awesome-cg-vfx-pipeline

Allusion is a tool to help you organize your . It is a complementary tool to PureRef or another Board tool, like or - no open source software - or

BeeRef

A simple Reference Image Viewer

Cascade Image Editor

A node-based image editor with GPU-acceleration

Gimel Studio

Cross-platform, non-destructive, node based 2D image graphics editor

Imogen

GPU Texture generator using dear imgui for UI

Professional quality vector graphics software

A professional painting program

Materia

An open source alternative to Substance Designer written in C#

MyPaint

Graphics editor for digital painters with a focus on painting rather than image manipulation or post-processing

Animation production software

An easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations, the best way to visualize your story

Storyboard editor

2D animation software

A procedural texture creation tool that let you create textures by connecting nodes in a graph

A cross-platform image editor

WebXR/VR painting, drawing, and image editing app

A procedural terrain generation and procedural modelling toolkit

A full-featured open-source framework for digital image processing

2D raster & vector editor that melds traditional layers & tools with a modern node-based procedural workflow

Animation Nodes

A node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender

A stand-alone software designed for physically-based texture painting

Modeling and animation

Blender Awesome List

More addon and resources around Blender in this awesome list

Tissue

Blender's add-on for computational design

Sverchok

A powerful parametric Blender tool for architects, allowing geometry to be programmed visually with nodes

A procedural modeling node-based system which utilises Blender and its Python API to create a visual programming environment for artists and developers

Dust3D is brand new 3D modeling software. It lets you create watertight 3D models in seconds. Use it to speed up character modeling for games, 3D printing, and so on.

Fast and minimalist 3D viewer, with animation, thumbnails and many file formats support

FragM

Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen's Fragmentarium fork representing a compilation of features and fixes

Gaffer

Gaffer is a great toolbox, it's a VFX application that enables look developers, lighters, and compositors to easily build, tweak, iterate, and render scenes

glChAoS.P

RealTime 3D Strange Attractors scout on GPU

Mandelbulb3D

A program designed for the Windows platform, for generating 3D views of different fractals

Mandelbulber v2

Mandelbulber creatively generates three-dimensional fractals

System for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes

End-user visual programming in the browser for automating complex tasks

Nodi

Nodi is an online node-based geometry design tool, it's a web tool

Penzil

A web application to sketch in 3d made in three.js and Vue

Possumwood

A graph-based procedural sandbox, implementing concepts of graph-based visual programming in a simple interface

VFX Fractal Toolkit

Set of tools for generating fractal and generative art

An advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use

ZENO

Node based 3D system able to produce cinematic physics effects at High Efficiency

Blackjack

A procedural, node-based modelling tool, made in rust

Plasticity

A 3d modelling software for concept artists

Threestudio

A unified framework for 3D content generation

A procedural materials authoring tool, based on the Godot Engine

An easy web framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences

3D engine with Blender integration focused on portability, minimal footprint and performance

WebGL engine

A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

Cauldron

A simple framework for rapid prototyping on Vulkan or DirectX12

Falcor

A real-time rendering framework supporting DirectX 12 aiming to improve productivity of research and prototype projects

Filament

PBR engine, available with all platforms (desktop, mobile)

Fusee

A multiplatform 3D C# realtime engine with a strong emphasis on content transformation and manipulation

C++ based 2D/3D realtime engine (PC, console, mobile, HMTL5)

Harfang 3D

C++ 3D visualization library also usable in Python, Lua and Go (Windows, Linux)

Neo Axis Engine

NeoAxis Engine is an integrated development environment with built-in 3D and 2D game engine

Open source graphical rendering engine

An open-source, real-time 3D development engine

Overload

3D Game engine with editor

Python based 3d Engine (PC)

Game engine dedicated tor realistic rendering and VR, develop with a C# techno

WebGL engine

Procedural GL JS

Based on Three.js, this framework is dedicated to generate a 3D Map experience on a web service

C++ based 2D/3D realtime engine (PC, console, mobile, HMTL5)

