Draw your edge loops and let TopoPen build the quads

Placing every vertex by hand

✓  Full control over edge flow

✕  Slow and repetitive on large areas

Auto-remeshers

✓  Fast, even quads

✕  No anatomically correct loops

✕  Poor deformation in animation

✕  Lack of symmetry

TopoPen

✓  You decide where the loops go

✓  It snaps, connects and fills the quads

✓  Plain Blender mesh, fully editable

Precise Draw

Build topology one point at a time. Ctrl-click to place vertices on the high-poly surface, extend edges from your current selection and fill in single quads. New points snap to the source and to nearby retopo vertices, so everything stays connected.

Best for: eyelids, lip corners, nostrils, ears and other small areas where each loop has to sit in exactly the right place.

Draw

Outline an area with four connected guide lines and TopoPen previews it as an evenly subdivided quad grid. Set the density with Quad Size, press Enter to build it, then keep adding cells from any open border.

Best for: cheeks, foreheads, backs, torsos and flat hard-surface panels. Anywhere you need to cover a larger area with even quads.

Edge Flow

Drag along the surface to lay down a one-quad-wide strip that follows your stroke. Start from an existing border edge to extend your mesh, or redraw a strip to change its path without rebuilding it.

Best for: blocking in the key loops first, such as around the eyes and mouth, along the jaw, over the shoulders and along muscle lines.

Move and Relax

Two cleanup brushes. Move slides retopo vertices across the source surface without changing the topology. Relax evens out bunched-up or stretched spacing and keeps every vertex projected onto the sculpt.

Best for: tidying an area after you've built it, and smoothing out spacing before you add more loops.

Circle Loop

Wraps a closed edge loop around a rounded form, snapped to the surface. Add loops one after another to build up rings, or extend from a loop you already have.

Best for: fingers, arms, legs, necks and tails, pipes and cables, and the rings around eye sockets and mouths.

Symmetry on X, Y or Z

Mirror across the target's local axes. Seam Distance controls when vertices merge on the mirror plane.

Pie Menu

Built-in pie menu for faster tool switching.

Micro mode

For zoomed-in detail: smaller quads, tighter snapping and finer stroke sampling, with its own settings.

Selection actions

Bridge Edges, Circle, Project to Source and brush Pins are in the Actions menu.

Your sculpt is never modified

TopoPen builds on a separate target object. The high-poly source is only read.

Pick up where you left off

Select the target and run Continue TopoPen to jump back into a session.

1

Select your model.

2

Create a new target.

3

Press Shift + Q, pick a tool and start working.

★★★★★

“Very hard to understand at first but half an hour of practice actually makes it one of the best retopo add-ons I've ever seen.”

Marie-Rose Lacroix · Superhive buyer

★★★★★

“Found the draw and circle loop tools really useful, definitely worth the money!!”

ton · Superhive buyer

★★★★★

“its a nice product, saves really good portion of time totally recommend it”

Irina · Superhive buyer

What you get

✓  TopoPen 1.14.2 as a Blender extension (.zip)

✓  Full documentation in the Documentation tab

✓  Updates through Superhive

✓  Use what you make in commercial work

Compatibility

Blender 4.5 or newer. Tested on 4.5.5 LTS, 5.0.1 and 5.2.0 LTS.

No internet or account needed. Everything runs locally inside Blender.

On Windows x64 a bundled native library speeds up surface lookups. Other systems use Blender's own Python.

Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later.