Tools, Pipeline & UtilitiesEdit

Viewers, converters, USD, plugin marketplaces, pipeline standards, and miscellaneous CG utilities.

USD (Universal Scene Description)

OpenUSD resources, specifications, and guides.

• AL USD Maya. Represent Maya data in Maya and USD data in USD.
• Animal Logic's USD Docker. A set of docker build scripts that will download all the Open Source packages required to build Pixar's Universal Scene Description, as well as USD itself
• Apple USD Tools. Usdz_converter, Reality Composer.
• Luma USD. Plugins for USD.
• NVIDIA USD Resources. Omniverse, tutorials, tools.
• OpenUSD. Official Pixar USD site. Specification, tools, resources.
• USD Cookbook (Colin Kennedy). Code recipes and examples.
• USD Manager. Program designed for lightweight browsing, managing, and editing of Universal Scene Description (USD) files.
• USD Noodle. Pretty node graph showing dependencies of a USD file.
• USD Qtpy. Python Qt components for building custom USD tools.
• USD Shell Extension for Windows. Full-featured Windows shell extension for giving the File Explorer support for USD thumbnails, side previews and even exposes certain deep metadata to Windows Search.
• USD Survival Guide. Practical USD guide for VFX artists.
• USD URI Resolver. A generic, URI based resolver for USD, support custom plugins.
• USD Working Group (ASWF). Alliance for Open Media USD resources.
• UsdQt. Qt components for building custom USD tools.

Scene & Pipeline Tools

Production pipelines, render management, look dev.

Related:

• BlenderProc. A procedural Blender pipeline for photorealistic training image generation.
• CGCmake. CMake modules for CG apps.
• Cortex. Libraries for VFX software development.
• Cross3D. Scene and node management abstraction.
• Dailies. Wraps ffmpeg, Nuke, or RV to process video files and image sequences. Integrates with Shotgun, Ftrack, Kitsu.
• Easy3D. A lightweight, easy-to-use, and efficient C++ library for processing and rendering 3D data.
• Example of Python scripts for 3D Studio Max, Maya and Blender. Example of Python scripts for 3D Studio Max, Maya and Blender.
• Field3D. Open-source library for storing voxel data.
• MayaCharm. Run and edit Maya scripts directly from PyCharm
• MayaSublime. Run and edit Maya scripts directly from SublimeText
• mGui. Portable pure-python GUI library for Maya.
• minq. Maya query language for speeding up common scene operations.
• nuke.vim. Run and edit Nuke scripts directly from vim
• OD CopyPasteExternal. Tool to easily copy/paste a geometry across 3D application like Blender <> 3DS Max <> Maya <>.. <>.
• Pipeline Developer Forum. Pipeline Developer Forum.
• Prisma. Computational photography pipeline tool that performs multiple inferences (masks, depth, motionvectors) from any image or video.
• Py3dsMax. 3dsMax API in Python.
• PyMEL. Python in Maya Done Right.
• Ramses. Asset Management System for motion picture production (by Rainbox Laboratory).
• Stalker. Open Source Production Asset Management (ProdAM) Library designed specifically for Animation and VFX Studios.
• VEX. Houdini add-on for Sublime Text

Gaussian Splatting & NeRF

Neural and splatting reconstruction.

