Sparseal Announces New AI-Assisted Retopology Tool

While opinions differ on where ethical AI use begins and ends, most artists seem to agree that tedious, non-creative work that doesn't displace jobs can be delegated to AI, as evidenced by the excitement sparked by Tractive's teaser. Sparseal, the creator of CozyBlanket, Uniform, and Wafer, is now also developing an AI tool that is actually useful for artists.

Despite the name, it's not a successor to CozyBlanket but a completely separate product built from scratch. It offers a focused toolkit for geometry cleanup and optimization, with advanced retopology tools as a core feature. These include multiple workflow modes, selection-based vertex/edge/face editing tools with essential mesh operations, symmetry support, and a fast, high-quality viewport. CozyBlanket Pro's topology prediction AI continuously analyzes both high- and low-poly meshes to provide real-time autocomplete suggestions.

CozyBlanket Pro is also meant for UV unwrapping and packing. You can mark seams and transform UVs directly in the 3D viewport, pack thousands of islands with GPU acceleration, and export the result for use in other software. Even though the algorithm processes "trillions of layout combinations per second" to optimize results, everything can be adjusted with manual tools.

Finally, CozyBlanket Pro lets you bake vertex colors, normal maps, and ambient occlusion maps, with support for multiple UV sets, UDIMs, custom bake cages, and high-to-low poly mesh assignments. The baking viewport allows you to preview individual maps and geometry details to catch artifacts early with side-by-side viewing of high- and low-poly meshes.

Sparseal says that CozyBlanket Pro supports working with entire characters or environments in a single file and managing multiple high-poly objects separately. A scene outliner lets you select or mute objects, and you also get both full-scene and per-object statistics. The export system is fully configurable, and there's a network bridge designed to streamline scene sharing between Sparseal products and other DCC applications.

Following the launch of Wafer on PC, Sparseal tools are no longer iPad-only, and CozyBlanket is planned for Windows, macOS, Linux, iPadOS, Android, and web, although not all platforms will be supported at launch. Sparseal states that its topology predictor and unwrapping algorithms are proprietary and built in-house, and that CozyBlanket Pro is not "based on existing libraries, licensed third-party solutions or third-party AI inference services".

CozyBlanket Pro is currently in closed beta testing, but you can sign up for early access to be notified when the open beta becomes available.

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