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2.8+ Compatible List discord Contributions are Welcome

A curated list of awesome Blender add-ons, tools, tutorials and resources for 3D Artists, Hobbyists, Developers, Researchers. Focused mostly open source and free resources. Blender 2.8+ compatible list.

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🔮Add-ons ^

🌊Simulation/Physics ^

  • FLIP Fluids : 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. market
  • Molecular Script : is a particle collision addon that makes particles collide for creating certain types of simulations, effects and particles linking as well.
  • Jet-Fluids : Jet fluid simulator integration in blender.
  • Mantaflow : is an open-source framework targeted at fluid simulation research in Computer Graphics. Now it is part of the blender since 2.82 release!
  • projectile : An artist-friendly tool for throwing stuff around inside blender.
  • Phobos : Phobos is an add-on for the open-source 3D modeling software Blender that enables the creation of WYSIWYG robot models for use in robot frameworks like ROS and ROCK or in real-time simulations such as MARS or Gazebo.
  • FishSim : Fish Swimming Simulator. This addon aims to make it easier to animate natural movements of fish by allowing the animation of targets or proxies, and then simulating the movements required for the fish to follow these targets.
  • CubeSurfer : IsoSurface mesher addons for Blender.

🦑Generator/Builder ^

  • MB-Lab : is a free, open source character creation tool for Blender.
  • FaceBuilder [$] : is a Blender add-on that lets you create photorealistic 3D models of human faces and heads using a few photographs with a neutral face expression. [medium]
  • The Grove 3D [$] : Grow natural 3D trees for visualisation and film. Grow, bend, prune, interactively simulate the seasons year by year.
  • tree-gen : procedural generation of tree models in blender.
  • Modular Tree : This addon for blender allows the creation of realistic trees with the node editor.
  • Bricker [$] : Photoreal Lego/Minecraft Simulations.
  • SpaceshipGenerator : procedurally generate 3D spaceships.
  • Space Station Generator : Tool lets you generate sprawling space stations.
  • Building Tools : Building generation addon for blender.
  • Procedural Cloudscape Generation : Create pretty realistic looking cloudscapes in Cycles and Eevee.
  • Real Snow : is an addon to create snow on top of objects.
  • Welder : welds generator for Blender.
  • Sprytile : a blender add-on for building tile based low-poly scenes with paint/map editor like tools. [more info]
  • Scatter [$] : The scattering tool for blender.
  • SceneCity [$] : Generate large road networks and mass-place tens of thousands of buildings. Mix both procedural and hand-made assets.
  • Graswald [$] : is the solution for 3D Artists who need realistic vegetation in their scenes.
  • Celtic Knot : Generate bezier curves, pipes and ribbons in elaborate weavings, based off of a framework mesh.
  • Floorboard Generator : Generate floor board.
  • Piperator : is an addon for blender which helps generating complex pipe layouts.
  • Mesh Maze : Blender add-on to generate a maze on any mesh.
  • BookGen : is a free book-generation addon for Blender.
  • City Scatter : Generate cityscape concepts, powered by Blender's collection system.
  • TubeTool : Generate tubing between two selected polygons.
  • Blender Data Visualisation : Load data into Blender and create visualisations.
  • Lightning Addon : Simple add-on to summon lightning.
  • HGen : Blender hair generation and manipulating tool.
  • Data-FX : Loads and visualizes different types of data within Blender from .csv files.
  • Geometry nodes : Free examples of geometry nodes including procedural buildings and a hex grid map.
  • Post USSR Builder : Simple post USSR style building generator on geometry nodes. 2.93 and newer
  • G Scatter : Artist-friendly scattering for free from developers of Grasswald.

