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🌊Simulation/Physics [^](#table)

• projectile - friendly tool for throwing stuff around inside blender. [![][repo]](https://github.com/natecraddock/projectile)
• FLIP Fluids
• Molecular Script
• Jet-Fluids - engine-dev) simulator integration in blender.
• Phobos - on for Blender allowing to create URDF, SDF and SMURF robot models.
• projectile - friendly tool for throwing stuff around inside blender. [![][repo]](https://github.com/natecraddock/projectile)

🦑Generator/Builder [^](#table)

• CharMorph - Lab](https://github.com/animate1978/MB-Lab), which is now unmaintained. [![][repo]](https://github.com/Upliner/CharMorph)
• MPFB
• FaceBuilder - on that lets you create photorealistic 3D models of human faces and heads using a few photographs with a neutral face expression. [[medium]](https://medium.com/keentools/facebuilder-for-blender-guide-cbb10c717f7c)
• Tiny Eye
• Wolf Generators
• Auto-Terrainer - 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
• Buildify
• Bricker
• BookGen - generation addon for Blender.
• Celtic Knot
• Curtis Holt's Generators
• Flex's Generators
• Geometry Nodes Pipes
• Industrial Geonodes
• Modular Tree
• Nino DefoQ's Generators
• Pleebs Generators
• Post USSR Builder
• Procedural Slime
• Random Book Generator
• Snow Generator
• Stylized Fantasy Tree Generator
• Welder
• Infinigen - quality 3D training data. [![][repo]](https://github.com/princeton-vl/infinigen)
• Graswald
• SceneCity - place tens of thousands of buildings. Mix both procedural and hand-made assets.
• The Grove 3D
• Geo-Scatter
• BagaPie Modifier
• Gscatter - friendly scattering for free from developers of Grasswald.
• City Scatter

🧊Modeling [^](#table)

• MACHIN3tools
• QBlocker
• fspy - source camera matching app, extremely useful for modeling directly from a reference image. [(blender addon)](https://github.com/stuffmatic/fSpy-Blender)
• KeKit
• Array Tools
• Mesh Heal - on for Blender, it includes additional Blender operators for healing surface meshes.
• Box Select X-Ray - ray mode on and off during selection.
• Polysweeper
• Edit Split Normals
• Auto Mirror
• Drop It
• Maxivz’s Interactive Tools
• Synced Modifiers
• BlenderBIM - on for beautiful, detailed, and data-rich OpenBIM with Blender. [![][repo]](https://github.com/ifcopenshell/ifcopenshell) ![][gpl]
• Archipack - screen editing interface.
• CAD Sketcher - source project looking to enhance precision workflows in blender by bringing CAD like tools, features and usability. [![][repo]](https://github.com/hlorus/CAD_Sketcher) ![][gpl]
• CAD Transform - leger/blender_cad_transforms) ![][gpl]
• JARCH-Vis - on for Blender 3D that helps create commonly used object for architectural visualization. [![][repo]](https://github.com/BlendingJake/JARCH-Vis) ![][gpl]
• retopoflow
• InstantMeshesRemesh
• SpeedRetopo - on for Blender to make fast and easy retopology using Bsurface.
• Retopo MT
• KIT OPS
• ND - destructive & interactive hard surface toolkit (smart modifiers, booleans, and geometry management) [![][repo]](https://github.com/hugemenace/nd) [![market]](https://www.blendermarket.com/products/nd-addon)
• HardOps/Boxcutter
• Speedflow - destructive workflow.
• Bevel After Boolean
• EdgeFlow
• Engraver
• Offset Edges - like feature, which create edges that have consistent distance from original selected ones.
• Poly Source
• Sculpt Alphas Manager
• Speedsculpt
• Brush Manager for Blender - on for Blender that helps you to create custom brushes, store them in a file and organize the library of various categories of brushes.
• Easy Align
• Mech/Fy
• BY-GEN - destructive, generative modeling styles in Blender. [![][repo]](https://github.com/curtisjamesholt/BY-GEN-public)
• Fiber Mesh

🌠Animation [^](#table)

• Animation Nodes
• Animax
• Shape Keys+
• Stop-Mo - crafted stop motion style.
• BlenRig - rigging and skinning system. It provides the user with a Feature Film quality rig; including an advanced facial system. [![][repo]](https://github.com/jpbouza/BlenRig) ![][gpl]
• Auto-Rig Pro - 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
• Mixamo add-on for Blender by Adobe - rig add-on works with characters that have been auto-rigged with the Mixamo service.
• Rigacar
• Wiggle Bones - wiggle-2) ![][gpl]

