. These textures represent real planetary maps in equirectangular projection. Textures in this pack are based on NASA elevation and imagery data. (CC-BY)

In 2 lists

Terrain Height Maps

. Free heightmap images for terrain displacement.

Texturing.xyz

Paid. MicroSkin displacement maps.

In 2 lists

The Pattern Library

. Free seamless background patterns.

In 2 lists

Assets & Libraries >Textures: Premium

Quixel Megascans + Bridge

Free tier. Scanned materials and import plugin. Free with Unreal Engine.

Assets & Libraries >Stock Images & References

Absurd Design

. Free surrealist illustration set.

In 3 lists

Biodiversity Heritage Library

. 300,000+ botanical and animal illustrations free to download (CC0).

In 2 lists

Black Illustrations

Free tier. Illustrations of black people for projects.

In 2 lists

Blush

Free tier. Mix and customize illustrations made by artists.

In 4 lists

Control Illustrations

Paid. Combo set of 108 customizable illustrations.

In 2 lists

David Rumsey Maps

Free, non-commercial. Historical maps archive.

Flowbite Illustrations

. Open-source SVG illustrations in 3D style, dark and light mode.

Freepik

Free tier. Free vectors, photos, and mockups.

In 6 listsDetails

Get Illustrations Bundle

Paid. Bundle of 34+ vector illustration packs, 2800+ items.

Humaaans

. Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library.

In 4 lists

illlustrations

. 100 open-source illustrations including COVID and WFH themes.

In 2 lists

Illustrationz

Free tier. 100+ 3D character illustration packs with 167M+ combinations.

LACartoons

License unspecified. Animation cel and model sheet archive.

Mockupz

. Free 3D mockup scenes for showcasing design work.

Neurascapes

. Free surreal/AI-generated reference imagery.

Pexels

. Free stock photos and video.

In 11 listsDetails

PNG Images

Free, non-commercial. Transparent PNG images.

Public.work

. Search public domain images from museums and libraries.

Settei Dreams

License unspecified. Anime model sheets and settei archive.

Smash Illustrations

Free tier. Library of 250+ illustrations.

In 2 lists

Story Set

. Customizable illustrations to edit and animate, free.

In 2 lists

Storytale

Free tier. Hundreds of illustrations for web and app projects.

unDraw Illustrations

. MIT-licensed collection of SVG illustrations.

In 5 listsDetails

Assets & Libraries >Stock Footage

Internet Archive / Prelinger

. Public-domain archival footage.

In 5 listsDetails

Mixkit

. Free stock music, SFX, and video footage.See also: Assets & Libraries → Audio: SFX & Music Libraries

In 3 lists

videvo

Free tier. Free stock video, motion graphics, and music tracks.

In 2 lists

Assets & Libraries >Audio: SFX & Music Libraries

Artlist

Paid. Subscription music and SFX.

In 3 lists

ccMixter

. Creative Commons remix community.

In 2 lists

Free Music Archive

. Free music, varied licenses.

In 3 lists

Freesound

. Collaborative database of CC-licensed sounds.

In 6 listsDetails

Freesound Add-on

. Blender VSE addon to browse, preview, and insert sounds from freesound.org.

In 2 lists

Knell

. Free procedural sound effect synthesizer for games, UI, and prototypes.

Mixkit

. Free stock music, SFX, and video footage.See also: Assets & Libraries → Audio: SFX & Music Libraries

In 3 lists

Moby Gratis

Free, non-commercial. Free Moby music for indie creators.

Sonniss

Paid. SFX library. Releases free SFX bundles annually.

Assets & Libraries >Fonts

Adobe Fonts

Paid. Premium font library bundled with Creative Cloud subscription.

In 2 lists

Creative Market Fonts

Paid. 300k+ premium fonts with worry-free perpetual commercial licenses.

Font Bundles

Free tier. Premium font marketplace with regular freebies; clear commercial license.

Fontshare

. Free quality fonts from Indian Type Foundry; Satoshi, General Sans, Clash Display.

In 4 lists

Fontz

Free tier. Free and premium 3D fonts with Blender source files.

Free Faces

. Curated directory of free fonts from independent foundries and designers.

In 2 lists

Future Fonts

Paid. Buy in-progress fonts directly from indie designers at lower early-access prices.

Google Fonts

. Largest free open-source font library; SIL OFL / Apache licensed.

In 7 listsDetails

Indestructible Type

. Open-source foundry by Owen Earl; variable font families like Jost, Besley, Bodoni.

MyFonts

Paid. Long-running premium font marketplace; perpetual desktop, web, app licenses.

In 3 lists

Pangram Pangram Foundry

Free tier. Indie foundry with high-end typefaces; free personal-use trials available.

The League of Moveable Type

. Open-source foundry; well-curated bold typefaces, free for commercial use.

In 5 listsDetails

UNCUT.wtf

. 160+ contemporary open-source typefaces, all free for commercial use.

In 2 lists

Usable Google Fonts (Figma)

. Curated Figma set of usable Google Fonts.

Velvetyne Type Foundry

. Paris-based non-profit foundry releasing open-source experimental typefaces.

In 2 lists

WhatTheFont

Free tier. Identify fonts from an image.

Wordmark.it

. Preview text in your installed fonts.

In 3 lists

Assets & Libraries >Icons

Bootstrap Icons

. 2000+ official open-source SVG icons from the Bootstrap team.

In 3 lists

Flaticon

Free tier. Massive icon library.

In 5 listsDetails

Font Awesome

Free tier. Classic icon font library.

In 6 listsDetails

Heroicons

. Hand-crafted SVG icons by Tailwind CSS team; outline and solid.

In 7 listsDetails

Hugeicons

Free tier. 36k+ icons in multiple styles; free tier plus premium plans.

In 2 lists

Iconify

. Unified framework aggregating 200k+ open-source icons from 150+ icon sets.

In 3 lists

Iconoir

. 1600+ open-source SVG icons; React, React Native, Flutter, Vue, Figma support.

In 4 lists

icons8

Free tier. Large icon packs with consistent styles.

In 3 lists

Iconz

Free tier. 460+ 3D icons in multiple angles and materials.

Lineicons

Free tier. 30k icons (4k free); SVG, JSX, TSX, Figma, PNG; React/Vue/Svelte support.

In 2 lists

Lucide

. Open-source icon library.

In 7 listsDetails

Material design icons

. Official Material Design icon set from Google.

In 8 listsDetails

Noun Project

Free tier. 5M+ curated icons and photos; subscription unlocks royalty-free use.

In 9 listsDetails

Ouch! Illustrations

Free tier. Illustration and icon library for UX from Icons8.

In 3 lists

Phosphor Icons

. 9000+ flexible icons in thin, light, regular, bold, fill, duotone styles.

In 3 lists

Remix Icon

. 2800+ neutral-style open-source icons on 24x24 grid; line and fill.

In 4 lists

Shape.so

Paid. 4300+ icons and illustrations exportable to SVG, React, and Lottie.

Streamline

Paid. Massive premium icon and illustration library; consistent design systems.

In 2 lists

SVG Repo

Mixed. 500k+ free SVG vectors and icons across many styles and packs.

In 5 listsDetails

Thridy

. 13,000+ free 3D icons in one consistent style; HD transparent PNG downloads, no signup or attribution required.

typicons.font

. 336 pixel-perfect all-purpose vector icons in a web-font kit.

In 2 lists

Use Animations

Free tier. Animated icons for web UI.

In 2 lists

Assets & Libraries >Game Assets

2D Pixel Art Character Template Asset Pack

Paid. 2D character art for sidescrollers, platformers, and metroidvania.

420 Pixel Art Icons for RPGs

. Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use.

8000+ Raven Fantasy Icons - RPG Icons, Pixel Art Icons, Textures and Sprites

. 8000+ colorful pixel art icons for fantasy and RPG games.

Asset Creation Toolset

License unspecified. Blender addon bundling tools for game asset creation.

In 2 lists

Brackeys' Platformer Bundle

. Pixel-art characters, tiles, sounds, and music for a first game.

Craftpix

Free tier. 2D game assets, free and paid.

Cup Nooble

. Creator of the Sprout Lands pixel art packs, cozy farming style.

Cute Fantasy RPG - 16x16 top down pixel art asset pack

. 16x16 assets for your top-down game.

Free - Pixel Art Asset Pack - Topdown Tileset - 16x16 Sprites

. 500 sprites, 3 heroes, 8 enemies, 50 weapons.

Fx Effects Pixel Art #91 - 64x64 | 32x32

Paid. RPG pixel-art FX effects pack. 64x64 and 32x32.

GameArt2D

. Free 2D game art pack collection.

In 2 lists

GameDev Market

Free tier. Game dev asset marketplace.

In 3 lists

itch.io Assets

Free tier. Indie game asset marketplace.

In 2 lists

KayKit - Character Pack : Adventurers

. 3D low-poly rigged and animated character game assets.

KayKit - Forest Nature Pack

. 3D stylized low-poly trees, rocks, and grass.

Kenney

. CC0 game assets ("Asset Jesus").

In 4 lists

Kenney Game Assets All-in-1

Paid. 60,000+ game assets including 2D sprites and 3D models.

Liberated Pixel Cup assets

. Free graphic assets from the Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) on the OpenGameArt forums.

Modern Farm - RPG Tileset

Paid. Props, animals, and a character generator for a farm RPG.

Mystic Woods - 16x16 Pixel Art Asset Pack

. Playful 16x16 pixel-art asset pack.

Ninja Adventure - Asset Pack

. Assets for a top-down game with a ninja theme.

Open Game Art

. Community hub for free game art.

In 7 listsDetails

Pixel Art Top Down - Basic

. 32x32 sprites and tilesets for top-down games.

Pixel Planet Generator

. Procedural pixel planet generator with Godot shader source.

Reiner's Tilesets

. Free 2D and 3D graphics, classic game assets blog.

Stylized Nature MegaKit

. 110+ stylized 3D nature models for Ghibli-inspired scenes. Projects for UE, Godot, and Unity.

Tech Dungeon: Roguelite - Asset Pack

. Animated top-down assets for a futuristic project.

Tilemancer

. Procedural tile creator for pixel-art games.

Tiny RPG Character Asset Pack v1.03

. 20 animated pixel-art characters for your game.

Universal Animation Library

. 120+ animations ready to retarget in any engine.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Blender: Plugins & Addons

AMD Radeon ProRender

. AMD's physically based GPU/CPU render engine for Blender.

In 2 lists

AnimAide

. Free animation helper tools for Blender.

In 2 lists

Array Tools

. Create translation, scale and rotation arrays with offset or global parameters in any direction.

In 2 lists

Arsenal

. Blender-integrated game engine written in Rust.

In 2 lists

Auto Terrainer

Paid. Turns any low-poly mesh into customizable terrain like mountains, valleys and islands in Blender.

In 2 lists

AutoMask

. Machine-learning automatic rotoscoping addon for Blender.

In 2 lists

AutoRemesher Blender Bridge

. Blender addon that runs AutoRemesher on selected meshes and imports the quad result back into the scene.See also: Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Retopology & Mesh Tools

Bangingcuts

. Cuts audio and video clips on audio peaks, removing silences. On recent Blender, install the install.py file instead of the zip.

In 2 lists

Blender Colab

. Python script to render Blender scenes on Google Colab. Cycles only.

In 2 lists

Blender Data Visualisation

. Loads data into Blender and builds visualisations.

In 2 lists

Blender Debugger For Vscode

. Addon for remote-debugging Blender from VS Code or Visual Studio.

In 2 lists

Blender For Unreal Engine

. Exports Blender content to Unreal Engine.

In 2 lists

Blender Kitti

. Renders large point clouds and voxel grids in Blender.

In 2 lists

Blender Metaverse Addon

. Toolset for creating content for metaverse platforms like High Fidelity.

In 2 lists

Blender NLA Midi Copier

. Creates MIDI-driven animations from Blender's Nonlinear Animation view.

In 2 lists

Blender Pyblish

. Pyblish publishing-pipeline integration for Blender.

Blender Sculpt Tools

. Base-mesh sculpting tools for Blender, ZSphere-style.

In 2 lists

Blender Vscode

. VS Code extension for Blender addon development.

Blender XR

. VR and mixed-reality interface for editing Blender scenes with a headset and controllers.

In 2 lists

Blender2Godot

. Exports a Blender scene to a Godot Engine project.

In 2 lists

BlenderCAM

. Open source CAM toolpath generation for CNC inside Blender.

In 2 lists

BlenderSynth

. Blender scripting for generating synthetic datasets at scale.

In 2 lists

BlendyPose

. Webcam motion capture inside Blender.

In 2 lists

Blign

. Align and distribute objects in Blender with many options.

In 2 lists

Bone Widget

. Helps make custom bone shapes for Blender rigs.

In 2 lists

Bonsai

. OpenBIM/IFC architectural authoring add-on for Blender. Formerly BlenderBIM.

BookGen

. Generates rows of books on shelves in Blender.

In 2 lists

Building Tools

. Building-generation addon for Blender.

In 2 lists

Bystedts Blender Baker

Paid. Streamlines texture baking in Blender.

In 2 lists

CAD Sketcher

. CAD-style precision sketching with constraints for Blender.

In 2 lists

Camera Shakify

. Adds realistic camera shake to Blender cameras.

In 2 lists

Capsule

. Export manager for sharing assets between Blender and Unreal/Unity.

CharMorph

. Open source character creation tool for Blender, a rewrite of the now-unmaintained MB-Lab.

In 2 lists

COA Tools

. 2D cutout animation suite for Blender, similar to Spine or Spriter.

In 2 lists

Crowdrender

Free tier. Distributed rendering across machines.

Curtis Holt Store

Paid. Curtis Holt's storefront for Blender addons and learning products.

Data FX

. Loads and visualizes CSV data within Blender.

In 2 lists

Daz to Blender Bridge

. Transfers Genesis 8 and 3 characters from Daz Studio into Blender.

In 2 lists

DreamUV

. Manipulate UVs directly in the 3D viewport.

In 2 lists

Drop It

. Drops objects quickly onto the ground or a surface in Blender.

In 2 lists

Easy Proxy

. Creates VSE proxy files easily via FFmpeg.

In 2 lists

EasyBake

. One-click texture baking UI in the Blender 3D viewport.

In 2 lists

EdgeFlow

. Adds two edge-loop operators for cleaner topology in Blender.

In 2 lists

Embark Blender Tools

. Game-dev workflow tools for Blender, with standardized import/export and new object types.

In 2 lists

Engraver

Paid. Carves decals into 3D models in Blender.

In 2 lists

Export Paper Model from Blender

. Add-on for unfolding meshes into printable paper models.

In 2 lists

EZ Baker

. Simpler alternative to Blender's default texture-bake system.

In 2 lists

FaceBuilder

Paid. Builds photorealistic 3D face and head models from a few neutral-expression photos in Blender.

In 2 lists

FLIP Fluids

Paid. High-quality liquid simulation plugin for Blender.

In 3 lists

FontSelector

. Font management inside Blender.

In 2 lists

Gaffer (Blender addon)

. Light-management panels for fast lighting setup and tweaking in Blender.

In 2 lists

Geometry Nodes Pipes

Paid. Geometry Nodes addon for generating complex pipe layouts in Blender.

In 2 lists

Geometry Script

. Python scripting API for Blender Geometry Nodes, making node trees easier to build and share.

In 2 lists

Glsl Texture

. Create textures from GLSL fragment shaders in Blender.

In 2 lists

GoB

. GoZ-style bridge for ZBrush-Blender mesh interchange.

In 2 lists

GreaseWriter

. Auto-animates grease pencil strokes to emulate hand-drawn text.

In 2 lists

HDRI Sun Aligner

. Automatically rotates a sun to match the brightest point in an HDRI environment texture.

In 2 lists

Hi Phy Engine

Paid. High-fidelity physics engine addon with a unified solver for rigid body, cloth, hair, soft body and MPM snow/sand, with intersection-free continuous collision detection.

INOX

. Rust game engine integrated in Blender.

In 2 lists

IOR Reference

. Blender addon listing IOR values for materials.

In 2 lists

JARCH Vis

. Generates common architectural-visualization objects in Blender.

In 2 lists

Jet Fluids

. Jet fluid-engine simulator integration for Blender.

In 2 lists

JewelCraft

. Jewelry design toolkit add-on for Blender.

In 2 lists

Kaleidoscope

. Adds Spectrum and Intensity nodes to speed up material creation in Blender.

In 2 lists

KeKit

. Production modeling toolset for Blender.

In 2 lists

Laser Slicer

. Slices a Blender object and exports SVG sections for laser cutting.

In 2 lists

LeoMoon LightStudio

Paid. Studio lighting system for Blender.

In 2 lists

Lib SM64 Blender

. Integrates libsm64 into Blender, with Fast64 integrations.

In 2 lists

Lodify

. Level-of-detail and proxy system for Blender.

In 2 lists

Loom

. Simplifies rendering image sequences and frame ranges, with batch rendering utilities.

In 2 lists

Lumiere

. Interactive lighting addon for Blender.

In 2 lists

Magic UV

. UV manipulation toolset that fills gaps in Blender's UV tools.

In 2 lists

Maps Models Importer

. Imports 3D models from Google Maps into Blender.

In 3 lists

MB Lab

. Character creation (archived, succeeded by CharMorph).

MDSANIMA RenderTime

. Estimates total animation render time from a single frame's render time.

In 2 lists

Mesh Align Plus

. Precisely align, move, and measure objects and mesh parts.

In 2 lists

Mesh Heal

. Extra Blender operators for healing and repairing surface meshes.

In 2 lists

Mesh Maze

. Generates a maze on any mesh in Blender.

In 2 lists

MeshSync

. Live-link plugin syncing Blender and other DCCs into Unity.

In 2 lists

MifthTools

. Mesh-exchange tools for 3DCoat, Houdini and Modo.

In 2 lists

Mixamo Converter

. Blender Plugin that Converts Mixamo animations to work in Unreal Engine 4 with root motion.

In 2 lists

Mixer by Ubisoft

. Real-time collaboration addon for Blender from Ubisoft Animation Studio.

In 2 lists

Modeling Cloth

. Real-time cloth-like behavior on meshes in Blender.

In 2 lists

Modifier List

. Enhanced modifier UI for Blender, with a sidebar tab and popup.

In 2 lists

MPFB

. Open source human generator for Blender, a full rewrite of MakeHuman as an addon.

In 2 lists

Mr Mannequins Tools

. Exports animations and weighted meshes compatible with the Unreal third-person mannequin without retargeting.

In 2 lists

Multi User

. Real-time collaborative editing inside Blender.

In 2 lists

Needle Engine

Free tier. Builds interactive web apps from Blender scenes.

In 2 lists

OctaneRender Prime for Blender

Free tier. Octane GPU render engine for Blender, free tier.

In 2 lists

Parallel Render

. Renders Sequencer output multithreaded from the Render sidebar.

In 2 lists

PBR Texture Mapper

. One-click PBR node setup in Blender.

In 2 lists

Phobos

. Creates URDF, SDF and SMURF robot models in Blender.

In 3 lists

Point Cloud Visualizer

. Display, edit, filter, render and export colored point-cloud PLY files.

In 3 lists

Poliigon Blender Addon

. Browse, download and import Poliigon textures, models and HDRs from inside Blender, with material generation from texture sets.

In 2 lists

Power Sequencer

. Faster editing tools for Blender's Video Sequence Editor.

In 2 lists

PresetterProfessional

. View, visibility, 3D cursor and snap presets for Blender.

In 2 lists

Principled Baker

. Bake PBR textures from the Principled BSDF in a few clicks.

In 2 lists

Projectors

. Create and modify projector lights in Blender.

In 2 lists

ProSidebar

. Adds extra properties and operators to the 3D View Sidebar.

In 2 lists

QBlocker

. Interactive blockout and object creation tool for Blender.

In 2 lists

QuickSwitch

. Quickly switch workspaces and view the render menu in the viewport.

In 2 lists

RandoMesh

. Adds randomized geometry to any mesh in Blender.

In 2 lists

reflow

. Blender addon to change scene fps.

In 2 lists

Render Useful

. Command-line tools for Blender renders.

In 2 lists

Rig on the Fly

. Dynamic rigging tool that speeds up Blender animation workflow.

In 2 lists

Rigid Body Bones

. Adds rigid-body and spring physics to bones in Blender.

In 2 lists

Scene Strip Tools

. Preview VSE scene strips directly in the 3D View.

In 2 lists

Screencast Keys

. On-screen keystroke display for Blender screen recordings.

In 2 lists

Screenwriter

. Write screenplays in the Blender Text Editor using Fountain markup, with correct formatting on export.

In 2 lists

Sculpt Alphas Manager

. Quickly switch alpha textures for sculpt brushes in Blender.

In 2 lists

Search Online References

. Search selected text across Blender API/Python docs, Stack Exchange, source code and GitHub.

In 2 lists

Shot Manager by Ubisoft

. Adds a true shot entity to Blender scenes for previs and layout.

In 2 lists

Sketchfab Blender Addon

. Import and export models between Blender and Sketchfab.

In 2 lists

SliceMesh

. Automates mesh slicing in Blender.

In 2 lists

Spaceship Generator

. Procedurally generates 3D spaceships.

In 5 listsDetails

Spring Bones

. Adds springy dynamic motion to bones in Blender.

In 2 lists

Subsimport

. Create and edit subtitles for movies or music in Blender.

In 2 lists

SuperPoke

. Iterative poking tool for Blender meshes.

In 2 lists

Sverchok

. Node-based parametric modeling for Blender, aimed at architects.

TextCounter

. Text-animation addon for counters and GUI simulations in Blender.

In 2 lists

TexTools

. Free UV and texturing toolset for Blender.

In 2 lists

The Grove 3D

Paid. Grows natural 3D trees for visualisation and film, with seasonal simulation.

In 2 lists

Theme Switcher

. Switch the active Blender theme without leaving the 3D View.

In 2 lists

Tilecam

. Renders tileable images in Blender.

In 2 lists

Tissue

. Computational and parametric design addon for Blender.

In 3 lists

Transform Tools

. Transform, crop and fade video strips in Blender's VSE.

In 2 lists

Tree Gen

. Procedural tree-model generation in Blender.

In 2 lists

Typewriter

. Typewriter text animation for font objects in Blender.

In 2 lists

UcuPaint

. Manage texture layers for EEVEE and Cycles in Blender.

In 2 lists

USDZ

. Blender addon to export USDZ files.

In 2 lists

UV Packer

. Free automatic UV-packing addon for Blender.

In 2 lists

V HACD

. Decomposes a 3D surface into near-convex parts for accurate collision meshes.

In 2 lists

Verge3D

Paid. Toolkit for building interactive 3D web experiences from Blender.

In 2 lists

VSEQF

. Overhauls Blender's VSE for quick keyboard-and-mouse editing with real-time feedback.

In 2 lists

Welder

. Generates weld seams between meshes in Blender.

In 2 lists

Wiggle Bones

. Jiggle-bone physics for Blender rigs.

In 2 lists

WoT Tank Viewer

. Blender plugins to view 3D models from World of Tanks.

In 2 lists

WritingAnimation

. Generates writing animation for selected Bezier curves in Blender.

In 2 lists

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Blender: Tutorials

📖 User Manual

. Official Blender user manual.

In 2 lists

Blender 3D Architect by Allan Brito

Paid. Blender books and tutorials for architectural visualization by Allan Brito.

In 2 lists

Blender Python API Documentation

. Official Blender Python API Documentation.

In 2 lists

blenderscripting

. Blog of Blender Python snippets to get started with scripting.

In 2 lists

Programming Add-ons for Blender 2.8

. Free ebook on setting up a Python IDE to write Blender add-ons, worked through a sample plugin.

In 2 lists

Texture Paint Manual

. Official Blender manual for the texture paint mode.

In 2 lists

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Houdini: Getting Started

Houdini Apprentice

Free learning version of Houdini.See also: Software Reference → 3D Software: Free Tier

SideFX Getting Started

. Official Houdini getting-started learning path.

SideFX Learning Library

. Searchable content browser for all official Houdini tutorials.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Houdini: Essential Learning Resources

Applied Houdini

Paid. Stephen Knipping's FX-focused course series (ILM).

Assorted Houdini Demos (jakericedesigns)

. Assorted Houdini demo scenes and setups.

CGWiki (tokeru.com)

. Matt Estela's CGWiki, the deepest Houdini reference (Joy of VEX, LOPS, particles).

educational-hips (pedohorse)

. Educational Houdini .hip files explaining techniques.

Entagma (site)

Free tier. Advanced design and mograph tutorials. Also Unreal and Blender.

example_hips (dchow1992)

. Collection of example Houdini .hip files.

Farmfield (Vimeo)

. Setups and hip files from Johnny Farmfield.

hip-files (lightReachers)

. Shared collection of Houdini .hip files.

Houdini Escapades (3Dmattias)

. Example .hip files from the 3Dmattias tutorial series.

Houdini Gubbins

. Blog of Houdini tips and workflow notes.

Houdini Hive

. SideFX presentation recordings from artists and studios.

Houdini Kitchen

. Tutorials and articles, including L-systems and procedural setups.

houdini-sandbox (K240)

. Sandbox collection of Houdini scene files.

John Kunz (site)

. Weekly streams. FX, coding, Redshift (Twitch | YouTube).

OdForce Tutorial .hip Library

. Community thread collecting tutorial .hip files.

SOP Quick Reference

. Quick-reference index of Houdini SOP nodes.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Houdini: VEX & Coding

Houdini OpenCL (MysteryPancake)

. Guide to writing OpenCL kernels in Houdini.

HouPy Wiki

. Houdini Python wiki. Packages, shelf scripts, menu customization, node graph hooks.See also: Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums

Learning VEX via Bees and Bombs

. OdForce thread recreating Bees and Bombs animations in VEX.

Mantra LPE Cookbook (alexwheezy)

. Light Path Expression recipes for Mantra rendering.

VEX Manager

Paid. VEX snippet/code manager HDA by Shir Manor.See also: Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Plugins & Tools

vex_tutorial (jtomori)

. Practical introduction to VEX in Houdini with examples.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Houdini: FX & Simulations

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Houdini: Rigging & Animation (KineFX)

Secondary Motion in H19

. Paul Esteves. Secondary motion workflows.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Houdini: Miscellaneous Tutorials

Houdini for Astronomy

. Astronomy and scientific viz in Houdini.

Houdini Quick Tips

. Short Houdini tips and quick technique walkthroughs.

Point Cloud to Mesh (Microsoft)

. Point cloud to mesh guide.

Procedural Modeling with VEX

Paid. Tighe Rzankowski procedural modeling course.

Procegen by Konstantin Magnus

. Konstantin Magnus tutorials on procedural modeling, texturing, and tool building in Houdini.

USD Basics with Solaris

. Official tutorial on USD basics in Solaris.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Houdini: Plugins & Tools

AElib

. Free tools by Nick Taylor (ManVsMachine).

Axiom

Paid. Sparse fluid solver by Matthew Puchala.

CamRig Pro

Paid. Camera rigging tool HDA by Shir Manor.

cb-houdini-tools (conlen-b)

. Collection of Houdini utility tools and HDAs.

Ffmpeg

. Flipbook to MP4 conversion tool (setup guide).

In 14 listsDetails

Houdini Attributes Cheatsheet

. Quick reference of common Houdini geometry attributes.

Houdini Engine for Unreal (AdrianPan optimized fork)

. Rebuilt Houdini Engine for UE, 2x-15x faster.

Houdini Tech Art Challenge Winners 2021

. Winning tech-art tools: HPaint, Polyline Creator, Poly Slice Tool.

Houdini-scripts (JoseZalez)

. Python scripts and utilities for Houdini.

Microbot VDB Painter

Paid. Interactive painting and manipulation of OpenVDB SDF volumes in Houdini.

MOPS

. Motion graphics toolkit by Toadstorm.See also: Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums

TrembleFX

Paid. Procedural noise generator HDA by Shir Manor.

VEX Manager

Paid. VEX snippet/code manager HDA by Shir Manor.See also: Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Plugins & Tools

VFX Fractal Toolkit

. Set of tools for generating fractal and generative art.

In 2 lists

Wormhole Content Browser

Paid. Custom Houdini UI for browsing, previewing, and importing content.

ZENO

. Node-based 3D system for cinematic physics effects. Standalone open-source Houdini alternative.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Houdini: Courses & Free Content

Rebelway

Free tier. FX, procedural modeling, VEX, pyro, destruction, fluid, fur, muscle, lighting, ML courses. Many free tutorials.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Houdini: Communities

Awesome Houdini (wyhinton)

. Curated list of Houdini resources, tools, and learning.

Houdini Nerd Discord

. Christopher Rutledge's Houdini community.

John Kunz Discord

. Community Discord for Houdini FX and coding.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Cinema 4D: Learning

School of Motion (site)

Paid. C4D, motion graphics, animation, After Effects, design courses.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Cinema 4D: Plugins

Video Copilot

Free tier. VFX tutorials, Element 3D, Optical Flares.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Cinema 4D: Tips & Workflows

Rolando Barry Blog

. C4D tips, shader switch workflows, productivity tricks.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >3ds Max: Plugins

TyFlow

Free tier. Advanced particle/dynamics system. Destruction, cloth, fluids.

Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing >Material Creation Tools

Software for creating PBR materials and painting 3d models. You can create materials and use them for painting models, or you can use pre-made textures.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

In 2 lists

ArmorPaint

Open-source texture painting.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

In 4 lists

AwesomeBump

Generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures from a single image.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

In 4 lists

Filter Forge

Node-based filter editor with library of thousands of textures and photo effects; standalone or Photoshop/Affinity plugin.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

In 3 lists

Game Texture Viewer

Fast, reliable, and simple tool for viewing PBR texture sets.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

In 2 lists

Live Normal

An Android and iOS app for generating materials on the go. You take a photo, and Live Normal creates a tile-able texture and generates texture maps ready for a PBR engine of your choice.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

Mari

Foundry's high-resolution 3D texture painting app, film-VFX standard for hero assets.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

Material Maker

Open-source procedural texture generator (Substance Designer alternative).See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

In 2 lists

Materialize

Free texture map generation from a single image.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

In 3 lists

Mixos

Browser-based 3D texture painting and PBR material authoring with AI auto-texturing and a pre-made material library.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

Quixel Mixer

Create photorealistic, tileable, materials in seconds with mixing and painting.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

In 2 lists

Substance Designer

Node-based procedural texturing.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

Substance Painter

Industry-standard 3D texture painting with smart materials.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

Texelpaint3D

Paint directly on 3D model faces without UV unwrapping. 1-pixel-per-triangle workflow.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

TextureLab

Tool designed to make procedural texture generation.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

In 2 lists

xNormal

Free high-poly to low-poly baking (normals, AO, cavity).See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

Agisoft De-Lighter

. Standalone tool to remove baked shadows from model textures.

In 2 lists

Architextures - Create

Free tier. Web app for creating textures, bump maps, and CAD hatches.

In 2 lists

Imogen

. GPU Texture generator using dear imgui for UI.

In 2 lists

NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter

. Creates compressed texture files from image sources via CUDA-accelerated compression.

In 2 lists

ShaderExpo

. Browser shader editor with inline error logs, autocompletion, and model/texture loading.

In 2 lists

SmartNormal 2.0

. Normal map generation from images.

TexGraph

. Procedural texture creation by connecting nodes in a graph.

In 2 lists

AutoCAD

Industry-standard 2D/3D CAD.

In 2 lists

Bitbybit

Browser parametric CAD via visual nodes (Rete, Blockly) or Monaco code editor. OCCT, JSCAD, Manifold backends.

