Best Mouse For 3d Modeling Blender

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
  • 🦑Generator/Builder
  • 🧊Modeling
  • 🌠Animation
  • 🦖Game Engine
  • 🗜Render Engine
  • 🔳Texture/UV
  • 🎮GameDev
  • 🪀Misc
  • 🎴Themes
• 🪐Resources
  • 🎠3D Models
  • 🤸🏾‍♀️Mocap/Animation
  • 🌑Textures
  • 🌓Blender Materials
  • 🌲Blender Scenes/Files
  • ⛅HDRIs
  • 🖼️Art/Reference
  • 🛰Space
  • 🎧Sound/Music
  • 🏞Free Stocks
  • 🌂Useful
• 📥Standalone
  • Blender Builds
  • 3D Tools
  • Various Tools
  • Photogrammetry
  • Texture/Material
  • Terrain
  • Real-World Height Maps
  • Point Cloud/LiDAR Data
  • Generator
  • AI-Powered
  • Sound/Music
  • Painting
• 🔍Explore Blender
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  • Developement
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• 🖇Social
  • 🔍Explore Artworks
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• 👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials
  • 🍩Beginning
  • 🗿Modeling
  • 🔘Shader Nodes
  • 🌠Animation
  • 🌌Animation Nodes
  • 🔲UV Mapping
  • 🔳Texture Painting
  • 📐Compositing
  • 🤺Motion Tracking/Capture
  • Premium Tutorials
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🔮Add-ons ^

• Check list of Blender's built-in add-ons documentation here.
• Blender addon reviews:
  • Blogs: BlenderAddons.org, BlenderNation.
  • Youtube: New Media Supply, Steven Scott, Markom3D.
• Check List of addons that work with 2.8 on blenderartists/scripts.
• Get premium add-ons from BlenderMarket, Gumroad.

🌊Simulation/Physics ^

🦑Generator/Builder ^

🧊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.
• 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.
• Polysweeper : is a tool to sweep a face profile along a face loop.
• Edit Split Normals : Edit normals like meshes.
• Auto Mirror : Automate a series of tasks, such as deleting a half, setting a mirror modifier, setting a clipping, etc.
• Drop It : Designed to drop fast and simply Objects to Ground or Surface.
• Maxivz's Interactive Tools : Collection of intuitive, context sensitive tools for Blender.
• Synced Modifiers : allows you to add modifiers to multiple objects at the same time and automatically syncs all the modifiers using Drivers.
• Retopology/Remesh:
• 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.
  • JMesh Tools : 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:
  • Blender-Sculpt-Tools : Addon for help sculpting base mesh like Zbrush with Zsphere.
  • Sculpt Alphas Manager : This addon provides a simple solution to be able to quickly switch alpha textures for the sculpt brushes.
  • Speedsculpt [$] : The addon allows you to create very fast characters, to manage Dyntopo Sculpting with booleans, cut curves, skin modifier, decimate, mask etc.
  • GoB : GoZ-alike tools for simple ZBrush-Blender interchange.
  • Brush Manager for Blender : is an add-on for Blender that helps you to create custom brushes, store them in a file and organize the library of various categories of brushes.
• 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.
  • 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.
  • Blign : is an alignment and distribution tool for Blender. It allows users to align and distribute shapes with many different options.
• 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 ^