🗜Render Engine [^](#table)

• AMD Radeon ProRender - 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
• DreamWork's MoonRay - tracing renderer; it includes a USD Hydra render delegate, multi-machine and cloud rendering via the Arras distributed computation framework. [![][repo]](https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/openmoonray)
• Pixar's RenderMan - based render from Pixar. [[more info]](https://rmanwiki.pixar.com/display/RFB24) ![][mit]
• OctaneRender Prime for Blender
• Redshift Blender Integration - accelerated renderer built to meet the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering.
• LuxCore
• Malt - time rendering framework for animation and illustration. [![][repo]](https://github.com/bnpr/Malt) ![][mit]
• Pixel Art Rendering
• Mitsuba Renderer - oriented retargetable rendering system for forward and inverse light transport simulation. [![][repo]](https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/mitsuba3) [(blender addon)](https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/mitsuba-blender)
• appleseed - based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects. [![][repo]](https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed) [(blender addon)](https://github.com/appleseedhq/blenderseed) ![][mit]
• E-Cycles
• K-Cycles - Cycles. Advertised as an improvement over E-Cycles.

🗺️Texture/UV [^](#table)

• Layer Painter - 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. [![][repo]](https://github.com/joshuaKnauber/layer_painter)
• TexTools - Blender)
• 3D-Coat Applink - in AppLink.
• Bake Wrangler
• Bystedts Blender Baker
• Car Paint Shader
• EZ Baker
• Flow Map Painter - on provides a brush tool for flow map painting. [![][repo]](https://github.com/ClemensBeute/flow_map_painter)
• Grungit
• Parallax UV Mapping
• Sanctus Library - growing procedural material library for Blender.
• SCATTr
• Texel Density Checker - Texel-Density-Checker)
• UV-Packer - Packer Add-on for Blender.
• UV Toolkit
• Poliigon Blender Addon

🎮GameDev [^](#table)

• Blender Tools by Epic Games
• AssetGen
• V-HACD
• Godot Game Tools
• Blender2Godot
• Asset Creation Toolset
• Armory3D - source 3D game engine with full Blender integration. [![][repo]](https://github.com/armory3d/armory)
• UPBGE - source 3D game engine forked from old Blender Game Engine, deployed with Blender itself. [![][repo]](https://github.com/UPBGE/upbge)

🪀Misc [^](#table)

• Blender Interplanety Storage - 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
• NodeCustomBuilder
• LeoMoon LightStudio - lightstudio)
• Physical Starlight and Atmosphere
• Free Sky Environment Shading
• blender-osm
• Daz Importer - Blender-IO), [Rhinoceros3D files](https://blenderartists.org/t/import-rhinoceros-3d-files-into-blender/1136070), [cityGML](https://github.com/zeffii/io_cityGML_basic), [.SVG](https://github.com/Shriinivas/shapekeyimport), [.XPS](https://github.com/johnzero7/XNALaraMesh), [.GIF](https://github.com/doakey3/Bligify), Quake: [.BSP](https://blenderartists.org/t/quake-1996-game-bsp-import-script/578191) [.MD3](https://github.com/axredneck/blender-md3/tree/blender2.8).
• Super Res Render
• Super Fast Render
• Super Image Denoiser
• Photographer 2
• ExtraInfo
• AStats
• Parallel_Render
• Freesound Add-on
• Code Editor
• Run in Console
• Formatting
• Glass for EEVEE
• SSGI for EEVEE
• Shader Displacement for Eevee
• Verge3D - efficient solution for creating interactive 3D web experiences.
• PowerSave
• Lodify
• Multi-user - time collaborative workflows inside blender. [![][repo]](https://gitlab.com/slumber/multi-user)
• VoxelDraw
• Spread Objects
• Mixer by Ubisoft
• Daz to Blender Bridge - to-use Bridge transfers your Genesis 8 and 3 characters from Daz directly to Blender.
• Substance 3D add-on for Blender by Adobe - on you can access your Substance materials directly inside Blender.
• Theme Switcher
• VoxelDraw

🎠3D Models [^](#table)