• 3D Gaussian Splatting (INRIA reference impl). Original implementation.
• 3DGS Introduction. HuggingFace guide
• 3DGS.cpp. Cross-platform, high performance 3DGS renderer in C++ and Vulkan Compute, supporting Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and visionOS.
• 4D Gaussian Splatting. Dynamic scenes (CVPR 2024).
• A Shading-Guided Generative Implicit Model for Shape-Accurate 3D-Aware Image Synthesis. Pan et al., NeurIPS 2021 | github | bibtex
• Brush. 3D reconstruction for all.
• BundleSDF: Neural 6-DoF Tracking and 3D Reconstruction of Unknown Objects. Wen et al., CVPR 2023 | github | bibtex
• Contrastive Lift: 3D Object Instance Segmentation by Slow-Fast Contrastive Fusion. Bhalgat et al., NeurIPS 2023 (Spotlight) | bibtex
• DyLiN: Making Light Field Networks Dynamic. Yu et al., CVPR 2023 | github | bibtext
• DynIBaR: Neural Dynamic Image-Based Rendering. Li et al., CVPR 2023 | bibtex
• Gaussian Head Avatars: A Summary. Gaussian Head Avatars: A Summary.
• Generative Occupancy Fields for 3D Surface-Aware Image Synthesis. Xu et al., NeurIPS 2021 | github | bibtex
• IBRNet: Learning Multi-View Image-Based Rendering. Wang et al., CVPR 2021 | github | bibtex
• Learning Neural Transmittance for Efficient Rendering of Reflectance Fields. Mohammad Shafiei et al., BMVC 2021 | bibtex
• LichtFeld Studio. Native desktop app for training, inspecting, editing, and exporting 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes. Plugin extensible.
• Mega Sa M. Structure and motion from casual video.
• msplat. A modular differential gaussian rasterization library.
• Neural 3D Video Synthesis from Multi-view Video. Li et al., CVPR 2022 | bibtex
• Neural Body: Implicit Neural Representations with Structured Latent Codes for Novel View Synthesis of Dynamic Humans. Peng et al., CVPR 2021 | github | bibtex
• Neural Rays for Occlusion-aware Image-based Rendering. Liu et al., Arxiv 2021 | bibtex
• PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields. Yu et al., Arxiv 2021 | github | bibtex
• Pointrix. Differentiable point-based rendering.
• Ponder: Point Cloud Pre-training via Neural Rendering. Huang et al., ICCV 2023 | bibtex
• PVA: Pixel-aligned Volumetric Avatars. Raj et al., CVPR 2021 | bibtex
• PyTorch Implementation. Curated implementation of Vanilla 3DGS in PyTorch
• Rodin: A Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Digital Avatars Using Diffusion. Wang et al., CVPR 2023 | github | bibtex
• spaTV. WebGL Viewer for 4D Gaussians (based on SpaceTime Gaussian) with demo here.
• SpectacularAI. Conversion scripts for different 3DGS conventions.
• splatviz. Viewer that allows you to edit the rendering code during runtime or to display multiple scenes at once.
• Taichi 3D GS. Taichi-based implementation (Apache-2.0).
• TiNeuVox: Fast Dynamic Radiance Fields with Time-Aware Neural Voxels. Fang et al., SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 | github | bibtex
• UV Volumes for Real-time Rendering of Editable Free-view Human Performance. Chen et al., CVPR 2023 | github | bibtex
• vkgs. Cross-platform, high performance 3DGS renderer in C++ and Vulkan Compute/Graphics.
• Warp 3DGS. Warp/Python-based implementation (AGPL-3.0).

Photogrammetry & 3D Scanning

Photogrammetry, LiDAR, and Gaussian splat capture.

Related:

• 360 Gaussian Splatting. Generate gaussian splatting directly from 360 images
• 3D Gaussian Splatting (joeyan reimpl). Python/CUDA | MIT |
• 3D Gaussian Splatting (WangFeng18 reimpl). Python/CUDA | MIT |
• 3D in Geospatial: NeRFs, Gaussian Splatting, and Spatial Computing. 3D in Geospatial: NeRFs, Gaussian Splatting, and Spatial Computing.
• 3D Neural Scene Representations for Visuomotor Control. Li et al., CoRL 2021 Oral | bibtex
• 4DViews Paid. Volumetric capture stages and HOLOSYS rigs.
• A Higher-Dimensional Representation for Topologically Varying Neural Radiance Fields. Park et al., Arxiv 2021 | github | bibtex
• AligNeRF: High-Fidelity Neural Radiance Fields via Alignment-Aware Training. Jiang et al., CVPR 2023 | bibtex
• Animatable Neural Radiance Fields for Modeling Dynamic Human Bodies. Peng et al., ICCV 2021 | github | bibtex
• AutoInt: Automatic Integration for Fast Neural Volume Rendering. Lindell et al., CVPR 2021 | github | bibtex
• Awesome-3DGS Paper List. Contribute | MrNeRF
• Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis. Tancik et al., Arxiv 2022 | bibtex
• Book: High Dynamic Range Imaging (Reinhard et al.) Paid. Reinhard, Heidrich, Debevec, Pattanaik, Ward, Myszkowski. The reference text on HDR imaging.
• Book: The HDRI Handbook 2.0 Paid. Christian Bloch. Practical HDRI for VFX/photo, paired with sIBL.
• CLIP-NeRF: Text-and-Image Driven Manipulation of Neural Radiance Fields. Wang et al., CVPR 2022| github | bibtex
• CodeNeRF: Disentangled Neural Radiance Fields for Object Categories. Jang et al., ICCV 2021 | bibtex
• Color-NeRF. 🌐 Project Page
• Compressing Gaussian Splats. Compressing Gaussian Splats.
• CyArk. Heritage site laser scanning archive. Free models for cultural sites worldwide.
• D-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Dynamic Scenes. Pumarola et al., CVPR 2021 | github | bibtex
• Deformable Neural Radiance Fields. Park et al., Arxiv 2020 | github | bibtex
• DFNet: Enhance Absolute Pose Regression with Direct Feature Matching. Chen et al., ECCV 2022 | github | bibtex
• Direct Gaussian Style Optimization (DGSO): Stylizing 3D Gaussian Splats. Applying style transfer during gaussian optimization to produce stylized gaussian splats of a scene.
• DONeRF: Towards Real-Time Rendering of Compact Neural Radiance Fields using Depth Oracle Networks. Neff et al., CGF 2021 | github | bibtex
• Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields for Monocular 4D Facial Avatar Reconstruction. Gafni et al., CVPR 2021 | github | bibtex
• Editable Free-viewpoint Video Using a Layered Neural Representation. Zhang et al., SIGGRAPH 2021 | github | bibtex
• Editing Conditional Radiance Fields. Liu et al., Arxiv 2021 | github | bibtex
• Eisko Paid. Digital human scanning and asset service.
• ENeRF: Efficient Neural Radiance Fields for Interactive Free-viewpoint Video. Lin et al., SIGGRAPH 2022 | github | bibtex
• FiG-NeRF: Figure Ground Neural Radiance Fields for 3D Object Category Modelling. Xie et al., Arxiv 2021 | bibtex
• Gaussian Splats Town Hall - Part 2. Gaussian Splats Town Hall - Part 2.
• Gaussian Splatting 3D. Python/CUDA | |
• Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool. Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool.
• Gaussian Splatting Lightning. A 3D Gaussian Splatting framework with various derived algorithms and an interactive web viewer