🧊Modeling ^

  • Sorcar : Procedural modeling in Blender using Node Editor.
  • Sverchok : is a powerful parametric tool for architects, allowing geometry to be programmed visually with nodes. (sverchok-extra)
  • MACHIN3tools : is a free, continuously evolving collection of blender tools and pie menus in a single customizable package. market
  • 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. (blender addon)
  • PolyQuilt : 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. [more info]
  • Modeling Cloth : 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 : 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 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Hard Surface:
    • KIT OPS : Can create objects and scenes with extreme efficiency and speed. Complex industrial designs can be generated in a single sitting.
    • HardOps/Boxcutter [$] : HardOps, is intended to be a workflow assistant toolkit. Boxcutter, the most powerful boolean subsystem for blender.
    • Speedflow [$] : Addon for non-destructive workflow.
    • Bevel After Boolean : Addon comes in handy when working with booleans that have a curved surface.
    • EdgeFlow : 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 : 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 : 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.
  • Sculpt:
    • Blender-Sculpt-Tools : 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 : 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.
  • Snapping-Align:
    • Mesh Align Plus : 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.
    • 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.
    • Blign : is an alignment and distribution tool for Blender. It allows users to align and distribute shapes with many different options.
  • Mesh Generate/Stylization:
    • Tissue : Add-on for computational design.
    • Mech/Fy A procedural workflow that automates the process of hard surfaces modelling.
    • RandoMesh : A blender addon to add randomized geometry to any mesh.
    • SliceMesh : Simple script for Blender 2.80 to automate mesh slicing.
    • SuperPoke : Iterative poking tool for Blender.
    • MegaGrid : 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 : Cuts up a Blender object and exports the slices to SVG files for cutting on a laser cutter or other post-processing.

🌠Animation ^

  • Animation Nodes : A node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender.
  • AnimAide : is a free add-on for Blender that has some helpful tools for animation.
  • Commotion : Blender add-on for motion graphics.
  • Animax [$] : is a procedural animation system for Blender. Useful for animating multiple objects.
  • AutoMask : A Blender Add-on for automatic rotoscoping with the help of Machine Learning.
  • COA Tools : is a 2D Animation Suite for blender. It offers a 2D cutout animation workflow similar to programs like spine or spriter.
  • reflow : Blender addon to change fps.
  • Keyframe Nudge : Scripts for quick keyframe manipulation.
  • Real-Time-Animation : Addon for animating by recording object motion This addon for Blender lets you move objects of any type (including cameras, lights, etc) and bones in 3D space and record their motion as keyframes.
  • Shape Keys+ : adds a panel with extra options for creating, sorting, viewing, and driving shape keys.
  • Blender NLA Midi Copier : Blender add-on for creating midi-driven animations from the Nonlinear Animation view.
  • BlendyPose : Blender Motion Capture using your camera.
  • Writing/Counting:
  • Rigging:
    • Rig on the Fly : Rig on the Fly is a Blender dynamic rigging tool used to simplify and speed up animation workflow.
    • JiggleArmature : is an easy way to create wiggle effects in blender, just enable jiggle bone on the bones you want to be jiggly.
    • Rigacar : Generate a complete rig as quickly as possible for standard car models.
    • RigFlex : Simple soft body for Blender armatures.
    • Rigid Bodys Generator : Blender addon to add Rigid bones and Joints on selected bones easily.
    • Universal Human Rigged Base Mesh [$] : 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.

🦖Game Engine ^

  • Armory : 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.

🗜Render Engine ^

  • appleseed : is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects. (blender addon)
  • 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. (blender addon)
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Pixar's RenderMan : Physically-based render from Pixar. [more info]
  • Blender Octane Render : Fully integrated Octane Render, free tier. (blender plugin manual)
  • *Redshift Blender Plugin Alpha : Redshift Trello page has been updated with a new Blender IPR Preview video. The Plug-in is currently under development. (video)