• Poly Haven/Models
• Quixel Megascans
• Scan the World - 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. [[mixed license]](https://www.myminifactory.com/scantheworld/faq/#licensing)
• Artec 3D
• Blender Boom
• Three D Scans
• 3D Digitization Smithsonian
• Chocofur/Free - manager-blender-2-80-course/blender_model/) [![][zero]](https://chocofur.com/page/license-cc0)
• Free3D - conditions)
• TheBaseMesh.com
• 3DB3
• Rigmodels
• RockThe3D
• CGTrader
• Sketchfab
• TurboSquid/free
• Hum3D
• Clara.io
• FlyingArchitecture
• 3D Warehouse
• Free3DBase
• RenderHub/free
• KitBash3d - kit-neo-city)_ for free.
• List of Common 3D Test Models.
• Poly Pizza - 3d-model](https://gumroad.com/discover?maxPrice=0&query=3d%20model), [Artstation Marketplace/free](https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/game-dev/resources/3d-models?section=trending&price_to=0), [Cubebrush/freebies](https://cubebrush.co/marketplace?freebies=true), [Daz3D/freebies](https://www.daz3d.com/free-3d-models#black), [3dsky.org/free](https://3dsky.org/3dmodels?types=free&page=1), [C4DDownload.com](https://c4ddownload.com/), [3DModelsCC0.com](https://www.3dmodelscc0.com/3dmodels), [CadNav](https://www.cadnav.com/), [Archive 3D](https://archive3d.net/), [ThePixelLab/freebies](https://www.thepixellab.net/freebies), [Models-Resource.com](https://www.models-resource.com/).
• Quaternius's Ultimate Low-Poly Models - animals), [Stylized Characters Base Meshes/Blockouts](https://gumroad.com/georgezaky108), [Wire Wheels Club: Free Car Models](https://wirewheelsclub.com/models/).
• Scanned Female Head Model by EISKO - 3d-people/), [Scans from Louvre Museum](https://gumroad.com/l/xAQxj), [Free 3D Head Model](https://www.3dscanstore.com/blog/Free-3D-Head-Model), [Deep 3D Studio](https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/9BBA/free-download-australian-infantryman-character-from-world-war-2-39), [Public Domain 3D Cultural Heritage](https://sketchfab.com/nebulousflynn/collections/cc0), [The Heretic: Digital Human by Unity](https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/tutorial-projects/the-heretic-digital-human-168620), [Phenome10K/Scans](https://phenome10k.org/scans/), [Renderbot/free](https://renderbot.com/3d/free/), [The Małopolska’s Virtual Museums](https://sketchfab.com/WirtualneMuzeaMalopolski).
• GrabCAD - Carr](https://www.mcmaster.com/cad-models/).
• Free Hard Surface KitBash Models - fi kitbash set](https://cubebrush.co/polyworkshop/products/audboa/free-sci-fi-kitbash-set-fusion-360-zbrush), [3D Kitbashing library](https://gumroad.com/adrianrutkowski), [Kitbash Sci-fi Buildings](https://www.artstation.com/art-mage/store/Vb1A/kitbash-sci-fi-buildings-vol-1-5).
• Free VDB Simulations Created With Embergen
• RockThe3D
• RockThe3D
• RockThe3D
• RockThe3D

🤸🏾‍♀️Mocap/Animation [^](#table)

• Mixamo
• ActorCore - capture library from Reallusion.
• Carnegie-Mellon University Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database BVH conversions
• Rokoko Studio
• Motekentertainment/free-samples
• turbosquid/motion-capture - models?features=downloadable+animated&sort_by=-likeCount).
• turbosquid/motion-capture - models?features=downloadable+animated&sort_by=-likeCount).

🌑Textures [^](#table)

• Poly Haven/Textures
• ambientCG - licensing/page/license-information)
• cgbookcase - quality PBR textures. Free for every purpose, forever. Some Blender tutorials here and there. [![][zero]](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
• 3DTextures.me
• FreePBR.com
• ShareTextures
• Texture.Ninja
• 3DXO
• Texture Box
• Texture Fun
• IES Library
• WildTextures
• Textures.com
• Substance Share
• MaterialX Library - based Material Library. It allows users to download the materials and encourages them to upload their own.
• Substance Source/freebies
• ScansLibrary - World scans.
• Poliigon/freebies
• Texturing.xyz - leading VFX companies, and help them achieving their goals faster.
• LotPixel - based textures of interior and exterior materials at up to 8K resolution. For commercial use.
• EveryTexture.com - textures/), [MotionSquared](https://textures.motionsquared.net/latest-textures/), [TextureCan](https://www.texturecan.com/).
• gumroad/juliosillet - library/), [artstation/deepmind](https://www.artstation.com/deepmind/albums/89651), [CGTrader/textures](https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/textures), [CGIVault/Textures](https://cgivault.com/product-category/textures/), [artstation/alexbeddows](https://www.artstation.com/alexbeddows/store).
• cgbookcase - quality PBR textures. Free for every purpose, forever. Some Blender tutorials here and there. [![][zero]](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
• Substance Source/freebies
• C4DCenter
• WildTextures
• C4DCenter

