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awesome 2.8+ Compatible List 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 ^

  • 👤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]
  • 🚶🏻‍♀️MB-Lab : is a free, open source character creation tool for Blender.
  • 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. [market]
  • SpaceshipGenerator : procedurally generate 3D spaceships.
  • Space Station Generator : tool lets you generate sprawling space stations.
  • Building Tool : 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]
  • 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.

🧊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.
  • 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.
    • Fast Carve : 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:
    • Speedsculpt [$] : The addon allows you to create very fast characters, to manage Dyntopo Sculpting with booleans, cut curves, skin modifier, decimate, mask etc.
    • Blender-Sculpt-Tools : addon for help sculpting base mesh like Zbrush with Zsphere.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 maniplation.
  • 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.
  • Writing/Counting:
  • Rigging:
    • 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 rig for cars.
    • RigFlex : simple soft body for Blender armatures.
    • rigid bodys generator : Blender addon to add Rigid bones and Joints on selected bones easily.

🦖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 ^

🔳Texture/UV ^

🎮GameDev ^

  • MeshSync : live link plugin for Unity. supported blender and other 3d softwares.
  • 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!
  • 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.
  • 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]

🪀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.
    • 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]
    • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 : Camera Exposure, White balance and Autofocus.
  • 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.
    • Freesound Add-on : is an addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music.
    • Subsimport : is an addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music.
  • Photogrammetry:
  • AddonCollections: varkenvarken/blenderaddons, uhlik/bpy, YuriyAndropov/blenderPython, bookyakuno/-Blender-, Stromberg90/Scripts, ethanaeris.
  • Projectors : a blender add-on for simple projector creation and modification.
  • LeoMoon LightStudio : lighting system for Blender.
  • Shape Keys+ : adds a panel with extra options for creating, sorting, viewing, and driving shape keys.
  • FontSelector : easy font management inside Blender.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Modifier List : Alternative UI layout for modifiers with handy features. Available also inside the sidebar and as a popup.
  • NodeCustomBuilder : preset system for nodes.
  • Verge3D : is a powerful yet cost-efficient solution for creating interactive 3D web experiences.
  • Vertex Oven : bake game-ready ambient occlusion in seconds without UV unwrapping or agonizingly slow Cycles bakes. [market]

🎴Themes ^

🪐Resources ^

🎠3D Models ^

🤸🏾‍♀️Mocap/Animation ^

🌑Textures ^

🌓Blender Materials ^

📁Blender Scenes/Files ^

⛅HDRIs ^

🖼️Art ^

  • Dezoomify : Download zoomable images from Google Arts & Culture, The National Gallery, Gallica, Van Gogh Museum and more. (Desktop App) (Extension)
  • Birmingham Museums Trust : Thousands of our out-of-copyright images are now available for all to use under a Creative Commons Zero Licence (CC0). More images are regularly being added. (Unsplash Profile)
  • Wikimedia Commons/Art : A collection of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago : Download public-domain artworks from Art Institute of Chicago online collection.
  • Paris Musées Collections : Paris Musées has released over 100,000 artworks into the public domain. They are all available for free high-resolution download online.
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Browse more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works in The Met collection that can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction.
  • USEUM : Download thousands of royalty free images of artworks and use them in anyway you like, anywhere around the world. If you want more content, go to the museum pages listed below. All links filtered in CC.
    • National Gallery of Art Images : Download images from collections of the National Gallery of Art. More than 51,000 open access digital images are available free of charge for download and use.
    • Rijksmuseum : one of the largest museums in Europe dedicated to arts and history, made 250,000 works from its huge collection available for free online viewing or download.
    • National Gallery of Denmark : You can explore our highlights and get free images in high resolution of those artworks that are in the Public Domain.
    • Los Angeles County Museum of Art : Download public-domain artworks from LACMA's collections.
    • J. Paul Getty Museum : The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.
    • Indianapolis Museum of Art Collection : Many images of public domain artworks are available for free download from the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields' collection pages.

🛰Space ^

🏞Free Stocks ^

🌂Useful ^

📥Standalone ^

Builds ^

Various Tools ^

  • MeshLab : open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.
  • Instant Meshes : Interactive field-aligned mesh generator.
  • Magica Voxel : A free lightweight 8-bit voxel art editor and GPU based interactive path tracing renderer.
  • aerialod : A free interactive path tracing renderer for height maps.
  • Quixel Bridge : connects Megascans to all your favorite tools including blender.
  • Make Human : Open-source tool for making 3D characters.
  • 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.
  • PureRef : simple way to view and organize your reference images.
  • Neobarok : Intuitive and free 3D modeling software for everyone.
  • DJV : Professional image sequence, media review software for VFX, animation, and film production.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • EmberGen [$] : is a real-time volumetric fluid simulation tool that can instantly simulate, render, and export flipbooks, image sequences, and VDB volumes.
  • Tiled : is a general purpose tile map editor for all tile-based games, such as RPGs, platformers or Breakout clones.
  • Blender Tools:
  • Fractal:
  • 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.

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.
  • Display.land : Turn your phone into a 3D camera that turns any physical space into a 3D space that can be used with AR/VR.

Texture/Material ^

  • ArmorPaint : Open-Source 3D PBR Texture Painting Software.
  • Quixel Mixer : Create photorealistic, tileable, materials in seconds with powerful mixing and painting.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Generator ^

AI-Powered ^

  • 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.
  • PaintsChainer : AI-Powered automatic line drawing colorization colorization.

Painting ^

Terrain ^

  • TerreSculptor : is a terrain creation and editing software. It is completely free.
  • 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.

🔍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, @arc4g, @CGGeeks, @PabloVazquez_, @IMilk_ManI, @bluefox_3d, @LucaRood, @janurschel, @zuggamasta, @andrewpprice, @brentpatterson, @FinEskimo

📢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.

🎊Challenges ^

🎉Events ^

👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^

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

🍩Beginning ^

🗿Modeling ^

🔘Shader Nodes ^

🌊Simulation/Physics ^

🌠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], [more info], [medium].

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

Contributing ^

Your contributions are always welcome! ^_^ If you want to contribute to this list, send a pull request or contact with me @agmmnn. Please read the contributing guidelines first, each section has its own guidelines as a comment line.

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