Blender plugins

Maxon

Fast production GPU renderer.

Exoside

Automatic retopology into clean quad meshes.

Artell

Character rigging, animation retargeting and game engine export.

Salt Media

Moves 3D objects, cameras and vertex data between Blender and After Effects in both directions.

Nataworkstudio

Turns photos into animatable 3D models inside After Effects and Blender using AI depth estimation.

Salt Media

Sends Blender objects, cameras, lights and simulation vertices to After Effects and keeps layers synchronised.

grape design

A Blender add-on that keeps motion paths for empties, cameras, meshes and bones updated in real time.

Manuel does Motion

Adds animatable lens flares and lights to After Effects scenes using built-in elements, with no separate plug-in.

Hasan Atallah

After Effects plugin for animated bar charts and line graphs with custom bars, textures, legends and RTL support.

Rendertom

After Effects script that rolls a static shape or mask along a surface, including complex compound shapes.

I Am Jon Duncan

Keeps the master comp visible and in sync while editing nested pre-comps in After Effects.

Kstudio

Asset library manager for 3ds Max that classifies models with a local AI engine and searches by color or visual similarity.

Community

Blender add-on that aligns selected objects to the active object from a sidebar panel.

NiK684

Set of UV helpers for 3ds Max covering checker assignment, alignment, randomizing, texel density and tile fitting.

Bending Spoons

Free After Effects panel for batch-renaming project items with find and replace and queuing comps to Media Encoder.

SMagnusson

Blender add-on for painting where light should fall; it then creates and positions the lamps for you.

Community

Blender add-on that sets up a camera orbiting a selected object, accessible from the viewport sidebar.

RenderRides

Blender camera animation system that records live movement, extracts editable paths and builds adjustable camera rigs.

Community

Blender add-on for developers that copies an icon's name to the clipboard when you click it.

Cremuss

Blender add-on that bakes animation and other data into textures, plus signed distance fields and a flexible data baker.

Brrainz

Blender add-on that keeps a live mesh copy of any NURBS, curve or surface so mesh-only tools can be used non-destructively.

KewlSheet

Blender add-on adding right-click tools to select, apply, remove and copy modifiers in bulk across scene objects.

estebanponce

Blender add-on that renders ID passes and transparent object masks for compositing, with options to bake IDs to textures.

rauquenrol

Blender add-on that joins selected objects into one with a single button click instead of a key sequence.

lbrooks

Free Blender add-on that lays selected objects out on an evenly spaced grid, optionally keyframed for animation.

3not

Blender addon that manages all scene cameras from one panel, adds cinematic camera moves and renders every camera in one click.

obaida

3ds Max script that cleans up the topology of 3D objects, with undo, faster processing and material ID preservation.

Nevil

Blender add-on that runs several Python scripts from saved paths with a single button, no text editor loading needed.

Roger Christensen

Blender add-on for shaping organic meshes in real time, driven by the procedural textures built into it.

mufeng

Blender add-on that grows realistic snowflakes from a physically-based model, with presets, randomizing and growth animation.

coven

Blender plugin that copies and pastes modifiers, materials, transforms and animation across several objects.

Ryan Guy & Dennis Fassbaender

Advanced liquid simulation with foam, spray and bubbles.

Blender community

Free edge loop tools: circle, relax, bridge and more.

Community

Blender add-on that adds more primitive mesh types to the Add > Mesh menu.

nickberckley

Blender add-on for fast boolean cutting with brush booleans, auto cuts and carver tools for hard-surface modeling.

MACHIN3

Free set of interface and modeling improvements.

Community

Blender add-on that provides additional curve shapes under Add > Curve > Extra Objects.

MACHIN3

Edit bevels and fillets after they are made.

MikhailRachinskiy

Blender add-on with analysis, repair, hollowing, alignment and export utilities for 3D printing.

MMD

Blender add-on for importing, exporting and editing MikuMikuDance models, motions and poses.

Community

Blender add mesh add-on that generates landscape terrain and includes a displace function.

VjaceslavT

Blender cloth creation and simulation add-on with adaptive wrinkles, pinning, sewing and cloth presets.

Community

Blender add-on that extends the F key in Edit Mode to create edges and faces more flexibly.

Community

Blender add-on that breaks a mesh into fractured pieces from the Object > Quick Effects menu.

HaughtyGrayAlien

Blender baking add-on that creates PBR and other texture maps from any material through a single panel.

Community

Blender add-on for generating rooms, doors, windows and other architectural objects.

vfxguide

Blender add-on that adds procedural wear, scars and damage to meshes with masks, layers and patterns.

Bolt Factory

Blender add-on that generates bolts and nuts with configurable thread, head and drive types.