🖼️Art/Reference [^](#table)

• Smithsonian Open Access
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Dezoomify - zoomable-image-formats). \([Desktop App](https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify-rs)\) [![][repo]](https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify)
• Birmingham Museums Trust - of-copyright images are now available for all to use under a Creative Commons Zero Licence. More images are regularly being added. \([Unsplash Profile](https://unsplash.com/@birminghammuseumstrust)\) ![zero]
• Wikimedia Commons/Art
• The Art Institute of Chicago - domain artworks from Art Institute of Chicago online collection. [![zero]](https://www.artic.edu/image-licensing)
• Paris Musées Collections - resolution download online.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art - res images of public-domain works in The Met collection that can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction.
• USEUM
• National Gallery of Art Images
• National Gallery of Denmark
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art - domain artworks from LACMA's collections.
• J. Paul Getty Museum
• Indianapolis Museum of Art Collection
• Natural History Museum, Data Portal
• British Museum
• Open Image Collections
• List of Museums & Libraries with Public-Domain Collection.
• Mindat, Mineral Database
• Anatomy 360, Free Reference
• Wildlife Reference Photos
• The Empire University, Weapons Library
• Rijksmuseum

🌓Blender Materials [^](#table)

• Blendermada
• The Blendersauce Vault Materials
• BNPR' Shaders - hEv0vIJZLzPezRM-jV/view)), [Ultimate Clay Shader[\$]](https://blendermarket.com/products/claydoh), [Erito's Toon Shader for Eevee](https://www.artstation.com/eritokaio/store/Wo3B/erito-s-toon-shader-for-blender-eevee), [Toonkit-Samples](https://github.com/vitorbalbio/Toonkit-Samples).
• Curtis Holt's Results - nodevember-nodeshaders/), [Kyle Hamm](https://gumroad.com/l/kylenodevember2020), [erindale](https://gumroad.com/l/node2020).
• gumroad/simonthommes
• Curtis Holt's Results - nodevember-nodeshaders/), [Kyle Hamm](https://gumroad.com/l/kylenodevember2020), [erindale](https://gumroad.com/l/node2020).
• BlenderKit - in addons._
• Blendermada

🌲Blender Scenes/Files [^](#table)

• Blend Swap
• BlenderNation.com/models
• Mantissa/resources
• gumroad/bluefoxcreation
• Rain v2 - Nelb](https://cgcookie.com/resource/red-nelb-rig-blender-2-8x), [Dancing Girl](https://gumroad.com/l/mZcjB), [Pharah(Overwatch)](https://pharah.gitlab.io/guide/), [Luchadora](https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/AWjx/luchadora-rig-blender), [Rocket Girl](https://gumroad.com/l/XGTxw), [Pikachu](https://www.blendswap.com/blend/23864), [MT-103 Droid](https://gumroad.com/l/zvlZV), [Baqir](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKuyOP68fA), [Ivan](https://gumroad.com/l/ivan-3d-model), [Cori](https://www.blendswap.com/blend/23381), [Judy Hopps](https://www.blendswap.com/blend/17309), [Scorbunny](https://gumroad.com/l/cvJbP), [Stretch](https://tribee.online/product/stretch-free-blender-rig-beta/).
• Higgsas Blender
• Blender/demo-files

⛅HDRIs [^](#table)

• Poly Haven/HDRIs - hdri), [Hdrlabs](http://hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html), [Hdrmaps/freebies](https://hdrmaps.com/freebies), [Hdri-hub/free](https://www.hdri-hub.com/hdrishop/freesamples/freehdri), [Hdri-skies](https://hdri-skies.com/), [eisklotz/HDRIs](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tnuVLtmLNIajTszoDXybboWxwk1L4YOJ), [locationtextures/panoramas](https://locationtextures.com/panoramas/?sort=p.price&order=ASC), [noahwitchell](http://www.noahwitchell.com/freebies), [bobgroothuis](https://www.bobgroothuis.com/collections/360-hdri), [vizpeople/free](https://www.viz-people.com/portfolio/free-hdri-maps/), [noemotionhdrs](http://noemotionhdrs.net/hdrevening.html), [iHDRI](https://www.ihdri.com/hdri-skies-outdoor/).