BricsCAD

AutoCAD-compatible DWG CAD; offers both perpetual and subscription licensing.

CATIA

Dassault Systèmes CAD for aerospace and automotive.

FreeCAD

Free open-source parametric CAD.

In 4 lists

LibreCAD

Free open-source 2D CAD.

Onshape Free

Cloud-based CAD with free hobbyist tier (public projects).

OpenSCAD

Code-based CAD for parametric design.

In 4 listsDetails

PackCAD

Browser 3D CAD for packaging. Models folded/origami structures with folding simulation.

Pascal Editor

Open-source browser editor for 3D buildings, floor plans, rooms, roofs, furniture, and interiors.

PTC Creo

Parametric mechanical CAD with simulation, generative design, and additive workflows.

Rhino

NURBS-focused 3D modeling for architecture and product design.

In 4 lists

Shapr3D

Touch-first parametric/direct CAD on iPad, Vision Pro, Mac, and Windows.

In 2 lists

Siemens NX

High-end product engineering CAD/CAM/CAE; NX X is the cloud SaaS variant.

SolidWorks

Mechanical CAD for engineers.

In 2 lists

Solvespace

Parametric 3D CAD modeling tool.

In 2 lists

3DF Zephyr

Free lite version (up to 50 photos).

In 2 lists

3DF Zephyr Free

Free version of 3DF Zephyr photogrammetry software for personal use. It comes with some limitations.

In 2 lists

Agisoft Metashape

Professional photogrammetry with GIS features.

In 4 listsDetails

CloudCompare

A 3D point cloud (and triangular mesh) processing software. Open-source and designed for visualizing and editing LiDAR and photogrammetry data. Good for alignment, meshing, cleanup, segmentation, a

In 2 lists

COLMAP

A general-purpose Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface.

In 3 lists

KIRI Engine

Cross-platform mobile photogrammetry.

Meshroom (AliceVision)

Free, open-source photogrammetry. Node-based, GPU-accelerated.

In 3 lists

MicMac

Free open-source photogrammetric suite that can be used in a variety of 3D reconstruction scenarios.

In 3 lists

Open Scan Tools

A collection of open-source tools for photogrammetry, depth-sensing, and 3D reconstruction workflows. Nice rendering options for xray style.

PCL (Point Cloud Library)

Large-scale open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.

In 3 lists

Polycam

Mobile photogrammetry (iOS LiDAR + photo, Android photo). Cloud processing.

In 2 lists

Postshot

Desktop Gaussian Splatting tool. Train, clean, edit, export.

Quixel Megascans

World’s largest photogrammetry 2D and 3D asset library. Now it is free for the Epic Games accounts (only UE projects).

In 2 lists

RealityCapture

Fast, high-quality photogrammetry (now Epic Games). PPI pricing.

In 3 lists

Scaniverse (Niantic)

Free mobile scanning, Gaussian splat support.

3D Coat

Sculpt, retopo, UV, and PBR paint suite from Pilgway. Voxel and surface sculpt, AUTOPO auto-retopo, manual quad retopo, UV unwrap, bake.

3D Coat Print

Voxel-sculpt build of 3D Coat aimed at 3D-print workflows.

3D Coat Textura

Texturing-only variant of 3D Coat. PBR paint and bake, no sculpt or retopo modules.

AutoRemesher

Open-source auto-retopology tool intended to convert source meshes into clean, animation-friendly all-quad geometry.

In 4 lists

Cozy Blanket

iPad sculpt-to-retopo app. Clay sculpt plus auto-quad retopology for game/film topology, from Naam.

Headus UVLayout

Standalone UV editor, flatten-based.

Instant Meshes

Free, open-source auto-retopology.

In 4 lists

RizomUV

Fast UV unwrapping, auto-seam, auto-pack. Standalone or bridge.

Topogun

Standalone retopology and baking.

UVPackmaster

Advanced UV packing, UDIM support. Blender addon + standalone.

Valence 3D

iPad UV unwrap and texture paint app from Naam. Pairs with Cozy Blanket for full iPad asset workflow.

Animation & Rigging >Animation: YouTube Channels

Alan Becker Tutorials

. Animation tutorials by stick-figure animator.

Alex Grigg

. Animation for Anyone series.

Alex Kunchevsky

. Motion design.

Josh Toonen

. Unreal Engine cinematics: animated decals, cinematic environments, faster filmmaking.

Olof Storm

. Animation and motion.

School of Motion (YouTube)

. Motion design education.

The Principles of Animation: Interactive Edition

. Interactive web explainer of the 12 principles of animation.

Toniko Pantoja

. Animation industry and technique.

Animation & Rigging >AI Motion Capture & Animation

DeepMotion

Game-ready character animation from video. BVH/FBX export.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

Free Mo Cap

Free open-source motion capture system (traditional, not AI).See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

Live Link Face (Apple)

Free facial mocap via iPhone into Unreal/Maya/Blender.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

Move AI

Highest-accuracy AI mocap with multi-camera triangulation.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

Plask

Browser-based mocap with hand tracking and standard format export.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

In 2 lists

Rokoko Vision

Free AI mocap from webcam or video.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

Viggle AI

Character animation from video or image input.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

ActorCore

Free tier. Motion-capture library from Reallusion.

In 2 lists

AnimateDiff + ControlNet

. Open-source controlled video animation from poses.

In 4 lists

Bandai Namco Research Motiondataset

. Free motion-capture dataset from Bandai Namco R&D for research and personal use.

In 2 lists

Carnegie-Mellon University Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database BVH conversions

. 2500 free human motion-capture clips in BVH format.

In 2 lists

Mixamo

. Rigged characters, auto-rigger, and free animation library (Adobe).See also: Animation & Rigging → AI Motion Capture & Animation

In 5 listsDetails

Cascadeur

AI-assisted physics-based keyframe character animation; free for non-commercial use.

In 4 lists

Lighting, Rendering & Shaders >3D Lighting: Fundamentals

10 Tips for Better Lighting

. Helloluxx lighting tips.

Creative Shrimp

. Blender CG art and lighting tutorials by Gleb Alexandrov and Aidy Burrows.

In 2 lists

Get Better Lighting in C4D

. Improve C4D lighting.

School of Motion Lighting Blog

. Shadows, volumetrics, HDRI, and area light techniques.

The Digital Revolution

. Beginner C4D lighting.

Lighting, Rendering & Shaders >3D Lighting: Redshift-Specific

Creative Product Lighting with Redshift & C4D

. Jarred van de Voort, NAB 2023.

How to Art Direct Lights in a Cloner

. Art-directing lights across cloners.

Redshift Interior Materials & Lighting

. Interior materials and lighting.

Redshift Lighting Techniques (Essential MoGraph)

. Redshift lighting techniques.

You And Me Academy

. Light groups workflow.

Lighting, Rendering & Shaders >3D Lighting: Production

Foundry Katana

Look-development and lighting orchestration tool for film/episodic VFX, scaling to massive scenes via deferred evaluation.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

CNDL

Free tier. Web tool to create custom IES light profiles.

In 2 lists

UE5 Product Viz. IPhone Lighting Breakdown

. UE5 product viz iPhone lighting breakdown.

Lighting, Rendering & Shaders >Rendering & Shader Theory

Houdini

Procedural node-based DCC for VFX, simulation, and FX.See also: Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid

In 3 lists

Polygonjs

Node-based WebGL design tool, used for procedural geometry, particles, materialsSee also: Software Reference → Misc 3D Utilities Software

In 3 lists

(2014) Ray tracing with OpenGL Compute Shaders

. Detailed ray tracing tutorial series using OpenGL (LWJGL) by Kai Burjack.

In 2 lists

3D Game Shaders (source)

. Open-source project with resources on learning 3D game shaders.

In 8 listsDetails

3D Game Shaders for Beginners

. Clear breakdowns of SSAO, bloom, SSR.

In 2 lists

3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development

. Book covering the 3D math foundations for graphics and game programming.

In 4 lists

3D Programming Weekly Articles

. Collection of shader and math related resources.

A Gentle Introduction to Shaders in Unity3D

. Series of posts introducing shader coding, oriented to developers with little to no knowledge of shaders.

In 2 lists

A Pixel is not a Little Square!

. Classic paper debunking "a pixel is a little square." Also an intro to sampling.

A Rapid Hierarchical Rendering Technique for Translucent Materials

. Jensen & Buhler. SIGGRAPH 2002.

A Survey on Participating Media Rendering Techniques

. Cerezo et al. Visual Computer 2005.

A Trip Through The Graphics Pipeline

. A-trip-through-the-graphics-pipeline.

Advanced Cel Shader (Pitchfork Academy)

. Advanced cel shader material breakdown.

Advanced Creative Coding with WebGL & Shaders

Paid. Workshop by Matt DesLauriers going deeper into graphics programming, math, and shaders.

Advanced Materials in Blender - Shader Editor Tutorial

. Blender shader editor material tutorials.

Alan Zucconi's Blog

. Shaders and maths. Well explained and very interesting.

In 3 lists

An introduction to Shader Art Coding

. Video tutorial on the basics of creating art with shaders.

Anatole Drupat (XT95)

. Shader artist (ShaderToy XT95).

Anime/Toon/Cel Shading Model (Envieous, UE5)

. Custom UE5 anime/toon/cel shading model. Works with launcher engine versions.

apitrace

. Tools for tracing OpenGL, Direct3D, and other graphics APIs.

In 2 lists

Appleseed

. Physically-based global illumination rendering engine.

In 3 lists

Bart Wronski's blog

. Real-time rendering, post-processing effects, and advanced graphics techniques.

In 3 lists

bgfx

. Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

In 10 listsDetails

Blender & ACES

. Setup Blender to work with ACES using OpenColorIO.

In 2 lists

Blender Addon PBR

. Blender addon adding a material panel that builds Metallic/Roughness or Specular/Gloss node setups on the Principled BSDF.

In 2 lists

Blender Interplanety Storage (BIS)

Free tier. Online material/shader storage add-on for Blender. Save node groups to a personal library and search/upload from inside Blender.

In 2 lists

BNPR Shaders

. Collection of NPR shaders for Blender (EEVEE Comics Shader, Erisdraw3D, EEVEEToon).

In 2 lists

Bonzomatic

. Live-coding editor for OpenGL pixel shaders, where the results appear on background as you edit the code.

Brandon Fogerty's blog

. Blog on real-time rendering, shader programming, and game engine development.

Canvas Debugger

. Tutorial on using Firefox developer tools to debug WebGL shaders.

In 2 lists

Casual effects by Morgan McGuire

. Morgan McGuire's site with real-time rendering articles, research papers, and graphics data.

In 2 lists

Catlike Coding

. C# and shader tutorials for Unity.

In 2 lists

Cel-Shader Playlist (Your Sandbox)

. Cel-shading playlist (17 videos), UE with Lumen.

CelShader

. Cel shader project for Unreal Engine 4.

Cesium

. Open-source library for 3D globes and maps.

In 4 lists

CineShader

. Real-time 3D shader visualiser. Uses the Shadertoy API to bring thousands of existing shader artworks into a cinematic 3D environment.

In 2 lists

Circular Color Picker Unity

. Shader and script for a circular color picker.

CodeXL

. AMD tool suite with a debugger, profiler, and frame/shader analysis.

In 3 lists

Compact YCoCg Frame Buffer

. Paper on compact YCoCg frame buffer for small IBL buffers.

ComputeToys

. WebGPU compute shader editor for experimenting with GPU graphics in the browser.

In 2 lists

CppCon 2018: Valentin Galea “Rapid Prototyping of Graphics Shaders in Modern C++”

. CppCon 2018 talk on rapid prototyping of graphics shaders in modern C++.

Cracked Ice Shader

. Cracked Ice material tutorial.

In 2 lists

Creative Coding with Canvas & WebGL

Paid. Workshop by Matt DesLauriers on generative art, interactive animations, 3D graphics, and shaders.

Custom shaders with Three.JS

. Introduction to custom shaders, uniforms, textures, and lighting in three.js.

Cyanilux

. Unity shader tutorials (URP focus). Intro to Shader Graph, HLSL, depth, vertex displacement, dissolve, portals, water, fire. Beginner to advanced.

In 2 lists

Cyos

. Online shader editor.

Efficient Gradient-Domain Compositing Using Quadtrees

. ACM Trans. Graph. 2007.

Embree

. High-performance ray tracing kernels that help engineers improve photorealistic rendering performance.

Everything (or most things) wrong with learnopengl.com/PBR/Theory

. Detailed corrections to the PBR theory page on learnopengl.com.

Experimental analysis of BRDF models

. Ngan et al. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2005.

Extra Lights

. Blender addon adding physically based, photometric lighting presets to the Add menu.

In 2 lists

Fabian 'ryg' Giesen's Blog

. Blog on rendering, optimization, and low-level graphics programming with a focus on practical techniques.

In 3 lists

Fast Filter-Width Estimates with Texture Maps

. GPU Gems 1, Chapter 25.

Fast Terrain Rendering Using Geometrical MipMapping

. Fast Terrain Rendering Using Geometrical MipMapping.

Fast Volume Rendering Using a Shear-Warp Factorization of the Viewing Transformation

. Lacroute & Levoy. SIGGRAPH 1994.

Fft Ocean

. Fast Fourier Transform ocean rendering for Three.js.

In 2 lists

Filament

. PBR engine, available on all platforms (desktop, mobile).

In 3 lists

Flow Map Shader

. Flow Map Shader for Unity3D. Used with sprites.

FogSprites

. Modification of Unity's sprite shaders supporting Fog.

In 2 lists

Fragment Foundry

. Interactive fragment shader tutorial.

Fragmentarium

. Program to edit and visualize GLSL shaders, mainly focused on fractals and generative systems.

In 2 lists

Framer Motion

. Animation library for React, usable with react-three-fiber via the framer-motion-3d package.

In 5 listsDetails

fSync

. Unofficial fSpy/Maya bridge which also creates projection shaders.

Glass for EEVEE

. Shader that lets you make realistic glass with EEVEE.

In 2 lists

Global illumination using photon maps

. Jensen, H. W. Rendering Techniques 1996.

Glow

. Unity Shader Graph glow effect test.

GLSL Optimizer

. GLSL optimizer based on Mesa's GLSL compiler. Used in Unity for mobile shader optimization.

GLSL Sandbox

. Online live editor for fragment shaders.

In 4 lists

GlslEditor

. Simple WebGL fragment shader editor.

glslViewer (GitHub)

. Console-based GLSL sandbox for 2D/3D shaders, for a creative pipeline agnostic to the target platform.

In 3 lists

glslViewer (write-up)

. Write-up on glslViewer, a live-coding console tool that renders GLSL shaders.

GPU Zen Blog

. Blog on GPU programming and advanced rendering techniques, often featuring excerpts from the GPU Zen book series.

Graphics for Games

. Introduction to 3D graphics programming covering shaders, math, and post-processing, from Newcastle University.

Graphics Programming Resources

. Papers, talks, implementations aggregated by community.

GrassBending

. Replacement for Unity's terrain grass shader with alpha-blended rendering and touch bending.

In 2 lists

gsap

Free tier. Animation library for CSS and JavaScript, framework agnostic and usable with three.js, backed by plugins like ScrollTrigger and Flip.

In 2 lists

Houdini Gaussian Splatting Viewport Renderer

. HDK/GLSL implementation of Gaussian Splatting in Houdini.

How does a GPU Shader work?

. Academy slides on how a GPU shader works.

In 2 lists

How to Create a Fake 3D Image Effect with WebGL

. Tutorial on faking a 3D depth effect in WebGL with displacement maps.

In 2 lists

How to read shader assembly

. Guide to reading compiled shader assembly.

In 2 lists

ibreakdownshaders

. Explore the math behind shaders.

Íñigo Quílez

. Hardcore math applied to computer graphics by one of the best-known shader authors.

In 2 lists

Instanced Line Rendering Part II: Alpha blending

. Covers alpha-blending with triangulated instanced lines.

Intel Open Image Denoise

. Open-source library of high-performance, high-quality denoising filters for ray-traced images.

Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with Shader-Based OpenGL, 6/E

Paid. Textbook on interactive computer graphics with shader-based OpenGL (6th ed.).

Intro Three.js

. Introduction to pixel shaders in three.js.

Introduction to shaders

. Part 1 of an introduction to shaders using three.js.

IOR List

. Index of Refraction values list for use with 3D applications.

In 2 lists

ISF

. GLSL shaders for use in interactive applications.

Jendrik Illner's blog

. Ubisoft 3D programmer posts a weekly summary of articles on 3D graphics. Shader tutorials, real-time rendering papers, etc.

In 3 lists

Khronos: Streamlining Render Passes

. Introduces the VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering Vulkan extension.

Learn OpenGL

. Deep rendering concepts from scratch (lighting, shadows, PBR, SSAO).

In 4 lists

Learn OpenGL: Skeletal Animation

. Learn OpenGL guest article on skeletal animation.

Learn OpenGL: Text Rendering

. Learn OpenGL chapter on text rendering.

Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine

. Introduces Rotors in Geometric Algebra.

Light field rendering

. Levoy & Hanrahan. SIGGRAPH 1996.

Light House 3D

. GLSL core tutorial series by Lighthouse3D.

In 2 lists

Lightning Boy Studio

. Toon and NPR shading for Blender.

In 2 lists

Lily Surface Scrapper

. Blender addon that imports materials and shaders from a single URL.

In 2 lists

Lygia

. Multi-language shader library of reusable functions.

Lygia (GitHub)

. Granular, multi-language shader library built for performance and flexibility.

In 3 lists

Magnum (GitHub)

. 2D/3D graphics engine for modern OpenGL.

In 6 listsDetails

Makin' Stuff Look Good

. YouTube channel with shader case studies.

Manga/Outline Shader Playlist (Hepner Kamil)

. Manga/outline shader playlist (18 videos): outlines and toon shaders.

Marmoset Resources

. Baking guides, PBR theory, technical articles.

Matcap - Spherical Environment Mapping Shader

. Matcap - creating a spherical reflection/environment mapping shader.

Memory Management section on Pbrt

. Memory management chapter from the PBR Book (pbrt).

Microfacet Models for Refraction through Rough Surfaces

. Walter et al. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2007.

Mitsuba

. A research-oriented retargetable rendering system, written in portable C++17 on top of the Enoki library.

In 3 lists

Moebius-style 3D Rendering (Useless Game Dev)

. Moebius-style rendering: Sobel filter on depth map, crosshatch, fades.

Multitexturing using a Blendmap

. How to use a blendmap to multitexture a terrain.

In 2 lists

NEORT

. Digital art platform for creative coders (fragment shaders, JavaScript Canvas).

NeRF-Tex: Neural Reflectance Field Textures

. Baatz et al. EGSR 2021.

Node To Python

. Blender addon that converts Geometry, Shader, and Compositing node trees into legible Python scripts and add-ons.

In 2 lists

NodeToy

. Web node-based shader editor with react-three-fiber export.

In 2 lists

OpenGL 3D Game Tutorials

. Beginner tutorial series on creating 3D games with OpenGL.

OpenGL 4 Shaders

. Short introduction to OpenGL shaders by Anton Gerdelan.

OpenGL/GLSL Shader Programming

. Slide deck on OpenGL/GLSL shader programming.

Optimally Combining Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Rendering

. Veach & Guibas. SIGGRAPH 1995.

Path tracing fractals

. Path tracing 3D fractals in a fragment shader, by Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen.

Patricio Gonzales Vivo

. Shader artist and educator, main contributor to The Book of Shaders.

PBRT v3

. Source code for pbrt, the renderer from the third edition of "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation".

In 3 lists

PBRT v4

. Ray tracer from "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation" book.

In 2 lists

Physically Based Rendering (3rd ed online)

. Third edition of the PBR book online, with the ray tracer implementation.

Physically Based Rendering (PBR Book)

. Full book free online. Definitive PBR reference.

In 3 lists

Physics-Based Animation

. Learning resources and papers on physics-based animation.

In 2 lists

PicoGL.js

. Minimal WebGL 2-only rendering library.

In 2 lists

Pixel Shaders

. Interactive introduction to graphics programming.

PixelSpirit Elements Deck

. Tarot-style deck for learning GLSL shaders, each card pairing a visual element with its shader code, ordered simplest to most complex.

In 2 lists

PixelSpirit GitHub

. Code library for the PixelSpirit Elements deck of GLSL shader cards.

In 2 lists

Practical Rendering of Multiple Scattering Effects in Participating Media

. Premoze et al. Rendering Techniques 2004: 15th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering.

Procedural Stochastic Texturing

. Modified Unity Standard shader implementing procedural stochastic texturing.

In 2 lists

Ptex

. Texture mapping system developed by Walt Disney Animation Studios for production-quality rendering.

Pyro Shader (Redshift, Arnold, RenderMan)

Paid. Pyro and fire shader presets for Redshift, Arnold, and RenderMan.

Ray Tracey's blog

. Sam Lapere's blog, leads the scientific team at EPFL Blue Brain Project. Lots of post about real time rendering

Ray Tracing Gems

. Book of standalone chapters on various ray tracing topics.

Ray Tracing Gems II

. Second volume of standalone chapters on ray tracing topics.

Ray Tracing in One Weekend

. Peter Shirley's free book to get you implementing a basic ray tracer in C++ in about 40 pages.

Ray Tracing in One Weekend series

. Three short books explaining path tracing concepts and building a software renderer from scratch.

In 2 lists

Ray Tracing: The Next Week

. By Peter Shirley, builds on the first book by adding effects like textures and motion blur.

Ray Tracing: The Rest of Your Life

. Peter Shirley's last book in the series, covering more mathematical themes for complete renderers.

Raymarching On Unity 5

. Raymarcher in Unity 5.

Real-Time Rendering

. Companion site to the book, massive curated link collection.

In 2 lists

Real-Time Rendering Blog

. Blog tied to the Real-Time Rendering book series, with rendering techniques, industry news, and research.

Real-Time Rendering recommended books

. List of recommended books on the Real-Time Rendering site.

Realistic water shader

. Realistic ocean and water shader for Three.js with notes on the approach.

In 2 lists

Reddit Two Triangles

. General discussion and showcase for shaders.

RenderDoc

. Free open-source graphics debugger that captures and analyzes frames from DirectX, Vulkan, and OpenGL applications.

In 5 listsDetails

Rendering Resources - Benedikt Bitterli

. Test scenes in Tungsten, Mitsuba, and pbrt-v3 formats.

In 2 lists

Resources for Writing Shaders in Unity

. Companion resources for the UNITE Boston 2015 talk Writing Shaders: YOU can do it!

In 2 lists

Scene.js

. Extensible WebGL-based engine for high-detail 3D visualisation.

In 2 lists

Scratchapixel

. Ray tracing, rasterization, math foundations from first principles.

In 4 lists

SDFs by Inigo Quilez

. All you need to know about SDFs and other shader magic.

In 3 lists

Semi-Automatic Generation of Transfer Functions for Direct Volume Rendering

. Kindlmann & Durkin. IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization 1998.

Shader Derivative Functions

. Shader derivative functions (ddx/ddy), useful for normals.

Shader Designer

. TyphoonLabs OpenGL shader designer.

Shader Displacement for EEVEE

Paid. Using a few modifiers and a nodegroup, realtime shader displacement in EEVEE is now possible.

In 2 lists

Shader Editor

. Tutorial on live-editing WebGL shaders with Firefox developer tools.

In 2 lists

Shader Effects

. Unity shader effects.

Shader Graph Tutorials

. Project files for the Brackeys Shader Graph tutorials in Unity.

Shader Lab Lab

. System using T4 Templates to generate Unity ShaderLab code in the editor.

Shader Park

. JavaScript library for interactive procedural 2D/3D shaders, with a built-in raymarcher, SDFs, and boolean operations.

In 2 lists

SHADERed

. Lightweight tool for creating and testing HLSL and GLSL shaders.

In 4 lists

ShaderForge

. Node-based Unity shader editor, no coding required. Open source and unmaintained.

In 2 lists

ShaderFrog

. Online shader editor and asset manager that exports shaders for Three.js, Unity, and other engines, with visual shader editing.

ShaderGif

. Open source home for art made with code (WebGL1/2, JavaScript Canvas, P5.js).

Shaderific for OpenGL

. Documentation on GLSL.

In 2 lists

Shaderific GLSL

. OpenGL ES shading language reference.

ShaderProject

. Container for a range of handy Unity shaders.

In 4 lists

Shaders Laboratory

. YouTube channel about shaders.

ShaderShop editor

. Visual editor for building shaders by composing shaping functions.

In 3 lists

ShaderShop videos

. Videos about ShaderShop.

In 3 lists

ShaderTool

Paid. Modern shader IDE for programmers and FX artists.

ShadowDrawer

. Shadow matte shader for Unity.

Shadowing by Non-Gaussian Random Surfaces

. Garry S. Brown. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 1980.

Shaping functions

. Set of shaping functions for shaders.

In 2 lists

SHDR Editor

. Live GLSL shader editor, viewer, and validator.

In 3 lists

Stack.gl

. Modular WebGL shader and graphics tools.

Stanford Bunny Fur With Unity

. Geometry shader generating fur on the GPU.

Static Object Intersections - Real Time Rendering Resource Page

. Collection of intersection algorithms.

Stylized Comic Book Shader (Chris Folea Makes Things)

. Stylized comic book shading in UE without post-processing.

Substance Academy

. Free official Substance Painter/Designer tutorials.

Synthclipse

. GLSL shader prototyping tool.

Temporal light field reconstruction for rendering distribution effects

. Lehtinen et al. SIGGRAPH 2011.

Terrain Rendering Using GPU-Based Geometry Clipmaps

. GPU Gems 2 - Chapter 02.

The Art of Code (channel)

. Tutorials on shaders using ShaderToy, mostly videos on procedural generation.

In 2 lists

The Book of Shaders

. Interactive intro to GLSL fragment shaders.

In 6 listsDetails

The Book of Shaders Glossary

. Shader glossary by theme.

The Interactive Shader Format (ISF) Editor

. Online tool for creating and editing GLSL shaders in the ISF format, used in VJ software, live performance, and interactive installations.

The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 1: How Did We Get Here?

. Article on why shader permutations explode in real-time engines.

In 2 lists

The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 2: How Do We Fix It?

. Article on strategies for managing shader permutation explosion.

In 2 lists

Three Blender

. Blender tool that converts Blender files directly to Three.js.

In 2 lists

Tungsten

. High performance physically based renderer in C++11.

In 4 listsDetails

Twigl

. Free online shader editor.

Unity Compute Shader Ray Tracing Practice

. Ray tracing compute shader tutorial for Unity.

Unity Fluid Simulation 2D

. Extended camera renders particles, then metaball processing via shader.

Unity Outline Shader

. Source code for an Outline Shader tutorial. Detects edges using the depth and normals buffers.

In 3 lists

Unity Raymarching Collision

. Raymarching and rigidbody interaction example.

Unity Shader Cheatsheet

. Collection of Unity shader snippets and gotchas.

In 2 lists

Unity Shader Sketches

. Sketches made with ShaderLab in Unity.

In 3 lists

Unity Shader Tutorials

. Full project and code for a set of Unity shader tutorials.

Unity Shaders

. Unity project researching shaders and particle systems.

In 3 lists

Unity3D Shaders Learning

. Unity3D shader learning examples.

UnityGPUNoise

. Shaders for various noise functions on the GPU.

USD Arnold

. USD Schemas and tools for exchanging Arnold shader information between multiple 3rd party packages.

In 2 lists

Vertex Shader Art

. Platform for creating and sharing vertex shaders, with a focus on artistic and experimental uses.

Vertexshaderart

. YouTube playlist about vertex shaders.

VerticalDissolve

. Procedural vertical dissolve shader. Tweak edge color, noisiness, waviness, rim light, emission scrolling.

In 4 lists

VFX good night reading

. Curated collection of good reading about VFX and CG.

In 3 lists

VilarVRC

. Vilar's shaders for VRChat.

Virtual ray lights for rendering scenes with participating media

. Novák et al. SIGGRAPH 2012.

Virtual Terrain Project

. Tools for constructing real-world terrain in interactive 3D form.

WebGL 2 Basics

. Blog post on getting started with WebGL 2.

In 2 lists

WebGL 2 New Features

. Blog post on what is new in WebGL 2.

In 2 lists

WebGL Fundamentals

. In-depth WebGL resource covering 3D rendering, lighting, and 2D transforms from first principles.

In 4 lists

WebGl Playground

. Editor for working on JavaScript code and GLSL vertex/fragment shaders side by side, with organized formatting and highlighting.

In 2 lists

Whitestorm.js (site)

. Framework for developing 3D web apps with physics.

In 2 lists

Wind Waker Shader

. Cel shading of two thresholds with a blur/gradient between them for Unity.

Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer

. Deep dive on writing an efficient Vulkan renderer.

xeokit

. Web graphics SDK for AEC/BIM applications with 3D tiles, real-world coordinates, and double precision.

In 2 lists

Lighting, Rendering & Shaders >Renderer-Specific Learning

Ariev Visuals Resources

. Octane tutorials and assets.

Polymesh to Volume (Arnold)

. Arnold polymesh to volume conversion.

Takua Renderer

. Karl Li's hobbyist physically-based renderer project page with technical write-ups.

Veach Thesis (Stanford)

. Light transport theory. Foundational PBR thesis.

aerialod

A free interactive path tracing renderer for height maps.

In 2 lists

AMD Blender USD Hydra

With Pixar's USD system emerging as a tool for 3D graphics pipelines and interchange, this addon is meant to add first class support for USD and the USD Hydra rendering system to Blender.

In 2 lists

Arnold (Autodesk)

CPU/GPU hybrid production renderer, bundled with Maya/3ds Max.

In 2 lists

Corona (Chaos)

CPU renderer for arch-viz and interiors.

Cycles

CPU/GPU path tracer. Bundled free with Blender.

In 2 lists

D5 Render

Real-time GPU renderer for arch-viz.

DreamWork's MoonRay

Physically based path-tracing renderer with a USD Hydra delegate and Arras distributed/cloud rendering.

In 2 lists

Enscape

Chaos real-time rendering plugin for Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad, Vectorworks. Subscription only since mid-2025.

Guerrilla Render

Production renderer used on feature films.

Indigo Renderer

Glare Technologies unbiased GPU/CPU renderer with multi-GPU, denoising, and SSS.

Karma (SideFX)

CPU/GPU USD-native renderer, bundled with Houdini.

KeyShot (Luxion)

CPU real-time ray tracing for product visualization.

In 2 lists

Krakatoa

AWS Thinkbox volumetric particle renderer for 3ds Max and Maya; free + open source (Apache 2.0) since 2022.

Light Tracer Render

Provides you with everything you need to create photorealistic renderings interactively, in both desktop Web browsers and Windows application.

In 2 lists

Lumion

Real-time architectural visualization renderer with cloud rendering bundled.

LuxCore

Free open-source CPU/GPU unbiased renderer.

In 2 lists

Malt

Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) framework. Real-time, customizable rendering for animation and illustration. Works as a Blender render engine.

In 2 lists

Marmoset Toolbag

Real-time PBR viewer, baker, and renderer. Common in game/jewelry portfolios.

Maxwell Render

Next Limit unbiased physically-correct renderer; plugins for Studio, Rhino, SketchUp, C4D, Maya, 3ds Max, ArchiCAD, form·Z.

MoonRay

DreamWorks' open-source MCRT production renderer used on feature films.

Octane (OTOY)

GPU unbiased renderer with free tier.