🦖Game Engine ^

🗜Render Engine ^

🔳Texture/UV ^

🎮GameDev ^

🪀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.
  • 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.
  • NodeCustomBuilder : Preset system for nodes.
  • FontSelector : Easy font management inside Blender.
  • Shot Manager by Ubisoft : is a add-on that introduces a true shot entity in Blender scenes.
• Lighting/HDRI
• Geographic/Maps:
  • 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]
  • blender-osm : One click download and import of OpenStreetMap and terrain for Blender.
• 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
• Import:
  • Daz Importer, glTF, Rhinoceros3D files, cityGML, .SVG, .XPS, .GIF, Quake: .BSP .MD3.
  • Sketchfab Blender Addon : Directly import and export models from and to Sketchfab in Blender.
• Export:
  • 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.
  • Blender To Unity FBX Exporter : FBX exporter add-on for Blender compatible with Unity's coordinate and scaling system.
• Render:
  • BatchRender, Notify, AlarmShutdown, RenderButton.
  • 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
• 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 2 : Camera Exposure, White balance and Autofocus. Photographer 2 was made completely free for all.
  • Photographer 3&4 [$] : Camera Exposure, White balance and Autofocus, Physical Light units, Optical Bokeh and more camera related enhancements. Photographer 3 is at a reduced price while Photographer 4 has newer features.
  • Camera Shakify : An addon for Blender that lets you easily add realistic camera shake to your cameras.
• Audio Visualizer
  • Bizualizer, Curtis Holt's.
• Display:
  • Screencast-Keys : Status Add-On for Blender.
  • Shortcut VUr : With this addon you can display mouse and keyboard input.
  • ExtraInfo : Show more info in the viewport.
  • AStats : Show Stats in Viewport.
  • QuickRef : Display reference images in Blender.
• 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.
  • 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.
  • Parallel_Render : Render the output from the Sequencer multithreaded through the Render siderbar.
  • Export EDL : Exports: video, audio and dissolves. to ex. Davinci Resolve, Lightworks, Final Cut Pro & Premiere Pro.
  • Import EDL : Imports: video, audio and dissolves.
  • Freesound Add-on : is an addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music.
  • Push to Talk : Convenient recording of scratch dialog for an edit.
  • 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.
• TextEditor:
  • TexTension : For increasing productivity and generally trying to match the writing experience of a modern text editor.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Formatting : Trim whitespace change case and split and join lines.
  • Insert and Navigate to Text Markers : Insert and navigate to text marker positions.
  • Autocomplete/Intellisense : Autocomplete/Intellisense for the Text Editor.
• Photogrammetry:
  • 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:
  • Glass for EEVEE : This shader allows you to make realistic glass with eevee.
  • SSGI for EEVEE : Converts Diffuse and Principled BSDFs to nodegroups that give representation of diffuse component to SSR for SSGI effect.
  • Shader Displacement for Eevee : Using a few modifiers and a nodegroup, realtime shader displacement in Eevee is now possible.
  • Eevee Presets : Save Eevee Presets.
• Nodes:
  • PrintNodes : Export high quality screenshots of your nodes. Great for getting support.
• CubeSter : is an add-on for Blender 3D that takes an image or audio file and converts it into a height-based mesh object.
• Projectors : A blender add-on for simple projector creation and modification.
• 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.
• Modifier List : Alternative UI layout for modifiers with handy features. Available also inside the sidebar and as a popup.
• Verge3D : is a powerful yet cost-efficient solution for creating interactive 3D web experiences.
• 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.
• Set Viewport Color : Blender Script to Set the Viewport Color based on a nodetree.
• PresetterProfessional : View and visibility presets, 3d cursor presets, snap presets, etc. presets.
• PowerSave : is a tool intended to streamline saving and make saving itself more accessible, friendly and more artist streamlined.
• Lodify : LOD(Level of Detail) and Proxy system for blender.
• Multi-user : Enable real-time collaborative workflows inside blender.
• Screenwriter : Write screenplays in Blender Text Editor in Fountain markup syntax view/export with correct screenplay formatting.
• VoxelDraw : An addon to draw voxel meshes in edit mode for Blender.
• BlenderBIM : An add-on for beautiful, detailed, and data-rich OpenBIM with Blender.
• Kaleidoscope : The add-on adds two new nodes, Spectrum and Intensity, which essentially improves your workflow inside Blender when creating materials.
• Spread Objects : Spread the selected objects on an evenly spaced grid.
• BagaPie Modifier : This addon create modifier and geometry nodes preset like: boolean, scatter, auto array on curve.
• Mixer by Ubisoft : is a Blender addon developed at Ubisoft Animation Studio for Real Time Collaboration in 3D edition.
• Daz to Blender Bridge : This easy-to-use Bridge transfers your Genesis 8 and 3 characters from Daz directly to Blender.
• Substance 3D add-on for Blender by Adobe : with this add-on you can access your Substance materials directly inside Blender.

🎴Themes ^

• Blender Pro, Curt's, 80's, Awesome, Nord.
  • Call for Content: Themes
  • Theme Development - Paper Cuts
  • Blender UI Paper Cuts
• Theme Switcher : Addon to quickly change active theme not leaving 3D View.