🌂Useful [^](#table)

• IOR List
• Sheep it Render Farm
• blender.daily
• UE Sponsored Content
• Blender & ACES

🛰Space [^](#table)

• Solar Textures
• NASA-3D-Resources - 3D-Resources)
• Celestia Motherlode
• James Webb Images - gallery/images?Collection=Hubble%20Favorites) ([flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahubble/)), [Astronomy Picture of the Day](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html).
• Areo Browser
• CGI Moon Kit

🎧Sound/Music [^](#table)

• Freesound.org - commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. [![cc]](https://freesound.org/help/faq/#licenses)
• GameAudioGDC - free and commercially usable.
• GameSounds.xyz
• SoundBible.com
• 99Sounds.org - free content generated by its own users.
• Freesfx.co.uk
• OpenGameArt.org/Sound
• Free Music Archive
• Bandcamp.com/cc - common music from Bandcamp.
• MusOpen.org
• ccMixter.org
• Netlabels - licensed catalogs of virtual record labels.
• Mixkit
• Unminus
• Adobe Audition Sound Effects - free audio sound effects.
• Pixabay/music
• Artlist - free music catalog for unlimited use in YouTube videos, social media & films created by inspiring indie artists worldwide.
• Bensound
• Soundcloud/cc
• YouTube/Audio Library - free production music and sound effects to use in your videos.
• Freesound.org - commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. [![cc]](https://freesound.org/help/faq/#licenses)

🏞Free Stocks [^](#table)

• unsplash
• pixabay
• videvo - vfx](https://www.actionvfx.com/collections/free-vfx/category), [videezy](https://www.videezy.com/), [pixabay](https://pixabay.com/videos/search/), [freemotionbacks](https://www.youtube.com/user/freemotionbacks/videos), [actionvfx](https://www.actionvfx.com/blog/3-free-vfx-stock-collections-portals-bullet-tracers-camera-shake-presets), [productioncrate/free](https://vfx.productioncrate.com/search/#!/free), [benharker](https://benharker.net/store).
• MrCutout - out-people/search/free).
• Mantissa - crap.com/vjloops), [Vimeo/Catmac](https://vimeo.com/user2777466), [SSWIII](http://www.switzonwigfall.com/vjclips), [rptv](https://www.rptv.co/videoloops).
• fonts.google
• Mantissa - crap.com/vjloops), [Vimeo/Catmac](https://vimeo.com/user2777466), [SSWIII](http://www.switzonwigfall.com/vjclips), [rptv](https://www.rptv.co/videoloops).

Photogrammetry [^](#table)

• Meshroom - source 3D Photogrammetry Software. [![][repo]](https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom)
• COLMAP
• 3DF Zephyr Free
• RealityCapture - referenced maps and much more from images and/or laser scans completely automatically.
• Agisoft Metashape - alone software product that performs photogrammetric processing of digital images and generates 3D spatial data.
• RealityScan - fidelity 3D models in the most accessible way possible.
• RealityScan - fidelity 3D models in the most accessible way possible.

3D Tools [^](#table)

• Magica Voxel - bit voxel art editor and GPU based interactive path tracing renderer.
• ZBrushCoreMini
• aerialod
• Make Human - source tool for making 3D characters. ([blender addon](https://github.com/makehumancommunity/makehuman-plugin-for-blender)) [![][repo]](https://github.com/makehumancommunity/makehuman)
• Clavicula
• Dust3D - platform open-source modeling software. It helps you create a 3D watertight model in seconds.
• EmberGen - time volumetric fluid simulation tool that can instantly simulate, render, and export flipbooks, image sequences, and VDB volumes.
• HDR Light Studio
• Sweet Home 3D
• TreeIt
• Cascadeur
• Sculptron - based tool for sculpting animation caches and for converting mesh sequences to volumes. The software is currently available free during early development.
• CNDL
• Medium by Adobe
• Spline - ready results.
• Connecter
• Phototiler
• VRoid Studio - like expressions.
• AccuRIG
• 3D House Planner
• Medium by Adobe

Various Tools [^](#table)