Radeon ProRender

Physically-based engine, product by AMD.

In 2 lists

Radeon ProRender (AMD)

AMD's GPU path tracer, free and cross-vendor.

Redshift (Maxon)

GPU-biased production renderer.

RenderMan (Pixar)

Pixar's CPU/GPU hybrid production renderer. Free for non-commercial.

In 2 lists

Twinmotion (Epic)

Real-time GPU renderer from Epic for arch-viz.

V-Ray (Chaos)

CPU/GPU hybrid renderer for arch-viz and product viz.

VFX, Compositing & Virtual Production >Virtual Production

disguise

LED-wall and xR virtual production platform with RenderStream.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Notch

Real-time graphics for live events and virtual production.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

In 2 lists

Pixotope

Real-time AR and virtual studio platform built on Unreal Engine.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Vizrt

Real-time broadcast graphics and virtual studio platform.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Zero Density

Real-time VFX engine for broadcast and virtual production.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

CasparCG

. Layer-based real-time compositor that plays out professional graphics, audio, and video to multiple broadcast outputs.

In 2 lists

NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprints

. Omniverse blueprints and reference pipelines.

VFX, Compositing & Virtual Production >Tech Art

AFX

. Everyday compositing plugins for Nuke.

Jam2go

. Procedural art and creative coding.

max rose

. Tech art breakdowns on YouTube.

Nuke Tools (VS Code)

. VS Code extension for Nuke Python/BlinkScript development.

Nuke Tools ST

. Sublime Text package to send Python/BlinkScript code into Nuke.

NXT

. Layered, code-driven graph editor for building reusable rigging and pipeline logic.

In 2 lists

OpenWalter

. USD plugins for Arnold, Houdini, Katana, and Maya.

In 2 lists

Simon Schreibt

. Game Art Tricks and Workflow Tricks. Technical breakdowns of how games achieve effects (mirrors, fog, rendering tricks).

In 2 lists

Visual Tech Art

. Tech art tutorials.

xComp

. Viewer for comparing rendered image versions side by side.

VFX, Compositing & Virtual Production >Compositing Learning, Books & Industry

8-bit to Half Float CopyCat (Moving Image Arts)

. Free Nuke CopyCat ML model plus tutorial. Recovers clamped highlights and reduces 8-bit color banding. Downloadable .cat file.

Befores & Afters

. Ian Failes. Shot breakdowns and artist Q&As across VFX features.See also: Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Inspiration & Showcase

Book: Compositing Visual Effects (Lee Lanier)

Paid. Lee Lanier. Applied, project-based comp instruction.

Book: Digital Compositing for Film and Video (Steve Wright, 4th ed.)

Paid. Standard text on digital compositing. Math + practical workflow.

Book: The Art and Science of Digital Compositing (Brinkmann, 2nd ed.)

Paid. Ron Brinkmann's theoretical canon for digital compositing.

Cinefex (archive)

. Legacy VFX-making journal archives.

Compositing Academy

Paid. Paid Nuke compositing courses and career training from working VFX compositors.

CompositingMentor

Paid. Tobias Wiesner's paid mentorship-style Nuke courses. Deep compositing focus.

Foundry Learn (Nuke)

. Official Foundry training. Free tutorials plus certification tracks.

Hugo's Desk (Hugo Guerra)

Mixed. Pro Nuke compositing tutorials and breakdowns from CG Supe Hugo Guerra.

NukePedia

. Canonical Nuke community library. Gizmos, scripts, tutorials, plugins.See also: Software Reference → VFX & Compositing Software

Steve Wright Training

Paid. Steve Wright (author of the standard Nuke text) structured comp course series.

The Art of VFX

. VFX supervisor interviews per film.

VFX Apprentice (Allan McKay)

Paid. Paid VFX career courses. Nuke + Houdini overlap.

After Effects

Motion graphics and compositing.

In 2 lists

Boris FX Optics

Photo and film stylization plugin and standalone. Filters, grain, lens FX, color.

Boris FX Particle Illusion

Standalone particle generator. Free version; Pro features available inside Continuum.

In 2 lists

ButtleOFX

Simple open-source node-based compositing software.

In 3 lists

Continuum

Boris FX broadcast/post effects collection. Titles, particles, image restoration, color.

DaVinci Resolve Fusion

Node-based compositing, free with Resolve.

Effekseer

Real-time VFX editor and runtime.

In 2 lists

EmberGen

Real-time volumetric fluid sim (fire, smoke, explosions).

In 3 lists

Fusion

Free node-based compositing software from Blackmagic Design.

GeoGen (JangaFX)

Real-time terrain generation.

IlluGen

Real-time procedural node-based generator for tiling noise, normal maps, flowmaps, 3D FX meshes, caustics, masks, distortions.

KeenTools

Face and geometry tracking plus FaceBuilder for Blender, Nuke, AE, Houdini.

LiquiGen

Real-time liquid simulation.

MadMapper

Projection mapping software.

Magic Animator

Web-based animation creator.

Mocha Pro

Boris FX planar tracker for VFX. Roto, object removal, screen replacement, lens distortion.

In 2 lists

Natron (community fork)

Free open-source node compositor, Nuke-like.

In 5 listsDetails

Nuke

Industry-standard node-based compositing software by The Foundry. Free non-commercial version available.

In 2 lists

Nuke (Foundry)

Industry-standard compositing. Non-Commercial free version available.

Red Giant Complete

Maxon-owned VFX/motion suite. Trapcode, Magic Bullet, VFX Suite, Universe.

Resolume

Live visuals and VJ software.

Sapphire

Boris FX 270+ VFX/transition plugins for AE, Premiere, Resolve, Nuke, Flame, Avid, OFX hosts.

Silhouette

Boris FX node-based roto/paint compositor with AI-driven matte tools.

TOOLL3

Graph-based procedural real-time motion graphics for live performance or rendering.

TouchDesigner

Node-based real-time visual programming for interactive media, installations, and live visuals.

VectorayGen

Free node-based vector field generator for real-time VFX. Computes flows, noise, and turbulence to drive GPU particle motion.

3DEqualizer

High-end matchmoving (major VFX studios).

fSpy

Free, open-source single-image camera matching → Blender.

In 2 lists

PFTrack

Professional matchmoving, object tracking, mesh generation.

SynthEyes

Camera tracking with lens distortion solving.

ARwall

LED virtual production stages and ARFX Pro plugin.

Aximmetry

Virtual production and broadcast compositor with Unreal integration. Free Community tier.

Brainstorm InfinitySet

Virtual set and AR for broadcast.

disguise

LED-wall and xR virtual production platform with RenderStream.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

grandMA3

Industry-standard lighting control console and software for live shows, theatre, and broadcast.

Notch

Real-time graphics for live events and virtual production.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

In 2 lists

Pixotope

Real-time AR and virtual studio platform built on Unreal Engine.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Smode

Real-time 2D/3D creation, compositing, and video-mapping engine.

Vizrt

Real-time broadcast graphics and virtual studio platform.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Zero Density

Real-time VFX engine for broadcast and virtual production.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Motion Graphics & Video >Motion Graphics: YouTube Channels

Ben Marriott

. After Effects and motion design.

Motion Graphics & Video >After Effects: Learning & Templates

Jitter Templates

. Free motion graphics templates.

Top 5 Expressions (graymachine)

. Essential AE expressions.

Motion Graphics & Video >Fusion (DaVinci Resolve): Learning

Multichannel EXR (Fusion forum)

. Multichannel EXR workflow in Fusion.

Split EXR in Fusion

. Split EXR in Fusion guide.

Motion Graphics & Video >Motion Graphics: Inspiration

Friction

Free open-source motion graphics and 2D vector animation. After Effects-style workflow.See also: Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software

Natron (community fork)

Free open-source node compositor, Nuke-like.

In 5 listsDetails

TOOLL3

Graph-based procedural real-time motion graphics for live performance or rendering.

Ads of the World

. Advertising reference.

AEJuice

Free tier. Free and premium motion presets, transitions, and effects packs installable directly via a panel inside After Effects.

After Effects Facebook Group

. Join the After Effects community on Facebook.

Animation Nodes (GitHub)

. A node-based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender.

In 3 lists

Animation Nodes (site)

. A node-based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender.

In 2 lists

Art of Style Frame

. Style frame showcase.

Art of the Title

. Title sequence deep dives.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

Behance Motion

. Motion design gallery.

Commotion

. Blender add-on for motion graphics.

In 2 lists

Eyecannndy

. Visual effects and motion inspiration.

FilmGrab

. Curated film stills archive. Free.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

Flim AI

Free tier. Film frame search engine.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

FrameRate

. Community showcase for motion design and music video work by video professionals.

Hall of Frame

. Community-submitted archive of motion design, typography, 3D, and VFX references, filterable by category and format.

Houdini 2 AE

. Tool for exporting camera and locators from Houdini to After Effects.

John Berube

. Motion design portfolio and resources.

Mobox Graphics

. In-depth After Effects tutorials focused on motion design.

Motionographer

. Motion design showcase.

nexrender

. Data-driven render automation for After Effects.

Opening Titles (Vimeo)

. Title sequence collection.

PlayPhrase.me

Free tier. Phrase-based film clip search.

In 2 lists

RailCut

Paid. Multi-track clip editing directly in After Effects with NLE-style tools like ripple edit, rolling edit, slip, and slide.

React UMG

. A React renderer for Unreal Motion Graphics with Unreal.js.

Reddit - r/AfterEffects

. The After Effects subreddit for community discussions and sharing.

Rubberhose 2

Paid. Shape-layer-based IK limb rigging system for fast character animation with one-click rig creation.

ShotDeck

Paid. Searchable film still library for storyboards and references.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

Stash Magazine

Free tier. Motion design and animation showcase.

Trapcode Suite

Paid. A set of 3D motion graphics and visual effects plugins for After Effects.

Motion Graphics & Video >Motion Graphics: Tools & Utilities

Effekseer

Real-time VFX editor and runtime.

In 2 lists

MadMapper

Projection mapping software.

Magic Animator

Web-based animation creator.

Mocha Pro

Boris FX planar tracker for VFX. Roto, object removal, screen replacement, lens distortion.

In 2 lists

Red Giant Complete

Maxon-owned VFX/motion suite. Trapcode, Magic Bullet, VFX Suite, Universe.

Resolume

Live visuals and VJ software.

TouchDesigner

Node-based real-time visual programming for interactive media, installations, and live visuals.

Caddis

Paid. Motion design app with layer timeline and node compositing.

Easing Functions

. Visual reference of common easing curves with code snippets.

In 3 lists

Element 3D

Paid. A 3D plugin for After Effects that allows you to import and animate 3D models.

Jitter

Free tier. Browser-based collaborative motion design tool.

Lottielab

Free tier. Editor for Lottie animations targeting apps and websites.

Nukepedia Lens Engine

. Lens simulation gizmo for Nuke.

Nw Wrld

. Experimental motion tool.

Periodic Table of Motion

. Reference chart of motion design principles and techniques.

PixelCrash

Paid. Creative motion and visual tools.

Plate

Paid. WebGPU motion design tool running in the browser, with macOS and Windows builds.

React Spring

. Library for physically accurate animations, works with react-three-fiber.

In 2 lists

Motion Graphics & Video >Video Editing: Courses

Aseprite

Pixel art editor with animation tools (source on GitHub).

In 8 listsDetails

Autograph

USD-based motion graphics, compositing, and VFX (After Effects alternative). Free for individuals incl. commercial use. Originally Left Angle, now Maxon.

Cavalry

Procedural 2D motion design (After Effects alternative). Free tier available.

Clip Studio Paint

Industry-standard illustration and comics with animation timeline.

DoAnimation

Browser frame-by-frame 2D animation. Layers, onion skinning, GIF/MP4 export. Files stay local.

DragonBones

Open source 2D skeletal animation. Flash-origin workflow, runtimes for multiple engines.

In 2 lists

Friction

Free open-source motion graphics and 2D vector animation. After Effects-style workflow.See also: Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software

GraphicsGale

Pixel art and sprite animation tool (free).

In 3 lists

Krita

Free open-source digital painting app from KDE; v5.3 and v6.0 shipped March 2026.

In 7 listsDetails

LibreSprite

LibreSprite is an open source fork of Aseprite.

Lightcube

Pixel art editor for Windows w/ PSD, JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF support.

Moho (Smith Micro)

2D vector and bone-rigged animation.

OpenToonz

Studio Ghibli's animation engine, open-sourced.

Pencil2D

Free lightweight 2D animation.

In 4 listsDetails

Pickle

Pixel art editor.

Pixa.Pics

Browser pixel-art tool w/ vectorization.

Pixel Composer (itch.io)

Node-based 2D VFX and compositing for pixel art.

Pixelator

Turn any image into pixel art.

In 2 lists

Pixelorama

Free pixel art editor (made in Godot).

PixelOver

Convert artwork to pixel art with animation, bone rigging, and pixel-perfect transforms.

Pixen (GitHub)

Pixel Art Editor for OSX

Pixen (site)

Paid, works on macOS and iOS. Superb OS integration, create pixel art on a tablet using pressure-sensitive drawing.

In 3 lists

Pro Motion

Paid with trial, works on Windows. Advanced features tailored to creating pixel art for games.

In 2 lists

Procreate

IPad painting app. Procreate Dreams for animation.

PyxelEdit

Pixel art editor for tilesets, levels, animations.

Rebelle 8 Pro

Natural-media painting app simulating real watercolor, oil, acrylic, ink with fluid dynamics.

REXPaint

Free ASCII art editor with layers, animation, and palette tools. Built for roguelike and terminal art.

Rive

Interactive animation for apps and web.

In 2 lists

Spine (Esoteric Software)

2D skeletal animation w/ mesh deformation, IK, skins/attachments. Runtimes for Unity/Unreal/Godot/web. Used on Cult of the Lamb, Return to Monkey Island, Tinykin.

SpriteMancer

2D VFX and sprite animation.

Spriter Pro

Modern tool for sprite animation (2D bone rigging).

Synfig Studio

Free open-source 2D vector animation.

In 5 listsDetails

Tahoma2D

2D and stop-motion animation (OpenToonz fork w/ modernized UI and features).

TexturePacker

Sprite sheet packing, multi-engine export.

In 3 lists

Toon Boom Harmony

Professional 2D animation (studio standard).

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro

Industry-standard storyboarding software.

Apple Compressor

Encoding and delivery companion app for Final Cut Pro.

Apple Motion

Motion graphics app and FCP template authoring tool from Apple.

Avid Media Composer

Long-standing film/TV finishing NLE. Standard for collaborative editorial in features and broadcast post.

Avidemux

Simple OSS cut/filter/encode tool. Not a full NLE.

In 3 lists

CapCut Desktop

ByteDance's free desktop/mobile editor, dominant in social workflows.

Clipchamp

Microsoft's browser editor bundled with Windows 11.

DaVinci Resolve

Free professional editing, color grading, Fusion, Fairlight audio.

In 8 listsDetails

Descript

Transcript-driven video and podcast editor. Edits by editing the text.

In 3 lists

Filmora

Wondershare beginner-friendly editor; watermarked free tier.

Final Cut Pro

Apple-native NLE with magnetic timeline.

GoZen

Free open-source video editor built with Godot (alpha).

HitFilm

Artlist-owned editor + VFX combo. Free tier plus Pro paid version.

iMovie

Apple's free consumer editor for macOS and iOS/iPadOS.

Kdenlive

Free open-source NLE.

In 6 listsDetails

Lightworks

Pro NLE with free tier (1080p export) and paid Pro/Create tiers. Used on feature films historically.

In 4 listsDetails

OBS

Software designed for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content efficiently.

In 9 listsDetails

OpenShot

Award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

In 4 listsDetails

Premiere Elements

One-time-purchase consumer Premiere variant.

Premiere Pro

Industry-standard NLE from Adobe.

Shotcut

Free open-source video editor.

In 7 listsDetails

VEED

Browser editor with auto-subtitles, AI tools, and screen recording.

In 3 lists

Vegas Movie Studio

Consumer/prosumer Vegas variant for hobbyist editing.

Vegas Pro

Magix Windows NLE with track-based timeline, HDR, and AI-assisted tools.

VSDC Free Video Editor

Windows non-linear editor, free + Pro tier.

In 2 lists

Ableton Live

Session and arrangement DAW. Standard for electronic music and live performance.

In 2 lists

Adobe Audition

Professional audio workstation.

Ardour

OSS multitrack DAW.

In 10 listsDetails

Audacity

Free open-source audio editor and recorder.

In 11 listsDetails

Audio Design Desk

Sound design app that places SFX, foley, and music against picture from typed cues.

Bespoke Synth

Open-source modular DAW where patch cables rewire the signal path while it plays.

In 2 lists

Bfxr

Retro and chiptune SFX generator (browser and desktop).

In 3 lists

Bitwig Studio

DAW with deep modular Grid synthesis engine.

In 2 lists

Cakewalk by BandLab

Full Sonar successor, free on Windows.

In 3 lists

ChucK

Strongly timed audio programming language for livecoding and synthesis.

Csound

Sound and music computing system with a text-based orchestra and score model.

Cubase

Steinberg DAW with strong MIDI and scoring.

Dolby Atmos Renderer

Reference Dolby Atmos production renderer.

FabFilter Pro Suite

Pro EQ, compressor, reverb, and limiter plugins (Pro-Q, Pro-L).

Fairlight

Professional audio built into DaVinci Resolve.

FL Studio

Pattern-based DAW with lifetime free updates.

In 3 lists

Flux Spat Revolution

IRCAM-derived object-based spatializer for immersive mixing.

FMOD

Industry-standard adaptive audio. Free for indie <$200k.

In 2 lists

GameSynth (Tsugi)

Node-based procedural SFX generator for games.

GarageBand

Free Apple DAW with built-in loops, drummers, and amp models.

iZotope RX

Industry-standard audio restoration suite.

Krotos

Performance-driven foley and monster vox plugins (Reformer, Dehumaniser).

LMMS

Free FL-style DAW, cross-platform.

In 9 listsDetails

Logic Pro

Apple pro DAW for macOS and iPad.

In 2 lists

Max/MSP (Cycling '74)

Visual patcher for audio, MIDI, and video (Jitter).

In 4 lists

Melodyne

Pitch and timing editor that separates notes inside polyphonic recordings.

Ocenaudio

Free waveform editor with real-time effect preview and large-file handling.

In 2 lists

Pro Tools

Industry standard for post-production audio mixing and finishing.

Pure Data (Pd)

Open-source visual programming environment for audio, MIDI, and multimedia.

In 3 lists

Reaper

Full DAW with $60 personal license.

In 5 listsDetails

Renoise

Tracker-style DAW with sample-level editing and per-line command control.

Sonic Pi

Code-based music livecoding environment, education-friendly.

In 2 lists

Sound Particles

CGI-style 3D sound design with thousands of simultaneous sources. Big in immersive/film audio.

Soundly

Desktop SFX platform with curated library and local library management.

SoundThread

Node-based patching front end for the Composers Desktop Project sound manipulation tools.

Steam Audio

Physics-based spatial audio by Valve. Free.

Strudel

Browser TidalCycles port (JS).

Studio One

PreSonus drag-flow DAW.

SuperCollider

Server-based audio synthesis and livecoding language.

Surge XT

Open-source hybrid synthesizer with wavetable, FM, and subtractive engines.

TidalCycles

Haskell-based pattern livecoding for algoraves.

In 3 lists

VCV Rack

Open-source Eurorack modular synthesizer emulator. Free core; paid Pro and premium modules.

Vital

Spectral warping wavetable synth. Free tier covers most sound design work.

Waveform Free

Tracktion DAW with unlimited tracks at no cost.

Wavewright

Modular music sandbox inspired by analog synthesizers (Early Access).

Wwise

AAA audio middleware with free tier.

Game Development >Godot: Official Resources

Godot Asset Store

. Official addon, plugin, and asset marketplace (beta). Replaces the legacy Asset Library.

In 2 lists

Godot Documentation

. Official docs. GDScript, C#, 2D/3D, shaders, physics, networking.

Godot Proposals

. Feature request tracker and roadmap.

Godot Shaders

. Community shader library with visual previews.

In 2 lists

Game Development >Godot: Key Plugins & Addons

Dialogic 2

. Full-featured dialogue and timeline system.

In 2 lists

GdSpy

. Unofficial fSpy importer for Godot.

Godot 4 glTF runtime import

. Godot 4 glTF runtime import.

Godot Package Manager

. Package manager for Godot using npm.

In 2 lists

GodotSteam

. Steamworks SDK integration.

Gut

. Unit testing framework for GDScript.

In 2 lists

Limbo AI

. Behavior trees and state machines.

In 2 lists

Phantom Camera

. Dynamic camera system (Cinemachine-inspired).

In 2 lists

SmartShape2D

. Intelligent 2D terrain/shape tool.

In 2 lists

Game Development >Godot: Learning

Brackeys (Godot)

. Returned in 2024 with Godot content.

DevDuck

. Dev logs and tutorials.

GDQuest

Free tier. Premium courses plus free YouTube tutorials.

GDScript.com

. Interactive GDScript learning.

Introduction into the new Godot OpenVR Asset

. Bastiaan Olij YouTube. Godot OpenVR and XR tutorials.

KidsCanCode Godot Recipes

. Clear beginner-friendly guides.

Miziziziz

. Tutorials and game dev challenges.

The Shaggy Dev

. Godot-focused tutorials.

Game Development >Godot: Communities

Godot Discord

. Official Discord.

Godot Forums

. Official forum.

r/godot

. 350k+ members, very active.

In 2 lists

Game Development >Unity Engine: Resources

Visual Studio (Windows)

Official supported IDE for Unity in Windows platform. Mac version here.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

2D Rope System

Paid. Scripts for creating 2D ropes in the editor or at runtime.

2D Tech Demos

. Official Unity tech demos for 2D features.

In 2 lists

50 Unity Tips

. Fifty Unity tips spanning editor tools, serialization, and UI shortcuts, with a mobile focus.

A Crack In The Slab

. Recreation of a Dishonored 2 effect in Unity.

A Star Pathfinding for Unity

. Multithreaded 3-axis A* pathfinder for Unity.

In 2 lists

A* Pathfinding Project Pro

Paid. Fast pathfinding system for Unity with grid, navmesh, and point graphs.

Actors Unity3d Framework

. Decouples data from behavior in Unity.

Adic

. Lightweight dependency injection container for Unity.

In 2 lists

AdMob Unity Plugin

. Unity extension for placing AdMob banners in Android games.

AI Companion

. Unity 5 AI learning project with behavior trees and A* pathfinding.

AirPeer

. WebRTC-based networking plugin for Unity.

Akka.Unity.Sample

. Sample running Akka.NET in Unity.

AngryBots2

. Example Unity project from Unity Technologies demonstrating several features.

Animation Texture Baker

. Bakes legacy animations into textures, targeting ECS.

Animator Timeline

. Timeline editor for Unity.

AR Foundation Docs

. Manual for Unity's cross-platform AR framework (ARKit, ARCore).

Artimech

. Open-source visual scripting and state machine system for Unity.

Asset Auditing Tools

. Official Unity editor tools to audit project assets and fix errors.

In 2 lists

Astar Pathfinding

. 2D A* pathfinding for Unity.

Atlas Unity

. Gradle plugin to run Unity batchmode commands and unit tests and export .unitypackage files.

AudioRecorder

. Audio recorder component for Unity.

AudioTexture

. Generates a Unity Texture2D from an AudioClip.

Auto Save Scene

. Unity editor helper that auto-saves the scene to minimize lost work.

In 2 lists

Autoya

. Thin application framework for Unity.

In 2 lists

Barebones Master Server

. Master server framework for Unity.

In 3 lists

Beautiful Text Outline for Unity UI

. Text outline and vertex effects for Unity UI.

In 3 lists

Bep In Ex

. Unity game patcher and plugin framework for modding shipped games.

In 2 lists

Better Defines

. Manage preprocessor directives in Unity.

In 2 lists

BetterDefines.cs

. Gist: improved scripting define symbol management for Unity.

BezierCanvas

. Illustrator pen-tool style bezier editor for Unity.

BitpackingTools

. Bitpacking and serialization libraries behind the NetworkSyncTransform and TransformCrusher Unity assets.

Bitstrap

. BitCake's collection of Unity workflow tools.

In 2 lists

Bolt

. Visual scripting for Unity to build gameplay and interactive systems without code. Now bundled with Unity as Visual Scripting.

Bullet Pattern Editor Unity

. Editor for authoring shoot-em-up bullet patterns.

CAFU Core

. Clean-architecture framework for Unity.

CameraLib4U

. Third-person chase-camera system for Unity.

CarPaint

. Car paint material for the Unity Standard Assets car.

Chanquo

. Partial Go-channel implementation for Unity.

CharacterController2D

. 2D controller that behaves like Unity's CharacterController component.

In 4 lists

Charon Unity3D

. Charon game data editor plugin for Unity to define data structures, edit data, and access it from code.

Cheatography Unity Cheatsheet

. Hotkey reference for the Unity editor.

Chest Of Property Drawers

. Collection of small reusable Unity property drawers.

ClassTypeReference for Unity

. Serializable references to System.Type with a custom property drawer for dropdown class selection.

CO2

. Android plugin generator for Unity.

ColorPalette

. Lightweight color palette asset for Unity.

Colorus

. Coloring book game for web and iOS made with Unity.

Command Terminal

. In-game console and command terminal for Unity.

Complete Unity 2018 Game Development

. Companion code for the Complete Unity 2018 Game Development book.

Constellation

. Visual scripting language for Unity, no code required.

Coop Design

. Prototype for runtime cooperative level design in Unity.

CoroutineChain

. Chainable coroutine helper for Unity.

In 2 lists

CosineGradient

. Cosine gradient generator for Unity.

Cpp Unity TCP Client Server

. Sample Unity TCP client with a C++ (Boost) server.

CropTexture

. Crop and resize textures in the Unity editor.

In 2 lists

Crystal AI

. Utility-based AI framework for C# and Unity.

In 3 lists

CUDLR

. Console for Unity debugging and logging remotely.

In 2 lists

CurveTexture

. Encode arbitrary curves into textures and apply them to materials or shader properties.

Custom 2D Colliders

. Custom 2D colliders for Unity.

In 2 lists

DataRenderer2D

. Generates line and polygon meshes in Unity.

In 3 lists

DeadSimple Pixel-Perfect Camera

. Pixel-perfect orthographic camera script for 2D Unity scenes.

In 3 lists

Deform

. Deformer system for Unity meshes.

In 3 lists

DeltaDNA Unity SDK

. deltaDNA analytics and smartads mediation SDK for Unity games.

Devdog UnityTips Compilation

. Collected Unity tips and tricks posted by developers.

Dissonance

. Real-time voice chat asset for Unity multiplayer.

DownloadManager.cs

. Download manager gist for Unity.

DT Compile Time Tracker

. Unity editor extension that tracks compile time.

In 2 lists

DTCommandPalette

. Command palette for Unity to run methods and open scenes.

In 2 lists

Dual Quaternion Skinning for Unity

. Dual quaternion skinning implementation for Unity.

In 2 lists

EasingCore

. Simple easing-function implementation for Unity.

In 2 lists

EasyMOBA

. MOBA game template for Unity.

ECS Tween

. Unity tweening system built on ECS that also works with GameObjects.

In 4 lists

ECSRx.unity

. Reactive ECS framework for Unity built on UniRx.

In 4 lists

Edge Detect Post Processing Unity

. Unity legacy edge-detect image effect ported to Post Processing Stack v2.

In 2 lists

Enhanced Scroll View

. 3D scroll view for Unity (NGUI and uGUI support).

In 3 lists

EnumDispatcher

. ECS-backed C# enums as Flux/Redux actions in Unity.

EpPathFinding3D.cs

. 3D jump-point-search pathfinding for cube-based games in C#.

In 2 lists

EZ Item Editor

. Game data editor for Unity for entering, maintaining, and consuming game data.

EzySlice

. Mesh slicer framework for Unity, written in C#.

In 2 lists

Firestorm

. Makeshift Cloud Firestore C# API for Unity over REST. Basic functions only.

Fixed Function States from Materials (gist)

. Aras Pranckevicius gist on driving fixed-function render states from materials and scripts in Unity.

FlexibleUI Unity

. Multiple GUI theme system for Unity.

Fluid Behavior Tree

. Code-first behavior tree micro-framework for Unity.

In 2 lists

Flurry Unity Plugin

. Flurry analytics library for Unity on Android and iOS.

FrameDump

. Exports image sequences from Unity.

Fungus

. Unity library for building illustrated interactive-fiction and visual-novel games.

In 3 lists

Futile

. A code-first 2D framework for Unity.

In 2 lists

Game View Maximizer

. Maximizes the Unity game view with a keyboard shortcut.

GameAI Movement

. NPC movement algorithms built in Unity for an AI-for-games university course.

GameFramework (EllanJiang)

. Game framework for Unity that encapsulates common game modules and standardizes the development process.

In 2 lists

GameFramework (FlipWebApps)

. Free Unity framework adding common game systems and features.

In 2 lists

Gamekit3D

. Official Unity 3D game kit sample project from Unity Technologies.

Gendarme

. Mono rule-based static analysis tool, usable on Unity project assemblies.

Get Social Deep Linking Activity.java

. Gist activity that captures onNewIntent deep links missed by Unity when backgrounded.

GetSocial Unity SDK

. GetSocial social SDK and demo for Unity.

GitHub: mob-sakai

. GitHub profile with open-source Unity tools and effects.

GitHub: mrzapp

. GitHub profile with open-source Unity tools and utilities.

Gizmos

. Draw runtime gizmos in builds and the editor in Unity.

GOAP

. Goal-oriented action planning AI for Unity.

In 2 lists

Good Coding Practices in Unity

. Trello board of good coding practices for Unity.

Google Analytics Plugin for Unity

. Google Analytics plugin for Unity.

In 2 lists

Google Mobile Ads Unity Plugin

. Official Unity plugin for the Google Mobile Ads SDK.

In 2 lists

Google Sheets Unity

. Read data from private Google Sheets into Unity (read-only).

In 2 lists

Graphmesh

. Graph-based procedural mesh generation inside the Unity editor.

In 2 lists

Green Mamba Stealth

. Stealth system for Unity that detects how well-lit a character is, so they can hide in dynamic shadows.

Guitar Hero Unity

. Guitar Hero fan game made in Unity.

HermodToolkit

. A set of 2D tools for Unity.

HexTiles

. Hex tile editor for Unity.

In 2 lists

HiSocket

. Lightweight socket library for Unity and C# projects.

In 2 lists

Hogwarts

. Open-source Harry Potter sandbox game made in Unity.

In 3 lists

How to Set Up Unity's VR Editor (EditorVR)

. Tutorial on setting up Unity's experimental EditorVR.

Hydrogen CSharp

. C# framework for Unity providing collections, utilities, and helpers.

Ico Sphere Creator

. Icosphere mesh creation tool for Unity.

Imgui Unity

. Dear ImGui integration for Unity.

In-Game Editor UI

. In-game runtime Hierarchy and Inspector for Unity, like the built-in editor.

InfinityScroll

. Makes Unity ScrollRects scroll infinitely.

iOS Unity Vuforia Guide

. Guide to integrating Unity + Vuforia into a native iOS app.

iTween Expansion

. Expansion of Bob Berkebile's iTween tweening plugin for Unity.

Jitter Physics

. C# real-time physics engine ported into Unity.

In 2 lists

JourneySand

. Unity project reproducing the sand rendering style of Journey.