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🪐Resources ^

🎠3D Models ^

• Quixel Megascans : World's largest photogrammetry 2D and 3D asset library. Now it is free for the Epic Games accounts.
• Scan the World : is an ambitious community-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]
• Artec 3D : Download high resolution 3D scans for free.
• Poly Haven/Models : is a resource of free high quality 3D assets for everyone. All models here are CC0.
• Blender Boom : 3D model repository. Free models ready to use.
• Three D Scans : Free 3D scans in .stl without copyright restrictions.
• 3D Digitization Smithsonian : CC0 Photoscan Library from Smithsonian. (Collections)
• Chocofur/Free : Premium quality 3D models & scenes. (blender addon)
• Free3D : is the go to place where you can share your free 3D assets and download instantly any you like.
• CGAxis/free : Get free 3D models, ready to render interior, PBR textures and HDR images. Royalty-Free. (one pack)
• 3DB3 : Check out the best 3D models made by professional 3D artists.
• Rigmodels : Free rigged, animated and low poly models
• RockThe3D : is a blog site to provide and sharing the best 3D related knowledge and resources around.
• CGTrader : Free 3D models from cgtrader.
• Sketchfab : Free downloadable models from sketchfab.
• TurboSquid/free : Free models from Turbosquid.
• Hum3D : source of quality 3D models of vehicles in blend file format.
• Clara.io : Free 3D Modeling, Rendering, Sharing and Models.
• FlyingArchitecture : is both an architectural visualizations studio as well as an online store dedicated to 3D models, scenes, materials and tutorials.
• 3D Warehouse : Download sketchup models.
• Free3DBase : Download high quality free 3d models.
• RenderHub/free : Daz Content, 3D models, textures and materials.
• KitBash3d [$] : makes premium 3D assets for VFX, concept art and design. Their 3D model kits have immediately been adopted by the industry's top artists, studios. Get Mini Kit: Neo City for free.
• Awesome-3D-Meshes : List of famous 3D meshes.
• List of Common 3D Test Models.
• Other Sites:
  • Google Poly, GrabCAD, Xfree3D, Gumroad/free-3d-model, Artstation Marketplace/free, Cubebrush/freebies, Daz3D/freebies, 3dsky.org/free, C4DDownload.com, 3DModelsCC0.com, CadNav, Archive 3D, ThePixelLab/freebies.
• Various Models:
  • Quaternius's Ultimate Low-Poly Models, The Art of 3D Insects by Natural History Museum, First Animals by Oxford University, Stylized Characters Base Meshes/Blockouts, Wire Wheels Club: Free Car Models.
• Scanned Models:
  • Scanned Female Head Model by EISKO, Scanned 3D People from Renderpeople, Scans from Louvre Museum, Free 3D Head Model, Deep 3D Studio, Public Domain 3D Cultural Heritage, The Heretic: Digital Human by Unity, Phenome10K/Scans, Renderbot/free, The Małopolska's Virtual Museums.
• Kitbash Models:
  • Free Hard Surface KitBash Models, Free sci-fi kitbash set, 3D Kitbashing library, Kitbash Sci-fi Buildings.
• VDB Models:
  • Free VDB Simulations Created With Embergen, OpenVDB Sample Models, disneyanimation.com/clouds, Free Volume Cloud and Smoke, High Altitude Clouds.

🤸🏾‍♀️Mocap/Animation ^

• Mixamo : Animate 3D characters for games, film, and more.
• ActorCore : Motion-capture library from Reallusion.
• Carnegie-Mellon University Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database BVH conversions : Contains 2500 free human motion captures.
• Rokoko Studio : Get 150 free mocap moves from Rokoko's Motion Library.
• Motekentertainment/free-samples : Motek has captured and animated the a large variety of characters, for a great number of projects from various sectors.
• MocapClub : Motion Capture Library is free to the public and meant for educational purposes only. The library contains more than 500 diferent motions.
• turbosquid/motion-capture, sketchfab/animated.