• Greg Zaal: Shoot Your Own HDRI. End-to-end DSLR HDRI capture tutorial for Blender (Blender Guru).
• Ha-NeRF: Hallucinated Neural Radiance Fields in the Wild. Chen et al., CVPR 2022 | github | bibtex
• HDR Labs / sIBL. Bernhard Vogl's HDR Labs hub. sIBL spec, Smart IBL archive, capture tutorials.
• HumanNeRF: Free-viewpoint Rendering of Moving People from Monocular Video. Weng et al., CVPR 2022 | github | bibtex
• In-Place Scene Labelling and Understanding with Implicit Scene Representation. Zhi et al., Arxiv 2021 | bibtex
• iNeRF: Inverting Neural Radiance Fields for Pose Estimation. Yen-Chen et al. IROS 2021 | bibtex
• Infinite-Realities (Triple-I) Paid. Photogrammetry and light-stage rentals for film and games.
• InfNeRF: Towards Infinite Scale NeRF Rendering with O(log n) Space Complexity. Liang et al., SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 | github | bibtex
• Intro to gaussian splatting (and Unity plugin). Intro to gaussian splatting (and Unity plugin).
• Jax Ne RF. Deng et al., 2020 | bibtex
• L2G-NeRF: Local-to-Global Registration for Bundle-Adjusting Neural Radiance Fields. Chen et al., CVPR 2023 | github | bibtex
• Learning Compositional Radiance Fields of Dynamic Human Heads. Wang et al., Arxiv 2020 | bibtex
• Light Probe Image Gallery. Original mirror-ball HDR probes (Grace Cathedral, Uffizi, etc.). Still used in IBL teaching.
• Making Gaussian Splats more smaller. Making Gaussian Splats more smaller.
• Making Gaussian Splats smaller. Making Gaussian Splats smaller.
• Meshroom. 3D Reconstruction Software.
• Metastage Paid. LA volumetric capture studio using Microsoft tech.
• MINE: Towards Continuous Depth MPI with NeRF for Novel View Synthesis. Jiaxin Li et al., ICCV 2021 | github | bibtex
• Mip Ne RF. @google, 2021 | bibtex
• Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fields. Barron et al., Arxiv 2022 | bibtex
• Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields. Barron et al., Arxiv 2021 | github | bibtex
• Mr Ne RF. For inspiring me to construct this repo.
• MVSNeRF: Fast Generalizable Radiance Field Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo. Chen et al., ICCV 2021 | github | bibtex
• Ne RF Py Torch. Yen-Chen Lin, 2020 | bibtex
• Ne RF Py Torch Lighting. @kwea123, 2020
• Ne RF Py Torch3 D. @facebookresearch, 2020
• Ne RF W. @kwea123, 2021
• NeRF. Mildenhall et al., 2020 | bibtex
• NeRF (paper site). Mildenhall et al., ECCV 2020 | github | bibtex
• NeRF in the Dark: High Dynamic Range View Synthesis from Noisy Raw Images. Ben Mildenhall et al, arXiv 2021 | bibtex
• NeRF in the Wild: Neural Radiance Fields for Unconstrained Photo Collections. Martin-Brualla et al., CVPR 2021 | bibtex
• NeRF--: Neural Radiance Fields Without Known Camera Parameters. Wang et al., Arxiv 2021 | github | bibtex
• NeRF-In: Free-Form NeRF Inpainting with RGB-D Priors. Liu et al., Arxiv 2022 | bibtex
• NeRF-SOS: Any-view Self-supervised Object Segmentation on Complex Real-world Scenes. Fan et al., ICLR 2023 | bibtex
• NerfingMVS: Guided Optimization of Neural Radiance Fields for Indoor Multi-view Stereo. Wei et al., ICCV 2021 | bibtex
• Nerfstudio gsplat. Python/CUDA | Apache-2.0 | Integration with Nerfstudio |
• Nerfstudio Unofficial. Nerfstudio Unofficial.
• NeRV: Neural Reflectance and Visibility Fields for Relighting and View Synthesis. Srinivasan et al. CVPR 2021 | bibtex