JSONObject

. JSONObject parsing library for Unity.

JWT for Unity

. JSON Web Token implementation for Unity / .NET 3.5+.

KEngine

. Unity asset bundle framework (LGPL).

KinoBloom

. Bloom post-processing effect for Unity.

In 3 lists

KinoObscurance

. Screen-space ambient obscurance image effect for Unity.

In 2 lists

KlakHap

. HAP video player plugin for Unity.

KlakSyphon

. Syphon video-sharing plugin for Unity on macOS.

Knight Windjson

. JSON parser for Unity.

Knowledge Representation

. Small Unity project showing AI responding to changes in the game world.

Koch's Fractals

. Koch fractals demo for Unity.

kode80SSR

. Open-source screen-space reflections for Unity 5.

L Systems In Unity

. L-system rewriting for modeling plants, letting you generate plants in Unity games.

Leading Ones (LeadingOnesVR)

. Quick look at Unity's EditorVR.

LibPdIntegration

. libpd (Pure Data) audio wrapper for Unity.

Light Probes Placement

. Unity project showing automatic light probe placement via the LightProbesVolumes package.

LINQ to GameObject for Unity

. Traverse the GameObject hierarchy using LINQ.

In 3 lists

Live2D with Unity

. Imports Live2D models and reads mtn motion files in Unity.

Lochie Westfall

. YouTube channel with Unity VR tutorials.

log4net.unity

. log4net helpers and a UnityEngine.Debug appender for Unity.

Loxodon Framework

. MVVM framework for Unity with data binding, localization, and uGUI support.

In 2 lists

LuaProfiler For Unity

. Profiler for Lua inside Unity.

In 2 lists

MafiaUnity

. Open-source Mafia game framework for Unity.

Marschner Hair Unity

. Marschner hair shading model implemented in Unity.

MassiveNet

. Unity UDP networking library for high-CCU, multi-server architectures.

In 3 lists

Master Unity Handles

. Examples of custom handles in the Unity editor.

MeshDecimator

. Mesh decimation library for .NET and Unity.

In 2 lists

Message Pack Grid View

. MessagePack data viewer built on MessagePack-CSharp and Unity TreeView.

MessagePack CSharp

. Fast MessagePack serializer for C# (.NET, Unity, Xamarin).

In 3 lists

Metaverse Standards Forum

. YouTube channel of the Metaverse Standards Forum, with talks and panels.

Minesweeper

. Tile-based Minesweeper with high scores made in Unity.

MiniMap

. Minimap and radar system for Unity.

In 2 lists

Missing References Unity

. Unity editor extension for finding missing object references.

In 2 lists

MLAPI

. Game networking framework for Unity (now Netcode for GameObjects).

In 3 lists

MMD for Unity

. MikuMikuDance model and motion importer for Unity.

In 2 lists

MOBA CSharp Unity

. MOBA game framework for Unity with a Unity-independent server that runs on Linux.

Msgpack Unity3D

. MessagePack and JSON serializer for Unity.

MVPScriptGenerator4Unity

. MVP script generator for the Unity editor.

My S7 Pro Sim Lib

. Connects Unity to Siemens PLCSim via COM interop (S7PROSimLib).

Nakama Unity

. Unity client for the Nakama game server.

Naphier Gists

. Collection of reusable Unity code gists.

NATPunchthroughClient

. Example NAT punchthrough combined with Unity's UNet HLAPI.

NAudio Unity

. Port of NAudio to the Mono subset used by Unity.

NaughtyAttributes

. Inspector attribute extensions for Unity.

In 4 lists

NaughtyCharacter

. Third-person character controller for Unity.

In 3 lists

NDocumentation

. Documentation window for the Unity editor that displays rich-text pages.

Net Peeweek Console

. Interactive runtime console for Unity, distributed as a package.

NGTools

. Unity editor extensions and tools by Napland Games.

Node Inspector

. Node graph editor extension for Unity.

NPBehave

. Event-driven behavior trees for Unity.

In 3 lists

NVIDIA Hair Works Integration

. NVIDIA HairWorks hair simulation integration for Unity.

OpenConvo

. Open-source dialogue framework for Unity.

OpenEd

. Open-source runtime editor for Unity.

OpenFile

. Open-source serialization for Unity.

OpenFramework

. Lightweight Unity framework with dependency injection.

OpenGUI

. Open-source GUI framework for Unity.

Openpath

. Open-source pathfinding for Unity.

In 2 lists

OpenStash

. Open-source inventory framework for Unity.

OSMTrafficSim

. Traffic simulation built on Unity ECS.

In 2 lists

P2P.NET

. Peer-to-peer networking in Unity using WebRTC with a free signaling server (formerly UnityP2P).

Pacman

. Pacman clone with original AI made in Unity.

In 2 lists

Path

. Pathfinding library for Unity.

PBD Fluid in Unity

. Position-based-dynamics fluid simulation running on the GPU in Unity.

In 3 lists

Pedometer API

. Native pedometer API for Unity on mobile.

PerfAssist

. Performance and profiling components for Unity development.

In 2 lists

Perfect Spheres

. System for rendering spheres cheaply and accurately in Unity.

Physical Camera

. Official Unity component describing physical camera attributes.

Pitaya

. Go game server framework with clustering and client libraries, including Unity via the C SDK.

In 7 listsDetails

Pixel Camera 2D

. Pixel-perfect camera with scaling options for 2D games.

In 3 lists

Pixel Render Unity3D

. Real-time rendering of 3D scenes as 2D pixel art in Unity.

In 2 lists

Pixel Sprite Generator Unity

. C# port of PixelSpriteGenerator for Unity.

In 3 lists

PNGCS

. PNG encoding and decoding for Unity.

Pomelo Unity Client

. Unity client for the Pomelo distributed Node.js game server.

PPOL

. Crowd simulator using Unity ML-Agents and PPO reinforcement learning.

ProbePolisher

. Light probe editor for Unity.

Procedural Level Generator Unity

. Unity plugin for procedural dungeon generation.

In 2 lists

ProceduralMesh

. Simple procedural mesh generation for Unity.

ProjectRider Unity

. JetBrains Rider integration for Unity.

Protobuf3 for Unity

. Protocol Buffers v3 runtime for Unity (.NET 3.5).

Psd2UnityImporter

. PSD importer for Unity.

QuadWarp

. Quad-warp projection sample for Unity.

Quickfracture

. Mesh fracture and destruction effect for Unity.

In 2 lists

Ray Marching

. Ray marching of signed distance functions in Unity, by Sebastian Lague.

Raywenderlich.com Unity Cheatsheet

. Cheatsheet of common Unity development problems and fixes.

RecyclerKit

. Object pool manager for Unity.

In 3 lists

Reflected Inspector

. Inspector system for Unity that serializes non-Unity types, similar to SerializedProperties.

Reign Unity Plugin

. Cross-platform unified API plugin for Unity.

In 2 lists

Render Queue

. Render queue editor extension for Unity.

In 2 lists

Reorderable Inspector

. Automatic reorderable lists for Unity component inspectors.

In 2 lists

Reorderable List Editor Field for Unity

. Drag-to-reorder list field for Unity inspectors.

In 2 lists

Resharper Unity

. JetBrains ReSharper and Rider plugin for Unity.

RestClient (proyecto26)

. Promise-based HTTP and REST client for Unity, with callback support.

In 3 lists

RestClient (Unity3dAzure)

. REST client for Unity with JSON and XML parsing, including nested arrays and abstract types.

In 3 lists

Restifizer Unity3D

. Restifizer SDK for Unity to build RESTful services backed by MongoDB.

RiderProxy

. Unity support for both ReSharper and Rider.

RPGCore

. Framework for building RPG games and mechanics in Unity.

In 2 lists

Runtime Unity Editor

. In-game inspector and debugging tools for Unity applications.

In 3 lists

San Andreas Unity

. Open-source port of GTA San Andreas to Unity.

In 4 lists

SceneHistory Unity

. Open scenes quickly from a custom scene history, with additive support.

In 2 lists

Script Templates for Unity

. Editor window that generates C# source stubs for Unity.

ScriptableObject Architecture

. Makes ScriptableObjects a core part of your Unity architecture.

In 4 lists

ScriptFinder

. Unity editor extension to find script references across a project.

In 2 lists

SDF Gen Unity

. Signed distance function generator running inside Unity.

SearchTools

. Search tools for the Unity editor.

In 2 lists

Selection History Navigator

. Unity editor extension to navigate between object selections.

In 2 lists

SerializableCallback

. Serializable callbacks for Unity that return values, blending UnityEvent and System.Func.

In 2 lists

Serialized Parameter Unity

. Attribute that persists field data between Unity play-mode sessions.

SetProperty

. PropertyAttribute/PropertyDrawer combo for exposing C# properties in the Unity inspector.

Settings Unity

. Settings management utility for Unity.

Shapes

. Hand-drawn meshes and vector shapes for Processing and Unity.

Shortcuter

. Shortcut utility for Unity.

In 2 lists

Show Toast Unity Android.cs

. Gist showing native Android toast messages from Unity.

In 2 lists

Signals (UnityPatterns)

. Editor-driven signal/event system for Unity.

Signals (yankooliveira)

. Type-safe lightweight messaging library for Unity.

In 3 lists

Simple ECS

. Example of Unity's Entity Component System, inspired by Roll-a-ball.

Simple Light Probe Placer

. Simple tool for placing light probes in Unity scenes.

In 2 lists

SmartData

. Editor-driven Unity framework for connecting data and events, designer-friendly.

Smrvfx

. Example passing skinned-mesh data into the Unity VFX Graph.

SonarFx

. Sonar scanning effect for Unity.

In 2 lists

SpacePuppy Unity Framework 3.0

. Collection of tools for making games in Unity.

SpatialOS GDK for Unity

. SpatialOS game development kit for Unity. Discontinued.

Spine Runtimes

. Spine 2D animation runtimes, including a Unity runtime.

In 4 lists

SpriteDicing

. Unity extension for reusing sprite texture areas to cut memory.

In 4 lists

SpriteMaker

. Tool for making sprites inside Unity.

Sproto Unity

. Demo of using sproto-csharp in Unity.

Static Blured Screen

. Static (non-realtime) screen blur for Unity, handy as a dialog background.

In 3 lists

Strange Io C

. Lightweight extensible inversion-of-control (IoC) framework for C# and Unity.

In 2 lists

StyleBrowser

. Editor window to browse all built-in Unity GUI styles.

Super Character Controller

. Custom character controller for Unity.

Super Mario Bros AR Game

. Channel showing an AR Super Mario game built with Microsoft HoloLens and Unity.

Terrain Tool Samples

. Official Unity terrain tools and brush asset samples.

Texture3DPreview for Unity

. Interactive previews of Texture3D assets in the Unity inspector.

In 3 lists

TexturePanner

. Unity shader for scrolling-texture effects like neon signs and conveyor belts.

In 4 lists

ThreeDScans

. Scanned statue models from the Three D Scans project, optimized for real-time use.

Tidy Up

. Keeps Unity projects organized by sorting assets into designated folders.

In 2 lists

Time Flow Shiki

. Timeline GUI skeleton for the Unity editor.

TsiU AIToolkit CSharp

. AI toolkit for Unity.

TTConsole

. Runtime debug console for Unity.

Typogenic

. Signed-distance-field text rendering for Unity.

In 4 lists

U Net Voice

. Tiny voice chat implementation for Unity.

U Texture Send Receive

. Unity network texture sender and receiver for video and frame streaming.

UDBase

. Module-based Unity game template where controllers can be swapped without changing project source.

In 2 lists

uGUI LinkImageText

. Adds inline links and images to Unity uGUI Text.

uMVVM

. Simple MVVM framework for Unity.

UndoPro

. Command-based undo system integrated with Unity's native undo/redo.

UNet Controller

. Character controller built for Unity's UNet networking system.

In 3 lists

Uni Android Vibration

. Unity Android plugin for triggering device vibration.

Uni Version Manager

. Reads app and build version in Unity across editor, iOS, and Android.

In 2 lists

UniClipboard

. Simple clipboard plugin for Unity.

Unidux

. Redux-style state architecture for Unity.

In 3 lists

UniGif

. GIF image decoder for Unity.

In 3 lists

UniIosAudioService

. Unity iOS plugin for playing iOS system sounds.

In 2 lists

UniLua

. Pure C# implementation of Lua 5.2, compatible with Unity.

In 3 lists

UniteBerlin

. Companion repo for the Unite Berlin talk on working faster in Unity.

Unity 2D Platformer Controller

. Customizable 2D platformer motor with double jumps, wall jumps, and corner grabs, plus a drop-in player prefab.

In 3 lists

Unity 5 Effects

. Collection of effects for Unity 5.

In 2 lists

Unity A Star Navigation

. A* navigation for Unity using Burst-compiled jobs.

Unity Ableton Link

. Ableton Link tempo-sync plugin for Unity.

Unity Ads

. Official Unity ad monetization SDK.

In 2 lists

Unity AI

. AI behavior tree framework for Unity.

Unity AR Foundation and MARS

. Unity's AR tooling: AR Foundation cross-platform framework plus MARS authoring environment.

Unity Asset Usage Detector

. Finds which objects reference the selected assets or objects in a Unity project.

In 2 lists

Unity Async Routines

. Lightweight async coroutine library for Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity Atoms

. Modular ScriptableObject-based architecture pieces for Unity.

In 3 lists

Unity Auth Manager

. Example JWT-based authentication for a Unity app.

Unity Beat Detection

. Musical beat detection and audio spectrum analysis for Unity.

In 3 lists

Unity Bezier Solution

. Bezier spline solution for Unity with utilities like constant-speed traversal.

In 2 lists

Unity Bitmap Drawing

. Bitmap drawing API extension methods for Unity's Texture2D class.

Unity BitmapFontImporter

. Unity editor extension for importing bitmap fonts.

In 2 lists

Unity Camera Follow 2D

. 2D camera-follow script for Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity Camera Shake

. Pseudo-random camera shake using Perlin noise.

In 2 lists

Unity CameraSizeToVelocity2D

. Script that scales camera size with target velocity.

In 2 lists

Unity Character Customization

. Character customization demo for Unity.

Unity Color Picker

. Standalone color picker asset for Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity Color Wheel

. Color picker element for the newer Unity uGUI system.

Unity ColourLovers Importer

. Unity editor tool to load colors and palettes from COLOURlovers.com.

In 3 lists

Unity Compact Field Attribute

. Per-property label widths in the Unity inspector to stop labels getting cut off.

Unity Delaunay

. Delaunay/Voronoi library for Unity, with a simple destruction effect.

In 3 lists

Unity Documentation for VR

. Unity manual section on VR development.

Unity Dynamic Scroll View

. Dynamic scroll view built on uGUI.

Unity ECS Instanced Sprite Renderer

. Performant sprite renderer example using Unity's ECS.

In 2 lists

Unity Editor Helper

. Scripts that make editor scripting in Unity easier.

In 2 lists

Unity Editor Hotkeys

. Unity manual page listing editor hotkeys.

Unity Editor Icons

. Reference of built-in Unity editor icons loadable via EditorGUIUtility.IconContent.

In 2 lists

Unity Editor Junkie

. Editor scripts that improve working with the Unity editor.

In 3 lists

Unity Editor Snippets

. Collection of Unity editor productivity helpers.

In 2 lists

Unity Editor Spotlight

. macOS-Spotlight-style file search inside the Unity editor.

In 3 lists

Unity Editor Texel Density

. Texel density checker for Unity.

Unity EditorXR

. Unity editor authoring in VR. Formerly EditorVR.

Unity Elevator Compiler

. Plugin that plays elevator music while Unity compiles your code.

In 2 lists

Unity Engine Analyzer

. Roslyn analyzer for Unity that flags common performance pitfalls.

In 3 lists

Unity Events

. Strongly typed event system for Unity with global and per-GameObject events.

In 3 lists

Unity Extensions.Inspect Inline

. Inspect and edit object references inline and embed objects as subassets in Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity Extensions.Selection History

. Adds navigation menu items in the Unity editor: Edit/Selection/Back and Edit/Selection/Forward.

In 2 lists

Unity File Debug

. Enhanced debug logging for Unity, with JSON/CSV export and an HTML viewer.

In 2 lists

Unity File Extension

. Shows file extensions in the one-column project window.

Unity First Person View

. First-person view asset where viewmodel objects do not clip the environment, use a separate FOV, and receive shadows.

Unity Flurry SDK

. Unity plugin for the Flurry analytics SDK.

Unity Framework

. Application framework for C# Unity game projects.

Unity Frosted Glass

. Frosted glass material made in Unity.

In 3 lists

Unity Good Practices

. Unity best-practices reference from Futurice.

Unity Inmediate Color Picker

. Color picker for Unity in immediate-mode GUI.

In 2 lists

Unity Interface Reference

. Serializable wrapper that holds a reference to an interface in Unity.

Unity Jobs View Frustum Culling

. View frustum culling jobs for Unity's job system.

Unity Logs Viewer

. View editor console logs inside the running game.

Unity LoMenu

. UI menu package for Unity.

Unity Main Thread Dispatcher

. Thread-safe way to run actions on Unity's main thread.

In 2 lists

Unity Math Reference

. Game math reference, visualized in Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity Mecanim VR IK vs Final IK

. Channel comparing VR IK using native Unity Mecanim IK versus Final IK.

Unity Mesh Counter

. Shows mesh data counters in Unity.

Unity Mesh Simplifier (Unity-Technologies)

. Mesh simplification for Unity. Official Unity-Technologies fork.

Unity Mesh Simplifier (Whinarn)

. Mesh simplification for Unity.

In 3 lists

Unity Mesh Triangulator

. Mesh triangulator for Unity, forked from alexmuab's version.

Unity Movement AI

. Steering-behavior movement scripts for NPCs in Unity.

In 3 lists

Unity Native Scripting

. Write Unity scripts in C++.

In 2 lists

Unity Neural Network

. Simple neural network implemented in C# for Unity.

Unity Non Null

. [NonNull] attribute for fields and classes in Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity Object Pool

. Object pool and manager for Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity Object Pooler

. Simple object pool for Unity.

Unity Open API

. RESTful API client generator for Unity.

Unity Optix Plugin

. Example Unity plugin for NVIDIA OptiX.

Unity Package Manager Lifecycle

. Unity manual page on the Package Manager release lifecycle.

Unity Path Finding

. Dijkstra shortest-path finding for Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity Pause Menu

. Open-source pause menu for Unity, originally built for the game New Horizons.

Unity Physics CSP

. Client-side-prediction demo in Unity with all network traffic simulated in one instance.

In 2 lists

Unity Pixel Camera

. Resolution-independent pixel-perfect camera for Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity Plane Mesh Splitter

. Script to split any mesh into smaller chunks.

Unity Preview Generator

. Generates preview textures and icons for Unity models and sprites.

Unity Procedural Flower

. Procedural flower generator for Unity.

In 4 lists

Unity PSD Layout Tool

. Imports Photoshop .psd files into Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity QuickPool

. Simple object pooling toolkit for Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity Raytracer

. Ray tracing demo built in Unity.

Unity Remote 4 (iOS/tvOS)

. Unity Remote app to preview play mode on iOS and tvOS devices.

Unity Resource Checker

. Editor utility to check scene resources in Unity, including textures, materials, meshes, and which objects use them.

In 3 lists

Unity Routines

. Coroutine replacement for Unity with hierarchical routines and pooling.

In 2 lists

Unity Rulers

. Ruler editor to measure distances between objects in the Scene view.

Unity RuntimeCodeExecuter

. Executes arbitrary code at runtime via the .NET 2.0 library, aimed at Unity.

Unity Rust Plugin

. Example of writing a Unity native plugin in Rust.

Unity Scene Camera Controller

. Drive a runtime camera like the SceneView camera.

In 2 lists

Unity Scrolly

. Touch/drag scroll list using Unity GUI (4.6+).

Unity SemVer

. SemVer 2.0.0 implementation for Unity.

Unity Serializer NG

. Revival of Mike Talbot's discontinued Unity Serializer (Unity 5).

Unity Simple File Browser

. uGUI-based runtime file browser for Unity, draggable and resizable.

In 3 lists

Unity SimpleUsefulGizmos

. Extra scene-view gizmos for Unity like colored colliders and rotation indicators.

Unity Singleton MonoBehavior

. Singleton pattern implementation for Unity MonoBehaviours.

Unity Snippets

. Unity code snippets for various IDEs.

Unity Socket IO

. Socket.io client for Unity.

In 3 lists

Unity Stb Easy Font

. Port of stb_easy_font.h to Unity and C#.

Unity Symlink Utility

. Editor extension that adds a menu item to add folders as symlinks in Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity Texture Packer

. Combines color channels from different textures into a single output.

In 2 lists

Unity Timeline Conditions

. Experimental port of Animator conditions to Timeline events.

Unity Timeline Sync

. Synchronize multiple Unity Timelines over UDP.

Unity Timelord Blender

. Demo of custom blending for Unity Timelines.

Unity Tools

. VS Code extension with tools for Unity development.

Unity UI Polygon

. Polygon renderer for the Unity UI system.

In 4 lists

Unity Unet Movement

. Server-authoritative movement for Unity UNET with client-side prediction and reconciliation.

Unity VariableTileLayout

. Pinterest-style variable tile layout for Unity UI.

In 2 lists

Unity Virtual Reality

. Unity's official documentation on developing virtual reality applications.

In 2 lists

Unity Visual Behavior Tree

. Reactive visual-scripting behavior tree tool for Unity 2018+.

Unity Voxel Tools

. Collection of voxel utilities for Unity. Experimental.

In 2 lists

Unity VS Toolbox

. Visual Studio toolbox of MonoBehaviour events in execution order, plus installable templates.

Unity Wave Function Collapse

. Wave Function Collapse procedural generation for Unity.

Unity Web Socket

. WebSocket client for Unity.

In 3 lists

Unity Webview

. WebView overlay plugin for Unity on Android, iOS, Web Player, and macOS. Windows is unsupported.

In 3 lists

Unity.Library.eppz

. Collection of utility libraries for Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity.ProceduralContentGeneration Terrain

. Procedural terrain content generation for Unity.

Unity2D Components

. C# components for 2D games: pixel-art cameras, events and messaging, save/load, collision handlers, object pools.

In 3 lists

Unity3D Async Await Util

. Helpers that make async/await easier to use in Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity3D Automatron

. Automation tool for Unity.

Unity3D ComponentAttribute

. Attribute that auto-loads components in Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity3D Extensions

. Extension and utility methods for Unity.

Unity3D Official Blog

. News and development insights from Unity.

Unity3D PerlinCameraShake

. Perlin-noise camera shake MonoBehaviour for Unity, coroutine-driven and self-exiting.

Unity3D Prefab Pool

. Simple prefab pool for Unity.

Unity3D Quick Search

. Command palette for Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity3D Script Library

. Collection of reusable Unity C# scripts.

Unity3D Sound Manager

. Sound manager for Unity with AudioSource pooling, 3D positioning, and completion callbacks.

Unity3DPolylineEditor

. 2D polyline editor for Unity.

Unity3DVim

. Vim editor integration for Unity on Linux.

UnityComponent

. Resource and component management helpers for Unity.

In 2 lists

UnityEffects

. Collection of free effects for Unity.

UnityExtensions MeshIntersection

. Raycast against one or more meshes in Unity.

UnityGameFramework Template

. Starter project template based on UnityGameFramework.

UnityGraphicsProgramming Vol.2

. Unity graphics programming techniques and shader samples, volume 2.

UnityHelpers

. Collection of helper scripts for Unity.

UnityHTTP

. TCP-based HTTP library for Unity.

In 3 lists

UnityIO

. File manipulation API for Unity that wraps AssetDatabase.

In 2 lists

UnityOctree (Nition)

. Loose octree for Unity in C#, the upstream of the Unity-Technologies fork.

In 3 lists

UnityOctree (Unity-Technologies)

. Dynamic loose octree implementation for Unity in C#.

UnityPhysics2D

. Examples of Unity 2D physics components and features.

UnityPooling

. Optimized object pooling for Unity.

UnityRandom

. Random number library in C# for Unity.

In 2 lists

UnitySpline2D

. A simple 2D spline library for Unity. Unmaintained.

In 2 lists

Unitystation

. Open-source remake of Space Station 13 in Unity.

UnityStudio

. Tool for exploring, extracting, and exporting assets from Unity games and apps.

In 2 lists

UnitySVG

. SVG renderer for Unity.

UnityTetris

. Tetris clone written in C# and rendered with Unity.

UnityTile3D

. Simple 3D tile editor for Unity.

In 3 lists

UnityTimer

. Library for running actions after a delay in Unity.

In 2 lists

Universal Unity Hooks

. Framework for hooking into and modifying methods in Unity games via DLLs.

UniVoice

. Peer-to-peer VoIP for Unity.

UVPreview

. Preview UV islands for textures in the Unity inspector.

In 2 lists

UXF

. Framework for running human behavior experiments in Unity.

Variable Infinite Scroll

. Variable-size infinite scroll for Unity UI.

In 2 lists

VariableAssets

. ScriptableObject variable assets for Unity.

Vector Graphics Samples

. Official Unity SVG and vector graphics sample project.

In 2 lists

Vexe Framework (VFW)

. Editor extension adding advanced inspector and editor extensibility to Unity.

In 2 lists

Volumetric Clouds

. Volumetric clouds for Unity.

Volumetric Lines Unity

. Source for the Volumetric Lines Unity Asset Store asset.

In 2 lists

VoxBlend

. Blend shape controller plugin for Unity.

In 2 lists

Voxel Mesh Generator

. Generates voxel 3D meshes in Unity using greedy meshing.

Voxelmetric

. Efficient voxel framework for Unity.

VoxelWorld

. Voxel world demo built in Unity.

VSCode Unity Code Snippets

. Unity development code snippets for VS Code.

VSCode Unity Debug Support

. Official Unity debugging support for VS Code.

VSCode Unity Integration

. VS Code integration for Unity.

Warfest Voxel Unity

. Voxel game prototype made with Unity.

WaveformProvider

. Generates a texture that simulates waves in Unity.

In 2 lists

Weaver

. Code-weaving framework for Unity, based on Fody.

Web View Hook

. Exposes the internal UnityEditor WebView API.

In 2 lists

WebRTC Unity Plugin

. Cross-platform WebRTC support for Unity apps.

Xamarin.Forms.Unity

. Xamarin.Forms platform implementation for Unity.

In 3 lists

xNode BehaviourTree

. Behaviour tree built on the xNode node editor for Unity.

yaSingleton

. Singleton pattern for Unity using ScriptableObjects instead of MonoBehaviour.

In 3 lists

Game Development >XR, AR & VR: Resources

8th Wall

Niantic's WebAR platform. Markerless world tracking, image targets, face effects via the browser. No app required.

Mozilla Hubs

Open-source social VR rooms in the browser. Forked and maintained by community after Mozilla sunset.

A-Frame VR

. Blender add-on allows you to model your scene in Blender and export it to an A-Frame VR project with a single click.

In 2 lists

Advanced VR Mechanics With Unity and the HTC Vive Part 1

. Tutorial: advanced VR mechanics in Unity with the HTC Vive (part 1).

Advanced VR Mechanics With Unity and the HTC Vive Part 2

. Tutorial: advanced VR mechanics in Unity with the HTC Vive (part 2).

Bino

. 3D video player with support for 180/360 video and VR headsets.

Building an AR game with ARKit and Spritekit

. Tutorial: building an AR game with ARKit and SpriteKit.

Capturing Body Motion in 3D | Apple Developer Documentation

. Apple ARKit documentation: capturing body motion in 3D.

How to Create a Minimap for VR in Unity

. Tutorial: creating a minimap for VR in Unity.

How to support GearVR and Google Cardboard in one Unity3D project

. Tutorial: supporting Gear VR and Google Cardboard in one Unity project.

HTC Vive VR Input

. Tutorial: VR GUI input module for Unity with the HTC Vive.

I3D Past Projects

. Virtual 3D teleportation in real-time by Microsoft Research

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.

In 2 lists

North Star Kit

Paid. Hardware kit implementing Leap Motion's open-source Project North Star AR headset reference design (dual 1600x1440 120 FPS displays).

Oliver Kreylos's blog

. Good resource to get started learning about VR / stereo rendering.

RealityKit

. High-level AR framework by Apple. Comparable to Unity and Unreal Engine but specific for AR solutions.

Rigging a Model for Motion Capture | Apple Developer Documentation

. Apple ARKit documentation: rigging a model for motion capture.

Sceneform Android SDK Maintained

. ARCore Android SDK with Google Filament 3D engine. Continuation of Google Sceneform

Tensorflow2 Ue4 AR

. Augmented Reality Computer Vision Application using TensorFlow 2 and the Unreal Engine 4.23

Three.js Editor

. Online 3D editor with AR export capabilities.

In 2 lists

Ultraleap

Paid. Hand-tracking hardware and SDK (formerly Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion).

Unity VR Video Recording Test

. Sample Unity project for recording VR sessions.

ViroCore: A cross-platform AR/VR renderer

. Open-source cross-platform AR/VR renderer, with ViroReact for React Native.

VR Development - Unity Learn

. Unity Learn pathway preparing you for VR development jobs.

Vuforia

Free tier. AR SDK that is directly integrated in the Unity Editor. Proprietary license, free to develop with

In 2 lists

Game Development >Unreal Engine: Resources

📄 Recommended Asset Naming Conventions ~ epicgames

. Official naming conventions for folders and asset files.

📺📜 Control Rig ~ Ask A Dev

. Control Rig tutorials for character animation. 22 videos.

Acl Ue4 Plugin

. Official Animation Compression Library plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Alex Forsythe

. Deep-dive tutorials on Unreal's game framework and replication.

ALS Community

. Replicated, optimized community fork of Advanced Locomotion System V4.

ALS Refactored

. Reworked C++ version of Advanced Locomotion System V4.

In 2 lists

AndroidNative

. Call Java functions via JNI from Unreal Engine on Android.

Animated Crosshairs UE4

. 17 ready-to-use animated UMG crosshair widgets with a demo scene.

Articy Importer For Unreal

. Imports articy:draft narrative data into Unreal Engine.

Async Loading Screen

. Configure an async loading screen system from Unreal Engine project settings.

Audio Analysis Tools

. Audio analysis functions for Unreal Engine. Pairs with Runtime Audio Importer.

Ble Utilities Unreal

. Scan, connect to, and subscribe to Bluetooth LE devices from Unreal Engine.

blueprintUE

. Paste and share Unreal Blueprint nodes online.

cashgenUE

. Runtime procedural terrain generator for Unreal Engine.

CensoredUE4

. World-space area censoring (mosaic/blur) attachable to any actor.

Cesium for Unreal

. Brings 3D geospatial tiles and globes into Unreal Engine.

Code Like Me

. A wide variety of Unreal Engine tutorials.

DataConfig

. Serialization framework for the Unreal property system.

DungeonGenerator

. Procedural dungeon generator for Unreal Engine 4.

Easy Json Parser

. JSON parsing library for Unreal Engine.

EasyXMLParser

. XML parsing library for Unreal Engine.

Fairy GUI Unreal

. Flexible UI framework for Unreal Engine.

FastSwitcher

. UMG widget switcher that loads only the active widget in Unreal Engine 4.

Fresh Cooked Tweens

. Tweening library with curve easing for any value in Unreal Engine.

Game Development & Unreal Engine Programming Guide

. Notes and guide on game development and Unreal Engine programming.

In 2 lists

GameDev.tv Unreal 5.0 C++ Developer: Learn C++ and Make Video Games

Paid. Course teaching C++ game programming in Unreal Engine 5.