UPBGE

Integrated game engine in Blender

A C++ voxel game engine

Ardour

Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux, macOS and Windows

helio.fm

One music sequencer for all major platforms, desktop and mobile

Jam

open source alternative to Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces and similar audio spaces. Create audio rooms that can be used for panel discussions, jam sessions, free flowing conversations, debates, theatre plays, musicals and more

LMSS

Cross-platform music production software

A list of open-source VST (and other format) plugin/app projects

zrythm

a highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation

Physically-based global illumination rendering engine

bgfx

Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library

Physically based production renderer developed by the Blender project

kajiya

Experimental real-time global illumination renderer made with Rust and Vulkan

Physically-based and unbiased rendering engine

A research-oriented retargetable rendering system, written in portable C++17 on top of the Enoki library

DreamWorks’ open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer, which has been used on several feature films

OSPRay

An open source, scalable, and portable ray tracing engine for high-performance, high-fidelity visualization on Intel Architecture CPUs

Physically-based engine, product by AMD

Tungsten

High performance physically based renderer in C++11

Yocto/GL

A collection of small C++17 libraries for building physically-based graphics algorithms

A real-time path tracing renderer that enables fast product visualizations

Photogrammetric Computer Vision Framework

Meshroom

3D Reconstruction Software

A general-purpose Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface

A library for computer-vision scientists and targeted for the Multiple View Geometry community

Photography workflow application and raw developer

A tool that decodes any raw image from any digital camera on any computer running any operating system

RawTherapee

free, cross-platform raw image processing program

A Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs as a layerbased real-time compositor

Professional review software for VFX, animation, and film production

A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video

Pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows

Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application

Video editing software based on the MLT Framework, KDE and Qt

Cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media

mrViewer2

The Professional Flipbook, Video and Audio Player

Open Source Compositing Software For VFX and Motion Graphics

OBS

software designed for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content, efficiently

Non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software

OpenShot

award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows, and is dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world

A free and open source software tool that helps users analyze and understand their digitized video files through use of audiovisual analytics and filtering

A free, open source, cross-platform video editor

tlRender

timeline render, is an early stage project for rendering editorial timelines

UltraGrid

UltraGrid low-latency audio and video network transmission system

Image playback and review for the filmmaking community

OpenRV

Open source version of RV, a digital review tool for film, TV, and games

Thekla atlas

| This tool performs mesh segmentation, surface parameterization, and chart packing

xatlas

| Fork from , it's a library to generate an UV for -example- lightmap uv

Capsule

Blender addon to export, manage and automate to shared between blender and Unreal/Unity or other realtime engine

Genetic Drawing

Python library to generate a stylised rendering from an image

Glsl Texture

Create textures from Glsl fragment shaders on Blender (2.8)

OD CopyPasteExternal

Tool to easily copy/paste a geometry across 3D application like Blender <> 3DS Max <> Maya <> ... <> and more

Prisma

Computational photography pipeline tool that performs multiple inferences (masks, depth, motionvectors) from any image or video

UE4 Env. project

An Environment Simulation project for Unreal Engine 4

LYNX

Free & OpenSource VFX Pipeline Tools

qLib

A procedural asset library for SideFX Houdini

SideFX Labs

A completely free, open-source toolset geared towards assisting Houdini users with a variety of tasks commonly used for digital content creation

trigger

Operational code driven rigging tool for Autodesk Maya

xComp

Image Render comparing

To build dashboards quickly

To build simple business apps

To build tables quickly

Ink

open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative

Another Python module for file sequence parsing and formatting

Fileseq

Frame ranges and file sequences parsing

gofileseq

A Golang port of the library above

String/filepath templates system inspired by SGTK's template mechanisms

pyseq

Another Python module for file sequence parsing and serialization

fls

A Rust command line tool and library to list and pack frame sequences

WebXR/VR UI components toolkit (that the VR drawing app is built upon.)