• Neural Radiance Flow for 4D View Synthesis and Video Processing. Du et al., Arxiv 2020 | bibtex
• Neural Refinement for Absolute Pose Regression with Feature Synthesis. Chen et al., CVPR 2024 | github | bibtex
• Neural Rendering (YouTube). Ben Mildenhall
• Neural Scene Flow Fields for Space-Time View Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes. Li et al., CVPR 2021 | github | bibtex
• Neural Scene Graphs for Dynamic Scenes. Ost et al., CVPR 2021 | bibtex
• Neural Sparse Voxel Fields. Liu et al., NeurIPS 2020 | github | bibtex
• Non-Rigid Neural Radiance Fields: Reconstruction and Novel View Synthesis of a Deforming Scene from Monocular Video. Tretschk et al., Arxiv 2020 | github | bibtex
• NoPe-NeRF: Optimising Neural Radiance Field with No Pose Prior. Bian et al., CVPR 2023 | github | bibtex
• Open Heritage 3D. Open scan datasets for heritage sites.
• openMVG. A library for computer-vision scientists targeted for the Multiple View Geometry community.
• overview of Gaussian Splatting. overview of Gaussian Splatting.
• Paul Debevec. Site of the IBL and HDR-from-bracketed papers, Light Probe Image Gallery, Light Stage research history.
• Photogrammetry Guide. A guide covering Photogrammetry including the applications, libraries and tools that will make you a better efficient Photogrammetry development.
• Photogrammetry Importer. Addon to import different photogrammetry formats into Blender.
• pi-GAN: Periodic Implicit Generative Adversarial Networks for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis. Chan et al., CVPR 2021 | bibtex
• Point-NeRF: Point-based Neural Radiance Fields. Xu et al., CVPR 2022 | github | bibtex
• Polyscope. A C++ & Python viewer for 3D data like meshes and point clouds.
• PoRF: Pose Residual Field for Accurate Neural Surface Reconstruction. Bian et al., ICLR 2024 | github | bibtex
• Portrait Neural Radiance Fields from a Single Image. Gao et al., Arxiv 2020 | bibtex
• Putting NeRF on a Diet: Semantically Consistent Few-Shot View Synthesis. Matthew Tancik et al., Arxiv 2021 | bibtex
• Recovering HDR Radiance Maps (Debevec & Malik, 1997). SIGGRAPH 1997 paper. Original HDR-from-bracketed-exposures recovery method.
• Rendering Synthetic Objects into Real Scenes (Debevec, 1998). SIGGRAPH 1998 paper founding image-based lighting.
• Self-Calibrating Neural Radiance Fields. Jeong et al., ICCV 2021 | github | bibtex
• SinNeRF: Training Neural Radiance Fields on Complex Scenes from a Single Image. Xu et al., ECCV 2022 | github | bibtex
• Smithsonian 3D. Public Smithsonian 3D collection.
• Space-time Neural Irradiance Fields for Free-Viewpoint Video. Xian et al., CVPR 2021 | bibtex
• Stanford Digital Michelangelo. Foundational large-statue laser scanning project (Marc Levoy).
• StyleNeRF: A Style-based 3D-Aware Generator for High-resolution Image Synthesis. Gu et al., Arxiv 2021 | bibtex
• SuperSplat. A browser-based tool for inspecting, editing, optimizing and publishing 3D Gaussian Splats.
• Switch-NeRF: Learning Scene Decomposition with Mixture of Experts for Large-scale Neural Radiance Fields. Mi et al., ICLR 2023 | github | bibtex
• Ten24 Paid. Full-body photogrammetry rig services for games and film.
• USC ICT Graphics Lab. Home of Light Stage research and digital-human capture papers.
• Volucap Paid. Babelsberg volumetric video studio.

