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Blender toolkit

A curated collection of Blender addons and tools for 3D modeling and animation

🪐 A curated list of awesome Blender addons, tools, tutorials; and 3D resources for everyone.

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🔮Add-ons ^

here Check list of Blender's built-in add-ons documentation

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🌊Simulation/Physics ^

FLIP Fluids 1,705 about 1 month ago : is a powerful liquid simulation plugin that gives you the ability to create high quality fluid effects all within Blender, the free and open source 3D creation suite
Molecular Script 466 7 months ago : is a particle collision addon that makes particles collide for creating certain types of simulations, effects and particles linking as well
Jet-Fluids 96 12 months ago : simulator integration in blender
projectile : An artist-friendly tool for throwing stuff around inside blender
Phobos 709 5 months ago : An add-on for Blender allowing to create URDF, SDF and SMURF robot models

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🦑Generator/Builder ^

CharMorph : An open source character creation tool for Blender. It's a rewrite of , which is now unmaintained
MPFB : MPFB2 is an open source human generator for Blender. It's complete rewrite of MakeHuman as a Blender addon
FaceBuilder [$] : A Blender add-on that lets you create photorealistic 3D models of human faces and heads using a few photographs with a neutral face expression
Tiny Eye : Tiny Eye is a FREE, fully procedural, stylised eye that works in Eevee and Cycles
Auto-Terrainer : Automatic Blender Terrain Generator is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that lets you turn any low poly mesh into realistic and customizable terrain. You can use it to create mountains, valleys, islands, deserts, forests, and more
Blenderesse's Generators : Blenderesse offers a few geometry nodes generators for free. Including; , ,
Buildify : is a geometry nodes library for easy building creation
Bricker [$] : Photoreal Lego/Minecraft Simulations
Blender Data Visualisation 258 6 months ago : Load data into Blender and create visualisations
BookGen : is a free book-generation addon for Blender
Celtic Knot 71 9 months ago : Generate bezier curves, pipes and ribbons in elaborate weavings, based off of a framework mesh
Curtis Holt's Generators : Curtis Holt offers a few geometry nodes generators for free. Including; , ,
Data-FX 35 9 days ago : Loads and visualizes different types of data within Blender from .csv files
Flex's Generators : Flex offers a few free geometry nodes generators, including;
Geometry Nodes Demo : Free examples of geometry nodes including procedural buildings and a hex grid map
Geometry Nodes Pipes : is an addon for blender which helps generating complex pipe layouts
Industrial Geonodes : A collection of industrial themed Geometry nodes. It includes; and
Mesh Maze 192 3 months ago : Blender add-on to generate a maze on any mesh
Modular Tree 1,232 3 months ago : This addon for blender allows the creation of realistic trees with the node editor
Nino DefoQ's Generators : Nino DefoQ offers a few geometry nodes generators for free. Including; , , , ,
Pleebs Generators : Pleebs offers free geometry nodes generators for creating procedural assets. Including; , ,
Post USSR Builder : Simple post USSR style building generator on geometry nodes. 2.93 and newer
Procedural Slime : generates procedural slime between objects
Random Book Generator : Book randomizing asset for Blender. Made with the new Geometry nodes
Real Sky : This add-on can generate procedural clouds, which Blender's built-in Dynamic Sky add-on lacks
Snow Generator : Procedural snow generator for snow effects
Spaceship Generator 7,671 6 months ago : procedurally generate 3D spaceships
Sprytile 1,053 about 1 year ago : a blender add-on for building tile based low-poly scenes with paint/map editor like tools
Stylized Fantasy Tree Generator : Generate endless variations of stylized trees with this geometry nodes tool
tree-gen 836 6 months ago : procedural generation of tree models in blender
Welder : welds generator for Blender

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🦑Generator/Builder ^ / Environment:

Infinigen : Infinigen is a procedural generator of 3D scenes. It can generate infinite Photorealistic Worlds using real geometry. Infinigen is optimized for computer vision research and generates diverse high-quality 3D training data
Graswald [$] : is the solution for 3D Artists who need realistic vegetation in their scenes
SceneCity [$] : Generate large road networks and mass-place tens of thousands of buildings. Mix both procedural and hand-made assets
The Grove 3D [$] : Grow natural 3D trees for visualisation and film. Grow, bend, prune, interactively simulate the seasons year by year

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🦑Generator/Builder ^ / Scatter:

Geo-Scatter [$] : The scattering tool for blender
BagaPie Modifier : This addon create modifier and geometry nodes preset like: boolean, scatter, auto array on curve
Gscatter : Artist-friendly scattering for free from developers of Grasswald
City Scatter : Generate cityscape concepts, powered by Blender's collection system

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🧊Modeling ^

MACHIN3tools : is a free, continuously evolving collection of blender tools and pie menus in a single customizable package
QBlocker : is an interactive object creation tool for Blender
fspy : is an open-source camera matching app, extremely useful for modeling directly from a reference image
PolyQuilt 534 about 2 years ago : is provides a few functions in edit mode like creating faces, knife tool, fan, edge-loops, etc. It does this with only the left-mouse-button. So no menu’s, no shortcuts
Modeling Cloth 401 about 5 years ago : Create real-time cloth-like behavior in meshes in Blender
KeKit : Brings some much needed functionality to Blender, with a whole array of production tools
Array Tools : is an addon for Blender to create translation, scale, rotation array with offset or global parameters in any direction and mix them
BezierUtility 534 5 months ago : This add-on contains several tools for working with Bezier curves
Mesh Heal : is an add-on for Blender, it includes additional Blender operators for healing surface meshes
JewelCraft 470 23 days ago : jewelry design toolkit add-on for Blender
Box Select X-Ray : Modified box select tool that automatically toggles x-ray mode on and off during selection
Polysweeper : is a tool to sweep a face profile along a face loop
Edit Split Normals : Edit normals like meshes
Auto Mirror : Automate a series of tasks, such as deleting a half, setting a mirror modifier, setting a clipping, etc
Drop It : Designed to drop fast and simply Objects to Ground or Surface
Maxivz’s Interactive Tools : Collection of intuitive, context sensitive tools for Blender
Synced Modifiers : allows you to add modifiers to multiple objects at the same time and automatically syncs all the modifiers using Drivers

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🧊Modeling ^ / CAD:

BlenderBIM : An add-on for beautiful, detailed, and data-rich OpenBIM with Blender
Archipack [$] : The Archipack addon for Blender contains a collection of parametric primitives for ArchViz. You can manipulate these primitives with a realtime on-screen editing interface
Building Tools 1,373 7 months ago : Building generation addon for blender
Sverchok : is a powerful parametric tool for architects, allowing geometry to be programmed visually with nodes
CAD Sketcher : CAD Sketcher is a free and open-source project looking to enhance precision workflows in blender by bringing CAD like tools, features and usability
CAD Transform : CAD Transform provide intuitive snap from/to workflow, allow precise move/rotate/scale using advanced snap options and constraints in both object and edit mode
MeasureIt-ARCH 269 7 days ago : An expansion of Antonio Vazquez's MeasureIt addon to add features to create Architectural Drawings
JARCH-Vis : is add-on for Blender 3D that helps create commonly used object for architectural visualization

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🧊Modeling ^ / Retopology/Remesh:

retopoflow : A suite of retopology tools for Blender
InstantMeshesRemesh : A suite of retopology tools for Blender
SpeedRetopo : is a free add-on for Blender to make fast and easy retopology using Bsurface
Retopo MT : is a tool for retopo, you use it in addition with other addons or tools in Blender, in Edit Mode

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🧊Modeling ^ / Hard Surface:

KIT OPS : Can create objects and scenes with extreme efficiency and speed. Complex industrial designs can be generated in a single sitting
ND : is a free non-destructive & interactive hard surface toolkit (smart modifiers, booleans, and geometry management)
HardOps/Boxcutter [$] : , is intended to be a workflow assistant toolkit. , the most powerful boolean subsystem for blender
Speedflow [$] : Addon for non-destructive workflow
Bevel After Boolean : Addon comes in handy when working with booleans that have a curved surface
EdgeFlow 1,338 2 months ago : This addon adds two operators to blender which both work on edgeloop selections
Engraver : is an Blender addon with set of few tools designed to help carving decals in 3d models
JMesh Tools 526 3 months ago : Hardsurface utility Blender addon for fast boolean and bevel operations
Offset Edges : this addon introduces a cad-like feature, which create edges that have consistent distance from original selected ones
Mesh Utils 41 over 4 years ago : Overlapping vert/edge/face, interior faces, edges by trait, and other stuff
Poly Source : is designed to simplify the control of the number of different types of polygons. You can see how many Gone, Quad and Tris are on the active object