🔳Texture/UV ^

  • UV-Packer : Automatic and free UV-Packer Add-on for Blender.
  • DreamUV : is a collection of tools that allow you to manipulate UVs in the 3D viewport.
  • TexTools : TexTools is a Free addon for Blender 3D with a set of professional UV and Texturing tools.
  • Poliigon Uber Mapping Node : Anti-tile node setup for blender. [more info]
  • Parallax Mapping : This is Parallax Mapping material and node setup. Created in Blender 2.8 for eevee renderer, it works well in cycles too. [more info]
  • Texel Density Checker : Tools for calculate, set and copy texel density. market
  • UV Toolkit : Tools collection for UV editing in blender.
  • Magic-UV : This is a blender add-on Magic UV consisted of many UV manipulation features which Blender lack of.
  • EasyBake : Texture baking UI for Blender that lives in the 3D Viewport. Small but powerful! Fast one-click baking and iteration.
  • Principled-Baker : Bake PBR textures with a few clicks.
  • Blender Addon PBR : Provides a material panel that creates Metallic/Roughness or Specular/Gloss Nodes using the Principled BSDF shader.
  • PBR Texture Mapper : Create PBR node setup with one click.
  • Poliigon Material Converter : Create PBR node setup.
  • SCATTr : Procedural texture placement.
  • Vertex Oven : Bake game-ready ambient occlusion in seconds without UV unwrapping or agonizingly slow Cycles bakes. market
  • Bake Wrangler : is a nodes based extension and replacement for the inbuilt baking system.
  • 3D-Coat Applink : 3DCoat now has native support of Blender via built-in AppLink.
  • Lily Surface Scrapper : Import shaders in Blender from a single URL.
  • glslTexture : Create textures from Glsl fragment shaders.
  • Bake to Vertex Color : Transfer Image to selected Vertex Color in all selected Objects.
  • EZ Baker : An easier alternative to blender's default bake system.
  • Bystedts Blender Baker : This addon streamlines the texture baking process in Blender.

🎮GameDev ^

  • MeshSync : 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. Send to Unreal, UE to Rigify.
  • Mr Mannequins Tools : 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 : 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 : A Blender add-on containing workflow tools for game development. Includes tools for standardized import/export workflow, 3D modelling and new object types. [medium]
  • Asset Creation Toolset : Asset Creation Toolset is many tools for game asset creation.
  • Mixamo Converter : is a Blender Plugin that Converts Mixamo animations to work in Unreal Engine 4 with root motion.