Retopology & Mesh Tools

Retopology and mesh processing.

Related:

• Danny Mac 3D. Character modeling, posing, rigging, retopology, sculpting.
• Instant Meshes Remesh. A suite of retopology tools for Blender. GitHub
• Quad Remesher Paid. Auto-quad retopology plugin (Exoside) for Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Modo, Houdini, ZBrush. ZRemesher-style algorithm.
  See also: Software Reference → Retopology & UV Software
• Retopo MT Paid. Tool for retopo, you use it in addition with other addons or tools in Blender, in Edit Mode.
• RetopoFlow Paid. Blender addon for manual retopology.
• SpeedRetopo. Free add-on for Blender to make fast and easy retopology using Bsurface.
• Topology Guides. Topology reference.
• ZWrap Paid. ZBrush plugin (R3DS) that auto-wraps a base topology onto a scan or sculpt. Standard for garment/character retopo.
  See also: Software Reference → Retopology & UV Software

UV Tools

UV unwrapping, packing, and UDIM tools.

Related:

• UV Checker Map Maker. Custom UV checker textures.
• UV Toolkit Paid. Tools collection for UV editing in blender.

Rigging & Animation Tools

Auto-rig, retargeting, and animation middleware.

• AccuRIG. Free application designed for fast and easy character rigging.
• APEX (Houdini) Paid. SideFX's procedural node-based rigging framework.
• Auto-Rig Pro (Blender) Paid. Automatic rigging and retargeting.
• CvWrap. Fast Maya wrap deformer.
• EasyMocap. Open-source toolbox for markerless human motion capture and novel view synthesis from RGB videos.
• Mesh2Motion. FREE & open-source web application to animate your 3D models. Supports humanoid, four-legged, and bird creatures.
• Onion Skin Renderer. Onion Skin Renderer for Maya.
• ossos. A complete character skinning & animation library for the web
• trigger. Operational code-driven rigging tool for Autodesk Maya.

Matchmoving & Camera Tracking

Camera tracking, object tracking, and camera matching tools.

Related:

• F Spy Maya. Unofficial fSpy Maya importer (one of several).
• Lockdown Paid. After Effects plugin for tracking warped, deforming surfaces (faces, fabric, skin). Mesh-based.

Miscellaneous 3D Tools & Utilities

Assorted CG utilities and specialty tools.

Related:

• City Roads. Generate road maps of any city as vector art.
• DEM Net Elevation API Freemium. Live 3D textured terrain generation from real data - export height/normal maps, glTF, OBJ, STL
• DEM Net Elevation API C#. Terrain generation from real data with textures, normal maps, glTF, OBJ, STL support
• emojillate. Pixellate an image into emoji
• Graphtoy. Mathematical function grapher by Inigo Quilez.
• HDRI To Cube Map. A tool to convert your HDRI file into a Cube map.
• Jsplacement. Procedural displacement map generator.
• Math for Motion. Interactive math concepts for motion graphics.
• Palladio. CityEngine Plugin for Houdini
• Penzil. A web application to sketch in 3d made in three.js and Vue.
• Sorcar. A procedural modeling node-based system which uses Blender and its Python API to create a visual programming environment for artists and developers
• Sprite Stacker. Create pseudo-3D sprite stacks from pixel art with integrated voxel editor (Godot-based, pre-1.0).
• SunCalc. Sun position, golden hour, and shadow visualization for any location and time.
• Tangram Heightmapper. Interactive grayscale heightmap browser, which can generate heightmaps for use in 3D applications.
• Texture Extractor. Extract textures and materials from photos (Godot-based, pre-1.0).
• VFX Camera Database. Camera sensor data.
• WebGL Texture Tester. Attempts to load one of every texture format supported by WebGL, intended to quickly show which formats your browser/device supports.

Plugin & Addon Marketplaces

Per-software plugin marketplaces.