🌑Textures ^

• Poly Haven/Textures : Poly Haven/Textures is a website where you can find high quality scanned textures for free.
• ambientCG : Get hundreds of PBR materials and textures for free under the Public Domain license.
• cgbookcase : Discover a library of high-quality PBR textures. Free for every purpose, forever. Some Blender tutorials here and there.
• 3DAssets.one : is a search-engine which allows you to explore the largest free texture sites all at once.
• 3DTextures.me : Free seamless PBR textures.
• FreePBR.com : Free PBR materials and texture files.
• ShareTextures : Free High Quality Material Archive for everybody.
• Texture.Ninja : Public domain photographic textures, reference images, cutouts.
• 3DXO : Free 3D Models, seamless Textures, Backgrounds, Photos & Graphics.
• Texture Box : We are making free textures for 3D Artists from all over the world. Also, we offer custome texture services.
• Texture Fun : Free PBR texture sets of common architectural materials, including some nice tile textures.
• C4DCenter : Free C4D Materials created with High Quality Texture Maps for instant download and no limits, Free for Personal and Commercial Use.
• IES Library : Download free IES lighting files. IES files describe how light from a lamp is distributed in a room.
• WildTextures : Free high resolution textures and patterns for commercial or personal use.
• Textures.com [$] : is a website that offers digital pictures of all sorts of materials. Sign up for free and download 15 free images every day!
• Substance Share : The free exchange platform for the Substance community.
• Substance Source/freebies [$] : Hundreds of high quality PBR materials.
• ScansLibrary [$] : Digital marketplace with thousands of Real-World scans.
• Poliigon/freebies [$] : A library of materials, and HDR's for artists including free textures that want photorealism.
• Texturing.xyz [$] : Our textures are used in the biggest and industry-leading VFX companies, and help them achieving their goals faster.
• Other Sites:
  • EveryTexture.com, 3DJungle.net, Architecture Inspirations, Sketchup Texture Club, TextureKing, MotionSquared, TextureCan.
• Others:
  • gumroad/juliosillet, gumroad/lebedev, Pixar/CommunityResources, Nikola Damjanov's 100 PBR Texture Sets, 30 Displacement Maps, Texture Hunt Collection, Photogrammetry Bark Textures, treesDesigner PBR Leaf Textures, artstation/deepmind, CGTrader/textures, CGIVault/Textures, artstation/alexbeddows.

🌓Blender Materials ^

• Blendermada : Free Blender Material Database. (blender addon).
• The Blendersauce Vault Materials : Abstract, Bricks and Walls, Concrete, Fabric, Fluids, Food, Manmade, Metal, Metal painted Materials, Nature, Plaster, Rocks/Stones, Tiles, Wood.
• 3d-wolf/materials : PBR Materials is an addon with physically based materials.
• 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.
• Sketch/Toon Shaders:
  • BNPR' Shaders, Eevee Comics Shader v3.0, Erisdraw3D's, EEVEEToon, Komikaze[$](Free: Aqua, Kismet), Ultimate Clay Shader[$], Erito's Toon Shader for Eevee, Toonkit-Samples.
• Nodevember Results:
  • Curtis Holt's Results, Neoyume's Nodeshaders, Kyle Hamm, erindale.
• Others:
  • gumroad/simonthommes, Meta's Massivest Materials, Abstract Materials.

🌲Blender Scenes/Files ^

• Blend Swap : The one place for Open Source Blender files.
• Blender/demo-files : Demo Scenes from blender.
• BlenderNation.com/models : collects the best free Blender 3D model downloads from all across the Blender community.
• Mantissa/resources : Free Blender files, resources.
• Gumroad Pages:
  • gumroad/bluefoxcreation, gumroad/curtisjamesholt.
• Rigged Models:
  • Rain v2, Red-Nelb, Dancing Girl, Pharah(Overwatch), Luchadora, Rocket Girl, Pikachu, MT-103 Droid, Baqir, Ivan, Cori, Judy Hopps, Scorbunny, Stretch.

⛅HDRIs ^

• Poly Haven/HDRIs, Pixar/HDRI, Hdrlabs, Hdrmaps/freebies, Hdri-hub/free, Hdri-skies, eisklotz/HDRIs, locationtextures/panoramas, noahwitchell, bobgroothuis, vizpeople/free, noemotionhdrs, iHDRI.

