awesome-blender
🪐 A curated list of awesome Blender add-ons, extensions, AI/MCP tools, tutorials, and 3D resources.
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🔮Add-ons ^
🌠Animation ^
- Animation Nodes - A node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender.
- Shape Keys+ - adds a panel with extra options for creating, sorting, viewing, and driving shape keys.
- Wiggle Bones - Jiggle bone implementation for Blender with realistic physics.
- AnimAide - is a free add-on for Blender that has some helpful tools for animation.
- Commotion - Blender add-on for motion graphics.
- 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.
- Blender NLA Midi Copier - Blender add-on for creating midi-driven animations from the Nonlinear Animation view.
- 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.
- Spring Bones - Blender addon to add spring/bouncy dynamic effect to bones.
- Rigid Body Bones - Blender addon which adds rigid body / spring physics to bones.
- Bone Widget - Blender addon to assist with making custom bone shapes.
- WritingAnimation - This add-on generates writing animation for the selected Bezier curves in blender.
- Typewriter - Typewriter text animation for font objects.
- GreaseWriter - A Blender Add-on for auto-animating grease pencil strokes and emulating hand-drawn text.
- Universal Human Rigged Base Mesh - [$] : Rigged human base mesh.
- Animax - [$] : is a procedural animation system for Blender. Useful for animating multiple objects.
- Stop-Mo - transforms animations into a beautiful, hand-crafted stop motion style.
- 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.
- BlendyPose - Blender Motion Capture using your camera.
- TextCounter - LeoMoon TextCounter is an easy to use text animation plugin for Blender that can be used to make GUI simulations.
- 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.
🎮GameDev ^
- Blender Tools by Epic Games - Blender addons that improve the game development workflow between Blender and Unreal. Send to Unreal, UE to Rigify.
- 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.
- 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.
- MeshSync - Live link plugin for Unity. supported blender and other 3D software.
- 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.
- 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]
- Mixamo Converter - 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.
- INOX - Rust Game engine integrated in Blender.
- Asset Creation Toolset - Asset Creation Toolset is many tools for game asset creation.
🦑Generator/Builder ^
- CharMorph - An open source character creation tool for Blender. It's a rewrite of MB-Lab, which is now unmaintained.
- 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.
- Buildify - is a geometry nodes library for easy building creation.
- Celtic Knot - Generate Bezier curves, pipes and ribbons in elaborate weavings, based off of a framework mesh.
- 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; Pipes, Vents and Catwalks.
- Modular Tree - This addon for blender allows the creation of realistic trees with the node editor.
- 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.
- Stylized Fantasy Tree Generator - Generate endless variations of stylized trees with this geometry nodes tool.
- Welder - welds generator for Blender.
- SceneCity - [$] : Generate large road networks and mass-place tens of thousands of buildings. Mix both procedural and hand-made assets.
- The Grove 3D - [$] : Grow natural 3D trees for visualisation and film. Grow, bend, prune, interactively simulate the seasons year by year.
- City Scatter - Generate cityscape concepts, powered by Blender's collection system.
- Bricker - [$] : Photoreal Lego/Minecraft Simulations.
- Blender Data Visualisation - Load data into Blender and create visualisations.
- Data-FX - Loads and visualizes different types of data within Blender from .csv files.
- Mesh Maze - Blender add-on to generate a maze on any mesh.
- Spaceship Generator - procedurally generate 3D spaceships.
- Sprytile - a blender add-on for building tile based low-poly scenes with paint/map editor like tools. [more info]
- tree-gen - procedural generation of tree models in blender.
- Graswald - [$] : is the solution for 3D Artists who need realistic vegetation in their scenes.
- BagaPie Modifier - This addon create modifier and geometry nodes preset like: boolean, scatter, auto array on curve.
- Snow Generator - Procedural snow generator for snow effects.
- Geo-Scatter - [$] : The scattering tool for blender.
- Real Sky - This add-on can generate procedural clouds, which Blender's built-in Dynamic Sky add-on lacks.