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🧊Modeling ^ / Sculpt:

Blender-Sculpt-Tools 85 over 4 years ago : Addon for help sculpting base mesh like Zbrush with Zsphere
Sculpt Alphas Manager : This addon provides a simple solution to be able to quickly switch alpha textures for the sculpt brushes
Speedsculpt [$] : The addon allows you to create very fast characters, to manage Dyntopo Sculpting with booleans, cut curves, skin modifier, decimate, mask etc
GoB 648 14 days ago : GoZ-alike tools for simple ZBrush-Blender interchange
Brush Manager for Blender : is an add-on for Blender that helps you to create custom brushes, store them in a file and organize the library of various categories of brushes

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🧊Modeling ^ / Snapping-Align:

Mesh Align Plus 581 3 months ago : Precisely align, move, and measure+match objects and mesh parts in your 3D scenes
Easy Align : Easy Align addon allows you to align mesh objects origins and align mesh objects to each others easily, it works in both Edit mode and Object mode
Blign : is an alignment and distribution tool for Blender. It allows users to align and distribute shapes with many different options

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🧊Modeling ^ / Mesh Generate/Stylization:

Tissue 1,024 about 2 months ago : Add-on for computational design
Mech/Fy A procedural workflow that automates the process of hard surfaces modelling
RandoMesh 192 almost 2 years ago : A blender addon to add randomized geometry to any mesh
SliceMesh 31 over 5 years ago : Simple script for Blender to automate mesh slicing
SuperPoke 36 almost 5 years ago : Iterative poking tool for Blender
MegaGrid 15 almost 5 years ago : Simple Python script to randomly spam subdivisions
BY-GEN : is an addon designed to simplify the process of creating non-destructive, generative modeling styles in Blender
Fiber Mesh : Generate fiber meshes
Laser Slicer 100 over 2 years ago : Cuts up a Blender object and exports the slices to SVG files for cutting on a laser cutter or other post-processing

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🌠Animation ^

Animation Nodes : A node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender
AnimAide 723 5 months ago : is a free add-on for Blender that has some helpful tools for animation
Commotion 504 4 months ago : Blender add-on for motion graphics
Animax [$] : is a procedural animation system for Blender. Useful for animating multiple objects
AutoMask 169 almost 4 years ago : A Blender Add-on for automatic rotoscoping with the help of Machine Learning
COA Tools 907 7 months ago : is a 2D Animation Suite for blender. It offers a 2D cutout animation workflow similar to programs like spine or spriter
reflow : Blender addon to change fps
Keyframe Nudge 20 over 4 years ago : Scripts for quick keyframe manipulation
Shape Keys+ : adds a panel with extra options for creating, sorting, viewing, and driving shape keys
Stop-Mo : transforms animations into a beautiful, hand-crafted stop motion style
Blender NLA Midi Copier 65 3 months ago : Blender add-on for creating midi-driven animations from the Nonlinear Animation view
BlendyPose 111 over 2 years ago : Blender Motion Capture using your camera

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🌠Animation ^ / Rigging:

BlenRig : BlenRig is an Auto-rigging and skinning system. It provides the user with a Feature Film quality rig; including an advanced facial system
Rig on the Fly : Rig on the Fly is a Blender dynamic rigging tool used to simplify and speed up animation workflow
Auto-Rig Pro [$] : Auto-Rig Pro is an addon for Blender to rig characters, retarget animations, and provide Fbx export, with presets for Unity and Unreal Engine
Universal Human Rigged Base Mesh [$] : Rigged human base mesh
Mixamo add-on for Blender by Adobe : This Blender auto control-rig add-on works with characters that have been auto-rigged with the Mixamo service
Rigacar : Generate a complete rig as quickly as possible for standard car models
Wiggle Bones : Jiggle bone implementation for Blender with realistic physics
Spring Bones 687 over 2 years ago : Blender addon to add spring/bouncy dynamic effect to bones
Rigid Body Bones 126 over 1 year ago : Blender addon which adds rigid body / spring physics to bones
Bone Widget 31 5 months ago : Blender addon to assist with making custom bone shapes

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🌠Animation ^ / Writing/Counting:

WritingAnimation 72 6 months ago : This add-on generates writing animation for the selected Bezier curves in blender
Typewriter 29 10 months ago : Typewriter text animation for font objects
TextCounter 48 over 1 year ago : LeoMoon TextCounter is an easy to use text animation plugin for Blender that can be used to make GUI simulations
GreaseWriter 55 over 5 years ago : A Blender Add-on for auto-animating grease pencil strokes and emulating hand-drawn text

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🗜Render Engine ^

AMD Radeon ProRender : is AMD’s powerful physically-based rendering engine that lets creative professionals use open industry standards to leverage GPU and CPU performance to produce stunningly photorealistic images in Blender

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🗜Render Engine ^ / AMD Radeon ProRender

AMD Blender USD Hydra : With Pixar's USD system emerging as a powerful tool for 3D graphics pipelines and interchange, this addon is meant to add first class support for USD and the USD Hydra rendering system to Blender

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🗜Render Engine ^

DreamWork's MoonRay : MoonRay is a physically based path-tracing renderer; it includes a USD Hydra render delegate, multi-machine and cloud rendering via the Arras distributed computation framework
Pixar's RenderMan : Physically-based render from Pixar
OctaneRender Prime for Blender : Fully integrated Octane Render, free tier
Redshift Blender Integration [$] : Redshift by Maxon is a GPU-accelerated renderer built to meet the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering
LuxCore : LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. It offers advanced features like accelerated rendering of indirect light and efficient rendering of caustics
Malt : Malt is a non photorealistic rendering (NPR) framework. It offers fully customizable real-time rendering framework for animation and illustration
Pixel Art Rendering : This is a free addon to make pixel art like renders in blender. It works with eevee, bayer dithering and multiple light sources
Mitsuba Renderer : Mitsuba 3 is a research-oriented retargetable rendering system for forward and inverse light transport simulation
appleseed : is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects
E-Cycles [$] : is a fork of Cycles which renders up to 2.5x faster out of the box when using CUDA GPUs, up to 15x using new options
K-Cycles [$] : Another fork of Cycles like E-Cycles. Advertised as an improvement over E-Cycles

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🗺️Texture/UV ^

Layer Painter : allows you to use a Layer-System for creating materials with painting and procedurals. The layers include masks, filters and much more. Even though the addon is designed with a PBR workflow in mind, you can also use it for stylized painting
TexTools : TexTools is a Free addon for Blender 3D with a set of professional UV and Texturing tools
3D-Coat Applink : 3DCoat now has native support of Blender via built-in AppLink
Bake to Vertex Color 41 over 4 years ago : Transfer Image to selected Vertex Color in all selected Objects
Bake Wrangler : is a nodes based extension and replacement for the inbuilt baking system
Blender Addon PBR 35 over 5 years ago : Provides a material panel that creates Metallic/Roughness or Specular/Gloss Nodes using the Principled BSDF shader
Bystedts Blender Baker : This addon streamlines the texture baking process in Blender
Car Paint Shader : Simple shader setup that lets you easily create variety of different car paint finishes
DreamUV 1,486 16 days ago : is a collection of tools that allow you to manipulate UVs in the 3D viewport
EasyBake 304 about 2 years ago : Texture baking UI for Blender that lives in the 3D Viewport. Small but powerful! Fast one-click baking and iteration
EZ Baker : An easier alternative to blender's default bake system
Flow Map Painter : This blender add-on provides a brush tool for flow map painting
glslTexture 381 almost 2 years ago : Create textures from Glsl fragment shaders
Grungit : Grungit is an addon that automatically and effortlessly adds wear and tear to your models with a single click. The result is fully controllable and can deliver anything from imperfections and light wear to heavy damage
Lily Surface Scrapper 598 7 months ago : Import shaders in Blender from a single URL
Magic UV : This is a blender add-on Magic UV consisted of many UV manipulation features which Blender lack of
Parallax UV Mapping : This is Parallax Mapping material and node setup. Created in Blender 2.8 for eevee renderer, it works well in cycles too
PBR Texture Mapper 95 almost 6 years ago : Create PBR node setup with one click
Poliigon Blender Addon : this addon allows you to browse, purchase, download, and import Poliigon assets from inside Blender. It supports loading textures, models, and HDRs, and more recently supports generating blender files for use in the Blender Asset Browser
Principled-Baker 347 about 1 year ago : Bake PBR textures with a few clicks
Sanctus Library [$] : The ever-growing procedural material library for Blender
SCATTr : Procedural texture placement
Texel Density Checker : Tools for calculate, set and copy texel density
UcuPaint 1,363 6 days ago : A addon to manage texture layers for Eevee and Cycles renderer
UV-Packer : Automatic and free UV-Packer Add-on for Blender
UV Toolkit : Tools collection for UV editing in blender
Vertex Oven 64 over 4 years ago : Bake game-ready ambient occlusion in seconds without UV unwrapping or agonizingly slow Cycles bakes

