatically snapped to the surface so you can focus on what’s important: the perfect placement of your key loops.

STROKES

Fill large areas with even grids

To quickly extend your main loops or define grids in larger areas, switch to the Strokes tool. Drawing out a single line will place a row of selected edges, and drawing another stroke roughly parallel to a selection will connect the two with an even grid of quads.

Or, you can draw out from a vertex to extrude your selection in the other direction, draw closed loops to create perfect circles, draw between geometry to fill in gaps, and more! It's a gesture based brush that feels like it knows exactly what you're trying to do. 

★★★★★

buy this, you won't regret. It makes me work literally 2 times faster if not more!

Mejam

POLYPEN

Full control over fine details

Sometimes you need to be extremely precise and deliberate, and PolyPen is built to give you that maximum control over fine details. Select an edge, hold Ctrl, and click to extend the selection using triangles, quads, or an automatic combination of both. PolyPen will automatically snap to other vertices and edges and can even be used as a knife that can insert partial edge loops or even create quad junctions for you. 

PATCHES

Fill any gap with quads

Select the edges around an empty area and Patches will offer to fill it. It recognizes corners, L shapes, bridges, C shapes, holes, and lofts between loops. It can face step whole rows outward from a boundary and is like F2 on steriods whatever is crazier than steroids. When the edge counts don't line up to make a perfect grid, you can Ctrl Scroll through different solutions and Shift Scroll to rotate them.

Quad grids and quad junctions are used whenever possible, but you can always choose to use triangles and n-gons if you'd like. You can use Patches from any of the other tools simply by tapping or holding F. 

★★★★★

This is by far the best retopology tool I've used to date.

Huy Khoi

RELAX

Smooth everything towards even spacing

Gently massage your geometry into evenly-spaced perfection with the Relax brush. It behaves just like a sculpting brush, except that it keeps all vertices snapped to the high poly geometry and shifts them towards a clean layout. Controls for what mesh features it tries to correct are adjustable and you can use it in a wide variety of situations. 

Unlike the usual smoothing algorithms other apps have that tend to collapse the mesh, Relax is actually an advanced real-time simulation that can push each face towards its ideal shape and size. It can ignore or slide along boundary, sharp, or any other type of edges when you need it to. Plus, the Relax algorithm can even be used on any mesh outside of the Relax tool while regular modeling. 

TWEAK

Push and pull big sections into place

It’s not particularly fun to select and move lots of vertices around one by one. If you need to do some bigger adjusting, reach for the Tweak brush. It pushes and pulls the geometry like a sculpt brush in a way that’s fast, fluid, and intuitive.

The Nudge, Nudge Loops, and Pinch / Magnify modes let you slide whole loops along the surface or spread out crowded areas.

★★★★★

Contours, Polypen, and Strokes are my go-to tools and I might not be exaggerating much to say that the Relax and Tweak tools might be worth the price just on their own.

coyohti

Orange Turbine, a project of Autotroph, contributes to Blender development through its Corporate Gold sponsorship of the Blender Development Fund. Your purchase of Retopoflow helps make this possible ❤️

Upgrading from version 3?

Existing Superhive Retopoflow customers can use the coupon code retopoflow-og at checkout for 25% off. If you'd like to stick with version 3, no worries! We will continue to keep it updated for new versions of Blender until fall of 2027.