- Curtis Holt's Generators - Curtis Holt offers a few geometry nodes generators for free. Including; Space Station, Mech, Weapon.
- Flex's Generators - Flex offers a few free geometry nodes generators, including; Crystal, Curtain, Engine, Lego Character, Pillow, Rope, Stair, Stingwire, Table, Tyre.
- Nino DefoQ's Generators - Nino DefoQ offers a few geometry nodes generators for free. Including; Hair, Braid, Cornrow, Moss, Snow.
- Pleebs Generators - Pleebs offers free geometry nodes generators for creating procedural assets. Including; Bush, Wall, Cobble.
- 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.
- 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. [medium]
- BookGen - is a free book-generation addon for Blender.
🪀Misc ^
- 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.
- NodeCustomBuilder - Preset system for nodes.
- 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
- AStats - Show Stats in Viewport.
- Parallel_Render - Render the output from the Sequencer multithreaded through the Render sidebar.
- Freesound Add-on - is an addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music.
- 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.
- Formatting - Trim whitespace change case and split and join lines.
- Glass for EEVEE - This shader allows you to make realistic glass with EEVEE.
- Verge3D - is a powerful yet cost-efficient solution for creating interactive 3D web experiences.
- Lodify - LOD(Level of Detail) and Proxy system for blender.
- Multi-user - Enable real-time collaborative workflows inside blender.
- Spread Objects - Spread the selected objects on an evenly spaced grid.
- Daz to Blender Bridge - This easy-to-use Bridge transfers your Genesis 8 and 3 characters from Daz directly to Blender.
- Theme Switcher - Addon to quickly change active theme not leaving 3D View.
- VoxelDraw - An addon to draw voxel meshes in edit mode for Blender.
- Shot Manager by Ubisoft - is a add-on that introduces a true shot entity in Blender scenes.
- 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.
- HDRI Sun Aligner - 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.
- Lumiere - Interactive Lighting add-on for Blender.
- BlenderGIS - Blender addons to make the bridge between Blender and geographic data.
- Maps Models Importer - A Blender add-on to import models from Google Maps. [more info]
- A-Frame VR - 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 - 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.
- Sketchfab Blender Addon - Directly import and export models from and to Sketchfab in Blender.
- USDZ - , glTF MultiExport, ZBrush, .VTK, Bezier2SVG, Panda3D, .EGG, XRay-engine.
- Export Paper Model from Blender - Add-on for creating paper models.
- Batex - Export selected objects as fbx in batch operation.
- Loom - 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 - , Notify, AlarmShutdown, RenderButton.
- MDSANIMA RenderTime - 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.
- Cameras-Lister - Easy select camera’s in popup shortcut is Alt-C.
- Camera Shakify - An addon for Blender that lets you easily add realistic camera shake to your cameras.
- Bizualizer - , Curtis Holt's.
- Screencast-Keys - Status Add-On for Blender.
- Shortcut VUr - With this addon you can display mouse and keyboard input.
- Bangingcuts - 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 - 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.
- Import EDL - Imports: video, audio and dissolves.
- 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.
- TexTension - For increasing productivity and generally trying to match the writing experience of a modern text editor.
- 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.
- Insert and Navigate to Text Markers - Insert and navigate to text marker positions.
- Autocomplete/Intellisense - Autocomplete/Intellisense for the Text Editor.
- Photogrammetry Importer - Addon to import different photogrammetry formats into Blender.
- blender_kitti - Render large point clouds and voxel grids with blender.
- Point Cloud Visualizer - Display, edit, filter, render, convert, generate and export colored point cloud PLY files.
- EEVEE Presets - Save EEVEE Presets.
- Projectors - A blender add-on for simple projector creation and modification.
- 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 - 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.
- 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.
- PresetterProfessional - View and visibility presets, 3d cursor presets, snap presets, etc. presets.
- Screenwriter - Write screenplays in Blender Text Editor in Fountain markup syntax view/export with correct screenplay formatting.
- Kaleidoscope - The add-on adds two new nodes, Spectrum and Intensity, which essentially improves your workflow inside Blender when creating materials.