🖼️Art/Reference ^

• Dezoomify : Download zoomable images from Google Arts & Culture, The National Gallery, Gallica, Van Gogh Museum and more. (Desktop App) (Desktop App GUI) (Extension)
• Birmingham Museums Trust : Thousands of our out-of-copyright images are now available for all to use under a Creative Commons Zero Licence. 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.
• 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.
• Smithsonian Open Access : Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images right now, without asking.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library : 300,000+ Botanical and Animal Illustrations available for free download.
• Natural History Museum, Data Portal : Explore and download the Museum's research and collections data. Collection information, images, sounds, videos, research results, 3D scans.
• British Museum : The British Museum Just Made 1.9M Stunningly Detailed Images Free Online.
• Open Image Collections : is a collection of digital image sources include museum digital collections, stock images, photo archives, design resources and image search engines.
• List of Museums & Libraries with Public-Domain Collection.
• Mindat, Mineral Database : is the world's largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from.
• Anatomy 360, Free Reference : 3D scanned human reference images.
• Wildlife Reference Photos : Wildlife reference photos for artists.
• Flickr, Creative Commons : Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license.
• The Empire University, Weapons Library : Free reference resource for many types of weapons.

🛰Space ^

• Solar Textures : These textures represent real planetary maps in equirectangular projection. Textures in this pack are based on NASA elevation and imagery data.
• NASA-3D-Resources : Here you'll find a growing collection of 3D models, textures, and images from inside NASA. All of these resources are free to download and use.
• Celestia Motherlode : is a repository for various addons like textures, models or celestial objects.
• NASA : Hubble Image Gallery (NASA), NASA Image and Video Library, Astronomy Picture of the Day.
• ESA : ESA - Observing the Earth (Image Archive).
• Earth View : Earth View is a collection of the most beautiful and striking landscapes found in Google Earth.
• Areo Browser : is a web-app that allows you to explore nearly 2000 Martian terrain models, in full 3D, directly in your browser.
• Others:
  • CGI Moon Kit, Moon 64k, Earth 42k, Natural Earth III, Planets Pack.

🎧Sound/Music ^

🏞Free Stocks ^

• Image/Vector : unsplash, pexels , pixabay, stocksnap, rawpixel, burst.
• Video/VFX/Footage : videvo, actionvfx/free-vfx, videezy, pixabay, freemotionbacks, actionvfx, productioncrate/free, benharker.
• Cutouts : MrCutout, nonscandinavia, clipped, vishopper/free.
• Visual Loops : Mantissa, BEEPLE, Vimeo/Catmac, SSWIII, rptv.
• Fonts : google, theleagueofmoveabletype, beautifulwebtype, openfoundry.

🌂Useful ^

• Sheep it Render Farm : is a free distributed renderfarm for Blender.
• Render on Google Colab :
  • This script can be used to render with blender on Google Colab. Only Cycles. (Alternative) (Video Tutorial)
  • This is an example on how to use Meshroom in Google Colab with uploaded images to generate a textured mesh (OBJ) that can be downloaded.
  • How to run OpenGL desktop programs on Google Colab. You should follow this instruction if you want to work with Eevee.
• Daily Blender Tips : blender.daily, Blender Secrets(tw, yt).
• IOR List : Index of Refraction values list for use with 3D applications.
• MatCaps : Huge library of matcap PNG textures organized by color.
• Blender Matcap Shader : An implementation of Blender's workbench matcap shading in shader nodes.
• UE Sponsored Content : Every month Epic Games gives away several assets from the Unreal Engine marketplace for free.
• Blender & ACES : Setup Blender to work with ACES using OpenColorIO.

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📥Standalone ^

Blender Builds ^

• Bforartists : is a fork of the Blender, with the goal to change the UI.
• Open Mesh Effect for Blender : This is an edited version of Blender including an Open Mesh Effects based modifier.
  • Houdini-Engine Open Mesh Effect : Convert any OBJ or SOP based Houdini Digital Asset library (.hda or .otls file) into an Open Mesh Effect plugin.
• Blender.Community/GraphicAll : Blender builds for the masses.