• Allusion - app/Allusion)
• Quixel Bridge
• PureRef
• Natron
• Processing
• Light Tracer Render
• CineShader - time 3D shader visualiser. It leverages the _Shadertoy_ API to bring thousands of existing shader artworks into a cinematic 3D environment.
• Effekseer
• Particle Illusion - accelerated 2D particle generator.
• Exr-IO - layer EXR pictures. It supports Cryptomatte.
• PickPicPack
• GameTextureViewer
• Mandelbulb3D
• JWildfire - based image processing software. [![][repo]](https://github.com/thargor6/JWildfire)

Texture/Material [^](#table)

• ArmorPaint - Source 3D PBR Texture Painting Software. [![][repo]](https://github.com/armory3d/armorpaint)
• Quixel Mixer
• NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter - accelerated Texture Tools compressor technology. [![][repo]](https://github.com/castano/nvidia-texture-tools/)
• Materialize
• Material Maker - maker)
• TextureLab
• Agisoft De-Lighter - alone tool designed to remove shadows from model textures. [!download](https://www.agisoft.com/downloads/installer/)
• Normalizer
• Agama Materials - made textures.
• Architextures - Create
• Poly - bit) for any types of materials with a simple text or image prompt.

Terrain [^](#table)

• TerreSculptor
• World Machine
• Terragen - tracing supported terrain generator. There is free version with some limitations.
• World Creator - time terrain generator and landscape generator.
• Gaea
• Instant Terra - time terrain generation tool. Create your terrain, world, and landscape for your game, movie, or simulation.

Real-World Height Maps [^](#table)

• terrain.party - world height maps.
• OpenTopography/datasets - resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources. _Registration required_.
• Cities: Skylines map generator
• Copernicus DEM - ESA

Point Cloud/LiDAR Data [^](#table)

• OpenTopography
• NOAA’s Data Access Viewer
• United States Interagency Elevation Inventory
• USGS/TNM - lidar-data-and-where-can-i-download-it?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products)
• USGS/Entwine - lidar)
• Sketchfab/lidar - cloud](https://sketchfab.com/tags/point-cloud).

Generator [^](#table)

• JSplacement - platform pseudo-random 8K displacement map generator.
• Procedural City Generator - based cities. [![][repo]](https://github.com/ProbableTrain/MapGenerator)
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator - viewer) : is a 3d-visualizer for MFCD. See other generators from [watabou.itch.io](https://watabou.itch.io/).

AI-Powered [^](#table)

• Let'sEnhance.io - 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. ![][mit]
• Infinite Nature - research/google-research/tree/master/infinite_nature)
• PaintsChainer - Powered automatic line drawing colorization colorization. [![][repo]](https://github.com/pfnet/PaintsChainer) ![][mit]
• EbSynth
• Generated.Photos - generated faces.
• Flowframes
• Midjourney
• Stable Diffusion - to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input.
• Deforum Stable Diffusion
• Rokoko Video - upload and animate in minutes.
• Gigapixel AI
• waifu2x - Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style Art using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. And it supports photo. [![][repo]](https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x) [![][mit]](https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x/blob/master/LICENSE)

Sound/Music [^](#table)

• Audacity - platform audio software.
• AudioMass - source web based audio and waveform editing tool.
• rFXGen

Painting [^](#table)

• Krita
• HEAVYPAINT

Painting [^](#table)

•  [](https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes)[](https://developer.blender.org/project/view/2/)

[Documentation](https://docs.blender.org/) [^](#table)

• 📖 User Manual

Community [^](#table)

• 👨🏽‍🚀Blender.Community
• ☕Blender.Today - driven Blender news, chat, and live streams! Stream [playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa1F2ddGya_87HJ72v_IgKUTNLIXSMfvB).
• 🖱️Right-Click Select
• 👨‍🎨Blender Artists Community
• 📰BlenderNation
• 💬blender.chat
• fb/blender
• blender.stackexchange.com

🍩Beginning [^](#table)

• 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.
• Blender Basics by CG Cookie.

🗿Modeling [^](#table)

• 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.
• Introduction to Sculpting in Blender - Sculpting Essentials.
• The Speed Sculpting Guide - Learn from Limitation.
• Sculpting in Blender - Beginners Detailed Guide - Every Brush.
• Stylized Character Workflow with Blender.
• Modeling a character BaseMesh in Blender.
• Hard-surface Modeling in Blender by Gleb Alexandrov.
• Blender Hardsurface Sculpting Tips.
• Julien Kaspar's Channel

🤺Motion Tracking/Capture [^](#table)

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

🌌Geometry Nodes [^](#table)

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

🔘Shader Nodes [^](#table)

• 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.