GASP ALS

. Game Animation Sample with ALS locomotion layering.

GASShooter

. Advanced FPS/TPS sample project for the Gameplay Ability System.

GGPOUE4

. GGPO rollback netcode port for Unreal Engine 4.

Ghost Mesh Plugin

. Creates ghost/silhouette mesh effects in Unreal Engine 4.

Global Event System Ue4

. Loosely coupled global event system for cross-map and cross-Blueprint communication.

Gorka Games

. Long tutorial series, short tutorials, and Unreal Engine news.

Greebler

. Auto-scatters rubble and greeble detail across a scene. UE4 and Unity.

Hermes

. Adds deep links into the UE4 editor.

Horizontal 360 Radar

. 360-degree radar system (Skyrim-style) for Unreal Engine 4.

Houdini Engine for Unreal

. Plugin bridging Houdini Digital Asset workflows into Unreal.

In 3 lists

InfraworldRuntime

. Use Google gRPC services from C++ or Blueprints in Unreal Engine 4.

Inventory + Equipment System

. Inventory container and equipment system for Unreal Engine 4.

Japanese Village (Marketplace)

Paid. Japanese medieval village asset pack.

KawaiiPhysics

. Simple fake secondary-motion physics for Unreal Engine 4.

In 3 lists

Kotlin Unreal

. Use the Kotlin language with Unreal Engine 4.

LeapUnreal

. Leap Motion hand-tracking SDK for Unreal Engine.

LocalizationUE4

. Standalone translation editor for Unreal Engine 4.

Locus Replication Graph

. Replication Graph setup helper for Unreal Engine multiplayer.

LuaMachine

. Lua API integration plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

In 2 lists

MassSample

. Community sample project for the Mass Entity (ECS) framework.

Mathew Wadstein

. Short videos covering nearly every Unreal class and Blueprint node.

MD Meta Data Editor

. Edit metadata on Blueprint properties, functions, and parameters. UE 5.1+.

Medieval Houses (Marketplace)

Paid. Modular medieval house asset pack.

Mixed Reality UX Tools Unreal

. UX tools and components for Mixed Reality apps in Unreal Engine 4.

MobileUtils

. Integrate common mobile utilities into Unreal Engine 4 projects.

mod.io

. Integrate mod.io user-generated-content management into your Unreal game.

Morphs Player

. Play morph targets directly on a skeletal mesh animation track.

Mqtt Utilities Unreal

. Exposes MQTT client functionality to Blueprints in Unreal Engine.

My SQL Connector UE4 Plugin

. MySQL database connector plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Myo Ue4

. Myo armband input plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Nano

. Minimal starter template for small Unreal Engine games.

NiagaraUIRenderer

. Render Niagara particle systems inside UMG UI widgets.

nimue4

. Nim language integration for Unreal Engine 4.

Nuke.Unreal

. C# scriptable workflow for automating Unreal Engine project tasks, built on Nuke.

ObjectDeliverer

. Data transmission and reception library for Unreal Engine.

OceanProject

. Ocean simulation project for Unreal Engine 4.

OpenCL.uplugin

. OpenCL GPU compute plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

OpenLand

. Open source landscape auto-material for Unreal Engine.

OSVR Unreal

. OSVR open-source VR headset plugin for Unreal Engine.

PBCharacterMovement

. HL2-style classic FPS movement for Unreal Engine, written in C++.

In 3 lists

PluginTemplate

. Starter Unreal plugin template with editor and runtime modules.

Prefabricator Ue4

. Prefab system plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

ProjectExodus

. Transfers Unity scenes and projects into Unreal Engine.

Ps Facebook Mobile

. Facebook authorization for mobile in Unreal Engine 4.

Ps Real Vehicle

. Simple force-driven vehicle simulation plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Ps Replay Kit

. iOS plugin to record or stream screen video plus app and mic audio.

Ps Web Server

. CivetWeb web server integration plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

puerts

. Write game logic in TypeScript for Unreal Engine 4 or Unity.

In 2 lists

Quests

. Quest system plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Realtime Mesh Component

. Unreal Engine 5 component for rendering runtime-generated meshes.

In 2 lists

RedTalaria

. Set of Hermes deep-link endpoints for Unreal Engine.

In 2 lists

RemCommon

. Common gameplay utilities for Unreal Engine.

RemRanges

. Combines IGRanges and ranges-v3 for Unreal Engine.

Runtime Audio Importer

. Import audio of various formats at runtime in Unreal Engine.

Runtime Files Downloader

. Download files over HTTP/HTTPS at runtime in Unreal Engine.

Runtime Mesh Component

. Unreal Engine 4 component for rendering runtime-generated meshes.

Runtime Mesh Loader

. Import meshes at runtime in Unreal Engine 4.

Runtime Speech Recognizer

. Offline real-time speech recognition for Unreal Engine, based on whisper.cpp.

Ryan Laley

. Primarily Blueprint-based Unreal Engine tutorials.

SCUE5 Plugin

. Steam Core updated for Unreal Engine 5.

SilvervineUE4Lua

. Lua scripting plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

sluaunreal

. Lua scripting plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Socket IO Client Unreal

. Socket.IO client plugin for Unreal Engine.

Socketer

. TCP socket Blueprint library for Unreal Engine.

Socketio Client Ue4

. Socket.io client plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

SQLite3UE4

. SQLite3 database plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Stats + Attributes

. Stats, attributes, and leveling system for Unreal Engine 4.

Street Map

. Import OpenStreetMap XML data into your Unreal Engine project.

Sublime Unreal Snippets

. Sublime Text 3 snippets for writing Unreal Engine 4 game code.

Swipe

. Exposes mobile swipe gestures as Blueprint events in Unreal Engine 4.

Tcp Ue4

. Convenience TCP wrapper for Unreal Engine 4.

TCP Unreal

. Convenience TCP wrapper for Unreal Engine.

Tensorflow Ue4

. TensorFlow machine-learning plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Tom Looman UE5 Tutorials

Free tier. Unreal C++ and gameplay tutorials, courses, and articles.

UAssetAPI

. Low-level .NET library for reading and writing Unreal Engine 4 game assets.

In 3 lists

Udp Ue4

. Convenience UDP wrapper for Unreal Engine 4.

UDP Unreal

. Convenience UDP wrapper for Unreal Engine.

UE BUI Tween

. UMG UI tweening library for Unreal Engine, usable from C++.

UE DSS Plugin

. MMO server instancing, dungeon instancing, and player balancing subsystem for Unreal Engine.

UE Easy JWT

. JWT wrapper subsystem for Unreal Engine.

UE Easy Kafka

. Kafka/Redpanda client subsystem for Unreal Engine, usable from Blueprint and C++.

UE4 Aurora Effect

. Raymarched aurora borealis effect for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Binary Builder

. Builds installed (Rocket) Unreal Engine binaries from GitHub source.

UE4 BYG Localization

. Simple CSV-based localization system for Unreal Engine 4.

Ue4 Canvas GUI

. Simple canvas-based GUI with mouse input for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Custom Gravity Plugin

. Custom directional gravity plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Ue4 Docker

. Windows and Linux containers for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Env. project

. Open environment simulation project (day/night, weather) for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 EOS Plugin

. Plugin and sample implementing the Epic Online Services SDK in Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Game Lift Client SDK

. AWS GameLift client SDK for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Node Graph Assistant

. Speeds up node graph editing in Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Plugin Resources

. Community resource list for Slate, graphs, and UE4 plugin development.

Ue4 Protobuf

. Integrates Protocol Buffers into Unreal Engine 4 without extra system setup.

Ue4 Uitween

. UMG UI tweening library for Unreal Engine 4, written in C++.

UE4GamepadUMG

. Use a gamepad like a mouse in UMG menus in Unreal Engine 4.

Ue4MarchingCubes

. 3D Perlin noise meshing via marching cubes for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4MasterServer

. Server registration and discovery against a master server in Unreal Engine 4.

UE5 Styleguide

. Guidelines for keeping Unreal Engine projects consistent.

In 2 lists

UE5 Stylized Post Process

. Stylized post-process effects for Unreal Engine 5.

ue5coro

. C++20 coroutine plugin integrated with Unreal Engine 5.

UELlama

. llama.cpp LLM inference plugin for Unreal Engine 5.

UEWebsocket

. WebSocket plugin for Unreal Engine 4, usable from C++ and Blueprint.

Ultraleap SDK

. Brings Ultraleap hand-tracking data into Unreal projects.

UMG Resizable Widget

. Resizable UMG widget for Unreal Engine 4.

Unreal Bp Csv Parsing

. Adds CSV parsing Blueprint nodes to Unreal Engine.

Unreal Docs: Game Features And Modular Gameplay

. Docs for Game Features and Modular Gameplay plugins.

Unreal Docs: Gameplay Ability System

. Docs for the Gameplay Ability System (GAS): abilities, attributes, and effects.

Unreal Docs: Gameplay Camera System

. Docs for the Gameplay Camera System.

Unreal Docs: Gameplay Targeting System

. Docs for the Gameplay Targeting System.

Unreal Docs: Getting Started With Texture Graph

. Docs for Texture Graph, Unreal's node-based texture authoring tool.

Unreal Docs: InstancedStruct

. API reference for InstancedStruct, a container for instanced UStruct data.

Unreal Docs: Mass Entity

. Docs for Mass Entity, Unreal's ECS framework for large agent counts.

Unreal Docs: Metahuman Documentation

. Docs for MetaHuman creation and integration.

Unreal Docs: Modeling And Geometry Scripting

. Docs for in-editor modeling tools and Geometry Script.

Unreal Docs: Motion Design

. Docs for Motion Design, Unreal's broadcast and motion-graphics toolset.

Unreal Docs: Mutable Overview

. Docs for Mutable, runtime character customization and mesh generation.

Unreal Docs: Procedural Content Generation Framework

. Docs for the Procedural Content Generation (PCG) framework. See also Electric Dreams PCG.

Unreal Docs: Scriptable Tools System

. Docs for the Scriptable Tools System (Blueprint-authored editor tools).

Unreal Docs: Smart Objects

. Docs for Smart Objects, registerable interaction points for AI.

Unreal Docs: State Tree

. Docs for State Tree, a hierarchical state machine for AI and logic.

Unreal Docs: Umg Viewmodel

. Docs for UMG ViewModel (MVVM-style UI data binding).

Unreal Docs: Water System

. Docs for the Water System (rivers, lakes, oceans).

Unreal Engine Advanced Functions

. Library of handy Blueprint utility functions for Unreal Engine.

Unreal Engine Learning

. Getting-started tutorial for Unreal's Texture Graph.

Unreal Engine Official YouTube

. Official Unreal Engine YouTube channel with weekly live streams.

Unreal Engine Python

. Embed Python scripting in Unreal Engine 4.

Unreal Fast Noise

. Modular, Blueprint-friendly noise generation for Unreal Engine 4.

Unreal Fast Noise2

. Blueprint wrapper for the FastNoise2 noise generation library.

Unreal Fetch

. Fetch API-inspired HTTP client for Unreal Engine.

Unreal Im GUI

. Integrates Dear ImGui debug UI into Unreal Engine 4.

Unreal Library

. UE Explorer's library for parsing data from Unreal Engine games.

Unreal Magic Nodes

. Custom Kismet node system that lets you write C++ inside Blueprint graphs.

Unreal Rust

. Opinionated Rust integration for Unreal Engine.

Unreal Sandbox Terrain

. Smooth voxel terrain plugin for Unreal Engine.

Unreal Signal R

. SignalR client for Unreal Engine.

Unreal UMG 3 D Object In Widget

. Sample showing how to render a 3D mesh inside a UMG widget.

Unreal Version Changer

. Fakes a plugin's UE version so it installs on newer engine versions.

Unreal.hx

. Haxe integration for Unreal Engine.

In 2 lists

Unreal.js

. JavaScript runtime built for Unreal Engine.

UnrealCLR

. Unreal Engine integration for .NET 6 (C#).

In 2 lists

unrealcpp

. Collection of Unreal Engine 4 C++ examples.

In 3 lists

unrealcv

. Connects computer vision research to Unreal Engine.

UnrealLive2D

. Render Live2D models in Unreal Engine 4.

In 2 lists

USharp

. C# scripting plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Va Fog Of War

. Fog of War solution for Unreal Engine.

Va Tex Atlas

. Texture atlas support for Unreal Engine 4 UMG.

VaRest

. REST API plugin for Unreal Engine.

Velocity Grid Export

. Tool to export vector fields out of Houdini for Unreal.

ViewportManager

. Multiple customizable viewports for Unreal Engine, in C++.

Virtus Learning Hub

. Unreal Engine tutorials with several long course series.

Voxel Plugin

. Volumetric, destructible, infinite voxel worlds in Unreal Engine.

VS Code Setup for UE

. Official guide to setting up VS Code for Unreal C++ work.

Vscode Unreal Snippets

. VS Code snippets for Unreal Engine, based on the Sublime snippet set.

Weapon Trace Unreal

. Weapon tracing plugin for reliable melee combat hits.

WindowCapture2D

. Capture and display OS windows in real time inside Unreal Engine.

Working with Data (Unreal Engine Learning)

. Tutorial on data tables, data assets, and UProperty specifiers.

XJ music

. Adaptive music plugin for Unreal Engine games.

ZipUtility Plugin

. Event-driven 7-Zip compression utility for Unreal Engine 4.

Game Development >Game Dev Tools: Level Design

LDtk

Modern 2D level editor by Dead Cells creator.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

Mappy

Free tilemap editor.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

OGMO Editor 3

Free project-based 2D level editor with grid and entity layers.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

Sprite Fusion

A free level design tool to craft beautiful 2D tilemaps right in your browser using any tileset.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

In 3 lists

Tiled

General-purpose tilemap editor. TMX format.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

In 5 listsDetails

TrenchBroom

Quake-style level editor, great for blockouts.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

In 2 lists

Chisel.Prototype

. Work in progress prototype for the Chisel Level Editor, for Unity.

Editor2D

. Tile based level editor for Unity

GILES

. A runtime level editor for Unity3D.

Sprytile (GitHub)

. Blender add-on for building tile-based low-poly scenes with paint and map-editor tools.

In 2 lists

Sprytile (itch.io)

. Blender addon for tile-based 3D levels.

Tiled2Unity

. Export Tiled Map Editor (TMX) files into Unity.

In 2 lists

Unity2D TMX

. A small library to import and render tilemap in Unity2D, only support TMX file format.

Game Development >Game Dev Tools: Dialogue & Narrative

Articy:draft

Professional narrative design middleware.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Ink

. Narrative scripting by Inkle (Heaven's Vault, Sable).

In 2 lists

Ink Unity Integration

. Unity integration for the open source ink narrative scripting language.

Prototype

. Prototype component pattern for Unity.

In 2 lists

Twine

. Free, open-source interactive fiction.

Yarn Spinner

. Dialogue tool for Unity/Godot (Night in the Woods).

Game Development >Game Dev Tools: Audio Middleware

FMOD

Industry-standard adaptive audio. Free for indie <$200k.

In 2 lists

Steam Audio

Physics-based spatial audio by Valve. Free.

Wwise

AAA audio middleware with free tier.

Wwise Unreal Plug-in

Free tier. Plugin for integrating Wwise assets for realtime playback in-engine.

Game Development >Game Dev Tools: Networking & Multiplayer

Epic Online Services

Free multiplayer, matchmaking, voice chat.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Nakama

Open-source game server (social, matchmaking, leaderboards).See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

In 2 lists

Photon Engine

Cloud multiplayer (PUN, Fusion, Quantum SDKs).See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

In 2 lists

SmartFoxServer 2X

A SDK for rapidly developing multiplayer games and applications with Adobe Flash/Flex/Air, Unity, HTML5, iOS, Windows Phone 8, Android, Java, Windows 8, C++.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

In 3 lists

Basic Multiplayer Unity

. Fast-Paced UDP Client-Server implementation.

Bomber

. Open-source Bomberman multiplayer game made in Unreal Engine 5.

Colyseus

. Node.js multiplayer framework.

Colyseus Unreal

. Colyseus Multiplayer SDK for Unreal Engine

Fish Net

. High-performance Unity networking.

Forge Networking Remastered

. Free open-source multiplayer networking system with good Unity integration.

In 3 lists

Gambetta_Networked Demo

. Fast-Paced Multiplayer: Sample Code and Live Demo - Gabriel Gambetta's Multiplayer Network Demo in Unity C# as Networked using Lidgren Network.

GameDev.tv Unreal Multiplayer Master: Video Game Dev In C++ Course

Paid. Course on building Unreal Engine multiplayer games in C++.

Mirror (GitHub)

. A community replacement for Unity's abandoned UNET Networking System.

In 2 lists

Mirror (site)

. Open-source Unity networking.

In 2 lists

Unity Multiplayer Packages

. Unity multiplayer packages and samples.

Game Development >Game Dev Tools: Sprite & VFX

LibreSprite

LibreSprite is an open source fork of Aseprite.

Lightcube

Pixel art editor for Windows w/ PSD, JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF support.

Pickle

Pixel art editor.

Pixa.Pics

Browser pixel-art tool w/ vectorization.

Pixelator

Turn any image into pixel art.

In 2 lists

Pixelorama

Free pixel art editor (made in Godot).

PixelOver

Convert artwork to pixel art with animation, bone rigging, and pixel-perfect transforms.

Pixen (GitHub)

Pixel Art Editor for OSX

Pro Motion

Paid with trial, works on Windows. Advanced features tailored to creating pixel art for games.

In 2 lists

PyxelEdit

Pixel art editor for tilesets, levels, animations.

SpriteMancer

2D VFX and sprite animation.

TexturePacker

Sprite sheet packing, multi-engine export.

In 3 lists

Cheetah Texture Packer

. High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool

Ez Sprite Sheet

. Creates sprite sheets from animated GIFs

Fusion Character Animator

. Small tool for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 to facilitate the animation of 2D character sprites for developers.

GlueIT

License unspecified. Free Simple Spritesheet Tool

Kavex's Spritesheet Maker

. Free spritesheet maker to replace GlueIT. Has much newer export formats.

Laigter

. Free normal/specular/AO map generator for 2D.

Leshy SpriteSheet Tool

. HTML5 tool for creating, packing, and modifying sprite sheets and texture atlases

Libgdx Texture Packer

. Texture Packer built into Libgdx

In 7 listsDetails

Make Your Own Pixel Art

Paid. Walks you step-by-step through the available tools, pixel art techniques, the importance of shapes, colors, shading, and how to turn your art into animation.

In 2 lists

Owlboy

. Explore a detailed steampunk world in the clouds. With it's range of endearing animations and expressions the world and it's characters come to life.

In 2 lists

Paul Robertson

. Australian, creating cute, sometimes cosmic and psychedelic, and sometimes weird nightmarish pixel art.

In 2 lists

PixelCraft

. Open source and free, works in the browser. Easy to try out in the browser and as a PWA offline.

In 2 lists

ShoeBox

. Adobe Air based app with game and ui related tools.

In 2 lists

Sprite Sheet Maker

. Sprite Sheet Maker is a handy no fuss utility to pack sprites

Sprite Sheet Slicer

. Sprite Sheet Slicer is a handy no fuss utility to slice sprites

SpriteLib

. Collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites).

In 2 lists

SpriteUV2

Paid. Tool for creating optimal meshes for textures/sprites and packing them into an atlas.

In 2 lists

Starbound

. Travel across vibrant, colorful and expansive galaxies, including creative dynamic animations.

In 2 lists

Stitches

. An HTML5 sprite sheet generator

In 2 lists

Talos VFX

. Node based, open source VFX Editor with interface and a ready to use libGDX runtime.

Tilesplit

. CLI text-based tilesheet splitter and namer. Turn a spritesheet into many separate files with names you pick, or not if you don't care. Support templates and textures that are not all the same size

Walking animation cycle in games

. Tutorial series on 2D walk-cycle animation for games.

In 2 lists

Wobblepaint

. Pico8 editor that give life to pixel art with a little wobble.

In 3 lists

Game Development >Game Dev Tools: AI & Procedural Generation

Houdini Engine (SideFX product)

Procedural generation pipeline for Unreal/Unity/Godot.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

DotRecast

. A port of Recast & Detour, navigation mesh toolset for games, Unity3D, servers, C#.

In 6 listsDetails

Fast Noise Lite

. Fast noise generation (Perlin, Simplex, Cellular).

In 2 lists

Machinations

Paid. Visual tool for designing and simulating game economies.

In 3 lists

Procedural GL JS

. Based on Three.js, this framework is dedicated to generating a 3D Map experience on a web service.

In 2 lists

Wave Function Collapse

. Procedural generation from example patterns.

In 3 lists

Game Development >Game Dev Tools: Physics Engines

Box2D v3

. 2D physics engine rewrite by Erin Catto.

In 3 lists

Box2D.NET

. A port of Box2D, is a 2D physics engine for games,.NET C#, Unity3D, servers.

In 6 listsDetails

Cannon.js

. Lightweight and simple 3D physics engine for the web.

In 2 lists

Jolt Physics

. Open-source 3D physics (used in Horizon Forbidden West).

In 6 listsDetails

Lockstep Framework

. A framework designed for games that need lockstep simulations. It includes a deterministic 2D physics engine, pathfinding, behavior system. LSF is integrated with Unity.

In 2 lists

Rapier

. Rust physics engine (2D/3D, used with Bevy).

In 3 lists

UnrealJolt

. Jolt physics integration (Plugin) for Unreal Engine 5 (UE5)

Game Development >Game Dev Tools: Version Control

Perforce Helix Core

Industry standard for large assets (free ≤5 users).See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

In 2 lists

Plastic SCM / Unity Version Control

Artist-friendly binary version control.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Git LFS

. Large file storage for Git.

Game Development >Game Dev Tools: Analytics & Playtesting

Steam Playtest

. Free playtesting on Steam.

Game Development >Game Design & Theory

Open 3D Engine (O3ED)

Successor to Amazon Lumberyard, an open-source, real-time, multi-platform 3D engine to build AAA games

In 5 listsDetails

Deconstructor of Fun

. F2P game design and business.

In 2 lists

DevianArt7Soul1

License unspecified. Offers a specific set of 420 pixel art icons designed for RPG games.

Epic Games

. Epic Games on GitHub. Official Unreal Engine and related repos.

friflo ECS

. High-performance C# ECS with simple API. Supports.NET, WASM/WebAssembly, Native AOT, Unity, Godot, MonoGame,..

In 5 listsDetails

Game Programming Patterns

. Lots of great game development patterns useful when making games with or without Unity.

In 2 lists

Game UI Database

. Searchable database of game UI/UX screenshots for interface reference.

In 3 lists

How To Market A Game

. Marketing strategies for indie games.

In 3 lists

LWF

. Lightweight SWF. LWF is an animation engine which can play animation data converted from FLASH contents in HTML5, Unity, Cocos2d-x, iOS UIKit.

Phototiler

License unspecified. Lightweight photorealistic map renderer that allows quick rendering of 3D maps for creative cartography.

In 2 lists

Pixel Composer (GitHub)

. Node-based VFX editor for pixel art.

pixeldudesmaker

. Small pixel-art character generator, with basic animation.

In 2 lists

Red Blob Games

. Interactive visual explanations (pathfinding, hex grids, noise).

In 4 lists

Resemble

License unspecified. AI voice cloning and speech generation for game dialogue.

In 3 lists

Slynyrd

. American, game designer with tons of material, game specific knowledge and mini-tutorials.

In 2 lists

SpriteKit

. SpriteKit code to make your game work on iOS, macOS, and tvOS without a hitch.

Spritemate

. Online Editor for Commodore 64 Sprites

In 2 lists

Timanthes

. A pixel art editor for the Commodore 64 computer running on Windows

Turbulenz

. HTML5 game engine for building, publishing, and monetising games with 3D effects and real-time physics.

In 2 lists

Unity Audio Manager

. Plugin to play, change, stop, and mute 2D/3D sounds in Unity.

In 3 lists

Unity Game Programming Patterns

. Game Programming Pattern Examples in Unity3D.

Unity in Action (book)

License unspecified. Hands-on Unity game development book (Manning).

In 2 lists

Unity Technologies

. Unity Technologies on GitHub. Official Unity repos and samples.

Game Development >Game Dev: YouTube Channels

📺 Learning All IN ORDER ~ Game Dev Cave

. Unreal game-dev tutorial channel: blueprints, C++, quests, and GAS, ordered for beginners (160+ videos).

Aarthificial

. Pixel art devlogs.

Acerola

. Graphics programming.

Blackthornprod

. 2D art and design.

Cain On Games

. Tim Cain (Fallout creator) on game design philosophy and war stories.

In 2 lists

Freya Holmer

. Math for game devs, shaders.

In 2 lists

Game Maker's Toolkit

. Game design analysis.

GDQuest (YouTube)

. Godot tutorials.

Jonas Tyroller

. Indie dev logs.

Libgdx Wiki

. Libgdx documentation wiki (includes Texture Packer page).

In 2 lists

Lincoln Margison

. Procedural animation tutorials. Step by step walkthroughs for game dev rigging and motion.

Masahiro Sakurai

. Game design philosophy, 250+ episodes.

MFGD - Fragment Shaders

. YouTube playlist about fragment shaders.

Pontypants

. Animation for games.

Sebastian Lague

. Procedural generation and simulations.

SimonDev

. 3D programming, WebGL.

t3ssel8r

. Stylized rendering.

The Cherno Project

. While not specific to Unreal Engine, Cherno has tons of great C++ and general game engine content.

Thomas Brush

. Indie business and marketing.

Game Development >Game Dev: Courses

CS50 Game Development (Harvard)

. Free, covers Love2D, Unity.

In 2 lists

Polyglot Gamedev Mastersheet

. Massive community-curated master list of game dev resources across engines, art, audio, and design.

Game Development >Game Dev: Communities

Brackeys Discord

. Brackeys Discord community.

In 2 lists

Game Dev League

. Game dev Discord.

Games Artist

. Game art community with breakdowns, tutorials, and showcases.

IndieDB

. Indie game database and promotion.

r/gamedesign

. Game design subreddit.

r/gamedev

. 1.5M+ game dev subreddit.

In 2 lists

r/IndieDev

. Indie developer subreddit.

r/indiegaming

. Indie gaming subreddit.

r/pixelart

. Pixel art subreddit.

In 2 lists

r/unrealengine

. Unreal Engine subreddit.

TIGSource Forums

. Long-running indie forum.

Unreal Slackers

. Unreal Engine Discord community.

Work With Indies

. Indie game job board.

In 2 lists

Game Development >Game Jams

Brackeys Game Jam

. Beginner-friendly jam.

Global Game Jam

. Annual, in-person worldwide.

In 2 lists

GMTK Game Jam

. Largest jam by entries.

itch.io Jams

. Hundreds of active jams.

In 2 lists

JS13KGames

. 13KB size limit JavaScript jam.

In 2 lists

A Frame

An easy web framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences.

In 6 listsDetails

Armory3D

Blender-integrated Haxe game engine.

In 2 lists

axys

A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0, it has Full Support OpenAL for all platforms, single texture multi GPU texture handler and C++ 17.

Babylon.js

JavaScript 3D engine/framework for browser games and apps.

In 4 lists

Bevy

Rust data-driven ECS game engine.

In 3 lists

Blend4Web

JavaScript framework for interactive 3D in browsers. Blender integration.

In 2 lists

Blitz3D

3D BASIC-like programming language for fast 3D desktop games.

Ceramic

Haxe cross-platform 2D framework. Exports to Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, HTML5/WebGL, Unity.

Cocos Creator

TypeScript mobile/web game engine.

Cocos2d X

C++ OpenGL 2D/3D engine with JS and Lua bindings. Targets all major mobile and desktop platforms.

In 4 lists

CopperCube

CopperCube is an all-in-one 3D game engine. Very easy to use.

CopperLicht

JavaScript library and WebGL 3D engine for games and 3D applications.

In 3 lists

Dash

A free and open 3D game engine written in D.

In 3 lists

Defold

Lua-based 2D mobile game engine by King.

In 2 lists

Diligent Engine

Modern cross-platform low-level graphics library supporting D3D11/12, OpenGL/GLES, and Vulkan.

In 7 listsDetails

Ebitengine

Go 2D game engine.

Flax Engine

High-fidelity 3D engine. Free for small studios.

FNA

C# XNA reimplementation for ports.

In 3 lists

Folded Paper Engine

Blender-to-Godot game mechanics engine/plugins. 2.5D/FPS/TPS controls, triggers, inventory, holdable items.

Fusee

A multiplatform 3D C# real-time engine with strong emphasis on content transformation.

Fyrox

Rust 3D engine with scene editor.

In 2 lists

gameplay

A free, open-source, cross-platform, 2D + 3D game framework written in C++. It is aimed towards indie game developers who are creating desktop and mobile games.

In 2 lists

Godot 4

MIT-licensed 2D/3D engine. GDScript, C#, C++.

In 9 listsDetails

Harfang 3D

C++ 3D visualization library usable in Python, Lua, and Go.

In 4 listsDetails

Heaps.io

Haxe engine. Dead Cells, Northgard.

Irrlicht

Open source high-performance realtime 3D engine (C++).

In 4 lists

jMonkeyEngine 3

3D open-source game engine for Java developers.

In 3 lists

JPCT

3D engine for desktop Java and Android.

Juno

Framework for making 2D games with chunky pixels in Lua.

In 2 lists

Leadwerks

Easy-to-learn game engine for 3D and VR.

Love2D

Lua 2D game framework.

In 2 lists

LumixEngine

3D game engine built on C++.

In 5 listsDetails

Lums

2D/3D framework written in C++11. Efficient and modern. Heavy development.

In 2 lists

Macroquad

Rust minimal 2D/3D with WASM support.

Magnum (site)

Lightweight modular 2D/3D graphics/game engine written in C++11.

MonoGame

C# XNA successor (Celeste, Stardew Valley).

In 2 lists

Neo Axis Engine

Integrated development environment with built-in 3D and 2D game engine.

In 3 lists

O3DE

AAA-grade Linux Foundation open-source engine.

In 2 lists

Ogre

Open source graphical rendering engine (C++).

In 2 lists

Overload

3D game engine with editor.

In 3 lists

Panda3D

Python-based 3D engine (originated at Disney VR Studio, now CMU ETC).

In 5 listsDetails

Pixel Vision 8

Teaches retro game development with streamlined workflows. 8-bit fantasy console.

PixiJS

Newcomer HTML5 game renderer - first released in early 2013. A main appeal of the engine is its use of WebGL for faster performance. If WebGL isn't supported, the engine falls back to standard

In 4 lists

Raylib

Minimal C library for learning game programming.

In 4 listsDetails

Screen 13

Easy-to-use Vulkan rendering engine with render graph for Rust.

In 2 lists

Solar2D

Lua 2D mobile framework (formerly Corona SDK).

SpriteBuilder

Open source game development suite for macOS.

In 2 lists

Stride

C# 3D game engine (formerly Xenko).

Superpowers

HTML5 Collaborative 2D/3D Game Maker

In 2 lists

Three.js

JavaScript 3D library. The standard for web 3D.

In 6 listsDetails

Torque3D

C++ engine with decades of Torque technology lineage.

UPBGE (GitHub)

Integrated game engine in Blender.

In 2 lists

UPBGE (site)

Open-source 3D game engine forked from old Blender Game Engine, deployed with Blender itself. GitHub

In 2 lists

Urho3D

Cross-platform rendering and game engine.

