BlockSurfaces – Blender Market

Key features:

• Creative Workflow: Facilitates blocking characters without the constraints of outdated tools, allowing for a more creative approach.
• Versatile Blocking: Supports blocking for various character types, including duplicating limbs and testing different compositions.
• Pose Without Rigging: Enables posing characters without rigging knowledge and generates a mesh ready for sculpting.
• Solid Base Shapes: Focuses on building solid base shapes before adding details, promoting a structured workflow from general to specific.
• Branch and Basic Shapes: Allows creation of main volumes using cubes, spheres, or other objects to establish proportions.
• Edit and Sculpt: Provides tools to move, rotate, scale, and sculpt objects within branches, streamlining the blocking process.
• Duplicate Branches: Quickly copy sections of a model’s structure, including entire branch hierarchies, to speed up the modeling process.
• Replace Objects: Easily replace one or multiple objects in branches to redefine shapes.
• Insert Objects: Add new objects between existing ones to increase detail and control over the shape.
• Link and Edit Objects: Link objects to modify multiple parts simultaneously or independently.
• Curve Repositioning: Position objects along a drawn curve to create complex shapes like horns or tails.
• Rotation and Scale Adjustment: Adjust intermediate objects uniformly for natural-looking shapes.
• Mirror Branches: Perform mesh or branch mirroring to create symmetrical or asymmetrical models.
• BlockMuscle Simulation: Convert branches into muscles to simulate stretching and contraction, aiding in the blocking of posed characters.
• FlatMuscles for Membranes: Create flat surfaces that simulate membranes linked to selected objects.
• Hierarchy Creation: Quickly create hierarchies for posing and articulating characters without rigging.
• Final Mesh Generation: Generate the final model or parts for sculpting or retopology, with options to switch between blocking and final mesh work modes.
• Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts: Configure keyboard shortcuts for the add-on operators.
• Configurable and Floating Panels: Change visible panels, combine them, and use them in a floating way.
• Branches with Materials: Visualize branches with materials, copy materials between them, and work in material mode.
• Pie Menus: Quickly switch between blocking modes and create relationships within branches.
• New Tools and Improvements: Includes tools like Size Insert, Target to Active, Reset Scale, Mirror Target to Active, Branch Sizing, Readjust Muscle Size, Bevel, and Delete Animation Keys.