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🎮GameDev ^

MeshSync 1,607 about 1 year ago : Live link plugin for Unity. supported blender and other 3d softwares
Blender Tools by Epic Games : Blender addons that improve the game development workflow between Blender and Unreal
Mr Mannequins Tools 513 over 2 years ago : is a Blender add-on that gives the ability to export animations and weighted meshes that are directly compatible with the third person mannequin without re-targeting anything in Unreal Engine!
Blender For Unreal Engine 2,031 7 days ago : This Add-on allows you to export content created with Blender to Unreal Engine 4
AssetGen : is automates the tasks to get a game assets ready for video games from an High Poly model
V-HACD : Library decomposes a 3D surface into a set of near convex parts
Godot Game Tools : Made easy importing mixamo animations. tools to ease the creation/import process of assets into Godot Game Engine and others
Blender2Godot : is a addon that exports a Blender scene to a Godot Engine project
Embark Blender Tools 411 almost 4 years ago : A Blender add-on containing workflow tools for game development. Includes tools for standardized import/export workflow, 3D modelling and new object types
Asset Creation Toolset : Asset Creation Toolset is many tools for game asset creation
Mixamo Converter 670 9 months ago : is a Blender Plugin that Converts Mixamo animations to work in Unreal Engine 4 with root motion
WoT Tank Viewer : is a package of plugins for Blender, which allows you view 3D models from World of Tanks

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🎮GameDev ^ / Game Engine:

Armory3D : is an open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration
UPBGE : is an open-source 3D game engine forked from old Blender Game Engine, deployed with Blender itself
Arsenal : is a Blender integrated game engine written in Rust
INOX 113 about 1 month ago : Rust Game engine integrated in Blender

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / Management:

BlenderKit : Allows you to download assets, materials, and alpha brushes to your blender client with the click of a button
Blender Interplanety Storage : The online material (shader) storage add-on for Blender 3D creation. With the BIS add-on, you can save materials (groups of nodes) to the online personal library and then convenient search and upload them
Asset Wizard : is a asset management addon
NodeCustomBuilder : Preset system for nodes
FontSelector 89 about 2 months ago : Easy font management inside Blender
Shot Manager by Ubisoft 200 about 1 year ago : is a add-on that introduces a true shot entity in Blender scenes

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / Lighting/HDRI:

Gaffer 386 4 months ago : is a Blender add-on that helps you light your scenes by presenting all the right settings in convenient panels for quick access and experimentation
Extra Lights 250 almost 2 years ago : is a plugin for Blender that adds physically based, photometric lighting presets to the Add menu
HDRI Sun Aligner 121 9 months ago : HDRI Sun Aligner is a Blender addon for automatically rotating an object (e.g. a sun) to match the brightest point in a HDRI environment texture
LeoMoon LightStudio : Lighting system for Blender
Physical Starlight and Atmosphere [$] : is a full environmental simulator that takes inspiration of 'sandbox' game worlds and editors, bringing visual consistency between every object in the scene
Free Sky Environment Shading : free custom procedural environment shading
Lumiere 47 over 4 years ago : Interactive Lighting add-on for Blender

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / Geographic/Maps:

BlenderGIS 7,774 6 months ago : Blender addons to make the bridge between Blender and geographic data
Maps Models Importer 2,473 7 months ago : A Blender add-on to import models from
blender-osm : One click download and import of OpenStreetMap and terrain for Blender

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / VR/AR:

A-Frame VR 104 over 1 year ago : Blender add-on allows you to model your scene in Blender and export it to an A-Frame VR project with a single click
blender-xr 259 over 4 years ago : A free virtual and mixed reality user interface for Blender that enables artists to edit scenes within the software using a suitable headset and controllers
Blender-Metaverse-Addon 69 2 months ago : Blender toolset for creating content for Metaverses like High Fidelity

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / Import:

Daz Importer , , , , , , , Quake:
Sketchfab Blender Addon 1,138 4 months ago : Directly import and export models from and to Sketchfab in Blender

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / Export:

USDZ 477 7 months ago , , , , , , ,
Export Paper Model from Blender : Add-on for creating paper models
Batex 233 3 months ago : Export selected objects as fbx in batch operation
Blender To Unity FBX Exporter 233 3 months ago : FBX exporter add-on for Blender compatible with Unity's coordinate and scaling system

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / Render:

Loom 173 16 days ago : Add-on to simplify the rendering process of image sequences and certain frames, allows batch rendering and comes with some handy utilities that help in production
BatchRender 297 8 months ago , , ,
MDSANIMA RenderTime 22 over 2 years ago : Blender add-on estimates and calculate how long your animation will take to render done based on the rendering time of the only one frame
Super Res Render : Plugin that splits renders up into several chunks to make rendering at super high resolutions possible
Super Fast Render : Either uses preset render settings optimised to speed up render times or Uses a benchmark to detect the fastest settings for the same render quality
Super Image Denoiser : Super high quality denoiser that desnoises the scene in several layers to reduce artifacts

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / Camera:

Real Camera : is an addon that allows you to control the Blender camera like a real camera
Cameras-Lister 24 about 4 years ago : Easy select camera’s in popup shortcut is Alt-C
Photographer 2 : Camera Exposure, White balance and Autofocus. Photographer 2 was made completely free for all
Camera Shakify 1,096 16 days ago : An addon for Blender that lets you easily add realistic camera shake to your cameras

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / Audio Visualizer

Bizualizer 212 about 1 year ago ,

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / Display:

Screencast-Keys 1,281 12 days ago : Status Add-On for Blender
Shortcut VUr 441 3 months ago : With this addon you can display mouse and keyboard input
ExtraInfo : Show more info in the viewport
AStats 14 almost 4 years ago : Show Stats in Viewport

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / VideoEditor:

Bangingcuts 10 over 1 year ago : Cut up audio and video clips based on peaks in the audio track removing silences. Last Blender versions: don't install the zip, install .py file instead
Power Sequencer 717 11 months ago : Brings smart new editing features to edit faster with Blender's Video Sequence Editor. It is completely Free and Open Source
VSEQF 156 7 months ago : is an overhaul for Blender's VSE that can completely change your workflow. Designed for quick, mouse and keyboard balanced editing with a focus on real-time feedback
Transform Tools 223 almost 4 years ago : Quickly transform, crop and fade video strips in Blender's Video Sequence Editor
Easy Proxy 19 over 2 years ago : Blender addon to create proxy files for Video Sequence Editor (VSE) easily using FFMPEG
Parallel_Render 56 almost 4 years ago : Render the output from the Sequencer multithreaded through the Render siderbar
Export EDL 33 over 1 year ago : Exports: video, audio and dissolves. to ex. Davinci Resolve, Lightworks, Final Cut Pro & Premiere Pro
Import EDL 8 over 1 year ago : Imports: video, audio and dissolves
Freesound Add-on 37 almost 3 years ago : is an addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music
Push to Talk 49 19 days ago : Convenient recording of scratch dialog for an edit
Scene Strip Tools 70 over 1 year ago : Preview Scene Strips directly in the 3D View
Subsimport 61 about 1 year ago : is an addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / TextEditor:

