Resources

A collection of useful free tools, Blender addons and learning resources that you may find interesting, in no particular order. Occasionally updated.

VFX

fspy

A standalone tool for reconstructing the perspective of an image. Image and camera transformation can be imported with the corresponding addon.

fSpy

fSpy is an open source, cross platform app for still image camera matching

Compify

An addon developed by Ian Hubert for scene de-lighting, which helps with compositing CG objects into a real scene. Here's a how-to.

Shakify

Another Ian Hubert addon. This one adds realistic camera shake to your animations.

FreeMoCap

Open-source motion capture system, supporting both single- and multi-camera systems.

RotoForge-AI

Machine Learning-based rotoscoping (cutting out things in videos) using a local segmentation model.

Radio Aporee

Not exactly a VFX tool, but a collection of sounds around the world that you can tune into or simply download for sound effect purposes.

radio aporee ::: maps - sounds of the world

radio aporee ::: maps is a global soundmap dedicated to field recording, acoustic ecology and the art of listening.

sounds of the world

Scientific Visualization

Blender Colormaps

A simple addon for loading colormaps as color ramp nodes. Requires matplotlib to be installed in the Blender Python environment.

Bioxel Nodes

Load your scientific image stacks into Blender. Supported formats include OME TIFFs, HDF5s, DICOMs and more.

Molecular Nodes

A Blender addon developed by Brady Johnston to visualize and animate molecular data. Comes with a plethora of advanced styling options and Geometry Nodes tools for simulation and visualization.

Microscopy Nodes

An addon by Aafke Gros for loading 3D to 5D image stacks into Blender, targeted specifically at microscopy images. Supports chunked formats like ZARRs and various options for styling and slicing.

Coolors

This site helps you quickly generate cool looking color combinations.

Code Stuff

DataBpy

Data-oriented wrappers around the bpy library (Blender's Python API), maintained by Brady Johnston.

The Book of Shaders

Everything you wanted to know about fragment shader programming.

Modeling & Texturing

CAD Sketcher

CAD capability right in Blender. Allows you to perform mathematically constrained sketching.

Polyhaven

The number 1 website for finding PBR materials, HDRIs (360° images acting as environment textures) and 3D assets.

Texture Ninja

Ever since textures.com became a paid-only service, this website has been really useful for finding image textures.

Texture Ninja

A large connection of public domain texturest

The Flickr LostAndTaken texture collection

https://www.flickr.com/photos/calebkimbrough/collections/72157612444693261

StableGen

Use local image generation models with ComfyUI right in Blender to generate textures. Just in case hand-crafted or procedural textures aren't your thing.