NodeGraphQt

Node graph for Qt

Nodz

Node generator for Qt

Qt.py

Qt versions abstraction

QtWebengine

Render web content in Qt

A filesystem browser for PySide supporting sequences grouping

SceneGraph

Ui for scene graph

Thonside

Python console for Qt apps

CGCmake

CMake modules for CG apps

Cortex

Libraries for VFX software development

Cross3D

Scene and node management abstraction

ExoCortex for Max 2018

ExoCortex ported to Max 2018

mGui

Portable pure-python GUI library for Maya

minq

Maya query language for speeding up common scene operations

A layered code compositing application

Photoshop Python API

Python API for Photoshop

Py3dsMax

3dsMax API in Python

PyMEL

Python in Maya Done Right

Pymiere

Python API for Premiere Pro

PyTVPaint

Python scripting for TVPaint

OpenFX

Image processing plug-in standard

BlenderGIS

Geo data importer

A software project that provides easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of a C++ library

CvWrap

Fast Maya wrap deformer

A library for skinning decomposition

Easy3D

A lightweight, easy-to-use, and efficient C++ library for processing and rendering 3D data

A C++ template library for linear algebra: matrices, vectors, numerical solvers, and related algorithms

A collection of high performance ray tracing kernels that helps graphics application engineers to improve the performance of their photorealistic rendering application

A modern C++ library of data structures and algorithms for geometry processing, with a particular focus on surface meshes

Optimesh

Python library to optimise a triangular mesh, remesh with various

A simple C++ geometry processing library

Parametric human character modeling

A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing

A set of open source libraries that implement high performance subdivision surface evaluation on massively parallel CPU and GPU architectures

A unified interface that makes it easier to load, save, and manipulate particle files

A standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing

A modern C++ open-source library for processing and visualizing polygon surface meshes

QHull

Convex hull generator

Rigify

Auto-rigging Addon for Blender

Simplex

Blendshape Solver

An efficient framework dedicated to research, prototyping and development of physics-based simulations

Polyscope

A C++ & Python viewer for 3D data like meshes and point clouds

Quadriflow

Convert a mesh to a quadrangular algorithms

Instant Meshes

Remeshing software

autoremesher

Automatic quad remeshing tool

mmg

mmg is an open source software for bidimensional and tridimensional surface and volume remeshing

An open-source Python package providing a comprehensive number of algorithms and datasets for colour science

( ) - Unified color environment, a complete color management solution geared towards motion picture production with an emphasis on visual effects and computer animation

BRDF Explorer

The Disney BRDF Explorer is an application that allows the development and analysis of bidirectional reflectance distribution functions

Language to manipulate shaders

A texture mapping system developed by Walt Disney Animation Studios for production-quality rendering

SeExpr

An embeddable, arithmetic expression language that enables flexible artistic control and customization in creating computer graphics images

MDL

Material Definition Language SDK

An open source library of high-performance, high-quality denoising filters for images rendered with ray tracing

Color management

Animations

A portable Open-Source library to import various well-known 3D model formats in a uniform manner

Cryptomatte

Accurate object ID mattes

An open source library for storing voxel data

Use ImageMagick to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images

Kiko

DCC-agnostic animation curves storage (works between Maya and Nuke, with more DCCs to come)

MaterialX

Materials and look-dev

meshio

Input/output for many mesh formats

An open source computer vision and machine learning software library

( ) - C++ extensions for OpenEXR's "deep" file format

( ) - exceptional image format for visual effects purposes, pioneered by ILM

OpenEXRid

Object isolation

OpenImageIO

A library for reading and writing images in many common and VFX related formats

( ) - Editorial timeline

Raven

Experimental OpenTimelineIO Viewer

OpenVDB AX

Fast expression language for manipulating OpenVDB files

( ) - Volumetric data

A set of command line programs for reading, writing and manipulating high-dynamic range (HDR) images and video frames

texture-synthesis

Example-based texture synthesis written in Rust

OpenAssetIO

Interoperability standard for tools and content management systems used in media production