• 30 Free PBR materials by Artem Lebedev. 30 Free PBR materials by Artem Lebedev.
• aescripts + aeplugins Paid. Primary After Effects / Premiere plugin marketplace.
• Archipack Paid. [$] : The Archipack addon for Blender contains a collection of parametric primitives for ArchViz. You can manipulate these primitives with a realtime on-screen editing interface.
• Autodesk App Store Paid. Official Maya plugins and scripts.
• Blender Osm Freemium. One click download and import of OpenStreetMap and terrain for Blender.
• BlenderAddons.org. Provides a list of free and paid Blender addons. Find the addon you need under categories or tags.
• Blenderesse's Generators. Blenderesse offers a few geometry nodes generators for free. Including; Electric Power Line
• Blenderkit Paid. In-app asset browser.
• Brush Manager for Blender. Add-on for Blender that helps you to create custom brushes, store them in a file and organize the library of various categories of brushes.
• BY GEN. Addon designed to simplify the process of creating non-destructive, generative modeling styles in Blender. GitHub
• City Scatter. Generate cityscape concepts, powered by Blender's collection system.
• E Cycles Paid. [$] : is a fork of Cycles which renders up to 2.5x faster out of the box when using CUDA GPUs, up to 15x using new options.
• EasyBPY. This purpose of this module is to simplify the use of the Blender API (bpy) by creating an extra layer of abstraction that is more human-readable, memorable and reduces the user's exposure to compl
• ExtraInfo. Show more info in the viewport.
• FlippedNormals (site) Paid. Character, sculpting, and CG marketplace.
• Flow Map Painter. This blender add-on provides a brush tool for flow map painting. GitHub
• Free Hard Surface KitBash Models. Free sci-fi kitbash set, 3D Kitbashing library
• Free Sky Environment Shading. Free custom procedural environment shading.
• Free VDB Clouds. Pack of 3 cloud VDBs for large Ariel views.
• Greyscalegorilla (site) Paid. C4D plugins, materials, HDRIs.
• Gumroad Paid. Creator-direct marketplace.
• gumroad/bluefoxcreation Freemium. gumroad/curtisjamesholt
• gumroad/simonthommes Freemium. Meta's Massivest Materials, Abstract Materials
• Higgsas Blender Freemium. Mesh Tension Map, Droplet Generator, BackdropGen
• Highend3d Paid. Maya community scripts and plugins.
• jamajurabaev Freemium. janurschel, yansculpts,
• KIT OPS Freemium. Can create objects and scenes with extreme efficiency and speed. Complex industrial designs can be generated in a single sitting.
• Kitbash3D Paid. High-end kitbash asset packs.
• Layer Painter Paid. Allows you to use a Layer-System for creating materials with painting and procedurals. The layers include masks, filters and much more. Even though the addon is designed with a PBR workflow in mind
• MACHIN3tools. Free, continuously evolving collection of blender tools and pie menus in a single customizable package. GitHub [![market]](https://blendermarket
• Maxivz’s Interactive Tools. Collection of intuitive, context sensitive tools for Blender.
• Mech/Fy. A procedural workflow that automates the process of hard surfaces modelling.
• MotionArray Paid. Motion graphics and video assets.
• Orbolt Paid. Official Houdini HDA marketplace.
• Parallax UV Mapping. This is Parallax Mapping material and node setup. Created in Blender 2.8 for EEVEE renderer, it works well in cycles too. [more info]
• Path Solver HDA. Path Solver is a Houdini Digital Asset solving points/objects along any path without them intersecting each other.
• Photographer 2. Camera Exposure, White balance and Autofocus. Photographer 2 was made completely free for all.
• Pixel Art Rendering. This is a free addon to make pixel art like renders in blender. It works with EEVEE, Bayer dithering and multiple light sources.
• Point Based Growth HDA. Houdini point based growth Asset.
• Poly Source. 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.
• PowerSave. Tool intended to streamline saving and make saving itself more accessible, friendly artist streamlined.
• Reactor (DaVinci). Community package manager for DaVinci Resolve, hundreds of free tools.
• Speedflow Paid. [$] : Addon for non-destructive workflow.
• Speedsculpt Paid. [$] : The addon allows you to create very fast characters, to manage Dyntopo Sculpting with booleans, cut curves, skin modifier, decimate, mask etc.
• SSGI for EEVEE. Converts Diffuse and Principled BSDFs to nodegroups that give representation of diffuse component to SSR for SSGI effect.
• Super Fast Render Paid. 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 Res Render Paid. Plugin that splits renders up into several chunks to make rendering at super high resolutions possible.
• Texel Density Checker. Tools for calculate, set and copy texel density. GitHub
• Universal Human Rigged Base Mesh Paid. [$] : Rigged human base mesh.
• VideoHive (Envato) Paid. Templates and presets.
• Wrap Defromer. The wrap deformer provides an alternative approach to Houdinis point deform. The wrap deformer will search for proximity to the driver meshes closest position on the primitive surface and interpolate

Conversion Tools

Format conversion across image, video, audio, and 3D.