🪀Misc ^

  • Management:
    • BlenderKit : Allows you to download assets, materials, and alpha brushes to your blender 2.8 client with the click of a button for free. Now you can find it on built-in addons.
    • 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 : Easy font management inside Blender.
    • Shot Manager by Ubisoft : is a add-on that introduces a true shot entity in Blender scenes.
  • Lighting/HDRI
    • Gaffer : 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. market
    • Extra Lights : is a plugin for Blender that adds physically based, photometric lighting presets to the Add menu. market
    • HDRI Sun Aligner : HDRI Sun Aligner is a Blender 2.8 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. market
    • Physical Starlight and Atmosphere [$] : is a full environmental simulator that takes inspiration of 'sandbox' game worlds and editors, bringing visual consistency between every object in the scene.
    • Free Sky Environment Shading : free custom procedural environment shading.
    • Lumiere : Interactive Lighting add-on for Blender.
  • Geographic/Maps:
  • VR/AR
    • blender-xr : A free virtual and mixed reality user interface for Blender that enables artists to edit scenes within the software using a suitable headset and controllers.
    • Blender-Metaverse-Addon : Blender toolset for creating content for Metaverses like High Fidelity.
  • ArcViz
    • JARCH-Vis : is add-on for Blender 3D that helps create commonly used object for architectural visualization.
    • Archipack [$] : 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.
  • Import:
  • Export:
  • Render:
  • Camera:
    • Real Camera : is an addon that allows you to control the Blender camera like a real camera.
    • Cameras-Lister : 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.
    • Photographer 3&4 [$] : Camera Exposure, White balance and Autofocus, Physical Light units, Optical Bokeh and more camera related enhancements. Photographer 3 is at a reduced price while Photographer 4 has newer features.
    • Camera Shakify : An addon for Blender that lets you easily add realistic camera shake to your cameras.
  • Audio Visualizer
  • Display:
  • VideoEditor:
    • Power Sequencer : Brings smart new editing features to edit faster with Blender's Video Sequence Editor. It is completely Free and Open Source.
    • VSEQF : 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 : Quickly transform, crop and fade video strips in Blender's Video Sequence Editor.
    • Easy Proxy : Blender addon to create proxy files for Video Sequence Editor (VSE) easily using FFMPEG.
    • Parallel_Render : Render the output from the Sequencer multithreaded through the Render siderbar.
    • Export EDL : Exports: video, audio and dissolves. to ex. Davinci Resolve, Lightworks, Final Cut Pro & Premiere Pro.
    • Import EDL : Imports: video, audio and dissolves.
    • Freesound Add-on : is an addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music.
    • Push to Talk : Convenient recording of scratch dialog for an edit.
    • Scene Strip Tools : Preview Scene Strips directly in the 3D View.
    • Subsimport : is an addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music.
  • TextEditor:
    • TexTension : For increasing productivity and generally trying to match the writing experience of a modern text editor.
    • Code Editor : Adds minimap, text tabs, whitespace markers and indent guides.
    • Run in Console : Execute a text block and catch its output (prints and errors) in Blender's interactive console.
    • Snippets Library : Allow you use and manage a library of your own and existing code snippets.
    • Search Online References : Search current text in API Reference, Python Reference, Blender Stack Exchange, Blender Source Code and Github.
    • Run PEP8 Check : Check current script for pep8 mistakes.
    • Formatting : Trim whitespace change case and split and join lines.
    • Insert and Navigate to Text Markers : Insert and navigate to text marker positions.
    • Autocomplete/Intellisense : Autocomplete/Intellisense for the Text Editor.
  • Photogrammetry:
  • 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 : Save Eevee Presets.
  • Nodes:
    • PrintNodes : Export high quality screenshots of your nodes. Great for getting support.
  • CubeSter : is an add-on for Blender 3D that takes an image or audio file and converts it into a height-based mesh object.
  • Projectors : A blender add-on for simple projector creation and modification.
  • Simple Renaming Panel : 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 : A helper to quick switch workspaces and view render menu in viewport.
  • MifthTools : 3Dcoat, Houdini, Modo mesh exchange tools and more.
  • Modifier List : Alternative UI layout for modifiers with handy features. Available also inside the sidebar and as a popup.
  • Verge3D : is a powerful yet cost-efficient solution for creating interactive 3D web experiences.
  • ProSidebar : Add additional properties and operators to the 3D View Sidebar.
  • Tilecam : Render seamlessly repeatable images.
  • Fbx Format Converter : This project allows you to convert binary fbx files to asciis and vice versa.
  • Set Viewport Color : Blender Script to Set the Viewport Color based on a nodetree.
  • PresetterProfessional : 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 : 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.
  • BlenderBIM : An add-on for beautiful, detailed, and data-rich OpenBIM with Blender.
  • Kaleidoscope : 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.
  • BagaPie Modifier : This addon create modifier and geometry nodes preset like: boolean, scatter, auto array on curve.
  • Mixer by Ubisoft : 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.

🎴Themes ^

🪐Resources ^

🎠3D Models ^

🤸🏾‍♀️Mocap/Animation ^

🌑Textures ^

🌓Blender Materials ^

🌲Blender Scenes/Files ^

⛅HDRIs ^

🖼️Art/Reference ^

🛰Space ^

🎧Sound/Music ^

  • Freesound.org : Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. cc
  • 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. by
  • 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. cc
  • ccMixter.org : is a community remix site operated by ArtisTech Media, created by Creative Commons. cc
  • 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.

🏞Free Stocks ^

🌂Useful ^

  • Sheep it Render Farm : is a free distributed renderfarm for Blender.
  • Render on Google Colab :
    • This script can be used to render with blender on Google Colab. Only Cycles. (Alternative) (Video Tutorial)
    • This is an example on how to use Meshroom in Google Colab with uploaded images to generate a textured mesh (OBJ) that can be downloaded.
    • How to run OpenGL desktop programs on Google Colab. You should follow this instruction if you want to work with Eevee.
  • Daily Blender Tips : blender.daily, Blender Secrets(tw, yt).
  • IOR List : Index of Refraction values list for use with 3D applications.
  • MatCaps : Huge library of matcap PNG textures organized by color.
  • Blender Matcap Shader : An implementation of Blender's workbench matcap shading in shader nodes.
  • 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 ^

Blender Builds ^

3D Tools ^

  • MeshLab : Open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.
  • AutoRemesher : Open-source auto-retopology tool intended to convert source meshes into clean, animation-friendly all-quad geometry.
  • Instant Meshes : 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 : 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. (blender addon)
  • Adobe Fuse : Create unique human characters, designs, prototypes and more. Available as free beta.
  • Neobarok : 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. Free for early adopters.
  • 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.

