Blender Secrets - Retopology with BSurfaces and Annotation

The BSurfaces add-on is included with Blender and allows us to easily sketch retopology guides with the annotate tool, which is then turned into actual geometry. It’s very quick to use and essential in anyone’s retopology toolset.

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[Arthr]

Your tips are so so so so so much usefull that is is more than useful and it changes the way of using blender 😀❤️

[gonderage]

gosh, this is so concise. ivent found a good tutorial for bsurfaces. and the one that was given alongside the addon years ago was this one with a guy who really took his sweet ass time telling us how it worked. he sounded like he didnt know how to teach someone how to use it. thank you for making these minute long tuts, thank you so much

[jjj-slok]

This is exactly what i needed! Why do blender devs have this hidden? ...but anyway, thank you so much! You a blessing on my journey

[yusrighouse]

With all your hard surface sculpting tips and me getting more into hard surface sculpting being able to more quickly retopo is more important than ever! Thanks for this Jan!

[violentpixelation]

BOOM ! Mind Blown. Thanks alot. Those hidden included add-ons, man!!!

[caencfy]

Retopoflow joining the chat. Blender becoming unstoppable right now

[GerardMenvussa]

How come Bsurface seems to be so rarely mentionned? Retopology feels like a huge weakness in Blender right now, it's a jungle of third party options and a lot of them seem to be not so great :(

[gamingneeded]

Holy shit this speeds up photoscan clean up so much. Thanks a alot

[gustavoalvarez]

Hola quería decirte que disfruto muchos de todos tus videos y que bueno que siempre estás presente para nosotros eres mi maestro preferido.. Saludos desde Argentina.

[chuctanundaspiderbone]

All this time I had this at my fingertips and never knew. Thank you for this.

[bears]

This was a game changer for me, thank you so much for your tutorial! I've seen people doing this but never quite figured it out until now. Still a huge pita but at least i know how XD

[macdrawz]

this is blenders best kept secret, maya needs something like this. quad draw is ok

[pile]

Awesome. I guess super useful to keep a photogrammetric model lowpoly.

[milosujmiak]

If I could give you more that one like, I would.

[bluefence]

Straigth to the point. Its helpful a lot

[WanerRodrigues]

I thought this addon was paid, thank you!

[Zev_Reef]

Retopoflow joined Blender so we will be getting many more tools

[saintelmo]

NOTE: (apologies for my previous tone, Blender Secrets, if you saw my last one). Folks, this does not seem to work with Blender 3.5 Beta. It works with 3.4. Don't be a dick like me, and get all angry and frustrated. Try simple solutions first. See if it's a version issue, and in this case it was. All that said: HOT DAMN, this is an awesomely simple way to retopologize a mesh, especially if the original mesh has extremely sloppy geometry to start with. It would also appear the be the absolute EASIEST way to create HAIR CARDS. :)

[wasgehtsiedasan]

I tried it out but I always get the "specify the name of the object with Retopology". If it works it would save tons of time on lots of sculpting workflows

[mihailamarcel]

this is a 3d object, but if i want to make a 3d basorelief from photo?