3D Tools ^

• MeshLab : Open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.
• AutoRemesher : Open-source auto-retopology tool intended to convert source meshes into clean, animation-friendly all-quad geometry.
• Instant Meshes : Interactive field-aligned mesh generator.
• Magica Voxel : A free lightweight 8-bit voxel art editor and GPU based interactive path tracing renderer.
• ZBrushCoreMini : is designed for new artists of all ages, with a streamlined interface that lets anyone jump right in and start sculpting immediately.
• Goxel : Create voxel graphics. Export to obj, pyl, png, magica voxel, qubicle.
• aerialod : A free interactive path tracing renderer for height maps.
• Make Human : Open-source tool for making 3D characters. (blender addon)
• Adobe Fuse : Create unique human characters, designs, prototypes and more. Available as free beta.
• Neobarok : Intuitive and free 3D modeling software for everyone.
• Dust3D : is a cross-platform open-source modeling software. It helps you create a 3D watertight model in seconds.
• EmberGen [$] : is a real-time volumetric fluid simulation tool that can instantly simulate, render, and export flipbooks, image sequences, and VDB volumes.
• HDR Light Studio [$] : Lets you easily create and edit HDR lighting with your existing 3D software.
• Sweet Home 3D : is a free interior design application that helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D.
• TreeIt : is an easy to use real time 3D tree generator for the simple creation.
• Cascadeur : is a standalone software for creating keyframe animation of 3D characters, humanoid or otherwise. Free for early adopters.
• Sculptron : GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches and for converting mesh sequences to volumes. The software is currently available free during early development.
• CNDL : An IES lighting creation toolset. Improve your renders with custom IES lighting.
• Medium by Adobe : Medium is a dedicated VR sculpting and painting package for users of Oculus headsets, capable of exporting models to DCC applications in OBJ or FBX format.
• Spline : Easily create and publish 3D web experiences. Build and iterate fast with production-ready results.

Various Tools ^

Photogrammetry ^

Texture/Material ^

Terrain ^

• TerreSculptor : is a terrain creation and editing software. It is freeware.
• 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.
• Instant Terra : Real-time terrain generation tool. Create your terrain, world, and landscape for your game, movie, or simulation.

Real-World Height Maps ^

• terrain.party : The easiest way to get real-world height maps.
• Tangram Heightmapper : is an interactive grayscale heightmap browser, which can generate heightmaps for use in 3D applications.
• OpenTopography/datasets : Facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources. Registration required.

Point Cloud/LiDAR Data ^

• OpenTopography : is a collaborative data repository for LiDAR users.
• NOAA's Data Access Viewer : This online tool allows a user to search for and download lidar, imagery, and land cover data.
• United States Interagency Elevation Inventory : is a collaborative effort of the USGS and NOAA with contributions from other federal agencies.
• USGS/TNM : U.S. Geological The National Map. You can also use the Earth Explorer (USGS). [info]
• USGS/Entwine : This website provides Potree and Plasio.js interfaces to the AWS USGS LiDAR Public Dataset.
• Sketchfab/lidar, Sketchfab/point-cloud.

Generator ^

AI-Powered ^

Sound/Music ^

• Audacity : Free, open source, cross-platform audio software.
• AudioMass : Open-source web based audio and waveform editing tool.
• SFX Generators : rFXGen, sfxia, LabChirp, Bfxr.

Painting ^

• Krita : is a professional free and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
  • Link Krita and Blender
  • Custom Digital Painting Workflow In Krita
• HEAVYPAINT : is a simple app designed for graphic painting. The UI is streamlined for fluid, happy painting with as little friction as possible.

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🔍Explore Blender ^

Documantation ^

📖 User Manual | 🔗 Python API | ⚙️ Developer Wiki

Developement ^

🔌 Developer Portal | 💭 DevTalk | 💻 Developers Blog

Community ^

• 👨🏽‍🚀Blender.Community : is an independent community aggregator, by Blenderheads for Blenderheads.
  • ☕Blender.Today : Community-driven Blender news, chat, and live streams! Stream playlist.
  • 🖱️Right-Click Select : Got an idea for a feature that you think Blender absolutely must have?
• 👨‍🎨Blender Artists Community : Home of the Blender Community.
• 📰BlenderNation : daily news, art and tutorials for Blender, the open source 3D content creation suite.
• 💬blender.chat : official chat server for artists and developers.
• 🗨️discord/blender : community-managed Discord server.
• fb/blender : blender facebook group.
• blender.stackexchange.com : questions and answers.