Related:

• 123apps Freemium. Free web tools for audio, video, image.
• 3DGS Converter. Format conversion tool for 3D Gaussian Splatting data.
• Assimp (GitHub). Open-source library, 40+ 3D format import (C/C++/Python).
• Assimp (site). A portable Open-Source library to import various well-known 3D model formats in a uniform manner.
• CloudConvert Freemium. 200+ formats with API.
• Convertio Freemium. Multi-format converter.
• F Spy USD. Unofficial fSpy to USD converter.
• FBX2glTF. Meta's CLI for FBX → glTF 2.0.
• FreeConvert Freemium. Free online file converter.
• glTF Pipeline. GlTF ↔ GLB, Draco compress, texture resize.
• GLTF Report. Web app to diagnose, optimize your gltf files. Nice inspector that even support BASIS/KTX2 textures. by @donmccurdy
• glTF Transform. JS library/CLI for reading, editing, optimizing glTF (Draco, KTX2).
• glTF Validator. Official Khronos spec validation.
• glTF Viewer. Web-based glTF/GLB viewer.
• gltfpack. Aggressive glTF mesh/texture optimization.
• ImageMagick. CLI, 200+ image formats.
• MAZANOKE. Browser-based converter.
• Mixamo Converter. Blender Plugin that Converts Mixamo animations to work in Unreal Engine 4 with root motion.
• Needle USD Converter. Web-based USD/USDZ viewer and converter.
• obj2gltf. Cesium's OBJ → glTF with PBR mapping.
• OIIO (OpenImageIO). ASWF CLI tools, 100+ formats. VFX pipeline standard.
• Online Convert Freemium. Web-based format converter.
• Packyderm. A lightweight tool that lets you browse and extract the contents of unitypackage files without opening Unity
• Pixelicious. Image-to-Pixel Art converter.
• PNGQuant. CLI lossy PNG compression.
• Retargeting Mixamo Animation Tool. Retargeting Mixamo Animation Tool.
• SoX. CLI audio processing.
• Squoosh. Google. AVIF/WebP/JPEG XL image compression.
• TinyPNG Freemium. Lossy PNG/JPEG compression.
• USDZ. glTF MultiExport, ZBrush
• VERT.sh. General-purpose online converter.

Pipeline Standards

Interchange formats and standards.

• ACES 2.0. Academy Color Encoding System. Widely adopted in film/TV, growing in games.
• Alembic. Geometry/animation interchange format (Sony + ILM).
• MaterialX (GitHub). Materials and look-dev.
• MaterialX (site). Material interchange format (Lucasfilm). Supported by USD, Blender, Maya, Houdini, Arnold, RenderMan, Substance.
• MDL. Material Definition Language SDK (NVIDIA).
• Open Image IO. A library for reading and writing images in many common and VFX-related formats.
• OpenDCX. C++ extensions for OpenEXR's "deep" file format (DreamWorks).
• OpenPBR. Standardized uber-shader for PBR (Autodesk + Adobe).
• OpenTimelineIO (GitHub). Editorial timeline interchange (Pixar).

Pipeline Overview

Industry-to-software quick reference.

• Architecture Pipeline Paid. Primary software. 3ds Max, SketchUp, Revit. Key considerations. Accuracy, real-world scale.
• Motion Graphics Pipeline Paid. Primary software. Cinema 4D, After Effects. Key considerations. Stylized looks, fast iteration.
• Product Design Pipeline Paid. Primary software. Fusion 360, SolidWorks, KeyShot. Key considerations. Manufacturing.

Viewers & File Utilities

Also in Software Reference → Viewers & File Utilities

Pipeline & Production Management Software

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Misc 3D Utilities Software

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