TexTension 37 about 1 year ago : For increasing productivity and generally trying to match the writing experience of a modern text editor
Code Editor 56 11 months ago : Adds minimap, text tabs, whitespace markers and indent guides
Run in Console 56 11 months ago : Execute a text block and catch its output (prints and errors) in Blender's interactive console
Snippets Library 35 about 1 month ago : Allow you use and manage a library of your own and existing code snippets
Search Online References 11 almost 4 years ago : Search current text in API Reference, Python Reference, Blender Stack Exchange, Blender Source Code and Github
Run PEP8 Check 13 over 4 years ago : Check current script for pep8 mistakes
Formatting 5 over 1 year ago : Trim whitespace change case and split and join lines
Insert and Navigate to Text Markers 6 over 3 years ago : Insert and navigate to text marker positions
Autocomplete/Intellisense 34 over 2 years ago : Autocomplete/Intellisense for the Text Editor

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / Photogrammetry:

Photogrammetry Importer 912 5 months ago : Addon to import different photogrammetry formats into Blender
blender_kitti 72 12 months ago : Render large point clouds and voxel grids with blender
Point Cloud Visualizer 970 over 1 year ago : Display, edit, filter, render, convert, generate and export colored point cloud PLY files

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^ / EEVEE:

Glass for EEVEE : This shader allows you to make realistic glass with eevee
SSGI for EEVEE : Converts Diffuse and Principled BSDFs to nodegroups that give representation of diffuse component to SSR for SSGI effect
Shader Displacement for Eevee : Using a few modifiers and a nodegroup, realtime shader displacement in Eevee is now possible
Eevee Presets 35 about 4 years ago : Save Eevee Presets

🔮Add-ons ^ / 🪀Misc ^

Projectors 195 8 months ago : A blender add-on for simple projector creation and modification
Simple Renaming Panel 181 3 months ago : Rename more objects at once. The tool includes basic functionalities of adding suffixes, prefixes, search and replace, add suffixes depending on the object type and much more
IOR Reference : A blender addon that display IOR values in a list
QuickSwitch 25 about 1 year ago : A helper to quick switch workspaces and view render menu in viewport
MifthTools 873 10 months ago : 3Dcoat, Houdini, Modo mesh exchange tools and more
Modifier List 310 over 1 year ago : Blender add-on with enhanced UI layout for modifiers with handy features. Replaces the regular modifier UI and adds a tab in the Sidebar and a popup
Verge3D : is a powerful yet cost-efficient solution for creating interactive 3D web experiences
ProSidebar 64 almost 4 years ago : Add additional properties and operators to the 3D View Sidebar
Tilecam 65 over 3 years ago : Render seamlessly repeatable images
Fbx Format Converter 186 almost 3 years ago : This project allows you to convert binary fbx files to asciis and vice versa
Set Viewport Color 598 7 months ago : Blender Script to Set the Viewport Color based on a nodetree
PresetterProfessional 30 over 4 years ago : View and visibility presets, 3d cursor presets, snap presets, etc. presets
PowerSave : is a tool intended to streamline saving and make saving itself more accessible, friendly and more artist streamlined
Lodify : LOD(Level of Detail) and Proxy system for blender
Multi-user : Enable real-time collaborative workflows inside blender
Screenwriter 191 2 months ago : Write screenplays in Blender Text Editor in Fountain markup syntax view/export with correct screenplay formatting
VoxelDraw : An addon to draw voxel meshes in edit mode for Blender
Kaleidoscope 119 over 4 years ago : The add-on adds two new nodes, Spectrum and Intensity, which essentially improves your workflow inside Blender when creating materials
Spread Objects : Spread the selected objects on an evenly spaced grid
Mixer by Ubisoft 1,320 over 2 years ago : is a Blender addon developed at Ubisoft Animation Studio for Real Time Collaboration in 3D edition
Daz to Blender Bridge : This easy-to-use Bridge transfers your Genesis 8 and 3 characters from Daz directly to Blender
Substance 3D add-on for Blender by Adobe : with this add-on you can access your Substance materials directly inside Blender
Theme Switcher : Addon to quickly change active theme not leaving 3D View
LibSM64-Blender 572 over 1 year ago : This add-on integrates libsm64 into Blender and provides various additional integrations with Fast64
BlenderProc 2,826 30 days ago : A procedural Blender pipeline for photorealistic training image generation
BlenderSynth 63 6 days ago : Blender scripting for generating synthetic datasets at scale
AI Render 1,101 25 days ago : Stable Diffusion in Blender. This add-on renders an AI generated image based on a text prompt and your scene

🪐Resources ^ / 🎠3D Models ^

Poly Haven/Models : is a resource of free high quality 3D assets for everyone. All models here are CC0
Quixel Megascans : World’s largest photogrammetry 2D and 3D asset library. Now it is free for the Epic Games accounts (only UE projects)
Scan the World : is an ambitious community-built initiative whose mission is to share 3D printable sculpture and cultural artefacts using democratised 3D scanning technologies, producing an extensive ecosystem of free to download digital cultural heritage
Artec 3D : Download high resolution 3D scans for free
Blender Boom : 3D model repository. Free models ready to use
Three D Scans : Free 3D scans in .stl without copyright restrictions
3D Digitization Smithsonian : CC0 Photoscan Library from Smithsonian
Chocofur/Free : Premium quality 3D models & scenes
Free3D : is the go to place where you can share your free 3D assets and download instantly any you like
TheBaseMesh.com : A public library of over 600+ base meshes. All assets are real world scale and come unwrapped
3DB3 : Check out the best 3D models made by professional 3D artists
Rigmodels : Free rigged, animated and low poly models
RockThe3D : is a blog site to provide and sharing the best 3D related knowledge and resources around
CGTrader : Free 3D models from cgtrader
Sketchfab : Free downloadable models from sketchfab
TurboSquid/free : Free models from Turbosquid
Hum3D : source of quality 3D models of vehicles in blend file format
Clara.io : Free 3D Modeling, Rendering, Sharing and Models
FlyingArchitecture : is both an architectural visualizations studio as well as an online store dedicated to 3D models, scenes, materials and tutorials
3D Warehouse : Download sketchup models
Free3DBase : Download high quality free 3d models
RenderHub/free : Daz Content, 3D models, textures and materials
KitBash3d [$] : makes premium 3D assets for VFX, concept art and design. Their 3D model kits have immediately been adopted by the industry's top artists, studios. for free
Awesome-3D-Meshes : List of famous 3D meshes. 96 over 5 years ago
List of Common 3D Test Models.

🪐Resources ^ / 🎠3D Models ^ / Other Sites:

Poly Pizza , , , , , , , , , , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🎠3D Models ^ / Various Models:

Quaternius's Ultimate Low-Poly Models , , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🎠3D Models ^ / Scanned Models:

Scanned Female Head Model by EISKO , , , , , , , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🎠3D Models ^ / CAD Models:

GrabCAD ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🎠3D Models ^ / Kitbash Models:

Free Hard Surface KitBash Models , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🎠3D Models ^ / VDB Models:

Free VDB Simulations Created With Embergen , , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🤸🏾‍♀️Mocap/Animation ^

Mixamo : Animate 3D characters for games, film, and more
ActorCore : Motion-capture library from Reallusion
Carnegie-Mellon University Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database BVH conversions : Contains 2500 free human motion captures
Rokoko Studio : Get 150 free mocap moves from Rokoko’s Motion Library
Motekentertainment/free-samples : Motek has captured and animated the a large variety of characters, for a great number of projects from various sectors
Bandai Namco Research Motiondataset 3,101 over 1 year ago : the R&D division of game publisher and developer Bandai Namco, has released a massive library of free motion-capture data for research and personal use
turbosquid/motion-capture ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🌑Textures ^

