Speed up your workflow:

Block out your creations in VR and seamlessly get your rigged model in Blender.

SkelSketch is a tool for 3D artists, game developers, and anyone who wants to create 3D models quickly and easily. It allows you to sketch out your ideas in VR space, and then refine them into detailed models.

The initial stages of a 3D model are all about exploring shapes, doing multiple trials and variations. Virtual Reality is perfect for these blockouts because moving and observing objects is incredibly fast, allowing full focus on creation without constant camera moving and orbiting. However, refining with greater precision is necessary, and common VR applications only produce simple meshes without hierarchical information or a rig.

I developed SkelSketch to bridge the gap between the ease of creation in VR and further refinement in Blender. It preserves not only shapes but also hierarchy, with the added ability to automatically generate an animatable rig.

The app is designed to be intuitive and easy to use, so you can focus on your creativity rather than the technical details. With SkelSketch, you can create models in a natural and immersive way, using the full range of motion and depth perception that VR provides.

The app is designed to be used with a VR headset and controllers, allowing you to manipulate 3D objects in a way that feels natural and intuitive.

Thanks to automatic rigging it's easy to continue sculpting and painting in Blender, or to export the model to other 3D software.

SkelSketch is made by 2 pieces:

• A Virtual Reality application for Windows 64 (a Meta Quest standalone version is planned), where building models with ease.

• A Blender extension (addon) that imports them and takes care of common workflows (rigging, simplifying, remeshing...)

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Please note that you need a VR headset (Oculus, Meta, HTC...) correctly setup on Windows. The Blender addon works only with files made by the SkelSketch VR app, and the VR app need the Blender addon to convert sketches into 3D models.

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Here you can find more detailed documentation.