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🖇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, @CGGeeks, @PabloVazquez_, @IMilk_ManI, @bluefox_3d, @LucaRood, @janurschel, @zuggamasta, @andrewpprice, @brentpatterson, @FinEskimo @VicDoval

📢Youtube Channels ^

• IanHubert : Lazy tutorials, modeling, animating, vfx, cinematic.
• Midge Sinnaeve : modifiers, weird sh!t, art streams.
• CGMatter : short tutorials.
• Default Cube : CGMatter's second channel used for longer tutorials and other kinds of videos.
• SouthernShotty : stylized modeling, character creation, sculpting.
• Blender Guru : Most popular blender channel on youtube.
• CG Geek : second most popular blender channel on youtube.
• Gleb Alexandrov : one of the best-known blender channel on youtube.
• Ducky 3D : abstract designs, modifiers.
• Royal Skies LLC : Speed tutorials, texturing, mapping, nodes, animation.
• Grant Abbitt : modeling, animation, sculpting, low-poly, game assets.
• Chris Prenninger : animation nodes, particle systems, shading.
• Jayanam : Shading, coding, modeling.
• CG Boost : modeling, sculpting.
• CG Cookie : free tutorials from CG Cookie.
• FlippedNormals : sculpting, modeling.
• Curtis Holt : modeling, modifiers, coding.
• Polygon Runway : stylish low-poly modeling.
• Steven Scott : add-ons, feature reviews.
• Blender NPR : non-Photorealistic and expressive rendering.
• Martin Klekner : modeling, texturing.
• Danny Mac 3D : character modeling, posing, rigging, retopology, sculpting.
• Daniel Krafft - DSO : blender tips, add-ons.
• Imphenzia : low poly modeling, rigging.
• Saqib Hussain : modeling, modifiers, texturing, shading.
• CrossMind Studio : introduction, modeling, shading, lighting, modifiers.
• CBaileyFilm : blender animation projects.
• Josh Gambrell : hard surface modeling.
• CG Masters : modeling, texturing, shading.
• Peter France : modeling, texturing, shading, vfx.
• Polyfjord : animation.
• Cédric Lepiller : hard surface modeling.
• FlyCat : character modeling.
• Stylized Station : game art.
• Iridesium : simulation, vfx.
• Lightning Boy Studio : toon shader, npr.
• Giulia Marchetti : sculpting, character modeling.
• CG Fast Track : modeling, animation.

💻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.
• Interplanety : Blender tutorials, articles, tips, notes.
• Darkfall : Blender python tutorials, nodes.
• The CG Essentials : 3D modeling, rendering, animation, particle simulation, and more, this is the place to be for Blender Tutorials.
• Blender Secrets : is home to hundreds of one-minute or less video tutorials that teach you specific topics.

🎊Challenges ^

• Nodevember : The yearly event for everything procedural. Feel like doing a challenge? #nodevember is all about creating and promoting procedural awesomeness! A whole month to improve and show off your procedural skills.
  • See works: tw/#nodevember, ig/#nodevember, artstation/nodevember
• SculptJanuary : Challenge yourself over 31 days with a set of 31 topics. Sculpt every day and improve your sculpting skills.
  • See works: tw/#sculptjanuary, ig/#sculptjanuary, artstation/sculptjanuary
• 36 Days of Type : is a yearly open call inviting designers, illustrators and visual artists to share their view on the letters and numbers from our alphabet.
  • See works: tw/#36daysoftype, ig/#36daysoftype, artstation/36daysoftype
• Competitions: /r/blender: contest, blenderartists.org/contest.

🎉Events ^

• Blender Conference : The yearly Blender Conference in Amsterdam. (Playlists: Bcon20, Bcon19, Bcon18, Bcon17).

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👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^

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

🍩Beginning ^

• ☰Blender Fundamentals by Blender.
• ☰Blender Basics by CG Cookie.
• ☰🍩Blender Beginner Tutorial Series 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.

🗿Modeling ^

• 🧾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.
• Sculpting:
  • ☷YanSculpts' Channel
  • ☷Julien Kaspar's Channel
  • ▷Introduction to Sculpting in Blender - Sculpting Essentials.
  • ▷The Speed Sculpting Guide - Learn from Limitation.
  • ▷Sculpting in Blender - Beginners Detailed Guide - Every Brush.
• Character Modeling:
  • ▷Stylized Character Workflow with Blender.
  • ▷Modeling a character BaseMesh in Blender.
• Hard Surface:
  • ☰Hard-surface Modeling in Blender by Gleb Alexandrov.
  • ▷Blender Hardsurface Sculpting Tips.
• Procedural Modeling: (Sverchok, Sorcar, Modifiers)
  • 🧾Sverchok Documentation.
  • ▷Sverchok Nodes - Quick Guide 4 minutes.
  • ☰Sverchok Exploration by Jimmy Gunawan.
  • 🧾Sorcar Documentation.
  • ▷Exploring Nodes of Sorcar.
  • 🧾Modifiers Manual.
  • ▷Generative Modeling with Modifiers.
  • ☷Midge Sinnaeve's Channel

🔘Shader Nodes ^

• 🧾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 ^

• 🧾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.