AL_USDMaya

Represent Maya data in Maya, and USD data in USD

luma_usd

Plugins for USD

OpenWalter

USD Plugins Arnold, Houdini, Katana, Maya and USD

Program designed for lightweight browsing, managing, and editing of Universal Scene Description (USD) files

USD Shell Extension for Windows

a full-featured Windows shell extension for giving the File Explorer support for USD thumbnails, side previews and even exposes certain deep metadata to Windows Search

usd-arnold

USD Schemas and tools for exchanging Arnold shader information between multiple 3rd party packages

usd-noodle

Pretty node graph showing dependencies of a USD file

USD-URI-resolver

A generic, URI based resolver for USD, support custom plugins

Scenes

UsdQt

Qt components for building custom USD tools

usd-qtpy

Python Qt components for building custom USD tools

rsync

open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases

rclone

rsync for cloud storage Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

high speed file transfer protocol using UDP and TCP for high speed long distance networks

reliable UDP based application level data transport protocol for distributed data intensive applications over wide area high-speed networks

WDT

Warp speed Data Transfer (WDT) is an embeddedable library (and command line tool) aiming to transfer data between 2 systems as fast as possible over multiple TCP paths

is a CG tools pack that includes AFANASY, a free opensource render farm manager

from Mercenaries Engineering (developers of Guerilla Render)

from the Blender Foundation

( ) An open source render management system from Sony Imageworks

Open-Source Renderfarm-Manager

Plow

by Chad Vernon

bleeding-rez

a very active Rez fork with improved isolation, Windows support and Python 2+3 support

mamba

a faster drop-in replacement for "conda"

qip

Quarantined Installer for Python

Allzpark

Based on Rez manager, can manage your software to give an specific software, really usefull with old project

Tik Manager

Artist friendly asset and pipeline manager

Production tracking for film makers (Blender Foundation)

For small to mid-size studios

Ramses

Asset Management System for motion picture production (by )

Stalker

Open Source Production Asset Management (ProdAM) Library designed specifically for Animation and VFX Studios

A Python framework that brings test-driven development to visual effects and triple-A game creation

Blender Pyblish

Blender Addon to integrate the Pyblish framework

Animal Logic's USD Docker

A set of docker build scripts which will download all the Open Source packages required to build Pixar's Universal Scene Description, as well as USD itself

Deadline

Docker images for Thinkbox Software Deadline

Jean-Paul Start

Small (with Ansible-like syntax) launcher with GUI

WSL Distribution Switcher

Change the distro behind Windows Subsystem

AFX

Everyday compositing for Nuke

Cmt

Various Maya tools

FTrack Hooks

Set of plugins for FTrack

OnionSkinRenderer

Onion Skin Renderer for Maya

Palladio

CityEngine Plugin for Houdini

RIFE for Nuke

Real-Time Intermediate Flow Estimation for Video Frame Interpolation (ie machine learning for framerate upscaling) for Nuke

Wiretap

Manage Flame Wiretap database

MayaCharm

Run and edit Maya scripts directly from PyCharm

USD

Plug-in for USD

MariSublime

Run and edit Mari scripts directly from SublimeText

MayaSublime

Run and edit Maya scripts directly from SublimeText

A Sublime Text package to send Python or BlinkScript code inside Nuke

VEX

Houdini add-on for Sublime Text

nuke.vim

Run and edit Nuke scripts directly from vim

blender_vscode

Visual Studio Code extension for Blender development

( ) - for syntax highlighting support

( ) - Maya syntax highlighting support, along with autocomplete commands and send code to maya via command port

( ) - Run Maya code from VSCode

( ) - for syntax highlighting support

Nuke tools to help the development process inside Visual Studio Code

( ) - for syntax highlighting support, courtesy of the folks at Animal Logic

Alternative to MayaPort, serving the same purpose

( ) - for syntax highlighting support

Nuke tools to help the development process inside Visual Studio Code

A WebSocket client to send code from web browser text editor to a DCC application

VFX good night reading

Curated collection of good reading about VFX and CG