- Mixer by Ubisoft - is a Blender addon developed at Ubisoft Animation Studio for Real Time Collaboration in 3D edition.
- LibSM64-Blender - This add-on integrates libsm64 into Blender and provides various additional integrations with Fast64.
- BlenderProc - A procedural Blender pipeline for photorealistic training image generation.
- BlenderSynth - Blender scripting for generating synthetic datasets at scale.
- AI Render - Stable Diffusion in Blender. This add-on renders an AI generated image based on a text prompt and your scene.
- Free Sky Environment Shading - free custom procedural environment shading.
- SSGI for EEVEE - Converts Diffuse and Principled BSDFs to nodegroups that give representation of diffuse component to SSR for SSGI effect.
- 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.
- FontSelector - Easy font management inside Blender.
- Extra Lights - is a plugin for Blender that adds physically based, photometric lighting presets to the Add menu.
- Export EDL - Exports: video, audio and dissolves. to ex. Davinci Resolve, Lightworks, Final Cut Pro & Premiere Pro.
- 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.
- LUT Exporter - is an addon for export of LUT .cube files from the VSE adjustment layer.
- NodeToPython - Convert Geometry, Shader, and Compositing nodes to legible Python scripts and add-ons.
- Real Camera - is an addon that allows you to control the Blender camera like a real camera.
- Photographer 2 - Camera Exposure, White balance and Autofocus. Photographer 2 was made completely free for all.
- Needle Engine - allows you to create highly interactive, flexible and lightweight web applications right inside Blender.
- Substance 3D add-on for Blender by Adobe - with this add-on you can access your Substance materials directly inside Blender.
- LeoMoon LightStudio - Lighting system for Blender.
- Push to Talk - Convenient recording of scratch dialog for an edit.
🧊Modeling ^
- 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)
- Array Tools - is an addon for Blender to create translation, scale, rotation array with offset or global parameters in any direction and mix them.
- Mesh Heal - is an add-on for Blender, it includes additional Blender operators for healing surface meshes.
- Synced Modifiers - allows you to add modifiers to multiple objects at the same time and automatically syncs all the modifiers using Drivers.
- 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.
- JARCH-Vis - is add-on for Blender 3D that helps create commonly used object for architectural visualization.
- InstantMeshesRemesh - A suite of retopology tools for Blender.
- ND - is a free non-destructive & interactive hard surface toolkit (smart modifiers, booleans, and geometry management)
- 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.
- Offset Edges - this addon introduces a cad-like feature, which create edges that have consistent distance from original selected ones.
- Sculpt Alphas Manager - This addon provides a simple solution to be able to quickly switch alpha textures for the sculpt brushes.
- 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.
- Fiber Mesh - Generate fiber meshes.
- 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.
- BezierUtility - This add-on contains several tools for working with Bezier curves.
- JewelCraft - jewelry design toolkit add-on for Blender.
- Building Tools - Building generation addon for blender.
- MeasureIt-ARCH - An expansion of Antonio Vazquez's MeasureIt addon to add features to create Architectural Drawings.
- JMesh Tools - Hardsurface utility Blender addon for fast boolean and bevel operations.
- Mesh Utils - Overlapping vert/edge/face, interior faces, edges by trait, and other stuff.
- Blender-Sculpt-Tools - Addon for help sculpting base mesh like Zbrush with Zsphere.
- GoB - GoZ-alike tools for simple ZBrush-Blender interchange.
- Mesh Align Plus - Precisely align, move, and measure+match objects and mesh parts in your 3D scenes.
- Blign - is an alignment and distribution tool for Blender. It allows users to align and distribute shapes with many different options.
- Tissue - Add-on for computational design.
- RandoMesh - A blender addon to add randomized geometry to any mesh.
- SliceMesh - Simple script for Blender to automate mesh slicing.
- SuperPoke - Iterative poking tool for Blender.
- MegaGrid - Simple Python script to randomly spam subdivisions.
- Laser Slicer - Cuts up a Blender object and exports the slices to SVG files for cutting on a laser cutter or other post-processing.