🌠Animation [^](#table)

• 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.

🔲UV Mapping [^](#table)

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

🔳Texture Painting [^](#table)

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

📐Compositing [^](#table)

• 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.

Premium Tutorials [^](#table)

• Blender Cloud
• CG Cookie - training-courses/), [CG Boost Academy](https://academy.cgboost.com/), [polygonrunway](https://polygonrunway.com/)
• gumroad/blender
• jamajurabaev
• udemy/blender
• Creating 3D environments in Blender by Rob Tuytel
• blendermarket/training - training-tutorials/164-0.html), [skillshare/blender](https://www.skillshare.com/browse/blender)
• gumroad/blender

Fundamentals [^](#table)

• Pixar in a Box

📚Books [^](#table)

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

Scripting/Developing [^](#table)

• Blender Python API Documentation
• Programming Add-ons for Blender 2.8
• blenderscripting
• Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Python Scripting
• 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
• Blender 2.8 Python Scripting Superpowers for Non-Programmers
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Visualizing Complex Numbers in Blender
• The Code Editor - ons which will modernize, expand and ease coding in Blender.
• Blender Development in VS Code
• EasyBPY - readable, memorable and reduces the user's exposure to complex code paths. [![][repo]](https://github.com/curtisjamesholt/EasyBPY)
• devtalk/python - ons.
• blenderartists/python-support
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Python Scripting Superpowers for Non-Programmers
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
• Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art - Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.

Blender Source [^](#table)

• Developer Documentation
• 🔌 Developer Portal

Learn Python [^](#table)

• Awesome Python

Learn Computer Graphics [^](#table)

• Computer Graphics from scratch - graphics-from-scratch)
• tinyraytracer
• tinyrenderer

Related Awesome Lists [^](#table)

• Awesome Design Tools
• Awesome Stock Resources

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🐦Twitter Accounts [^](#table)

• @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 [^](#table)

• IanHubert
• Midge Sinnaeve
• CGMatter
• Default Cube
• SouthernShotty
• CG Geek
• Gleb Alexandrov - known blender channel on youtube.
• Ducky 3D
• Royal Skies LLC
• Grant Abbitt - poly, game assets.
• Chris Prenninger
• Jayanam
• CG Boost
• CG Cookie
• FlippedNormals
• Curtis Holt
• Polygon Runway - poly modeling.
• Steven Scott - ons, feature reviews.
• Blender NPR - Photorealistic and expressive rendering.
• Martin Klekner
• Danny Mac 3D
• Daniel Krafft - DSO - ons.
• Imphenzia
• Saqib Hussain
• CrossMind Studio
• CBaileyFilm
• Josh Gambrell
• CG Masters
• Peter France
• Polyfjord
• Cédric Lepiller
• FlyCat
• Stylized Station
• Iridesium
• Lightning Boy Studio
• Giulia Marchetti
• CG Fast Track
• 3DGreenhorn
• Bad Normals
• Kevandram
• Noggi
• DerekElliott
• Samuel Sullins
• CG Python
• Blender Guru

💻Blogs [^](#table)

• The Blend
• Blender Sushi
• Artisticrender
• Creative Shrimp
• Blender 3D Architect
• BlenderAddons.org
• Darkfall
• The CG Essentials
• Blender Secrets - minute or less video tutorials that teach you specific topics.
• Interplanety

🎊Challenges [^](#table)

• Nodevember
• tw/#nodevember
• SculptJanuary
• tw/#sculptjanuary
• 36 Days of Type
• tw/#36daysoftype
• /r/blender: contest
• Render Challenge - to-date database of 3D art challenges on the Internet! Get notified of new render challenges every Friday.
• pwnisher
• /r/blender: contest

🎉Events [^](#table)

• Blender Conference - xp6M54cQVvw1W-), [Bcon20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjmbsiflMU), [Bcon19](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa1F2ddGya_8Wzpajwu1EtiS8E1Exm82S), [Bcon18](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa1F2ddGya_-4M5OysmwCKz78bh1HfQ5B), [Bcon17](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa1F2ddGya_9XER0wnFS6Mgnp3T-hgSZO)).

Symbols [^](#table)

Contributing [^](#table)

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