Poly Haven/Textures : Poly Haven/Textures is a website where you can find high quality scanned textures for free
ambientCG : Get hundreds of PBR materials and textures for free under the Public Domain license
cgbookcase : Discover a library of high-quality PBR textures. Free for every purpose, forever. Some Blender tutorials here and there
3DAssets.one : is a search-engine which allows you to explore the largest free texture sites all at once
3DTextures.me : Free seamless PBR textures
FreePBR.com : Free PBR materials and texture files
ShareTextures : Free High Quality Material Archive for everybody
Texture.Ninja : Public domain photographic textures, reference images, cutouts
3DXO : Free 3D Models, seamless Textures, Backgrounds, Photos & Graphics
Texture Box : We are making free textures for 3D Artists from all over the world. Also, we offer custome texture services
Texture Fun : Free PBR texture sets of common architectural materials, including some nice tile textures
C4DCenter : Free C4D Materials created with High Quality Texture Maps for instant download and no limits, Free for Personal and Commercial Use
IES Library : Download free IES lighting files. IES files describe how light from a lamp is distributed in a room
WildTextures : Free high resolution textures and patterns for commercial or personal use
Textures.com [$] : is a website that offers digital pictures of all sorts of materials. Sign up for free and download 15 free images every day!
Substance Share : The free exchange platform for the Substance community
MaterialX Library : AMD launched a free MaterialX-based Material Library. It allows users to download the materials and encourages them to upload their own
Substance Source/freebies [$] : Hundreds of high quality PBR materials
ScansLibrary [$] : Digital marketplace with thousands of Real-World scans
Poliigon/freebies [$] : A library of materials, and HDR's for artists including free textures that want photorealism
Texturing.xyz [$] : Our textures are used in the biggest and industry-leading VFX companies, and help them achieving their goals faster
LotPixel : Free scan-based textures of interior and exterior materials at up to 8K resolution. For commercial use
Poly : is a seamless texture generator & gallery (up to 8K) with PBR maps (up to 32-bit) for any types of materials with a simple text or image prompt

🪐Resources ^ / 🌑Textures ^ / Other Sites:

EveryTexture.com , , , , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🌑Textures ^ / Others:

gumroad/juliosillet , , , , , , , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🌓Blender Materials ^

Blendermada : Free Blender Material Database.
The Blendersauce Vault Materials : Abstract, Bricks and Walls, Concrete, Fabric, Fluids, Food, Manmade, Metal, Metal painted Materials, Nature, Plaster, Rocks/Stones, Tiles, Wood
3d-wolf/materials : PBR Materials is an addon with physically based materials
BlenderKit : Allows you to download assets, materials, and alpha brushes to your blender client with the click of a button for free

🪐Resources ^ / 🌓Blender Materials ^ / Sketch/Toon Shaders:

BNPR' Shaders , , , , (Free: , ), , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🌓Blender Materials ^ / Nodevember Results:

Curtis Holt's Results , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🌓Blender Materials ^ / Others:

gumroad/simonthommes , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🌲Blender Scenes/Files ^

Blend Swap : The one place for Open Source Blender files
Blender/demo-files : Demo Scenes from blender
BlenderNation.com/models : collects the best free Blender 3D model downloads from all across the Blender community
Mantissa/resources : Free Blender files, resources

🪐Resources ^ / 🌲Blender Scenes/Files ^ / Gumroad Pages:

gumroad/bluefoxcreation ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🌲Blender Scenes/Files ^ / Rigged Models:

Rain v2 , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🌲Blender Scenes/Files ^ / Geometry Nodes:

Higgsas Blender , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / ⛅HDRIs ^

Poly Haven/HDRIs , , , , , , , , , , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🖼️Art/Reference ^

Dezoomify : Download zoomable images from , , , and . ( )
Birmingham Museums Trust : Thousands of our out-of-copyright images are now available for all to use under a Creative Commons Zero Licence. More images are regularly being added. ( )
Wikimedia Commons/Art : A collection of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute
The Art Institute of Chicago : Download public-domain artworks from Art Institute of Chicago online collection
Paris Musées Collections : Paris Musées has released over 100,000 artworks into the public domain. They are all available for free high-resolution download online
The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Browse more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works in The Met collection that can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction
USEUM : Download thousands of royalty free images of artworks and use them in anyway you like, anywhere around the world
National Gallery of Art Images : Download images from collections of the National Gallery of Art. More than 51,000 open access digital images are available free of charge for download and use
Rijksmuseum : one of the largest museums in Europe dedicated to arts and history, made 250,000 works from its huge collection available for free online viewing or download
National Gallery of Denmark : You can explore our highlights and get free images in high resolution of those artworks that are in the Public Domain
Los Angeles County Museum of Art : Download public-domain artworks from LACMA's collections
J. Paul Getty Museum : The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required
Indianapolis Museum of Art Collection : Many images of public domain artworks are available for free download from the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields' collection pages
Smithsonian Open Access : Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images right now, without asking
Biodiversity Heritage Library : 300,000+ Botanical and Animal Illustrations available for free download
Natural History Museum, Data Portal : Explore and download the Museum’s research and collections data. Collection information, images, sounds, videos, research results, 3D scans
British Museum : The British Museum Just Made 1.9M Stunningly Detailed Images Free Online
Open Image Collections : is a collection of digital image sources include museum digital collections, stock images, photo archives, design resources and image search engines
List of Museums & Libraries with Public-Domain Collection.
Mindat, Mineral Database : is the world's largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from
Anatomy 360, Free Reference : 3D scanned human reference images
Wildlife Reference Photos : Wildlife reference photos for artists
Flickr, Creative Commons : Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license
The Empire University, Weapons Library : Free reference resource for many types of weapons
Old Maps Online : Discovering the Cartography of the Past. Welcome to Old Maps Online, the easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world

🪐Resources ^ / 🛰Space ^

Solar Textures : These textures represent real planetary maps in equirectangular projection. Textures in this pack are based on NASA elevation and imagery data
NASA-3D-Resources : Here you'll find a growing collection of 3D models, textures, and images from inside NASA. All of these resources are free to download and use
Celestia Motherlode : is a repository for various addons like textures, models or celestial objects
James Webb Images NASA : ( ), ( ),
Earth View : Earth View is a collection of the most beautiful and striking landscapes found in Google Earth
Areo Browser : Easily explore all of the latest terrain data and rover imagery, directly in your browser

🪐Resources ^ / 🛰Space ^ / Others:

CGI Moon Kit , , , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🎧Sound/Music ^

Freesound.org : Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers
GameAudioGDC : Each year we give away thousands of dollars worth of sound effects for free in celebration of the Game Developers Conference. This is our archive. Everything is royalty-free and commercially usable
GameSounds.xyz : Royalty free music and sounds for your games
SoundBible.com : Offers thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and straight up sounds. These sounds can be used in a variety of sound projects
99Sounds.org : is a website offering free downloads of royalty-free content generated by its own users
Freesfx.co.uk : This web site provides free sound effects that you are able to use in any commercial production
OpenGameArt.org/Sound : Sound Effects from OpenGameArt
Free Music Archive : The iconic resource for free music, podcast safe and royalty free music for video
Bandcamp.com/cc : Creative-common music from Bandcamp
MusOpen.org : is an online classical music library of copyright free, public domain music
ccMixter.org : is a community remix site operated by ArtisTech Media, created by Creative Commons
Netlabels : This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of virtual record labels
Mixkit : Download Free Stock Video Footage, Stock Music & Premiere Pro Templates for your next video editing project
Unminus : Curated Royalty Free Music. Let's create Unsplash for Music together
Adobe Audition Sound Effects : includes thousands of uncompressed, royalty-free audio sound effects
Pixabay/music : Royalty free music from Pixabay
Artlist : Royalty-free music catalog for unlimited use in YouTube videos, social media & films created by inspiring indie artists worldwide
Bensound : Top royalty free music freshly composed by independent artists. Use our royalty free music for YouTube videos, social media, films
Pixabay/music : Royalty free music from Pixabay
Soundcloud/cc : Search for licensed under a Creative Commons License
YouTube/Audio Library : In the Audio Library in YouTube Studio, you can find royalty-free production music and sound effects to use in your videos

🪐Resources ^ / 🏞Free Stocks ^

unsplash Image/Vector : , , , , ,
videvo Video/VFX/Footage : , , , , , , ,
MrCutout Cutouts : , ,
Mantissa Visual Loops : , , , ,
fonts.google Fonts : , ,

🪐Resources ^ / 🌂Useful ^

Sheep it Render Farm : is a free distributed renderfarm for Blender
Blender-Colab 188 12 days ago : Render on , this is a Python script that allows you to render Blender scene using Google Colaboratory. Only Cycles
blender.daily Daily Blender Tips : ,
IOR List : Index of Refraction values list for use with 3D applications
MatCaps 2,644 12 months ago : Huge library of matcap PNG textures organized by color
UE Sponsored Content : Every month Epic Games gives away several assets from the Unreal Engine marketplace for free
Blender & ACES : Setup Blender to work with ACES using OpenColorIO