🌌Animation Nodes ^

• 🧾Animation Nodes Manual.
• ☰Introduction to Animation Nodes by Chris Prenninger.
• ☰Animation Nodes in Blender by Chris Prenninger.
• ☰Animation node tutorial by Bradley Animation.
• ☰Blender Animation Nodes For Beginners Series by CGMatter.
• ☷Blue Fox Creation's Channel.

🔲UV Mapping ^

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

🔳Texture Painting ^

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

📐Compositing ^

• 🧾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.

🤺Motion Tracking/Capture ^

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

Premium Tutorials ^

• Blender Cloud
• CG Cookie, CG Masters, CG Boost Academy, polygonrunway
• gumroad/blender:
  • jamajurabaev, janurschel, yansculpts,
• udemy/blender:
  • Creating 3D environments in Blender by Rob Tuytel
• blendermarket/training, lynda/blender, skillshare/blender

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 ^

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

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👩🏽‍💻Development ^

Scripting/Developing ^

• 🧾Documentation:
  • Blender Python API Documentation : Official Blender Python API Documentation.
  • Programming Add-ons for Blender 2.8 : It shows how to set up a professional IDE for writing Python programs for Blender, on the example of a simple plugin. It is an ebook, published freely on Creative Commons license.
  • blenderscripting : blender related python snippets to get you started.
  • Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Python Scripting : Python Scripting from Blender 3D: Noob to Pro book.
• Video Tutorials:
  • ☰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, [part2]
• Posts:
  • Blender 2.8 Python Scripting Superpowers for Non-Programmers : If you've been using Blender or any other 3D app for a while, you've found yourself slogging through the same tasks over and over again and at some point thinking, "I really wish Blender just did this for me". Through scripting, it can!
  • Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art : learning the basics of scripting for Blender Grease-Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
  • Visualizing Complex Numbers in Blender : This tutorial introduces how to make patterns with complex numbers in Blender.
• Sources:
• Support:
  • devtalk/python : Questions about using and developing the Blender Python API, both for Blender itself and add-ons.
  • blenderartists/python-support, stackoverflow/tagged/bpy

Blender Source ^

• 🧾Developer Documentation : Here you can find information about Blender's development process, design and architecture, as well as instructions for Building Blender.
• 🔌 Developer Portal | 💭 DevTalk | 💻 Developers Blog

Learn Python ^

• Awesome Python : A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
• All Algorithms implemented in Python.

Learn Computer Graphics ^

• Computer Graphics from scratch This book will not teach you how to use OpenGL or DirectX; instead, it can teach you how OpenGL and DirectX work.
• tinyraytracer : Understandable RayTracing in 256 lines of bare C++.
• tinyrenderer : Tiny Renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code.
• Awesome Computer Graphics : A curated list of awesome stuff to learn computer graphics.
• awesome-graphics : Curated list of computer graphics tutorials and resources.

Related Awesome Lists ^

• awesome-3d-human : A curated list of papers & resources linked to 3D Human research including face, body, hand and motion modeling.
• awesome-3d-printing : A curated list of awesome 3D printing resources.
• 3D-Machine-Learning : A resource repository for 3D machine learning.
• Awesome Gamedev : A curated list of good stuff related to the development of games.
• Awesome Design Tools : The best design tools and plugins for everything.
• Awesome Design : Curated design resources.
• Awesome Stock Resources : A collection of links for free stock photography, video and Illustration websites.
• GameDev Resources : A wonderful list of Game Development resources.
• VFX Good Night Reading : Curated collection of good reading about VFX and CG.

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Symbols ^

[$] paid ones, repo link, blender market, 🧾 doc.

Video Symbols:

▷ video, ☰ playlist, ☷ channel.

License Symbols:

CC, CC0, BY, NC

MIT, GPL

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Contributing ^

Your contributions are always welcome! ^_^ If you want to contribute to this list, send a pull request, open an issue or contact with me @agmmnn. Please read the contributing guidelines first, some sections have their own guidelines as a comment line.

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