Retopology is the heart of character modeling and animation, after you sculpt your nice characters in high poly geometry, you will need to reduce the polygon count while still retaining the object or mech details to make it useable for animations and games as the high poly versions will lag so much if they are used. While some 3d Artists have the resources to get any addons and resources to aid their work some newbies or hobbyists in the industries don't. Here are some great free Retopo add-ons that you won't want to miss.
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Retopo MT
Retopo MT is a great retopology addon by cwolf3d, the Addon works with B surface, to use the addon you need to add a plane at the center of your mesh switch to edit mode, delete all the vertices of the plane and click "Ctrl + Shift + Alt + X" this gives you the addon menu in Blender and you can wrap your mesh faces with the tools. Retopo MT has some great tools close to its paid counterparts, like the B-Surface, polygon merging, Contour style, multiple redo and undo, mirror, and face delete. you can Get the Addon here Retopo Mt
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Instant Meshes
Instant Meshes is one of the best free Retopology addons, it is a standalone Remesh addon and doesn't need any third-party software, while Retopo MT is a Manual Remesh addon Instant Meshes is an Automatic Remesh Addon which is far better than the native Blender Voxel and Quadriflow and does a great job retaining your mesh details after retopology. It has a comb function that lets you relax your mesh geometry in the same flow, giving you more flexibility over your mesh Retopo, you also can reduce your mesh geometry count to any preferred number with no hassle, it supports only PLY and OBJ file formats so you will have to save your files in any of the formats to work with the addon. you can download the Addon from Github
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PolyQuilt
PolyQuilt was developed by sakana3 and the addon has some good tools like relaxing vertices, backface culling, " In front " and symmetry, it's similar to Maya's Quad draw, and it's completely free. This addon is available on Github
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Quadriflow
Quadriflow is a native Blender Auto Quad Retopology Addon, it does a great job retaining mesh details though not as good as other external ones like Instant Meshes. With Quadriflow you have options to set your preferred mesh count, use mesh symmetry, retain sharp edges and so much more. If you're not used to using external software this addon is still useable and is improved with new blender releases.
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| Blender Quadriflow remesh view |
Voxel Remesh
Voxel Remesh is still a Blender native retopology addon, unlike Quadriflow, Voxel Remesh is used while sculpting, it's not a Quad Remesher and triangulates meshes on application, however on complex geometry cases where Quadriflow seems not to work, voxel Remesh is the go-to as it can Remesh very complex and complicated geometries better then Quadriflow.
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| Blender Voxel Remesh view |
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