📥Standalone ^ / 3D Tools ^

MeshLab : Open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes
AutoRemesher 1,038 almost 3 years ago : Open-source auto-retopology tool intended to convert source meshes into clean, animation-friendly all-quad geometry
Instant Meshes 5,167 almost 3 years ago : Interactive field-aligned mesh generator
Magica Voxel : A free lightweight 8-bit voxel art editor and GPU based interactive path tracing renderer
ZBrushCoreMini : is designed for new artists of all ages, with a streamlined interface that lets anyone jump right in and start sculpting immediately
Goxel 2,823 18 days ago : Create voxel graphics. Export to obj, pyl, png, magica voxel, qubicle
aerialod : A free interactive path tracing renderer for height maps
Make Human : Open-source tool for making 3D characters. ( )
Clavicula : Intuitive and free 3D modeling software for everyone
Dust3D : is a cross-platform open-source modeling software. It helps you create a 3D watertight model in seconds
EmberGen [$] : is a real-time volumetric fluid simulation tool that can instantly simulate, render, and export flipbooks, image sequences, and VDB volumes
HDR Light Studio [$] : Lets you easily create and edit HDR lighting with your existing 3D software
Sweet Home 3D : is a free interior design application that helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D
TreeIt : is an easy to use real time 3D tree generator for the simple creation
Cascadeur : is a standalone software for creating keyframe animation of 3D characters, humanoid or otherwise
Sculptron : GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches and for converting mesh sequences to volumes. The software is currently available free during early development
CNDL : An IES lighting creation toolset. Improve your renders with custom IES lighting
Medium by Adobe : Medium is a dedicated VR sculpting and painting package for users of Oculus headsets, capable of exporting models to DCC applications in OBJ or FBX format
Spline : Easily create and publish 3D web experiences. Build and iterate fast with production-ready results
Connecter : Free and visual creative assets management for 3d, AEC and design professionals
Phototiler : is a lightweight photorealistic map renderer that allows quick rendering of 3D maps for creative cartography
VRoid Studio : a 3D character maker that specializes in Japanese anime-like expressions
AccuRIG : is a free application designed for fast and easy character rigging
3D House Planner : is a professional home design web application that allows users to design houses and apartments

📥Standalone ^ / Various Tools ^

Allusion : Organizer for your entire collection of references, inspiration and any other kinds of images
Quixel Bridge : Connects Megascans to all your favorite tools including Blender
PureRef : Simple way to view and organize your reference images
DJV : Professional image sequence, media review software for VFX, animation, and film production
Natron : Open Source Compositing Software For VFX and Motion Graphics
Processing : is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts
SHADERed 4,371 about 1 year ago : is a lightweight tool for creating and testing HLSL and GLSL shaders
Light Tracer Render : Provides you with everything you need to create photorealistic renderings interactively, in both desktop Web browsers and Windows application
CineShader : CineShader is a real-time 3D shader visualiser. It leverages the API to bring thousands of existing shader artworks into a cinematic 3D environment
Possumwood 289 over 3 years ago : is a graph-based procedural sandbox, implementing concepts of graph-based visual programming in a simple interface
Effekseer : Open source particle effect creating tool
Particle Illusion : Free GPU-accelerated 2D particle generator
Exr-IO : is a robust and exact solution for dealing with multi-layer EXR pictures. It supports Cryptomatte
PickPicPack : Tiny yet powerful utility for packaging multiple images to new one with custom aspect ratio and size
GameTextureViewer : is a fast, reliable, and simple tool for artists to preview textures and sprite sheet animations on the fly
Mandelbulb3D : is a free software application created for 3D fractal imaging
F3D : Fast and minimalist open source cross-platform 3D viewer. Support many fileformats and rendering style
JWildfire : Stands out for its flame fractal generator. Wildfire is a java-based image processing software

📥Standalone ^ / Various Tools ^ / Blender Tools:

BlenderUpdater 136 11 months ago : Download and install nightly builds with one click
BlenderUpdaterCLI 25 about 1 year ago : Command line version of BlenderUpdater
Blender Version Manager 85 over 3 years ago : Minimalistic download manager for blender
Blender Launcher 890 12 months ago : Standalone client for managing official builds of blender

📥Standalone ^ / Photogrammetry ^

Meshroom : is a free, open-source 3D Photogrammetry Software
COLMAP : Reconstruct 3D models from ordered or unordered image collections automatically
3DF Zephyr Free : is free version of 3DF Zephyr photogrammetry software for personal use. It comes with some limitations
MicMac 710 6 days ago : is a free open-source photogrammetric suite that can be used in a variety of 3D reconstruction scenarios
RealityCapture [$] : Create virtual reality scenes, textured 3D meshes, orthographic projections, geo-referenced maps and much more from images and/or laser scans completely automatically
Agisoft Metashape [$] : is a stand-alone software product that performs photogrammetric processing of digital images and generates 3D spatial data
RealityScan : a free 3D scanning app, developed in collaboration with Quixel, that turns smartphone photos into high-fidelity 3D models in the most accessible way possible

📥Standalone ^ / Texture/Material ^

ArmorPaint : Open-Source 3D PBR Texture Painting Software
Quixel Mixer : Create photorealistic, tileable, materials in seconds with powerful mixing and painting
NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter : Allows users to create highly compressed texture files (that stay small both on disk and in memory) directly from image sources using NVIDIA’s CUDA-accelerated Texture Tools compressor technology
Materialize : is a stand alone tool for creating materials from images
Material Maker : is a simple procedural materials generation tool
TextureLab : is a tool designed to make procedural texture generation
AwesomeBump 1,666 almost 2 years ago : Generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures from a single image
Agisoft De-Lighter : is a free stand-alone tool designed to remove shadows from model textures
Normalizer : Convert normal maps to displacement maps. Edit, process and combine multiple normal maps and more
Agama Materials : is software for creating PBR materials and painting 3d models. You can create materials and use them for painting models, or you can use pre-made textures
Architextures - Create : web app allows you to create seamless textures, bump maps and CAD hatches. Select any of the parameters to get started
Dream Textures 7,832 3 months ago : Stable Diffusion built-in to the Blender shader editor
Poly : is a seamless texture generator & gallery (up to 8K) with PBR maps (up to 32-bit) for any types of materials with a simple text or image prompt

📥Standalone ^ / Terrain ^

TerreSculptor : is a terrain creation and editing software. It is freeware
World Machine : Command powerful tools like erosion and advanced colormaps to create terrain heightmaps, meshes, and textures for your game or 3D scene. You can use the Basic Edition for free
Terragen : Ray-tracing supported terrain generator. There is free version with some limitations
World Creator [$] : is a real-time terrain generator and landscape generator
Gaea : Sophisticated and modern terrain design software for apex results in moments. There is Community Free edition with some limitations
Instant Terra : Real-time terrain generation tool. Create your terrain, world, and landscape for your game, movie, or simulation

📥Standalone ^ / Real-World Height Maps ^

terrain.party : The easiest way to get real-world height maps
Tangram Heightmapper : is an interactive grayscale heightmap browser, which can generate heightmaps for use in 3D applications
OpenTopography/datasets : Facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources.
Cities: Skylines map generator : A heightmap generator for Cities: Skylines
Copernicus DEM - ESA : The Copernicus Digital Elevation Model is a Digital Surface Model (DSM) that represents the surface of the Earth including buildings, infrastructure and vegetation

📥Standalone ^ / Point Cloud/LiDAR Data ^

OpenTopography : is a collaborative data repository for LiDAR users
NOAA’s Data Access Viewer : This online tool allows a user to search for and download lidar, imagery, and land cover data
United States Interagency Elevation Inventory : is a collaborative effort of the USGS and NOAA with contributions from other federal agencies
USGS/TNM : U.S. Geological The National Map. You can also use the
USGS/Entwine : This website provides Potree and Plasio.js interfaces to the AWS USGS LiDAR Public Dataset
Sketchfab/lidar ,

📥Standalone ^ / Generator ^

JSplacement : is a cross-platform pseudo-random 8K displacement map generator
Procedural City Generator : Create procedurally generated city maps in the style of American grid-based cities
Medieval Fantasy City Generator : This application generates a random medieval city layout of a requested size. : is a 3d-visualizer for MFCD. See other generators from
city-roads : This website allows you to select a city and then draws every single road on a screen