In 2 lists

ursina

A game engine powered by Python and Panda3D.

Whitestorm.js (GitHub)

3D JavaScript framework for building apps and games.

In 2 lists

Wonderland Engine

WebXR-focused engine with visual editor. Targets VR, AR, and standard browser 3D. Free for indies.

In 2 lists

Construct 3

Browser-based no-code 2D engine with visual scripting.

In 3 lists

CryEngine

High-fidelity 3D engine, pay-what-you-want.

In 5 listsDetails

Evergine

Enterprise-focused graphics engine for 3D business and industry applications.

In 2 lists

GameMaker

GML-based 2D engine (Undertale, Hotline Miami).

In 2 lists

GDevelop

Open-source event-based no-code 2D.

In 3 lists

PlayCanvas

JavaScript browser-based 3D engine.

In 9 listsDetails

Ren'Py

Python visual novel engine (industry standard).

RPG Maker MZ

JavaScript-based RPG creation.

In 2 lists

SceneKit

Apple proprietary 3D game engine (available on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS and watchOS).

Unbound

SDF-based game development platform. Non-destructive real-time editing, Lua 5.3 scripting, FBX/glTF export. Early Access.

In 2 lists

Unity

Cross-platform engine with massive asset store ecosystem (current major release Unity 6).

In 9 listsDetails

Unreal Engine 5

AAA engine from Epic. Free until $1M revenue, then royalty.

In 5 listsDetails

LDtk

Modern 2D level editor by Dead Cells creator.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

Mappy

Free tilemap editor.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

OGMO Editor 3

Free project-based 2D level editor with grid and entity layers.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

Sprite Fusion

A free level design tool to craft beautiful 2D tilemaps right in your browser using any tileset.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

In 3 lists

Tiled

General-purpose tilemap editor. TMX format.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

In 5 listsDetails

TrenchBroom

Quake-style level editor, great for blockouts.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

In 2 lists

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >Concept Art & Illustration: Channels

Awesome Illustrations

. Curated awesome-list of illustration resources, tools, and references.

Awesome Stock Resources

. A collection of links for free stock photography, video and Illustration websites.

In 4 listsDetails

Illustration Tools

. Directory of tools and resources for illustrators, creatives, and artists.

Michael Mattesi

. Force drawing (Instagram).

Neural Network-Generated Illustrations

. Google Research article on AI-generated illustrations for Allo.

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >Drawing & Painting for 3D Artists

Pixen (site)

Paid, works on macOS and iOS. Superb OS integration, create pixel art on a tablet using pressure-sensitive drawing.

In 3 lists

Rebelle 8 Pro

Natural-media painting app simulating real watercolor, oil, acrylic, ink with fluid dynamics.

Animation with Dall-e + AE | Reddit

. Reddit thread on AI-assisted animation with DALL-E and After Effects.

In 2 lists

ArtStation Learning

. Free courses from Blizzard, Riot, Pixar pros.

BodyVisualizer

. 3D body shape visualizer for proportion reference.

Ctrl+Paint

. Structured free video library. Digital painting fundamentals, value studies, color.

Graphite 3D

Paid. A collaborative drawing tool for modeling precise shapes in real spaces.

Human Anatomy for Artists

. Massive free photo reference by body part and angle.

Instanced Line Rendering Part I

. Builds on "Drawing Lines is Hard" to draw lines via instanced rendering.

Intro to JS: Drawing & Animation

. Use JavaScript and the ProcessingJS library to create drawings and animations.

Learn HTML5 Graphics and Animation

Free tier. Introduction to the canvas 2D drawing API.

Line of Action

. Free timed gesture drawing (figures, animals, hands, faces).

Posemaniacs

. Rotatable 3D pose reference with muscle groups.

Proko Free Library

Free tier. Anatomy, figure drawing, portrait (substantial free tier).

QuickPoses

. Timed drawing practice with huge photo library.

SketchDaily Reference

. Timed drawing sessions across categories.

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >Photography: Reference & Fundamentals

/r/FOSSPhotography

. Reddit community on free open-source software for photography.

In 2 lists

B&H Explora Photography

. Deep technical articles on lighting modifiers and color temperature.

Cambridge in Colour

. Photography tutorials on exposure, color, and composition.

Femto-Photography: Visualizing Photons in Motion at a Trillion Frames Per Second

. Raskar et al., SIGGRAPH 2012.

Fstoppers Education

. Studio lighting, portrait ratios, product photography.

Gavin Hoey (Adorama)

. Studio lighting tutorials with setup diagrams.

Open Source Photography Community on Google+

. Open-source photography community on Google+.

In 2 lists

PIXLS.US

. Community for tutorials and workflows on high-quality photography with free-software tools.

In 2 lists

Strobist Lighting 101

. Definitive free course on shaping light (directly applicable to 3D lighting).

Workphlo

. Studio product photography lighting breakdowns with placement diagrams.

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >Cinematography & Camera Work

CinemaTyler

. Deep analysis of lens choice, color, blocking, lighting in film.

Every Frame a Painting

. Gold-standard video essays on composition, camera, editing rhythm.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

How to Create Stunning Cinematic Lighting

. Cinematic lighting tutorial.

In Depth Cine

. Practical lighting setups and narrative technique.

No Film School. Cinematography

. Constant stream of technique articles.

Roger Deakins on Learning to Light Ep. 1

. Cinematography Techniques Ep. 1.

Roger Deakins on Learning to Light Ep. 2

. Cinematography Techniques Ep. 2.

Roger Deakins on Learning to Light Ep. 3

. Cinematography Techniques Ep. 3.

Shane Hurlbut ASC Blog

. Real DP knowledge on cinematography, lens choice, lighting setups.

StudioBinder Film Guides

. Shot composition, camera shots encyclopedia, camera movements, lighting.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

Wolfcrow

. Cinematography fundamentals, color science, exposure theory.

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >Composition & Visual Storytelling

Can't Unsee

. Interactive game training visual alignment and spacing precision.

In 3 lists

Handprint Color & Composition

. Deepest free color theory resource online. Covers perception and harmony.

Laws of UX

. Gestalt principles, visual perception laws (directly applicable to 3D composition).

In 4 lists

Neil Blevins Art Lessons

. Composition types, tangents, visual hierarchy by a Pixar artist.See also: Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Inspiration & Showcase

PhotoPills Golden Ratio Guide

. Golden ratio, spirals, triangles with overlay diagrams.

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >Animation Principles

Animation Resources

. Archives of classic animation, frame-by-frame studies.

Animator Island. 51 Exercises

. Structured practice curriculum by difficulty.

Endless Reference

. Video clips browsable by action type (walk, run, fight, etc.).

Hippydrome

. Richard Williams walk cycle and timing chart reference.

iAnimate Free Resources

. Webinars from Disney/Pixar/DreamWorks animators.

New Frame Plus

. Animation analysis in games (walk cycles, weight, timing).

The 12 Principles (Illustrated)

. GIF breakdowns of each principle.

In 2 lists

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >Design Principles & Typography

Better Web Type

. Free typography course on rhythm and hierarchy.

How to Proof a Typeface

. Jonathan Hoefler's proofing guide.

Kerning Tool

. Kerning typography in Houdini.

NNGroup Visual Design

. Research-backed principles on hierarchy, contrast, whitespace.

Practical Typography

. Free online book on type fundamentals, hierarchy, spacing.

In 3 lists

The Futur

. Graphic design fundamentals, typography, grid systems.

Typewolf

. Curated typography inspiration. Fonts in real-world use.

In 6 listsDetails

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >Color Theory & Tools

Adobe Color

. Color wheel, harmony tool, palettes.

Canva Color Palettes

. Pre-made palettes.

Color Hunt

. Curated color palette collection.

In 7 listsDetails

Color Method

. Interactive color matching game.

In 2 lists

ColorBox

. Systematic color scale generator.

In 2 lists

Coolors

Free tier. Fast palette generator.

In 15 listsDetails

Fast Palette Studio

. Rapid palette creation for pixel art and game dev.

Gradient Horse

. Experimental gradient generator.

Huemint

Free tier. AI-assisted brand color generation.

Lospec Palette List

. Pixel art palette repository.

In 3 lists

Paletton

. Classic color scheme designer.

In 4 lists

Palitra

. Search brand color palettes.

poline

. Esoteric palette generation via polar color interpolation.

In 2 lists

Randoma11y

. Generate accessible color combinations.

Swatchr

. A color palette management system for Unity.

WebGradients

. Gradient library.

In 5 listsDetails

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >Design Tools

Adobe Express

Quick Adobe design tool.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Adobe Illustrator

Industry-standard vector graphics editor; available on iPad.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

In 2 lists

Adobe InDesign

Page layout and publishing for print and digital.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Adobe Photoshop

Industry-standard raster image editor and compositor; available on iPad.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

In 4 lists

ArcBrush

Node-based non-destructive image editor for generating asset variants and export formats; optional credit-based AI features.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Eagle

Visual asset organizer.See also: Software Reference → Design Software, Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

In 2 lists

Graphite

Open-source 2D vector and raster graphics editor with procedural node-based workflow. In active development.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Krita

Free open-source digital painting app from KDE; v5.3 and v6.0 shipped March 2026.

In 7 listsDetails

Photopea

Free browser-based Photoshop alternative with full PSD support.See also: Software Reference → Misc 3D Utilities Software, Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Miscellaneous 3D Tools & Utilities

In 5 listsDetails

Sketch

Mac-native UI/UX design tool with web previews and collaboration.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

In 7 listsDetails

Are.na

Free tier. Collaborative visual research blocks and channels.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

In 2 lists

BabyTrack

. Blob tracking effect.

Bendito Mockup

Free tier. Premium and free product mockups.

Brandfetch

Free tier. Look up brand logos, fonts, and colors.

Carbon

. Code snippet screenshot generator.

In 2 lists

ContentCore

. Curated creative content.

Cosmos

. Visual content curation platform.

Efecto

. ASCII and dithering effects.

effect.app

Free tier. Browser-based live effects for photo and video.

EZGIF

. Online GIF and video editing and conversion tools.See also: Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Miscellaneous 3D Tools & Utilities

In 2 lists

Gradientool

. Browser gradient generator with grain, shadow, and 3D effects. Exports stills and animated MP4 up to 8K.

GraphicBurger

. Free design mockups and graphic assets.

Halftone Maker

. Halftone generator.

LottieFiles

Free tier. Library of free Lottie web animations.

In 3 lists

Maneken

Free tier. Browser-based editable product mockups.

Mockup Photos

Free tier. Device and print mockup library.

Mockup World

. Free PSD mockup library.

In 4 lists

Muzli

. Design inspiration Chrome extension.

OS Design Directory

. Open-source design resources directory.

Pacdora

Free tier. Packaging design with dielines and 3D mockups.

Previewed

Free tier. Turn screenshots into 3D mockup images and animations.

Resource Boy

. Free design resources and mockups.

Savee

Free tier. Visual bookmarking tool.

Shots.so

Free tier. Device mockup generator in the browser.

Smart Mockups

Free tier. Browser mockup generator.

In 3 lists

Space Type Generator

. Experimental type generator.

The Toolbox

. Curated creative tools directory.

Tiled Art

. Tessellation creator.

Undesign

. Design learning resources.

In 2 lists

X Design

Free tier. Browser-based design editor for product photos and visuals.

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >General Inspiration

5 Decades of Digital Art History

. YouTube playlist surveying 50 years of digital art.

Activation Ideas

. Brand activation inspiration.

Awwwards

Free tier. Web design and interaction awards gallery.

In 3 lists

Behance

. Adobe portfolio network for creative work.

In 7 listsDetails

But Does It Float

. Contemporary design and art feed.

coverjunkie

. Magazine cover design showcase.

Creative Boom

. Art and design news and inspiration.

D&AD Archive

. Archive of D&AD award-winning design and advertising.

In 2 lists

deck.gallery

. Gallery of well-designed pitch and brand decks.

Designspiration

Free tier. Design inspiration feed.

DETHJUNKIE

. Dark creative blog.

Dribbble

Free tier. Design portfolio showcase community.

In 9 listsDetails

FX References (Sylvain Nouveau)

. Collected real-world FX reference footage.

FYFD

. Fluid dynamics blog with reference imagery for FX.

Generative Art Timeline

. Interactive timeline of generative art history.

Geometric Design (Canva)

. Geometric design article.

H.R. Giger (Artnet)

. H.R. Giger gallery archive.

Houdini on Dribbble

. Houdini work tagged on Dribbble for inspiration.

Inspora

. Design inspiration gallery updated hourly, split into web, branding, product, motion, illustration, 3D, and print.

Instagram

. Motion and 3D work under the xuxoe hashtag.

Mech Blog

. Mecha design inspiration.

Movie Scenes Inspired by Art

. Thread on movie scenes mirroring paintings.

Mr Cup

. Graphic design blog.

mr5ivethou5and

. Tumblr archive of motion and abstract visual inspiration.

Muddycolors

. Pro illustrator blog.

OTAKU GANGSTA

. Anime/otaku visual blog.

Sakuga Booru

. Animation clip archive (non-www mirror).

In 2 lists

Supahero

Free tier. Library of website hero section designs.

The Black Workshop

. Design inspiration blog.

The Brand Identity

. Graphic design and branding showcase.

Truchet's Tiles

. On Truchet tiles and patterns.

Vimeo Staff Picks

. Curated short films picked by Vimeo staff.

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >2D Art References & Inspiration

2D Tutorials. Draw a Box

. Free drawing fundamentals course.

In 2 lists

Anatomy 360, Free Reference

. 3D scanned human reference images.

In 2 lists

Dimensions.com

. Dimensioned drawings database.

National Gallery of Art (NGA)

. Open-access collection of historical paintings, drawings, and prints. High-res downloads for reference.

Saint11 Pixel Art

Paid. Pixel art tutorials.

Art, Design & Visual Storytelling >Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

ArtDeck

Reference boards for images, video, links, and notes. Study tools for value, color, composition, and motion.See also: Software Reference → Misc 3D Utilities Software

Boords

Browser storyboard, animatic, and script sync for teams.

Celtx

Browser script + breakdown + pre-prod.

Cinetracer

Real-time cinematography simulation on Unreal Engine. Lights, lenses, cameras.

Eagle

Local image and video asset manager with tags.

In 2 lists

Eagle

Visual asset organizer.See also: Software Reference → Design Software, Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

In 2 lists

Fade In

Pro screenwriting at a lower price point.

Final Draft

Industry-standard screenwriting with breakdown tagging.

FrameForge Storyboard Studio

3D previs/storyboard hybrid with accurate lens and camera simulation.

Highland

Fountain-native Mac screenwriter.

Kuadro

Minimal floating image viewer for references.

Milanote

Visual notes and moodboards for creative planning.

In 2 lists

Movie Magic Scheduling

Industry-standard scheduling and stripboards.

PureRef

Floating reference canvas. Standard for artists.See also: Software Reference → Misc 3D Utilities Software

In 2 lists

ShotPro

iOS and desktop 3D storyboard and previs.

Storyboard Pro (Toon Boom)

Industry-standard storyboarding with animatic, camera, and audio timeline.

Storyboarder (Wonder Unit)

Free, fast sketch-first boarding tool with Shot Generator.

In 2 lists

StudioBinder

Cloud production suite. Script breakdown, shotlists, storyboards, call sheets.

WriterDuet

Realtime collaborative screenwriting in the browser.

Are.na

Free tier. Collaborative visual research blocks and channels.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

In 2 lists

Art of the Title

. Title sequence deep dives.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

ASC Magazine

. American Society of Cinematographers magazine. Cinematography and on-set VFX features.

Cine Designer (C4D)

Paid. Cinema 4D previs and techvis plugin for lights, lenses, set pieces.

Cosmos

Free tier. Visual discovery and moodboard curation tool.

Every Frame a Painting

. Gold-standard video essays on composition, camera, editing rhythm.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

EYECANDY

Free tier. Library of visual techniques in film and motion.

FilmGrab

. Curated film stills archive. Free.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

Flim AI

Free tier. Film frame search engine.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

Frame Set

Free tier. Searchable stills from films, commercials, and music videos.

Halon Entertainment

. Previs, VP, and virtual scouting case studies and tooling writeups.

Lessons from the Screenplay

. Story and screenplay analysis on YouTube.

Magnopus

. VP and XR studio. Tooling and case studies.

In 2 lists

Refsee

Free tier. Video reference search across films and commercials.

Same.Energy

. Visual similarity image search engine.

In 6 listsDetails

Shot.Cafe

. Searchable film and TV frames.

ShotDeck

Paid. Searchable film still library for storyboards and references.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

Spectacle.is

Free tier. Search commercial and branded video.

StudioBinder Film Guides

. Shot composition, camera shots encyclopedia, camera movements, lighting.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

The Third Floor

. Previs and postvis studio blog with breakdowns from major features.

VES (Visual Effects Society)

. VES handbook, talks, and methodology resources for on-set VFX.

Yarn.co

Free tier. Search movie and TV dialogue, export clips or GIFs.

Adobe Express

Quick Adobe design tool.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Adobe Illustrator

Industry-standard vector graphics editor; available on iPad.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

In 2 lists

Adobe InDesign

Page layout and publishing for print and digital.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Adobe Photoshop

Industry-standard raster image editor and compositor; available on iPad.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

In 4 lists

Affinity

Unified vector, photo, and layout app. Free, by Canva.

In 2 lists

ArcBrush

Node-based non-destructive image editor for generating asset variants and export formats; optional credit-based AI features.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Clip Studio Paint

Industry-standard illustration and comics with animation timeline.

Figma

Collaborative UI/UX design with free tier.

In 17 listsDetails

FontLab 8

Professional font editor.

FotoSketcher

Windows freeware that converts photos to sketch, painting, and pastel renders. Batchable.

GIMP

Free open-source image editor.

In 15 listsDetails

Google Drawings

Free browser-based diagramming and simple vector tool. Collaborative.

In 2 lists

Graphite

Open-source 2D vector and raster graphics editor with procedural node-based workflow. In active development.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Inkscape

Free open-source vector editor.

In 18 listsDetails

Krita

Free open-source digital painting app from KDE; v5.3 and v6.0 shipped March 2026.

In 7 listsDetails

Lunacy

Free graphic design app from Icons8. Native Sketch file support, built-in icons/illustrations/photos, AI tools.

In 8 listsDetails

Microsoft Paint

Built-in Windows raster editor. Now ships with layers, transparency, and Cocreator AI.

Origami Studio

Free interaction design and prototyping tool by Meta. Patch-based logic, Figma import.

In 6 listsDetails

Paint.NET

Free Windows raster editor with layers, plugins, and unlimited undo. Sits between Microsoft Paint and Photoshop.

In 4 listsDetails

Penpot

Open-source design platform. Native SVG/CSS/HTML output. Cloud-hosted or self-host. Figma alternative.

In 5 listsDetails

Picsart

Photo and video editor with AI tools. Web, mobile, and desktop.

Pixelmator

Full-featured image editing app for the Mac.

PixiEditor

Universal 2D graphics editor. Procedural graphics w/ node graph, image editing, vectors, pixel art, animations.

PowerPoint

Microsoft presentation app. Used as a quick-draft motion/layout tool for storyboards and diagrams.

Procreate

IPad painting app. Procreate Dreams for animation.

ProtoPie

High-fidelity interaction prototyping for apps and connected devices.

In 5 listsDetails

Sketch

Mac-native UI/UX design tool with web previews and collaboration.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

In 7 listsDetails

Unicorn Studio

Browser-based interactive scene and motion design for the web. No-code, exports to embed.

Vectorpea

Free browser-based vector editor by Photopea team. Opens AI/SVG/PDF/EPS/CDR.

AI & Machine Learning for CG >Machine Learning for CG

3D Machine Learning

. Resource repository for 3D machine learning.

In 3 lists

Awesome 3D Human

. Curated list of papers and resources on 3D human research, including face, body, hand and motion.

In 3 lists

DINOv2

. Meta self-supervised vision features. Strong general-purpose image embeddings. Useful as backbone for CG ML tasks.

Generative AI Genius 2024

. Free generative AI course material by Aishwarya Naresh Reganti.

In 2 listsDetails

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

. Publishes technical articles on the theory, design, and applications of neural networks and related learning systems.

Introduction to Generative AI Community Course

. Free community course on generative AI fundamentals by iNeuron.

Meta 3D Gen

. Meta research pipeline for text-to-3D. Combines AssetGen geometry with TextureGen materials. Paper and results.

PyTorch3D

. Meta FAIR library for 3D deep learning. Differentiable rendering, mesh ops, point cloud utils on PyTorch.

In 2 lists

AI & Machine Learning for CG >Image Generation

Adobe Firefly 3

Commercial-safe, deep Creative Cloud integration.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 3 lists

Aga Miko/pixel Character Generator

Generating retro pixel game characters with Generative Adversarial Networks. Dataset "TinyHero" included.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

FLUX.2 (Black Forest Labs)

Open-weight photorealism with Kontext editing.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

GPT Image (OpenAI)

Instruction-following image model with strong text rendering. GPT Image 1.5.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 6 listsDetails

Grok Aurora (xAI)

Photorealistic image gen integrated into Grok.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

HunyuanDiT (Tencent)

Open-source DiT-based, strong Chinese text.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

Ideogram 2.0

Best-in-class typography and text rendering, canvas mode.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 3 lists

Imagen

Google photoreal image model via Gemini and Vertex.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Jimeng / Dreamina (ByteDance)

High quality, integrated with video pipeline.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Kolors (Kuaishou)

Open-source, bilingual Chinese/English.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

Krea AI

Real-time generation, upscaling, and style transfer platform.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 4 listsDetails

Leonardo AI

Real-time generation with artistic control.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 4 listsDetails

Midjourney v7

Industry-leading artistic coherence and stylized output.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

Nano Banana Pro (Google Gemini)

Instruction-based editing with character and product consistency across edits.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 7 listsDetails

Playground v3

Mixed-mode design canvas for graphic design.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

Recraft V3

Design-oriented gen. Vector, icons, brand assets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 3 lists

Reve

Image model with strong prompt adherence.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Snowpixel

Generate Images/Videos/Animations/Audio/Music/3D Objects with Text and/or Image. Upload your own data to create custom models.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

Stable Diffusion 3.5

Open-source diffusion (Large, Medium, Turbo sizes).See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Visual Electric

AI image generator aimed at designers.

Canva AI Text-to-Image Generator

Free tier. Canva's free built-in text-to-image generator.

RenderNet

Free tier. AI tool for generating images and videos with control over character design, composition, and style.

Stable Diffusion Frivolous

. Community response to the Stable Diffusion litigation.

In 2 lists

Word-As-Image for Semantic Typography

. Semantically transforming fonts into illustrations.

In 2 lists

AI & Machine Learning for CG >Video Generation

Cog Video X

Tsinghua/Zhipu open-source, multiple sizes.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

Drawstory

Cinematography and story sequencing with strong character continuity.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Frameo

Script to cinematic video with scenes, characters, audio, and timeline assembly.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Genmo Mochi 1

Open-source video gen model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

Google Flow

Filmmaking app over Veo with scenebuilder and ingredients-to-video.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Hailuo AI / MiniMax

"Director" model. Strong motion and character consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 3 lists

Haiper

Ex-DeepMind team, animation and video-to-video modes.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

HeyGen

AI avatar marketing videos with a talking-head focus.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

HunyuanVideo 1.5

Open-source 8.3B params, runs on 14GB VRAM.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

InVideo AI

Prompt to video for marketing and social content.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

Kling 3.0

Up to 5min clips, strong human motion. Motion Brush control.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

LTX Studio

Pre-production to video pipeline with storyboards, character consistency, and timeline.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

LTX-2 (Lightricks)

Fast open video model. LTX-2 Fast ranks top-3 in the arena.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

Luma Dream Machine

Atmospheric image-to-video. Ray3 is the first native 16-bit HDR video model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Mootion

Idea to a 2-minute cinematic video in one tool.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Morphic

AI film studio for story-driven video.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Pika 2.0

Extended video gen with improved consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

PixVerse

Style-specific modes (anime, 3D, realistic), character consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Runway Gen-4.5

Motion brushes and scene consistency on the GWM-1 world model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

Seedance 2.0 (ByteDance)

High raw quality video gen with audio. Tops the Artificial Analysis ranking.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Stable Animation SDK

Text-to-animation SDK for developers by Stability AI.

In 2 lists

Veo 3.1 (Google DeepMind)

Top leaderboard, native audio, 60s+ clips.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Vidu

16s clips, strong human motion (Shengshu).See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Wan 2.2 (Alibaba)

Cinematic MoE diffusion, 8GB+ VRAM. Open source.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Deforum Notebook v0.5 (Stable Diffusion animation)

. Deforum v0.5 notebook for Stable Diffusion animation with math automation, perspective flips, prompt weights, and video masking.

In 2 lists

Deforum Stable Diffusion Animation (Artificial Selections)

. YouTube channel covering Deforum Stable Diffusion animation techniques.

Emu Video (Meta)

. Meta's text-to-video research model. Factorized generation, image-then-video. Demos and paper.

In 3 lists

Stable Diffusion KLMC2 Animation

. Colab notebook by @RiversHaveWings generating animation from scripted prompts via KLMC2 discretization of underdamped Langevin dynamics.

In 2 lists

Stable Diffusion KLMC2 Animation (forked)

. Colab notebook for Stable Diffusion animation, forked by @DigThatData.

In 2 lists

AI & Machine Learning for CG >3D Generation

3DTopia

Open-source text-to-3D pipeline (coarse → refined).See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

Ashawkey/stable Dreamfusion

A pytorch implementation of text-to-3D dreamfusion, powered by stable diffusion.

In 4 lists

InstantMesh

Fast single-image-to-3D reconstruction.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Intangible

Prompt and drag-drop to 3D scenes for previz. No-code.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Kaedim

Image-to-3D with hybrid AI plus artist cleanup for production quality.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Luma Genie

Text/image to 3D, integrated with Dream Machine.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 3 lists

Meshy v4

Production-reliable, improved topology and PBR textures.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 3 lists

Rodin Gen-2 (Hyper3D)

10B params, photorealistic, free generation tier.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Sloyd

Procedural 3D generation with parametric control.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

Spline AI

Generate 3D objects and textures from text prompts in-editor.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

Stability SPAR3D

Open-source single-image 3D reconstruction.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

TRELLIS.2 (Microsoft)

Full PBR materials, complex topologies.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Tripo v3.0

Sculpture-level precision, clean quad topology.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

TripoSR

Tripo/Stability collab. Fast open-source image-to-3D.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

Unique3D

High-quality mesh from single image (NeurIPS 2024).See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

Wonder3D++

Cross-domain diffusion, textured meshes in 2-3min.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

NativeBlend CLI

. AI CLI to generate and edit low-poly 3D game assets in Blender from text prompts.

Pixal3D

. Single-image to 3D asset generation via pixel-feature back-projection. Outputs geometry and PBR textures.

Point-E (OpenAI)

. OpenAI point-cloud diffusion for text and image to 3D synthesis.

In 5 listsDetails

Threestudio

. A unified framework for 3D content generation.

In 3 lists

Transforming 2D Images into 3D with AdaMPI

. Guide to using the AdaMPI model to create 3D photos from 2D images.

In 2 lists

AI & Machine Learning for CG >Texture & Material Generation

Adobe Firefly Textures

Prompt-to-edit texture workflows.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

InstaMAT

Material authoring with AI workflows (Substance alternative).See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Meshy Textures

Integrated with 3D pipeline.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Poly

AI-generated PBR textures and materials, tileable with full map sets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

Ponzu

AI texture gen from text prompts for uploaded meshes.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Scenario

Game-ready PBR materials, full map sets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 4 listsDetails

AI & Machine Learning for CG >ComfyUI Ecosystem

ComfyUI

Node-based AI generator for image/video/3D/audio.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Awesome ComfyUI

. Curated custom nodes collection.

Comflowy

. ComfyUI tutorials for ControlNet, SDXL, FLUX workflows.

Comfy UI Manager

. Install and manage custom nodes and dependencies.

In 2 lists

ComfyUI Registry

. Community workflow and subgraph sharing.

ControlNet SD3.5

. Blur/Canny/Depth models, free commercial use.

AI & Machine Learning for CG >AI-Assisted CG Tools

Autodesk Flow Studio (Wonder Dynamics)

AI VFX, auto CG characters in live footage, USD export.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Blockade Labs Skybox AI

AI-generated 360° skyboxes/HDRIs from text.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

In 2 lists

Gigapixel AI

AI photo enlargement that adds detail to upscaled images.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

In 3 lists

Let's Enhance

Photo upscaler up to 16x with a free tier.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

In 4 listsDetails

Magnific AI

Creative upscaler that adds detail. Folded into Freepik plans Apr 2026.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Rosebud AI

Vibe coding platform for creating 3D games and interactive web apps with AI.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

In 3 lists

Topaz Photo AI / Video AI

Upscaling, denoising, and sharpening. Topaz Bloom adds unlimited creative upscaling.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

UneeQ Digital Humans

Cloud platform for real-time interactive digital humans.

In 2 lists

Unity Muse

Unity in-editor AI for texture, sprite, and animation generation.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Upscayl

Open-source desktop upscaler that runs locally at no cost.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

AI Game Developer

. Unity Editor and Unity Runtime AI integration. Unit Test, Coding, C# Roslyn, Reflection, Assets. Helps to create games with AI. And helps to run AI logic during gameplay.

In 5 listsDetails

AI Render (Stable Diffusion in Blender)

. Blender addon that renders an AI image from a text prompt and your scene via Stable Diffusion.

In 2 lists

ClipDrop: Image Upscaler

Free tier. AI image upscaler and enhancer.

Comfy UI Blender AI

. Run ComfyUI workflows inside Blender.

ControlNet

. Depth/pose/edge control for precision CG workflows.

Coplay

Free tier. AI copilot for Unity.

CorridorKey

. Corridor Crew's open keying tool. AI-driven chroma key for VFX work.

In 2 lists

CoTracker

. Meta FAIR point tracker for video. Tracks arbitrary points jointly across frames. Useful for matchmove and roto prep.

In 2 lists

DEVA (Tracking Anything)

. Decoupled video segmentation. Long-form, multi-object roto with text or click prompts.

Dream Textures (Blender)

. Generate textures in Blender via Stable Diffusion, locally.

In 4 lists

Genetic Drawing

. Python library that generates a stylized rendering from an image.

GPT 4

. Prompt engineering techniques for GPT-4, including tips, applications, limitations, and additional reading materials.

RIFE for Nuke

. Real-Time Intermediate Flow Estimation for video frame interpolation (ML framerate upscaling) for Nuke.

Robust Video Matting (RVM)

. Real-time human video matting. Strong alpha mattes with no greenscreen.

Rotobot

Paid. Paid AI roto plugin for Nuke and After Effects. Auto-mattes people and objects.

SAM 2 (Segment Anything Model 2)

. Meta's promptable segmentation for images and video. Masks objects across frames from a single click. Useful for rotoscope and matte work.

Sammie Roto 2

. SAM-based rotoscope app. Click-to-mask, propagates across frames.

SolidUI

. AI-generated visualization prototyping and editing platform, support 2D, 3D models, combined with LLM(Large Language Model) for quick editing.

In 3 lists

Track Anything

. SAM plus XMem for interactive video object tracking and segmentation. Useful for roto and matte propagation.

In 2 lists

Wonder Studio (Autodesk Flow Studio)

Free tier. AI character replacement with auto roto, body tracking, and re-lighting from a single video. Now part of Autodesk Flow Studio.