Various Tools ^

  • 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 : 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 Shadertoy API to bring thousands of existing shader artworks into a cinematic 3D environment.
  • Possumwood : 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.
  • Blender Tools:
  • Fractal:
    • Mandelbulb3D : is a free software application created for 3D fractal imaging.
    • JWildfire : Stands out for its flame fractal generator. Wildfire is a java-based image processing software.
    • glChAoS.P : 3D strange attractors GPU scout and hypercomplex fractals over 200 Million particles.
    • Other Fractal Softwares.
  • Design:
    • Nodi : is an online node-based geometry design tool & social development environment.
    • Dotgrid : is a grid-based vector drawing software designed to create logos, icons and type. It supports layers, the full SVG specs and additional effects such as mirroring and radial drawing.
    • Adobe Color : Create color palettes with the color wheel or image, browse thousands of color combinations from the Adobe Color community.

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 : 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.
  • in3D : 3D body scanning on your phone.

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 : 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.
  • Asset Ninja : Connects your favorite asset marketplaces and other sources to all of your favorite tools. Browse, manage, and export assets straight from your desktop.
  • 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.

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.

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. Registration required.

Point Cloud/LiDAR Data ^

Generator ^

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 : Dain-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 : Image Upscaling GUI based on ESRGAN.
  • Video2X : A lossless video/GIF/image upscaler achieved with waifu2x, Anime4K, SRMD and RealSR.

Sound/Music ^

Painting ^

🔍Explore Blender ^

Documantation ^

📖 User Manual | 🔗 Python API | ⚙️ Developer Wiki

Developement ^

🔌 Developer Portal | 💭 DevTalk | 💻 Developers Blog

Community ^

🖇Social ^

🔍Explore Artworks ^

🐦Twitter Accounts ^

Some accounts where you can find different kinds of content related to blender.

@pablodp606, @3DBystedt, @ppaawweeuu, @mxeon1001, @Mrdodobird, @ArtFromRachel, @wanoco4D, @dedouze_, @AFX_LAB, @Yokohara_h, @Karl_poyzer, @Kazlyan, @arc4g, @FlipFluids, @CGGeeks, @PabloVazquez_, @IMilk_ManI, @bluefox_3d, @LucaRood, @janurschel, @zuggamasta, @andrewpprice, @brentpatterson, @FinEskimo @VicDoval

📢Youtube Channels ^

💻Blogs ^

  • 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 2.8 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.

🎊Challenges ^

🎉Events ^

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^

▷ video, ☰ playlist, ☷ channel, 🧾 doc.

🍩Beginning ^

🗿Modeling ^

🔘Shader Nodes ^

🌠Animation ^

🌌Animation Nodes ^

🔲UV Mapping ^

🔳Texture Painting ^

📐Compositing ^

🤺Motion Tracking/Capture ^

Premium 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.

📚Books ^

👩🏽‍💻Development ^

Scripting/Developing ^

Blender Source ^

Learn Python ^

Learn Computer Graphics ^

Related Awesome Lists ^

Symbols ^

[$] paid ones, repo link, market blender market, 🧾 doc.

Video Symbols:

▷ video, ☰ playlist, ☷ channel.

License Symbols:

CC, CC0, BY, NC

MIT, GPL

Contributing ^

Your contributions are always welcome! ^_^ If you want to contribute to this list, send a pull request, open an issue or contact with me @agmmnn. Please read the contributing guidelines first, some sections have their own guidelines as a comment line.

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