📥Standalone ^ / AI-Powered ^

Gigapixel AI [$] : is the only photo enlargement product available that can actually add detail back to your upscaled photo
waifu2x : Single-Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. And it supports photo
Let'sEnhance.io : Increase image quality and resolution. Our AI-based editing process automatically enhance any flaw in your image
Dain-App : -App is a free app that let you take any form of media like movies, stop-motion, anime, cartoons, sprites, etc and interpolate new frames, generating a bigger frame-rate from the original file
3D Photo Inpainting : 3D Photography using Context-aware Layered Depth Inpainting
Infinite Nature : Perpetual view generation of natural scenes from a single image
PaintsChainer : AI-Powered automatic line drawing colorization colorization
EbSynth : Free tool for converting video footage into stylised motion paintings
PIFuHD : Multi-Level Pixel-Aligned Implicit Function for High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization
Generated.Photos : AI-generated faces
Flowframes : is a simple but powerful app that utilizes AI frameworks to interpolate videos in order to increase their framerate with little to no noticable quality loss
Cupscale 2,153 about 2 years ago : Image Upscaling GUI based on ESRGAN
Video2X : A lossless video/GIF/image upscaler achieved with waifu2x, Anime4K, SRMD and RealSR
koi 445 over 1 year ago : A plug-in for Krita that enables the use of AI models for img2img generation
Real-ESRGAN 28,429 4 months ago : aims at developing Practical Algorithms for General Image/Video Restoration
Midjourney : is an independent research lab that produces a proprietary artificial intelligence program that creates images from textual descriptions
Stable Diffusion : is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input
Deforum Stable Diffusion : Animating prompts with Stable Diffusion
Rokoko Video : motion capture using your webcam or video-upload and animate in minutes

📥Standalone ^ / Sound/Music ^

Audacity : Free, open source, cross-platform audio software
AudioMass : Open-source web based audio and waveform editing tool
rFXGen SFX Generators : , , ,

📥Standalone ^ / Painting ^

Krita : is a professional free and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone
HEAVYPAINT : is a simple app designed for graphic painting. The UI is streamlined for fluid, happy painting with as little friction as possible

🔍Explore Blender ^ / Community ^

👨🏽‍🚀Blender.Community : is an independent community aggregator, by Blenderheads for Blenderheads

🔍Explore Blender ^ / Community ^ / 👨🏽‍🚀Blender.Community

☕Blender.Today : Community-driven Blender news, chat, and live streams! Stream
🖱️Right-Click Select : Got an idea for a feature that you think Blender absolutely must have?

🔍Explore Blender ^ / Community ^

👨‍🎨Blender Artists Community : Home of the Blender Community
📰BlenderNation : daily news, art and tutorials for Blender, the open source 3D content creation suite
💬blender.chat : official chat server for artists and developers
🗨️discord/blender : community-managed Discord server
fb/blender : blender facebook group
blender.stackexchange.com : questions and answers

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 🍩Beginning ^

Blender Fundamentals by Blender.
Blender Basics by CG Cookie.
🍩Blender 3.0 Beginner Donut Tutorial by Blender Guru.
🍦Blender Complete Beginner Tutorial Course by CG Geek.
🍏Blender Beginner Tutorial Series by CG Boost.
⚔️3D Modeling a Sword for Complete Beginners by YanSculpts.
Beginner Modelling Chair Tutorial by Blender Guru. ☰🪑

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 🗿Modeling ^

Modeling Manual. 🧾
Blender Beginner 3D Modeling Tutorial.
Beginner Exercieses - Low Poly Asset Modeling by Grant Abbitt.
Recording Studio in Blender- 3D Isometric Modeling Process.
All 50+ Modifiers in Blender Explained in 30 Minutes.

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 🗿Modeling ^ / Sculpting:

YanSculpts' Channel
Julien Kaspar's Channel
Introduction to Sculpting in Blender - Sculpting Essentials.
The Speed Sculpting Guide - Learn from Limitation.
Sculpting in Blender - Beginners Detailed Guide - Every Brush.

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 🗿Modeling ^ / Character Modeling:

Stylized Character Workflow with Blender.
Modeling a character BaseMesh in Blender.

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 🗿Modeling ^ / Hard Surface:

Hard-surface Modeling in Blender by Gleb Alexandrov.
Blender Hardsurface Sculpting Tips.

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 🌌Geometry Nodes ^

Geometry Nodes Manual. 🧾
Geometry Nodes by Chris Prenninger
Geometry Nodes by Blue Fox
Geometry Nodes Basics for Beginners by Bradley Animation

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 🔘Shader Nodes ^

Shader Nodes List. 🧾
Shading Editor Basics by Blender.
Blender - Everything About The Principled BSDF (In 3 Minutes).
Advanced Materials in Blender - Shader Editor Tutorial.
Blender Procedural Nodes Playlist by Default Cube.
Node School Playlist by Grant Abbitt.
Blender Principled BSDF (Speed Tutorials) by Royal Skies LLC.
Blender Procedural Texturing (Speed Tutorials) by Royal Skies LLC.
All 80+ Blender material nodes explained in under 30 minutes.

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 🌠Animation ^

Animation & Rigging Manual. 🧾
Blender Animate Running In 2 Minutes!
Rig any Character for Animation in 10 Minutes!
Blender Character Animation: Shape Keys.
Create Loop Animations.
Blender Animation (Speed Tutorials) by Royal Skies LLC.
Blender Rigging (Speed Tutorials) by Royal Skies LLC.
Quick Smooth Camera Movements.

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 🔲UV Mapping ^

UV Editor Manual. 🧾
UV Unwrapping - Blender Fundamentals.
Blender UV Mapping (Speed Tutorials) by Royal Skies LLC.

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 🔳Texture Painting ^

Texture Paint Manual. 🧾
Blender Beginner Texturing Painting Tutorial.
Blender Texture Painting- Quick Start.
Blender Texture Painting (Speed Tutorials) by Royal Skies LLC.

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 📐Compositing ^

Compositing Nodes List. 🧾
How to composite renders in Blender.
Blender Render Passes and Very Basic Compositing.
Render Passes in Blender - What are they and why even use them?
How to use blender's compositor to improve a rendered frame sequence.
Blender Compositor for Post Processing.

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 🤺Motion Tracking/Capture ^

Motion Tracking Manual. 🧾
Blender Motion Tracking Series by CGmatter.
Add CGI Characters to Live Footage by CG Geek.
Blender Facial motion capture tutorial.
How to 3D Motion Capture Easy and Free with a Phone!
Add VFX to Cinematic RAW and LOG Footage

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / Premium Tutorials ^

Blender Cloud
CG Cookie , , ,
gumroad/blender :

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jamajurabaev , , ,

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udemy/blender :

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / Premium Tutorials ^ / udemy/blender

Creating 3D environments in Blender by Rob Tuytel

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / Premium Tutorials ^

blendermarket/training , ,

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / Fundamentals ^

Pixar in a Box 📦 : Pixar and Khan Academy have collaborated to create, develop, and promote a series of learning tutorials that demonstrate how traditional school subjects such as math, science, and the arts are a vital part of the everyday work put into Pixar's filmmaking process

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^ / 📚Books ^

Blender For Dummies by Jason van Gumster
Blender Secrets by Jan van den Hemel
Blender 3D Architect by Allan Brito

👩🏽‍💻Development ^ / Scripting/Developing ^ / 🧾Documentation:

Blender Python API Documentation : Official Blender Python API Documentation
Programming Add-ons for Blender 2.8 : It shows how to set up a professional IDE for writing Python programs for Blender, on the example of a simple plugin. It is an ebook, published freely on Creative Commons license
blenderscripting : blender related python snippets to get you started
Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Python Scripting : Python Scripting from book

👩🏽‍💻Development ^ / Scripting/Developing ^ / Video Tutorials:

Scripting for Artists by Blender.
Blender Programming Tutorials by Olav3D.
Blender Scripting by Darkfall
Blender 2.8 Addon Development Tutorial for Beginners by jayanam.
Creating a Blender 2.8 Voxelize Python Script ▷ ,

👩🏽‍💻Development ^ / Scripting/Developing ^ / Posts:

Blender 2.8 Python Scripting Superpowers for Non-Programmers : If you’ve been using Blender or any other 3D app for a while, you’ve found yourself slogging through the same tasks over and over again and at some point thinking, “I really wish Blender just did this for me”. Through scripting, it can!
Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art : learning the basics of scripting for Blender Grease-Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground
Visualizing Complex Numbers in Blender : This tutorial introduces how to make patterns with complex numbers in Blender