In 2 lists

AI & Machine Learning for CG >AI Audio & Music

ACE Studio

AI singing voice synthesizer with expression control.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

AIVA

AI composition, good for orchestral/cinematic scoring.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

DiffRhythm

Open-source full-song gen with vocals from lyrics.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

ElevenLabs

Voice cloning, narration, music generation.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

F5 TTS

Open-source zero-shot voice cloning TTS.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

In 2 lists

Fish Audio

Open-source TTS with voice cloning, fast and multilingual.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

Suno v5

Full song generation, 100M+ users.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

In 2 lists

Udio

Strong electronic/pop, licensed for commercial use.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

In 3 lists

AudioCraft (MusicGen / AudioGen / EnCodec)

. Meta's open audio generation stack. MusicGen for music, AudioGen for SFX, EnCodec for neural audio compression.

In 2 lists

COVAL

. Guide to building, scaling, and evaluating voice AI, from speech recognition to emotional intelligence.

In 2 lists

AI & Machine Learning for CG >Open-Source Models (HuggingFace)

Hugging Face Transformers

. NLP models and pipelines.

Hunyuan Video I2V

. Image-to-video, multilingual.

sd-concepts-library (Stable Diffusion Concepts Library)

. Community library of Stable Diffusion textual-inversion concepts to browse and use in prompts.

In 2 lists

SV3D (Stable Video 3D)

. Orbital video from single image.

AI & Machine Learning for CG >Research Papers

3D Neural Scene Representations for Visuomotor Control

. Li et al., CoRL 2021 Oral

3DALL-E: Integrating Text-to-Image AI in 3D Design Workflows

. ArXiv 2022 paper on integrating text-to-image AI in 3D design workflows.

A Higher-Dimensional Representation for Topologically Varying Neural Radiance Fields

. Park et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

A Shading-Guided Generative Implicit Model for Shape-Accurate 3D-Aware Image Synthesis

. Pan et al., NeurIPS 2021 | github

Align Your Gaussians: Text-to-4D with Dynamic 3D Gaussians and Composed Diffusion Models

. 🌐 Project Page

AligNeRF: High-Fidelity Neural Radiance Fields via Alignment-Aware Training

. Jiang et al., CVPR 2023

Animatable Neural Radiance Fields for Modeling Dynamic Human Bodies

. Peng et al., ICCV 2021 | github

Animatable Neural Radiance Fields from Monocular RGB Videos

. Chen et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

AutoInt: Automatic Integration for Fast Neural Volume Rendering

. Lindell et al., CVPR 2021 | github

BeyondPixels: A Review of the Evolution of Neural Radiance Fields

. AKM Shahariar Azad Rabby and Chengcui Zhang, Arxiv 2023

Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis

. Tancik et al., Arxiv 2022

BundleSDF: Neural 6-DoF Tracking and 3D Reconstruction of Unknown Objects

. Wen et al., CVPR 2023 | github

CADOps-Net: Jointly Learning CAD Operation Types and Steps from Boundary-Representations

. 3DV 2022 | [project]

CLA-NeRF: Category-Level Articulated Neural Radiance Field

. Tseng et al., ICRA 2022

CLIP-NeRF: Text-and-Image Driven Manipulation of Neural Radiance Fields

. Wang et al., CVPR 2022 | github

CodeNeRF: Disentangled Neural Radiance Fields for Object Categories

. Jang et al., ICCV 2021

Color-NeRF

. NeRF research paper on color and appearance modelling.

Consolidating Attention Features for Multi-view Image Editing

. 🌐 Project Page

Contrastive Lift: 3D Object Instance Segmentation by Slow-Fast Contrastive Fusion

. Bhalgat et al., NeurIPS 2023 (Spotlight)

CROSSFIRE: Camera Relocalization On Self-Supervised Features from an Implicit Representation

. Moreau et al., ICCV 2023

D-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Dynamic Scenes

. Pumarola et al., CVPR 2021 | github

Deep Generative Models on 3D Representations: A Survey

. 🌐 Project Page

DeepCAD: A Deep Generative Network for Computer-Aided Design Models

. ICCV 2021 | [project] [code]

Deformable Neural Radiance Fields

. Park et al., Arxiv 2020 | github

Depth-supervised NeRF: Fewer Views and Faster Training for Free

. Deng et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

DeRF: Decomposed Radiance Fields

. Rebain et al., Arxiv 2020

DFNet: Enhance Absolute Pose Regression with Direct Feature Matching

. Chen et al., ECCV 2022 | github

Direct Voxel Grid Optimization: Super-fast Convergence for Radiance Fields Reconstruction

. Sun et al., CVPR 2022 | github

DM-NeRF: 3D Scene Geometry Decomposition and Manipulation from 2D Images

. 💻 Code

DMV3D: Denoising Multi-View Diffusion using 3D Large Reconstruction Model

. 🌐 Project Page

DONeRF: Towards Real-Time Rendering of Compact Neural Radiance Fields using Depth Oracle Networks

. Neff et al., CGF 2021 | github

Dream3D: Zero-Shot Text-to-3D Synthesis Using 3D Shape Prior and Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

. 🌐 Project Page

DreamCraft3D: Hierarchical 3D Generation with Bootstrapped Diffusion Prior

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

In 2 lists

DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

DreamGaussian4D: Generative 4D Gaussian Splatting

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

DreamWaltz: Make a Scene with Complex 3D Animatable Avatars

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

DyLiN: Making Light Field Networks Dynamic

. Yu et al., CVPR 2023 | github

Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields for Monocular 4D Facial Avatar Reconstruction

. Gafni et al., CVPR 2021 | github

DynIBaR: Neural Dynamic Image-Based Rendering

. Li et al., CVPR 2023

Editable Free-viewpoint Video Using a Layered Neural Representation

. Zhang et al., SIGGRAPH 2021 | github

Editing Conditional Radiance Fields

. Liu et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

En3D: An Enhanced Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Humans from 2D Synthetic Data

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

EndoGaussian: Real-time Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Endoscopic Scene Reconstruction

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

ENeRF: Efficient Neural Radiance Fields for Interactive Free-viewpoint Video

. Lin et al., SIGGRAPH 2022 | github

FastNeRF: High-Fidelity Neural Rendering at 200FPS

. Garbin et al., Arxiv 2021

FiG-NeRF: Figure Ground Neural Radiance Fields for 3D Object Category Modelling

. Xie et al., Arxiv 2021

From 2D CAD Drawings to 3D Parametric Models: A Vision-Language Approach

. AAAI 2025 | [project]

GALA3D: Towards Text-to-3D Complex Scene Generation via Layout-guided Generative Gaussian Splatting

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

GARF: Gaussian Activated Radiance Fields for High Fidelity Reconstruction and Pose Estimation

. Chng et al., ECCV 2022

GaussianAvatars: Photorealistic Head Avatars with Rigged 3D Gaussians

. 🌐 Project Page

GaussianObject: High-Quality 3D Object Reconstruction from Four Views with Gaussian Splatting

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Gemini Robotics 1.5

. Embodied reasoning, thinking, and motion transfer.

Generative Occupancy Fields for 3D Surface-Aware Image Synthesis

. Xu et al., NeurIPS 2021 | github

GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields

. Niemeyer et al., CVPR 2021

GNeRF: GAN-based Neural Radiance Field without Posed Camera

. Meng et al., Arxiv 2021

GO-NeRF: Generating Objects in Neural Radiance Fields for Virtual Reality Content Creation

. 🌐 Project Page

GRAF: Generative Radiance Fields for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis

. Schwarz et al., NeurIPS 2020 | github

GRF: Learning a General Radiance Field for 3D Scene Representation and Rendering

. Trevithick and Yang, Arxiv 2020 | github

Ha-NeRF: Hallucinated Neural Radiance Fields in the Wild

. Chen et al., CVPR 2022 | github

HumanNeRF: Free-viewpoint Rendering of Moving People from Monocular Video

. Weng et al., CVPR 2022 | github

IBRNet: Learning Multi-View Image-Based Rendering

. Wang et al., CVPR 2021 | github

IDE-3D: Interactive Disentangled Editing for High-Resolution 3D-aware Portrait Synthesis

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Image Sculpting: Precise Object Editing with 3D Geometry Control

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

In-Place Scene Labelling and Understanding with Implicit Scene Representation

. Zhi et al., Arxiv 2021

iNeRF: Inverting Neural Radiance Fields for Pose Estimation

. Yen-Chen et al. IROS 2021

InfNeRF: Towards Infinite Scale NeRF Rendering with O(log n) Space Complexity

. Liang et al., SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 | github

Instant3D: Instant Text-to-3D Generation

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

KiloNeRF: Speeding up Neural Radiance Fields with Thousands of Tiny MLPs

. Reiser et al., ICCV 2021 | github

KiloNeuS: Implicit Neural Representations with Real-Time Global Illumination

. Esposito et al., Arxiv 2022

L2G-NeRF: Local-to-Global Registration for Bundle-Adjusting Neural Radiance Fields

. Chen et al., CVPR 2023 | github

Learned Initializations for Optimizing Coordinate-Based Neural Representations

. Tancik et al., CVPR 2021 | github

Learning Compositional Radiance Fields of Dynamic Human Heads

. Wang et al., Arxiv 2020

Learning Neural Transmittance for Efficient Rendering of Reflectance Fields

. Mohammad Shafiei et al., BMVC 2021

Learning Object-Compositional Neural Radiance Field for Editable Scene Rendering

. Yang et al., ICCV 2021 | github

Learning the 3D Fauna of the Web

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Lightning NeRF: Efficient Hybrid Scene Representation for Autonomous Driving

. Cao et al. ICRA 2024 | github

Loc-NeRF: Monte Carlo Localization using Neural Radiance Fields

. Maggio et al., ICRA 2023 | github

Local 3D Editing via 3D Distillation of CLIP Knowledge

. Hyung et al., CVPR 2023| github

M3DBench: Let's Instruct Large Models with Multi-modal 3D Prompts

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Magic3D: High-Resolution Text-to-3D Content Creation

. 🌐 Project Page

Make-A-Character: High Quality Text-to-3D Character Generation within Minutes

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Make-It-3D: High-Fidelity 3D Creation from A Single Image with Diffusion Prior

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

MinD-3D: Reconstruct High-quality 3D objects in Human Brain

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

MINE: Towards Continuous Depth MPI with NeRF for Novel View Synthesis

. Jiaxin Li et al., ICCV 2021 | github

Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fields

. Barron et al., Arxiv 2022

Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields

. Barron et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

Mixture of Volumetric Primitives for Efficient Neural Rendering

. Lombardi et al., SIGGRAPH 2021

MVSNeRF: Fast Generalizable Radiance Field Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo

. Chen et al., ICCV 2021 | github

NeO 360: Neural Fields for Sparse View Synthesis of Outdoor Scenes

. Irshad et al., ICCV 2023 | github

NeRF (paper site)

. Mildenhall et al., ECCV 2020 | github

NeRF in the Dark: High Dynamic Range View Synthesis from Noisy Raw Images

. Ben Mildenhall et al, arXiv 2021

NeRF in the Wild: Neural Radiance Fields for Unconstrained Photo Collections

. Martin-Brualla et al., CVPR 2021

NeRF--: Neural Radiance Fields Without Known Camera Parameters

. Wang et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

NeRF-In: Free-Form NeRF Inpainting with RGB-D Priors

. Liu et al., Arxiv 2022

NeRF-MAE: Masked AutoEncoders for Self-Supervised 3D Representation Learning for Neural Radiance Fields

. Irshad et al., ECCV 2024

NeRF-SOS: Any-view Self-supervised Object Segmentation on Complex Real-world Scenes

. Fan et al., ICLR 2023

NeRF-VAE: A Geometry Aware 3D Scene Generative Model

. Kosiorek et al., Arxiv 2021

NeRF: Neural Radiance Field in 3D Vision, Introduction and Review

. Kyle Gao, Yina Gao, Hongjie He, Dening Lu, Linlin Xu, Jonathan Li

NeRF++: Analyzing and Improving Neural Radiance Fields

. Zhang et al., Arxiv 2020 | github

NerfingMVS: Guided Optimization of Neural Radiance Fields for Indoor Multi-view Stereo

. Wei et al., ICCV 2021

NeRV: Neural Reflectance and Visibility Fields for Relighting and View Synthesis

. Srinivasan et al. CVPR 2021

Neural 3D Video Synthesis from Multi-view Video

. Li et al., CVPR 2022

Neural Body: Implicit Neural Representations with Structured Latent Codes for Novel View Synthesis of Dynamic Humans

. Peng et al., CVPR 2021 | github

Neural Radiance Flow for 4D View Synthesis and Video Processing

. Du et al., Arxiv 2020

Neural Rays for Occlusion-aware Image-based Rendering

. Liu et al., Arxiv 2021

Neural Refinement for Absolute Pose Regression with Feature Synthesis

. Chen et al., CVPR 2024 | github

Neural Scene Flow Fields for Space-Time View Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes

. Li et al., CVPR 2021 | github

Neural Scene Graphs for Dynamic Scenes

. Ost et al., CVPR 2021

Neural Sparse Voxel Fields

. Liu et al., NeurIPS 2020 | github

Neural Volume Rendering: NeRF

. Dellaert and Yen-Chen, Arxiv 2020 | blog

NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstruction

. Wang et al., NeurIPS 2021 | github

Non-Rigid Neural Radiance Fields: Reconstruction and Novel View Synthesis of a Deforming Scene from Monocular Video

. Tretschk et al., Arxiv 2020 | github

NoPe-NeRF: Optimising Neural Radiance Field with No Pose Prior

. Bian et al., CVPR 2023 | github

One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

ParSeNet: A Parametric Surface Fitting Network for 3D Point Clouds

. ECCV 2020 | [project] [code]

PC2WF: 3D Wireframe Reconstruction from Raw Point Clouds

. ICLR 2021 | [code]

Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D

. Snavely, Seitz, Szeliski. SIGGRAPH 2006.

pi-GAN: Periodic Implicit Generative Adversarial Networks for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis

. Chan et al., CVPR 2021

pixelNeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from One or Few Images

. Yu et al., CVPR 2021 | github

PlankAssembly: 3D Reconstruction from Three Orthographic Views with Learnt Shape Programs

. ICCV 2023 | [project] [code]

PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields

. Yu et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

Point-NeRF: Point-based Neural Radiance Fields

. Xu et al., CVPR 2022 | github

Point2Cyl: Reverse Engineering 3D Objects from Point Clouds to Extrusion Cylinders

. CVPR 2022 | [project] [code]

PolyGen: An Autoregressive Generative Model of 3D Meshes

. ICML 2020 | [code]

Ponder: Point Cloud Pre-training via Neural Rendering

. Huang et al., ICCV 2023

PonderV2: Pave the Way for 3D Foundation Model with A Universal Pre-training Paradigm

. Zhu et al., Arxiv 2023 | github

PoRF: Pose Residual Field for Accurate Neural Surface Reconstruction

. Bian et al., ICLR 2024 | github

Portrait Neural Radiance Fields from a Single Image

. Gao et al., Arxiv 2020

Progressive3D: Progressively Local Editing for Text-to-3D Content Creation with Complex Semantic Prompts

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

PSAvatar: A Point-based Shape Model for Real-Time Head Avatar Animation with 3D Gaussian Splatting

. 💻 Code

Putting NeRF on a Diet: Semantically Consistent Few-Shot View Synthesis

. Matthew Tancik et al., Arxiv 2021

PVA: Pixel-aligned Volumetric Avatars

. Raj et al., CVPR 2021

PVDeconv: Point-voxel deconvolution for autoencoding cad construction in 3D

. ICIP 2020 | [project]

Reconstructing Editable Prismatic CAD from Rounded Voxel Models

. SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

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.

RichDreamer: A Generalizable Normal-Depth Diffusion Model for Detail Richness in Text-to-3D

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Rig3DGS: Creating Controllable Portraits from Casual Monocular Videos

. 🌐 Project Page

Rodin: A Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Digital Avatars Using Diffusion

. Wang et al., CVPR 2023 | github

RT-NeRF: Real-Time On-Device Neural Radiance Fields Towards Immersive AR/VR Rendering

. Li et al., ICCAD 2022

SEEAvatar: Photorealistic Text-to-3D Avatar Generation with Constrained Geometry and Appearance

. 🌐 Project Page

Self-Calibrating Neural Radiance Fields

. Jeong et al., ICCV 2021 | github

SIGNeRF: Scene Integrated Generation for Neural Radiance Fields

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

SINE: Semantic-driven Image-based NeRF Editing with Prior-guided Editing Field

. Bao et al., CVPR 2023 | github

SinNeRF: Training Neural Radiance Fields on Complex Scenes from a Single Image

. Xu et al., ECCV 2022 | github

Space-time Neural Irradiance Fields for Free-Viewpoint Video

. Xian et al., CVPR 2021

Streaming Radiance Fields for 3D Video Synthesis

. Li et al. NeurIPS 2022 | github

Street Gaussians: Modeling Dynamic Urban Scenes with Gaussian Splatting

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

StyleNeRF: A Style-based 3D-Aware Generator for High-resolution Image Synthesis

. Gu et al., Arxiv 2021

Supervised Fitting of Geometric Primitives to 3D Point Clouds

. CVPR 2019 | [code]

SurfelNeRF: Neural Surfel Radiance Fields for Online Photorealistic Reconstruction of Indoor Scenes

. Gao et al., CVPR 2023 | github

Switch-NeRF: Learning Scene Decomposition with Mixture of Experts for Large-scale Neural Radiance Fields

. Mi et al., ICLR 2023 | github

Taming Mode Collapse in Score Distillation for Text-to-3D Generation

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Text-To-4D Dynamic Scene Generation

. 🌐 Project Page

Text2CAD: Text to 3D CAD Generation via Technical Drawings

. NeurIPS 2024 | [project]

TextField3D: Towards Enhancing Open-Vocabulary 3D Generation with Noisy Text Fields

. 🌐 Project Page

TextureDreamer: Image-guided Texture Synthesis through Geometry-aware Diffusion

. 🌐 Project Page

TiNeuVox: Fast Dynamic Radiance Fields with Time-Aware Neural Voxels

. Fang et al., SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 | github

TOSS:High-quality Text-guided Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image

. 🌐 Project Page

Triplane Meets Gaussian Splatting: Fast and Generalizable Single-View 3D Reconstruction with Transformers

. 🌐 Project Page

UV Volumes for Real-time Rendering of Editable Free-view Human Performance

. Chen et al., CVPR 2023 | github

ViCA-NeRF: View-Consistency-Aware 3D Editing of Neural Radiance Fields

. 💻 Code

Volume Rendering of Neural Implicit Surfaces

. Yariv et al., NeurIPS 2021 | github

Wonder3D: Single Image to 3D using Cross-Domain Diffusion

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

X-NeRF: Explicit Neural Radiance Field for Multi-Scene 360° Insufficient RGB-D Views

. Zhu et al., WACV 2023 | github

Zero123++: a Single Image to Consistent Multi-view Diffusion Base Model

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code | 🤗 Hugging Face

Adobe Firefly 3

Commercial-safe, deep Creative Cloud integration.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 3 lists

Adobe Firefly Textures

Prompt-to-edit texture workflows.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Aga Miko/pixel Character Generator

Generating retro pixel game characters with Generative Adversarial Networks. Dataset "TinyHero" included.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

ComfyUI

Node-based AI generator for image/video/3D/audio.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

FLUX.2 (Black Forest Labs)

Open-weight photorealism with Kontext editing.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

GPT Image (OpenAI)

Instruction-following image model with strong text rendering. GPT Image 1.5.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 6 listsDetails

Grok Aurora (xAI)

Photorealistic image gen integrated into Grok.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

HunyuanDiT (Tencent)

Open-source DiT-based, strong Chinese text.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

Ideogram 2.0

Best-in-class typography and text rendering, canvas mode.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 3 lists

Imagen

Google photoreal image model via Gemini and Vertex.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

InstaMAT

Material authoring with AI workflows (Substance alternative).See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Jimeng / Dreamina (ByteDance)

High quality, integrated with video pipeline.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Kolors (Kuaishou)

Open-source, bilingual Chinese/English.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

Krea AI

Real-time generation, upscaling, and style transfer platform.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 4 listsDetails

Leonardo AI

Real-time generation with artistic control.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 4 listsDetails

Meshy Textures

Integrated with 3D pipeline.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Midjourney v7

Industry-leading artistic coherence and stylized output.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

Nano Banana Pro (Google Gemini)

Instruction-based editing with character and product consistency across edits.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 7 listsDetails

Playground v3

Mixed-mode design canvas for graphic design.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

Poly

AI-generated PBR textures and materials, tileable with full map sets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

Ponzu

AI texture gen from text prompts for uploaded meshes.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Recraft V3

Design-oriented gen. Vector, icons, brand assets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 3 lists

Reve

Image model with strong prompt adherence.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Scenario

Game-ready PBR materials, full map sets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 4 listsDetails

Snowpixel

Generate Images/Videos/Animations/Audio/Music/3D Objects with Text and/or Image. Upload your own data to create custom models.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

In 2 lists

Stable Diffusion 3.5

Open-source diffusion (Large, Medium, Turbo sizes).See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Cog Video X

Tsinghua/Zhipu open-source, multiple sizes.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

Drawstory

Cinematography and story sequencing with strong character continuity.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Frameo

Script to cinematic video with scenes, characters, audio, and timeline assembly.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Genmo Mochi 1

Open-source video gen model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

Google Flow

Filmmaking app over Veo with scenebuilder and ingredients-to-video.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Hailuo AI / MiniMax

"Director" model. Strong motion and character consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 3 lists

Haiper

Ex-DeepMind team, animation and video-to-video modes.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

HeyGen

AI avatar marketing videos with a talking-head focus.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

HunyuanVideo 1.5

Open-source 8.3B params, runs on 14GB VRAM.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

InVideo AI

Prompt to video for marketing and social content.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

Kling 3.0

Up to 5min clips, strong human motion. Motion Brush control.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

LTX Studio

Pre-production to video pipeline with storyboards, character consistency, and timeline.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 2 lists

LTX-2 (Lightricks)

Fast open video model. LTX-2 Fast ranks top-3 in the arena.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

Luma Dream Machine

Atmospheric image-to-video. Ray3 is the first native 16-bit HDR video model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Mootion

Idea to a 2-minute cinematic video in one tool.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Morphic

AI film studio for story-driven video.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Pika 2.0

Extended video gen with improved consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

PixVerse

Style-specific modes (anime, 3D, realistic), character consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Runway Gen-4.5

Motion brushes and scene consistency on the GWM-1 world model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

Seedance 2.0 (ByteDance)

High raw quality video gen with audio. Tops the Artificial Analysis ranking.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Veo 3.1 (Google DeepMind)

Top leaderboard, native audio, 60s+ clips.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Vidu

16s clips, strong human motion (Shengshu).See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Wan 2.2 (Alibaba)

Cinematic MoE diffusion, 8GB+ VRAM. Open source.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

3DTopia

Open-source text-to-3D pipeline (coarse → refined).See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

InstantMesh

Fast single-image-to-3D reconstruction.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Intangible

Prompt and drag-drop to 3D scenes for previz. No-code.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Kaedim

Image-to-3D with hybrid AI plus artist cleanup for production quality.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Luma Genie

Text/image to 3D, integrated with Dream Machine.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 3 lists

Meshy v4

Production-reliable, improved topology and PBR textures.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 3 lists

Rodin Gen-2 (Hyper3D)

10B params, photorealistic, free generation tier.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Sloyd

Procedural 3D generation with parametric control.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

Spline AI

Generate 3D objects and textures from text prompts in-editor.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

Stability SPAR3D

Open-source single-image 3D reconstruction.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

TRELLIS.2 (Microsoft)

Full PBR materials, complex topologies.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Tripo v3.0

Sculpture-level precision, clean quad topology.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

TripoSR

Tripo/Stability collab. Fast open-source image-to-3D.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

Unique3D

High-quality mesh from single image (NeurIPS 2024).See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

Wonder3D++

Cross-domain diffusion, textured meshes in 2-3min.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

In 2 lists

ACE Studio

AI singing voice synthesizer with expression control.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

AIVA

AI composition, good for orchestral/cinematic scoring.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

DiffRhythm

Open-source full-song gen with vocals from lyrics.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

ElevenLabs

Voice cloning, narration, music generation.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

In 5 listsDetails

F5 TTS

Open-source zero-shot voice cloning TTS.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

In 2 lists

Fish Audio

Open-source TTS with voice cloning, fast and multilingual.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

Suno v5

Full song generation, 100M+ users.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

In 2 lists

Udio

Strong electronic/pop, licensed for commercial use.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

In 3 lists

Autodesk Flow Studio (Wonder Dynamics)

AI VFX, auto CG characters in live footage, USD export.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Blockade Labs Skybox AI

AI-generated 360° skyboxes/HDRIs from text.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

In 2 lists

Gigapixel AI

AI photo enlargement that adds detail to upscaled images.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

In 3 lists

Let's Enhance

Photo upscaler up to 16x with a free tier.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

In 4 listsDetails

Magnific AI

Creative upscaler that adds detail. Folded into Freepik plans Apr 2026.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Rosebud AI

Vibe coding platform for creating 3D games and interactive web apps with AI.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

In 3 lists

Topaz Photo AI / Video AI

Upscaling, denoising, and sharpening. Topaz Bloom adds unlimited creative upscaling.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Unity Muse

Unity in-editor AI for texture, sprite, and animation generation.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Upscayl

Open-source desktop upscaler that runs locally at no cost.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Flora

Node canvas for image and video gen with 50+ models and Style DNA.

Freepik Spaces

Node workflows tied to the Freepik stock library.

Higgsfield Canvas

Node editor chaining prompts, style transfer, motion, and render across image and video.

Kaiber

Unified canvas for image and video generation and editing. Superstudio.

Omma

Prompt-driven builder from Spline that generates 3D scenes, sites, games, and decks. Accepts GLB, OBJ, and data files as input.

Weavy

Node canvas with pro editing for compositing, matte, and relighting. Acquired by Figma.

Websim

Generates and remixes interactive web pages and toys from a prompt or URL.

Wireflow

AI workflow canvas with a developer lean.

Arko.ai

Arch-viz AI renderer for sketch and 3D model screenshots.

LookX

Arch-viz AI renderer with style references.

Mnml.ai

Arch-viz AI renderer from sketch and 3D screenshot input.

NewArc

Sketch to render for product, fashion, and automotive design.

SketchPro

Sketch, SketchUp, and massing to render for architecture.

The New Black

AI fashion workspace for clothing concepts, virtual try-ons, tech packs, fashion models, and 3D garments.

Visualizee

Sketch and 3D screenshot to render for architecture and interiors.

Vizcom

Sketch to render for industrial, product, and footwear design with line control.

In 2 lists

Claid.ai

Catalog image cleanup and AI product shots at ecommerce scale.

Emersya

3D and AR product experiences from ideation to ecommerce.

Flair.ai

AI product photography canvas. Drag products into staged scenes.

Omi

3D digital twins of products for virtual photoshoots. Built for CPG brands.

Photoroom

Marketplace-first mobile app for batch product listing images.

In 3 lists

Threekit

Enterprise 3D twins with photoreal renders and configurators from one file.

Tools, Pipeline & Utilities >USD (Universal Scene Description)

AL USD Maya

. Animal Logic's Maya plugin for round-tripping USD scene data into Maya.

Animal Logic's USD Docker

. Docker build scripts that fetch and compile Pixar USD and its open-source dependencies.

Apple USD Tools

. Usdz_converter, Reality Composer.

Luma USD

. USD plugins and schemas from Luma Pictures.

In 2 lists

NVIDIA USD Resources

. Omniverse, tutorials, tools.

OpenUSD

. Official Pixar USD site. Specification, tools, resources.

USD Cookbook (Colin Kennedy)

. Code recipes and examples.

USD Manager

. Lightweight app for browsing, managing, and editing USD files.

In 2 lists

USD Noodle

. Node-graph viewer showing the dependencies of a USD file.

In 2 lists

USD Qtpy

. Python Qt components for building custom USD tools.

USD Shell Extension for Windows

. Windows File Explorer extension adding USD thumbnails, side previews, and deep-metadata search.

USD Survival Guide

. Practical USD guide for VFX artists.

USD URI Resolver

. URI-based asset resolver for USD, with custom plugin support.

In 2 lists

USD Working Group (ASWF)

. Alliance for Open Media USD resources.

UsdQt

. Qt components for building custom USD tools.

In 2 lists

Tools, Pipeline & Utilities >Scene & Pipeline Tools

CGAL

A software project that provides easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of a C++ library.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

In 3 lists

CGRU

CG tools pack that includes AFANASY, a free open-source render farm manager.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Coalition

Render-farm manager from Mercenaries Engineering (makers of Guerilla Render).See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Flamenco (Blender render farm)

Blender Foundation's free render-farm manager.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Flamenco (flamenco.io)

From the Blender FoundationSee also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

ftrack

Production tracking.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Gaffer (GafferHQ compositing)

Gaffer is a great toolbox, it's a VFX application that enables look developers, lighters, and compositors to easily build, tweak, iterate, and render scenes.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

In 2 lists

Godot Game Tools

Blender addon that eases Mixamo animation import into Godot.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

In 2 lists

Kitsu (CGWire)

Production tracker.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Medieval Fantasy City Generator

Browser tool that generates random medieval city map layouts.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

In 2 lists

Open3D

Modern library for 3D data processing. Point clouds, meshes, voxels, reconstruction.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

In 2 lists

OpenCue (docs)

Open-source render management.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

OpenTimelineIO (site)

(repo) - Editorial timeline.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

In 2 lists

Pandora

Open-Source Renderfarm-Manager.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Prism Pipeline

Animation and VFX pipeline.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

TerraForge3D

A procedural terrain generation and procedural modeling toolkit.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Tik Manager (GitHub)

Artist friendly asset and pipeline manager.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Tik Manager (site)

Artist-friendly asset and pipeline manager.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

BlenderProc

. A procedural Blender pipeline for photorealistic training image generation.

In 3 lists

CGCmake

. CMake modules for CG apps.

In 3 lists

Cortex

. Libraries for VFX software development.

In 2 lists

Cross3D

. Scene and node management abstraction.

In 2 lists

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.

In 4 lists

Example of Python scripts for 3D Studio Max, Maya and Blender

. Sample Python scripts for 3ds Max, Maya, and Blender automation.

Field3D

. Open-source library for storing voxel data.

In 2 lists

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.

In 2 lists

minq

. Maya query language for speeding up common scene operations.

In 2 lists

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

. Forum for pipeline TDs and studio tool developers.

Prisma

. Computational photography pipeline tool that performs multiple inferences (masks, depth, motionvectors) from any image or video.

Py3dsMax

. 3dsMax API in Python.

In 2 lists

PyMEL

. Python in Maya Done Right.

In 2 lists

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

Tools, Pipeline & Utilities >Gaussian Splatting & NeRF

3D Gaussian Splatting (INRIA reference impl)

. Original implementation.

In 2 lists

3DGS Introduction

. HuggingFace introductory guide to 3D Gaussian Splatting.

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).

Brush

. Cross-platform Gaussian Splatting reconstruction and viewer (Rust/wgpu), runs in browser.

Gaussian Head Avatars: A Summary

. Summary of Gaussian-splatting head-avatar techniques (Towards Data Science).

LichtFeld Studio

. Native desktop app for training, inspecting, editing, and exporting 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes. Plugin extensible.

