Resources
A collection of useful free tools, Blender addons and learning resources that you may find interesting, roughly sorted by topic. Occasionally updated.
Node Stuff
Geometry Nodes conversion matrix
Node Wrangler
A must-have for every node nerd.
Node Arrange
Helps turn your node mess into a structured graph.
Blender Foundation
Tree Clipper Addon
Addon to import and export node trees as JSON files. https://tree-clipper.com/ is a great website for sharing your node trees for easy pasting.
Blender Foundation
VFX
fspy
A standalone tool for reconstructing the perspective of an image. Image and camera transformation can be imported with the corresponding addon.
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.
EatTheFuture
Shakify
Another Ian Hubert addon. This one adds realistic camera shake to your animations.
EatTheFuture
FreeMoCap
Open-source motion capture system, supporting both single- and multi-camera systems.
freemocap
RotoForge-AI
Machine Learning-based rotoscoping (cutting out things in videos) using a local segmentation model.
MagnumVD
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.
Scientific Visualization
Blender Colormaps
A simple addon for loading colormaps as color ramp nodes. Requires matplotlib to be installed in the Blender Python environment.
TheJeran
Bioxel Nodes
Load your scientific image stacks into Blender. Supported formats include OME TIFFs, HDF5s, DICOMs and more.
OmooLab
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.
BradyAJohnston
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.
aafkegros
Tutorial on Reaction Diffusion Systems
Code Stuff
DataBpy
Data-oriented wrappers around the bpy library (Blender's Python API), maintained by Brady Johnston.
BradyAJohnston
The Book of Shaders
Everything you wanted to know about fragment shader programming.
Modeling & Texturing
UcuPaint
Blender extension for layer-based texture painting similar to Substance Painter.
Blender Foundation
CAD Sketcher
CAD capability right in Blender. Allows you to perform mathematically constrained sketching.
hlorus
Polyhaven
The number 1 website for finding PBR materials, HDRIs (360° images acting as environment textures) and 3D assets.
Poly Haven
Texture Ninja
Ever since textures.com became a paid-only service, this website has been really useful for finding image textures.
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.
sakalond
CGCookie's tips for clean topology
CG Cookie
Free library of pose references
Color & Rendering
Saffron
A collection of nodes for advanced color grading in the Blender compositor.
bean-mhm
3DGS Renderer
Blender addon for loading Gaussian Splats and rendering them. Works well with Brush (see below).
Kiri-Innovation
Malt
A Blender render engine for NPR (non-photorealistic rendering), targeted at advanced users.
bnpr
Coders Tool: Color conversions & color scheme generators
Easily create monochromatic, triadic, complementary and other color schemes, as well as convert between color spaces.
Improved AgX color grading pipeline by CGCookie
Coolors
This site helps you quickly generate cool looking color combinations.
More useful software
REAL-Video-Enhancer & Flowframes
Both softwares perform frame interpolation (super useful to cut down on render times). Flowframes is a Windows-only GUI, whereas REAL-Video-Enhancer is also available for Linux and can also perform denoising and upscaling.
TNTwise
Graphite
Vector graphics software, running on the web (with desktop apps planned). Supports procedural pipelines for advanced 2D graphics generation.
OpenCut
A timeline-based video editor similar to CapCut, but open-source.
OpenCut-app
Brush
3D reconstruction engine for Gaussian Splats. Requires you to create COLMAP reconstructions from your data beforehand.
ArthurBrussee
SculptGL
A web-based sculpting app.
stéphane GINIERIFSRenderer
An interactive GPU-based fractal renderer for 3D IFS (iterated function systems).
Youtube Channels
- Erindale (proceduralism & nodes)
- Blender Guru (entry-level tutorials)
- CGMatter (geo nodes & VFX)
- Brady Johnston (biochemistry, molecular nodes)
- Luminous Lab (biochemistry, scientific design)
- CG Figures (science)
- Polyfjord (animation, interactive experiments)
- Seanterelle (proceduralism, abstract art)
- Cartesian Caramel (proceduralism, nodes)
- Ian Hubert (god of VFX)
- harry blends (geo nodes tutorials)
- MTR Animation (advanced math and special effects with nodes)
Forums & Communities
- Blender Discord (general, help channels)
- erindale.xyz Discord (proceduralism, nodes)
- blender.science Discord
- blenderartists.org (art, help, discussion, general)
- blender.stackexchange.com
- r/blenderhelp
- BlenderNation.com (tutorials, news, art)
More Lists
This curated list is awesome, because it covers every possible Blender resource out there. But its long, veery long.
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