👩🏽‍💻Development ^ / Scripting/Developing ^ / Sources:

blender-scripting 762 about 3 years ago : Introduction to blender scripting. This is a collection of simple to more involved examples to scripting in Blender with Python
The Code Editor : This thread is for discussing how the Text Editor can be improved and sharing add-ons which will modernize, expand and ease coding in Blender
fake-bpy-module 1,406 8 days ago : is the collections of the fake Blender Python API modules for the code completion in commonly used IDEs
blender-debugger-for-vscode 307 almost 2 years ago : Blender addon for remote debugging Blender with VS Code (and Visual Studio)
Blender Development in VS Code : Visual Studio Code extension for Blender development
blender-cli-rendering 778 12 months ago : Python scripts for rendering images using Blender from command-line interface
render-useful : Command-line tools for Blender renders
textension 37 about 1 year ago : Productivity enhancements for Blender's text editor and autocomplete modules for Blender python API
blender-addon-tester 65 11 months ago : The blender addon tester is a test harness to enable pytest hook to allow addons to be tested inside a defined version of blender
EasyBPY : This purpose of this module is to simplify the use of the Blender API (bpy) by creating an extra layer of abstraction that is more human-readable, memorable and reduces the user's exposure to complex code paths
Advanced Blender Add-on 39 about 4 years ago : This repository intends to give a starter kit as well as to illustrate and intensively comment design patterns commonly used in advanced Blender add-ons
3DN BIP 59 over 1 year ago : A Python library for Blender. Blazingly fast preview loads in Blender. Images of arbitrary size. drop-in replacement
Geometry Script 265 25 days ago : is a scripting API for Blender's Geometry Nodes. It makes complicated node trees more managable and easy to share

👩🏽‍💻Development ^ / Scripting/Developing ^ / Support:

devtalk/python : Questions about using and developing the , both for Blender itself and add-ons
blenderartists/python-support ,

👩🏽‍💻Development ^ / Blender Source ^

Developer Documentation 🧾 : Here you can find information about Blender's development process, design and architecture, as well as instructions for Building Blender
🔌 Developer Portal | |

👩🏽‍💻Development ^ / Learn Python ^

Awesome Python 225,227 3 months ago : A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources
All Algorithms implemented in Python 194,305 6 days ago

👩🏽‍💻Development ^ / Learn Computer Graphics ^

Computer Graphics from scratch This book will not teach you how to use OpenGL or DirectX; instead, it can teach you how OpenGL and DirectX work
tinyraytracer 5,040 over 1 year ago : Understandable RayTracing in 256 lines of bare C++
tinyrenderer 20,605 17 days ago : Tiny Renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code
Awesome Computer Graphics 801 over 3 years ago : A curated list of awesome stuff to learn computer graphics
awesome-graphics 1,056 over 4 years ago : Curated list of computer graphics tutorials and resources
awesome-3d-human 244 about 1 year ago : A curated list of papers & resources linked to 3D Human research including face, body, hand and motion modeling
awesome-3d-printing 709 2 days ago : A curated list of awesome 3D printing resources
3D-Machine-Learning 9,773 5 months ago : A resource repository for 3D machine learning
Awesome Gamedev 2,423 7 days ago : A curated list of good stuff related to the development of games
Awesome Design Tools 33,997 4 months ago : The best design tools and plugins for everything
Awesome Design 15,685 5 months ago : Curated design resources
Awesome Stock Resources 13,048 4 months ago : A collection of links for free stock photography, video and Illustration websites
GameDev Resources 4,041 about 2 months ago : A wonderful list of Game Development resources
VFX Good Night Reading 490 about 2 years ago : Curated collection of good reading about VFX and CG
Photogrammetry Guide 1,173 11 months ago : A guide covering Photogrammetry including the applications, libraries and tools that will make you a better and more efficient Photogrammetry development

🖇Social ^ / 📢Youtube Channels ^

IanHubert : , modeling, animating, vfx, cinematic
Midge Sinnaeve : modifiers, , art streams
CGMatter : short tutorials
Default Cube : CGMatter's second channel used for longer tutorials and other kinds of videos
SouthernShotty : stylized modeling, character creation, sculpting
Blender Guru : Most popular blender channel on youtube
CG Geek : second most popular blender channel on youtube
Gleb Alexandrov : one of the best-known blender channel on youtube
Ducky 3D : abstract designs, modifiers
Royal Skies LLC : , texturing, mapping, nodes, animation
Grant Abbitt : modeling, animation, sculpting, low-poly, game assets
Chris Prenninger : animation nodes, particle systems, shading
Jayanam : Shading, coding, modeling
CG Boost : modeling, sculpting
CG Cookie : free tutorials from
FlippedNormals : sculpting, modeling
Curtis Holt : modeling, modifiers, coding
Polygon Runway : stylish low-poly modeling
Steven Scott : add-ons, feature reviews
Blender NPR : non-Photorealistic and expressive rendering
Martin Klekner : modeling, texturing
Danny Mac 3D : character modeling, posing, rigging, retopology, sculpting
Daniel Krafft - DSO : blender tips, add-ons
Imphenzia : low poly modeling, rigging
Saqib Hussain : modeling, modifiers, texturing, shading
CrossMind Studio : introduction, modeling, shading, lighting, modifiers
CBaileyFilm : blender animation projects
Josh Gambrell : hard surface modeling
CG Masters : modeling, texturing, shading
Peter France : modeling, texturing, shading, vfx
Polyfjord : animation
Cédric Lepiller : hard surface modeling
FlyCat : character modeling
Stylized Station : game art
Iridesium : simulation, vfx
Lightning Boy Studio : toon shader, npr
Giulia Marchetti : sculpting, character modeling
CG Fast Track : modeling, animation
3DGreenhorn : isometric modeling
Bad Normals : modeling, animation
Kevandram : grease pencil
Noggi : sculpting
DerekElliott : modeling, animation
Samuel Sullins : Geometry Nodes, vfx, lowpoly, general
CG Python : blender Python scripting tips and tricks

🖇Social ^ / 💻Blogs ^

The Blend : Weekly articles & lessons on Blender & 3D
Blender Sushi : Collection of 3D ideas, poetries and experiments blended in Blender 3D
Artisticrender : Tutorials, tips, resources about Blender and 3D
Creative Shrimp : High quality CG tutorials and Blender tutorials, digital art and lighting tutorials with Gleb and Aidy
Blender 3D Architect : is the place to find news, tutorials, resources and training related to architectural visualization using Blender
BlenderAddons.org : provides a list of free and paid Blender addons. Find the addon you need under categories or tags
Interplanety : Blender tutorials, articles, tips, notes
Darkfall : Blender python tutorials, nodes
The CG Essentials : 3D modeling, rendering, animation, particle simulation, and more, this is the place to be for Blender Tutorials
Blender Secrets : is home to hundreds of one-minute or less video tutorials that teach you specific topics

🖇Social ^ / 🎊Challenges ^

Nodevember : The yearly event for everything procedural. Feel like doing a challenge? #nodevember is all about creating and promoting procedural awesomeness! A whole month to improve and show off your procedural skills

🖇Social ^ / 🎊Challenges ^ / Nodevember

tw/#nodevember See works: , ,

🖇Social ^ / 🎊Challenges ^

SculptJanuary : Challenge yourself over 31 days with a set of 31 topics. Sculpt every day and improve your sculpting skills

🖇Social ^ / 🎊Challenges ^ / SculptJanuary

tw/#sculptjanuary See works: , ,

🖇Social ^ / 🎊Challenges ^

36 Days of Type : is a yearly open call inviting designers, illustrators and visual artists to share their view on the letters and numbers from our alphabet

🖇Social ^ / 🎊Challenges ^ / 36 Days of Type

tw/#36daysoftype See works: , ,

🖇Social ^ / 🎊Challenges ^

/r/blender: contest Competitions: ,
Render Challenge : The most up-to-date database of 3D art challenges on the Internet! Get notified of new render challenges every Friday
pwnisher : Clinton Jones' Youtube channel regularly organizes 3D Challanges

🖇Social ^ / 🎉Events ^

Blender Conference : The yearly Blender Conference in Amsterdam. (Playlists: , , , , , )

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