In 4 listsDetails

MegaSaM

. Structure and motion recovery from casual handheld video.

msplat

. A modular differential gaussian rasterization library.

Pointrix

. Differentiable point-based rendering framework for Gaussian Splatting.

PyTorch Implementation

. Curated implementation of Vanilla 3DGS in PyTorch

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).

vkgs

. Cross-platform, high performance 3DGS renderer in C++ and Vulkan Compute/Graphics.

Warp 3DGS

. Warp/Python-based implementation (AGPL-3.0).

Tools, Pipeline & Utilities >Photogrammetry & 3D Scanning

3DF Zephyr

Free lite version (up to 50 photos).

In 2 lists

3DF Zephyr Free

Free version of 3DF Zephyr photogrammetry software for personal use. It comes with some limitations.

In 2 lists

Agisoft Metashape

Professional photogrammetry with GIS features.

In 4 listsDetails

Artec Studio

Capture and alignment software for Artec handheld scanners.

CloudCompare

A 3D point cloud (and triangular mesh) processing software. Open-source and designed for visualizing and editing LiDAR and photogrammetry data. Good for alignment, meshing, cleanup, segmentation, a

In 2 lists

COLMAP

A general-purpose Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipeline with a graphical and command-line interface.

In 3 lists

Depthkit

Depth-sensor volumetric capture toolkit.

FARO SCENE

Capture and process FARO Focus scan data.

Geomagic Wrap

Convert point clouds to polygon meshes (Oqton, formerly 3D Systems).

HDR Light Studio

Interactive HDRI editing and relighting tool for 3D. Bridges to Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, Cinema 4D, Modo, Blender.See also: Software Reference → Misc 3D Utilities Software

In 2 lists

HDR Shop

Debevec's HDR assembly and panoramic transform tool. Historical software, still downloadable.

Hugin

Free OSS panorama stitcher built on Panorama Tools.

KIRI Engine

Cross-platform mobile photogrammetry.

Leica Cyclone

Point cloud registration and processing for Leica scanners.

Luminance HDR

HDR workflow. Merge brackets, tonemap, convert EXR/HDR/RGBE.See also: Software Reference → Viewers & File Utilities, Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Conversion Tools

Meshroom (AliceVision)

Free, open-source photogrammetry. Node-based, GPU-accelerated.

In 3 lists

MipMap

Drone mapping photogrammetry for mining, construction, and surveying. Outputs textured mesh, point cloud, and Gaussian splats.

Open Scan Tools

A collection of open-source tools for photogrammetry, depth-sensing, and 3D reconstruction workflows. Nice rendering options for xray style.

OpenDroneMap / WebODM

Open source drone photogrammetry stack.

In 2 lists

PCL (Point Cloud Library)

Large-scale open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.

In 3 lists

Pix4D

Survey and mapping photogrammetry suite.

In 2 lists

Polycam

Mobile photogrammetry (iOS LiDAR + photo, Android photo). Cloud processing.

In 2 lists

Postshot

Desktop Gaussian Splatting tool. Train, clean, edit, export.

PTGui Pro

Industry-standard panorama stitcher. Full HDR/bracketed support, mask painting, viewpoint correction.

Quixel Megascans

World’s largest photogrammetry 2D and 3D asset library. Now it is free for the Epic Games accounts (only UE projects).

In 2 lists

RealityCapture

Fast, high-quality photogrammetry (now Epic Games). PPI pricing.

In 3 lists

Scaniverse (Niantic)

Free mobile scanning, Gaussian splat support.

Trimble RealWorks

Survey-grade point cloud registration and modeling.

360 Gaussian Splatting

. Generate gaussian splatting directly from 360 images

3D Gaussian Splatting (joeyan reimpl)

. Python/CUDA Gaussian Splatting reimplementation (MIT).

3D Gaussian Splatting (WangFeng18 reimpl)

. Python/CUDA Gaussian Splatting reimplementation (MIT).

4DViews

Paid. Volumetric capture stages and HOLOSYS rigs.

Awesome-3DGS Paper List

. Curated list of 3D Gaussian Splatting papers, maintained by MrNeRF.

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 and photography.

Compressing Gaussian Splats

. PlayCanvas blog. Compressing Gaussian Splat data for the web.

CyArk

. Heritage site laser scanning archive. Free models for cultural sites worldwide.

Direct Gaussian Style Optimization (DGSO): Stylizing 3D Gaussian Splats

. Applying style transfer during gaussian optimization to produce stylized gaussian splats of a scene.

Eisko

Paid. Digital human scanning and asset service.

Gaussian Splats Town Hall - Part 2

. PixelReconstruct YouTube. Community town hall on Gaussian Splatting tooling.

Gaussian Splatting 3D

. Python/CUDA Gaussian Splatting implementation.

Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool

. Aras Pranckevicius blog. How Gaussian Splatting works under the hood.

Gaussian Splatting Lightning

. A 3D Gaussian Splatting framework with various derived algorithms and an interactive web viewer

Infinite-Realities (Triple-I)

Paid. Photogrammetry and light-stage rentals for film and games.

Intro to gaussian splatting (and Unity plugin)

. Blog walkthrough of Gaussian Splatting with a Unity plugin demo.

JaxNeRF

. Deng et al., 2020. JAX NeRF with multi-device training.

In 4 lists

Light Probe Image Gallery

. Original mirror-ball HDR probes (Grace Cathedral, Uffizi, etc.). Still used in IBL teaching.

In 2 lists

Making Gaussian Splats more smaller

. Aras Pranckevicius blog. Further Gaussian Splat size reduction.

Making Gaussian Splats smaller

. Aras Pranckevicius blog. Shrinking Gaussian Splat file sizes.

Meshroom

. AliceVision photogrammetry pipeline. Reconstructs 3D meshes from photos.

In 4 lists

Metastage

Paid. LA volumetric capture studio using Microsoft tech.

Mip-NeRF

. google, 2021. Anti-aliased NeRF reference implementation.

In 2 lists

MrNeRF (awesome-3D-gaussian-splatting)

. Curated awesome-list of 3D Gaussian Splatting papers, tools, and viewers.

NeRF

. Mildenhall et al., 2020. Original NeRF reference implementation.

NeRF (PyTorch3D)

. facebookresearch, 2020. NeRF project inside PyTorch3D.

In 5 listsDetails

NeRF-PyTorch (yenchenlin)

. Yen-Chen Lin, 2020. Faithful PyTorch reimplementation of NeRF.

NeRF-PyTorch-Lightning (nerf_pl)

. kwea123, 2020. NeRF in PyTorch-Lightning.

Nerfstudio gsplat

. CUDA-accelerated Gaussian Splatting library integrated with Nerfstudio (Apache-2.0).

In 2 lists

Nerfstudio Unofficial

. Unofficial Nerfstudio fork adding Gaussian Splatting support.

Neural Rendering (YouTube)

. Ben Mildenhall

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

. Towards Data Science article. End-to-end 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

. Guide to photogrammetry covering applications, libraries, and tools.

In 2 lists

Photogrammetry Importer

. Addon to import different photogrammetry formats into Blender.

In 3 lists

Polyscope

. A C++ & Python viewer for 3D data like meshes and point clouds.

In 4 lists

Smithsonian 3D

. Historical artifacts.See also: Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Photogrammetry & 3D Scanning

Stanford Digital Michelangelo

. Foundational large-statue laser scanning project (Marc Levoy).

SuperSplat

. A browser-based tool for inspecting, editing, optimizing and publishing 3D Gaussian Splats.

In 2 lists

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.

Tools, Pipeline & Utilities >Retopology & Mesh Tools

3D Coat

Sculpt, retopo, UV, and PBR paint suite from Pilgway. Voxel and surface sculpt, AUTOPO auto-retopo, manual quad retopo, UV unwrap, bake.

AutoRemesher

Open-source auto-retopology tool intended to convert source meshes into clean, animation-friendly all-quad geometry.

In 4 lists

Cozy Blanket

iPad sculpt-to-retopo app. Clay sculpt plus auto-quad retopology for game/film topology, from Naam.

Instant Meshes

Free, open-source auto-retopology.

In 4 lists

Topogun

Standalone retopology and baking.

AutoRemesher Blender Bridge

. Blender addon that runs AutoRemesher on selected meshes and imports the quad result back into the scene.See also: Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Retopology & Mesh Tools

Danny Mac 3D

. Character modeling, posing, rigging, retopology, sculpting.

Instant Meshes Remesh

. Blender addon wrapping Instant Meshes for fast auto-retopology.

In 2 lists

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.

In 2 lists

RetopoFlow 3

Paid. Blender retopology suite with sketch, contour, strip, patches, and tweak tools. Sold via Blender Market.See also: Software Reference → Retopology & UV Software

In 2 lists

SpeedRetopo

. Free add-on for Blender to make fast and easy retopology using Bsurface.

In 2 lists

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

Tools, Pipeline & Utilities >UV Tools

Headus UVLayout

Standalone UV editor, flatten-based.

RizomUV

Fast UV unwrapping, auto-seam, auto-pack. Standalone or bridge.

UVPackmaster

Advanced UV packing, UDIM support. Blender addon + standalone.

Valence 3D

iPad UV unwrap and texture paint app from Naam. Pairs with Cozy Blanket for full iPad asset workflow.

UV Checker Map Maker

. Custom UV checker textures.

UV Grid Generator

. Web tool to generate custom UV checker textures.

UV Toolkit

Paid. Tools collection for UV editing in blender.

In 2 lists

Tools, Pipeline & Utilities >Rigging & Animation Tools

AccuRIG

. Free application designed for fast and easy character rigging.

In 2 lists

AnimKit

Paid. Dockable Maya toolbar of selection-aware animation tools for tweening, key manipulation, and workflow cleanup.

APEX (Houdini)

Paid. SideFX's procedural node-based rigging framework.

In 3 lists

Auto-Rig Pro (Blender)

Paid. Automatic rigging and retargeting.

In 2 lists

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

In 3 lists

trigger

. Operational code-driven rigging tool for Autodesk Maya.

Tools, Pipeline & Utilities >Matchmoving & Camera Tracking

3DEqualizer

High-end matchmoving (major VFX studios).

fSpy

Free, open-source single-image camera matching → Blender.

In 2 lists

KeenTools

Face and geometry tracking plus FaceBuilder for Blender, Nuke, AE, Houdini.

Mocha Pro

Boris FX planar tracker for VFX. Roto, object removal, screen replacement, lens distortion.

In 2 lists

PFTrack

Professional matchmoving, object tracking, mesh generation.

Silhouette

Boris FX node-based roto/paint compositor with AI-driven matte tools.

SynthEyes

Camera tracking with lens distortion solving.

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.

VFX Camera Database

. Reference database of camera sensor sizes, formats, and specs for matchmoving and lens setup.See also: Too

3D Resources: Software, Assets, Tutorials & Tools for 3D Artists

Curated, CC0 reference hub for 3D, VFX, and game dev. 3,400+ tools, assets, and tutorials across 12 sections. Searchable, filterable, free.

3DExport

Free tier. 3D model marketplace.

3Dshaker

. Free models.

3Dzip

. Free 3D models and interior scenes.

Blend Swap

. Open-source .blend file library.

Blender 3D models

License unspecified. 3D models, particle systems, and effects.

CadNav

License unspecified. Architecture, furniture, vehicle models.

Casual Effects Data

. Graphics research datasets and test scenes.

CGHEVEN

. Free CC0 3D and VFX assets.

CGTrader

Free tier. Community model marketplace.

Chocofur Free

. Free section of Chocofur premium 3D model store.

Free3D

. Large free collection.

Free3D.io

. Free 3D model downloads.

Free3DBase

License unspecified. Free 3D models.

Funes

License unspecified. 3D cultural heritage.

Keenan Crane's Model Repository

. Clean test meshes for shader and subdivision work.

Mantissa/resources

. Free Blender files and resources.

MyMiniFactory Scan the World

License unspecified. Scan the World collection of scanned heritage objects.

Open3DModel

. Free model archive.

OpenTopography/datasets

. High-resolution Earth-science topography datasets and related tools. Registration required.

Oyonale

Paid. Sells 3D models for various industries.

PBRPX

License unspecified. Free PBR materials and some 3D models.

Poly Haven

. CC0 models, textures up to 8K+, HDRIs up to 16K.

Poly Pizza

. Low-poly models (Google Poly archive).

Polycam Explore

License unspecified. User-uploaded photogrammetry scans.

Quaternius's Ultimate Low-Poly Models

. Ultimate low-poly model packs (CC0).

RigModels

Free tier. Rigged models.

rileyb3d Library

. Free packed .blend files ready to use.

Sketchfab

Free tier. Massive downloadable library.

Stanford 3D Scanning Repository

. Classic academic 3D scans (bunny, dragon, etc.).

The Base Mesh

License unspecified. Base meshes for sculpting and rigging.

Three D Scans

. Free 3D scan archive.

TurboSquid

Free tier. Professional models with free section.

XYZed3D (Gumroad)

. CC0 (non-AI) asset packs: models, props, misc. By artyusufpatel.

3D MDB

License unspecified. Model search database across many sites.

Ameede

. Free STL and vector downloads for CNC relief carving, laser cutting and 3D printing.

Anatomy 360

Paid. Artist reference models.

Anatomy For Sculptors

Paid. Anatomical references.

Anything World Gallery

Free tier. Animated, game-ready models.

Artec 3D

. Free high-resolution 3D scans. (CC-BY)

British Museum (Sketchfab)

. Scanned artifacts.

Characterz

Free tier. 9,000+ customizable diverse 3D character illustrations with Blender source files.

Cleveland Museum of Art (Sketchfab)

. Museum 3D scans.

Emojiz

Paid. 77+ animated 3D emoji illustrations with Blender source files.

Handz

. Free library of 320+ diverse 3D hand illustrations with Blender source files.

Insect 3D Models

. Insect models.

Mixamo

. Rigged characters, auto-rigger, and free animation library (Adobe).See also: Animation & Rigging → AI Motion Capture…

Models Resource

. Video game model rips.

Models Resource (3D)

. 3D model rips from games. Sister site to Spriters Resource.

NASA 3D Resources

Mixed. Spacecraft, planets, terrain models (mixed CC0 / CC-BY. Check per-asset license; mirror at nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov).

Quaternius

. Free low-poly game assets.

Robotz

. Free modular 3D cartoon robot with customizable heads, bodies, and hands.

Sample and Hold

. Head, body and FACS scan demo data from a scanning studio. Free on request.

Scanned Female Head Model by EISKO

. Free high-resolution scanned female head model (Louise).

Smithsonian 3D

. Historical artifacts.See also: Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Photogrammetry & 3D Scanning

Smithsonian Open Access

. Millions of 2D/3D museum assets, CC0.

Wire Wheels Club

. Vehicle models.

3asky

License unspecified. 3DS Max and general library.

3D Warehouse

License unspecified. SketchUp library.

3ddd

License unspecified. Design and architecture models.

3DSky

License unspecified. Architecture models.

BIMobject

License unspecified. BIM objects.

Design Connected

License unspecified. Furniture.

Dimensiva

License unspecified. Furniture models.

Evermotion

License unspecified. Scenes and models.

Syncronia

License unspecified. CAD and BIM objects.

Viz-People

License unspecified. Archviz scenes, 3D people, vegetation, HDRIs.

ArtStation Marketplace

Paid. Professional assets.

Blender Market

Paid. Blender-specific assets and addons.

Cubebrush

Paid. Art and game assets.

Fab (Epic)

Free tier. Unified marketplace (UE, Sketchfab, ArtStation).

Julio Sillet (Gumroad)

Free tier. Free and paid PBR texture sets and material packs.

Quixel Bridge

. Desktop app linking Megascans to Blender and other DCC tools.

RenderHub Free

Free tier. Daz Content, 3D models, textures and materials.

SplatMart

Paid. Marketplace for buying and selling Gaussian splat scenes (PLY, SOGS, SPZ).

Unity Asset Store

Free tier. Game-ready assets.

Unreal Marketplace

Free tier. UE-optimized assets.

Sonniss GDC Bundle

. Free SFX bundles (~30GB+) released annually around GDC and Christmas.

Blender Demo Files

. Official demo scenes.

Blender Extensions

. Official addons and themes repository.

Maxon Asset Browser

Paid. Cinema 4D built-in asset library.

Maya Content Browser

Paid. Official example scenes and assets.

Nomad Sculpt Resources

. Community brushes and matcaps.

SideFX Content Library

. Official Houdini assets.

Substance 3D Assets

Paid. Adobe materials library.

Substance 3D Community Assets

. User-shared materials.

ZBrush Download Center

. Alphas and brushes.

Adobe Stock HDRI

Paid. Studio HDRIs.

HDR Maps

. Free HDRI packs.

HDRI Hub

Free tier. Professional HDRIs, backplates, textures & 3D people for archviz/CGI. Free commercial samples (HDRIs up to…

HDRI Skies

. Free sky HDRIs.

Maxime Roz HDRI Pack

. Free studio and outdoor HDRIs for product viz.

No Emotion HDRs

. Free high-resolution HDRIs sorted by time of day.

Open HDRI

. 50 free CC0 HDRIs.

OpenFootage

. Free HDRIs, VFX plates, and backplates.

Poly Haven HDRIs

. CC0 HDRIs up to 16K.

RenderMan HDRIs

. Pixar's HDRI collection.

The Mari Channel

. Free HDR environment maps for lighting and reflection.

3D Textures

. Free PBR library.

3DAssets.one

. Search engine across the largest free texture sites at once.

3DXO

. Free 3D models, textures, backgrounds, photos, and graphics.

ambientCG

. 2000+ CC0 PBR materials.

Arroway Textures

Free tier. Digital textures for 3D rendering and real-time use.

C4DCenter Material Library

. Free Cinema 4D materials with high-quality texture maps. Personal and commercial use.

Celestia Motherlode

. Repository of Celestia addons: textures, models, and celestial objects.

CG Bookcase

. Free PBR textures.

Free PBR

. Hundreds of free materials.

Kaimoisch

. 3D scanned textures.

LotPixel

. Photogrammetry and PBR textures, 3D models, decals. 1500+ free textures.

Matcaps

. Large matcap texture library in PNG and ZMT, organized by color.

MaterialX Library

. AMD's free MaterialX-based material library. Download materials or upload your own.

Physically Based

. Reference database of real-world PBR values for materials, lights, and cameras.

PlainTextures

. Free high-resolution textures, brushes, and photos.

Share Textures

. CC0 textures.

Substance Source/freebies

Free tier. Hundreds of high-quality PBR materials. Free tier with a paid library.

Texture Fabrik

. Free textures and tileable patterns.

Texture Fun

. Free PBR sets of architectural materials, including tile textures.

Texture Labs

. Free texture resources.

Texture Supply (Gumroad)

. Free textures.

Texture.Ninja

. Public domain photographic textures, reference images, and cutouts. (CC0)

TextureCan

. Free PBR textures, high scan quality.

TextureKing

. Free material stock textures.

Textures.com

Free tier. Massive professional texture library.

Texturify

. Free texture collection.

The Blendersauce Vault Materials

. Free material vault covering bricks, concrete, fabric, metal, nature, plaster, stone, tiles, and wood.

The Pixel Lab Freebies

. Free 3D models and textures.

CGI Moon Kit

. NASA Scientific Visualization Studio moon kit: high-resolution moon textures and elevation data for rendering.

NASA 3D Resources

Mixed. 3D models, textures, and images from NASA. Mixed CC0 / CC-BY, check per-asset license.

Shaded Relief

. Natural Earth data and terrain reference.

Solar Textures

. These textures represent real planetary maps in equirectangular projection. Textures in this pack are based on NASA…

Spriters Resource

. Game sprite textures.

Subtle Patterns

. Tileable web patterns.

Terrain Height Maps

. Free heightmap images for terrain displacement.

Texturing.xyz

Paid. MicroSkin displacement maps.

The Pattern Library

. Free seamless background patterns.

Poliigon

Paid. PBR textures.

Quixel Megascans + Bridge

Free tier. Scanned materials and import plugin. Free with Unreal Engine.

Texture Box

Paid. Mixed library.

Absurd Design

. Free surrealist illustration set.

All Free Download

. Free design downloads.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

. 300,000+ botanical and animal illustrations free to download (CC0).

Black Illustrations

Free tier. Illustrations of black people for projects.

Blush

Free tier. Mix and customize illustrations made by artists.

Control Illustrations

Paid. Combo set of 108 customizable illustrations.

David Rumsey Maps

Free, non-commercial. Historical maps archive.

Flowbite Illustrations

. Open-source SVG illustrations in 3D style, dark and light mode.

Freepik

Free tier. Free vectors, photos, and mockups.

Get Illustrations Bundle

Paid. Bundle of 34+ vector illustration packs, 2800+ items.

Humaaans

. Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library.

illlustrations

. 100 open-source illustrations including COVID and WFH themes.

Illustration Gallery

. Royalty-free illustration collection.

Illustrationz

Free tier. 100+ 3D character illustration packs with 167M+ combinations.

LACartoons

License unspecified. Animation cel and model sheet archive.

Mockupz

. Free 3D mockup scenes for showcasing design work.

Neurascapes

. Free surreal/AI-generated reference imagery.

Pexels

. Free stock photos and video.

Pixabay

. Free stock media.

PNG Images

Free, non-commercial. Transparent PNG images.

Public Domain Review

. Public-domain image collections.

Public.work

. Search public domain images from museums and libraries.

Settei Dreams

License unspecified. Anime model sheets and settei archive.

Smash Illustrations

Free tier. Library of 250+ illustrations.

Story Set

. Customizable illustrations to edit and animate, free.

Storytale

Free tier. Hundreds of illustrations for web and app projects.

Stubborn Generator

. Character illustration generator.

The Blueprints

. Vehicle, aircraft, ship blueprints.

unDraw Illustrations

. MIT-licensed collection of SVG illustrations.

Unsplash

. Free photography.

ActionVFX Practice

. Free practice VFX footage.

Internet Archive / Prelinger

. Public-domain archival footage.

Mixkit

. Free stock music, SFX, and video footage.See also: Assets & Libraries → Audio: SFX & Music Libraries

Open Visual FX

. Free VFX footage.

videvo

Free tier. Free stock video, motion graphics, and music tracks.

Artlist

Paid. Subscription music and SFX.

BBC Sound Effects

. BBC's archive of free SFX.

ccMixter

. Creative Commons remix community.

Ende

. Curated free audio library.

Free Music Archive

. Free music, varied licenses.

Freesound

. Collaborative database of CC-licensed sounds.

Freesound Add-on

. Blender VSE addon to browse, preview, and insert sounds from freesound.org.

Knell

. Free procedural sound effect synthesizer for games, UI, and prototypes.

Mixkit

. Free stock music, SFX, and video footage.See also: Assets & Libraries → Audio: SFX & Music Libraries

Moby Gratis

Free, non-commercial. Free Moby music for indie creators.

Motion Array SFX

. Free SFX collection.

Sonniss

Paid. SFX library. Releases free SFX bundles annually.

Uppbeat

Free tier. Music for creators.

ZapSplat

. Large free SFX library.

Adobe Fonts

Paid. Premium font library bundled with Creative Cloud subscription.

Creative Market Fonts

Paid. 300k+ premium fonts with worry-free perpetual commercial licenses.

Font Bundles

Free tier. Premium font marketplace with regular freebies; clear commercial license.

Font Library

. Open-source and free fonts.

FontPair

. Font pairing inspiration.

Fontshare

. Free quality fonts from Indian Type Foundry; Satoshi, General Sans, Clash Display.

Fontz

Free tier. Free and premium 3D fonts with Blender source files.

Free Faces

. Curated directory of free fonts from independent foundries and designers.

Free Fonts (Awwwards)

. Curated collection of free fonts.

Future Fonts

Paid. Buy in-progress fonts directly from indie designers at lower early-access prices.

Google Fonts

. Largest free open-source font library; SIL OFL / Apache licensed.

Indestructible Type

. Open-source foundry by Owen Earl; variable font families like Jost, Besley, Bodoni.

Lilex

. Programming font with ligatures.

MyFonts

Paid. Long-running premium font marketplace; perpetual desktop, web, app licenses.

Pangram Pangram Foundry

Free tier. Indie foundry with high-end typefaces; free personal-use trials available.

The League of Moveable Type

. Open-source foundry; well-curated bold typefaces, free for commercial use.

UNCUT.wtf

. 160+ contemporary open-source typefaces, all free for commercial use.

Usable Google Fonts (Figma)

. Curated Figma set of usable Google Fonts.

Velvetyne Type Foundry

. Paris-based non-profit foundry releasing open-source experimental typefaces.

WhatTheFont

Free tier. Identify fonts from an image.

Wordmark.it

. Preview text in your installed fonts.

Bootstrap Icons

. 2000+ official open-source SVG icons from the Bootstrap team.

Flaticon

Free tier. Massive icon library.

Font Awesome

Free tier. Classic icon font library.

Game Icons

. 4000+ SVG game icons.

Heroicons

. Hand-crafted SVG icons by Tailwind CSS team; outline and solid.

Hugeicons

Free tier. 36k+ icons in multiple styles; free tier plus premium plans.

Iconify

. Unified framework aggregating 200k+ open-source icons from 150+ icon sets.

Iconoir

. 1600+ open-source SVG icons; React, React Native, Flutter, Vue, Figma support.

icons8

Free tier. Large icon packs with consistent styles.

Icons8 Glyph

Free tier. Glyph-style icon set.

Iconz

Free tier. 460+ 3D icons in multiple angles and materials.

Lineicons

Free tier. 30k icons (4k free); SVG, JSX, TSX, Figma, PNG; React/Vue/Svelte support.

Lucide

. Open-source icon library.

Lucide Animated

. Animated version of Lucide icons.

Material design icons

. Official Material Design icon set from Google.

MDI Icons

. Material Design Icons, huge set.

Noun Project

Free tier. 5M+ curated icons and photos; subscription unlocks royalty-free use.

Ouch! Illustrations

Free tier. Illustration and icon library for UX from Icons8.

Phosphor Icons

. 9000+ flexible icons in thin, light, regular, bold, fill, duotone styles.

Remix Icon

. 2800+ neutral-style open-source icons on 24x24 grid; line and fill.

Shape.so

Paid. 4300+ icons and illustrations exportable to SVG, React, and Lottie.

Streamline

Paid. Massive premium icon and illustration library; consistent design systems.

SVG Repo

Mixed. 500k+ free SVG vectors and icons across many styles and packs.

SVGL

. Brand logos in SVG.

Tabler Icons

. Open-source SVG icons.

Thridy

. 13,000+ free 3D icons in one consistent style; HD transparent PNG downloads, no signup or attribution required.

typicons.font

. 336 pixel-perfect all-purpose vector icons in a web-font kit.

Use Animations

Free tier. Animated icons for web UI.

2D Pixel Art Character Template Asset Pack

Paid. 2D character art for sidescrollers, platformers, and metroidvania.

2D Pixel Dungeon Asset Pack

. 16x16 pixel character and tileset.

420 Pixel Art Icons for RPGs

. Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use.

8000+ Raven Fantasy Icons - RPG Icons, Pixel Art Icons, Textures and Sprites

. 8000+ colorful pixel art icons for fantasy and RPG games.

Ansimuz Legacy Collection

. Free 16-bit pixel-art assets.

Asset Creation Toolset

License unspecified. Blender addon bundling tools for game asset creation.

Brackeys' Platformer Bundle

. Pixel-art characters, tiles, sounds, and music for a first game.

Craftpix

Free tier. 2D game assets, free and paid.

Cup Nooble

. Creator of the Sprout Lands pixel art packs, cozy farming style.

Cute Fantasy RPG - 16x16 top down pixel art asset pack

. 16x16 assets for your top-down game.

Free - Pixel Art Asset Pack - Topdown Tileset - 16x16 Sprites

. 500 sprites, 3 heroes, 8 enemies, 50 weapons.

Free Game Assets

. Curated free 2D/3D/audio assets.

Fx Effects Pixel Art #91 - 64x64 | 32x32

Paid. RPG pixel-art FX effects pack. 64x64 and 32x32.

GameArt2D

. Free 2D game art pack collection.

GameDev Market

Free tier. Game dev asset marketplace.

Humble Bundle Game Dev

Paid. Periodic game dev bundles.

itch.io Assets

Free tier. Indie game asset marketplace.

Kay Lousberg

. CC0 low-poly game assets.

KayKit - Character Pack : Adventurers

. 3D low-poly rigged and animated character game assets.

KayKit - Forest Nature Pack

. 3D stylized low-poly trees, rocks, and grass.

Kenney

. CC0 game assets ("Asset Jesus").

Kenney Game Assets All-in-1

Paid. 60,000+ game assets including 2D sprites and 3D models.

Liberated Pixel Cup assets

. Free graphic assets from the Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) on the OpenGameArt forums.

Modern Farm - RPG Tileset

Paid. Props, animals, and a character generator for a farm RPG.

Mystic Woods - 16x16 Pixel Art Asset Pack

. Playful 16x16 pixel-art asset pack.

Ninja Adventure - Asset Pack

. Assets for a top-down game with a ninja theme.

Open Game Art

. Community hub for free game art.

Oryx Design Lab

Paid. Cheap royalty-free sprite packs.

Pixel Adventure

. Assets for a platform adventure game.

Pixel Art Top Down - Basic

. 32x32 sprites and tilesets for top-down games.

Pixel Frog

Free tier. Pixel art assets.

Pixel Planet Generator

. Procedural pixel planet generator with Godot shader source.

Reiner's Tilesets

. Free 2D and 3D graphics, classic game assets blog.

Sprout Lands - Asset Pack

. Cute pixel pastel farming asset pack.

Sprout Lands - UI Pack

. Cute pixel pastel UI pack.

Stylized Nature MegaKit

. 110+ stylized 3D nature models for Ghibli-inspired scenes. Projects for UE, Godot, and Unity.

Synty Studios

Paid. Stylized low-poly asset packs.

Tech Dungeon: Roguelite - Asset Pack

. Animated top-down assets for a futuristic project.

Tilemancer

. Procedural tile creator for pixel-art games.

Tiny Farm RPG - Asset Pack

. Pixel-art farming RPG asset pack.

Tiny RPG Character Asset Pack v1.03

. 20 animated pixel-art characters for your game.

Universal Animation Library

. 120+ animations ready to retarget in any engine.

UnluckyStudio

. Free game art for 2D games.

AMD Radeon ProRender

. AMD's physically based GPU/CPU render engine for Blender.

AnimAide

. Free animation helper tools for Blender.

Array Tools

. Create translation, scale and rotation arrays with offset or global parameters in any direction.

Arsenal

. Blender-integrated game engine written in Rust.

Auto Terrainer

Paid. Turns any low-poly mesh into customizable terrain like mountains, valleys and islands in Blender.

AutoMask

. Machine-learning automatic rotoscoping addon for Blender.

AutoRemesher Blender Bridge

. Blender addon that runs AutoRemesher on selected meshes and imports the quad result back into the scene.See also:…

Bangingcuts

. Cuts audio and video clips on audio peaks, removing silences. On recent Blender, install the install.py file instead…

Blender Addons

. Helper addons by Antonio Vazquez.

Blender Colab

. Python script to render Blender scenes on Google Colab. Cycles only.

Blender Data Visualisation

. Loads data into Blender and builds visualisations.

Blender Debugger For Vscode

. Addon for remote-debugging Blender from VS Code or Visual Studio.

Blender For Unreal Engine

. Exports Blender content to Unreal Engine.

Blender Kitti

. Renders large point clouds and voxel grids in Blender.

Blender Metaverse Addon

. Toolset for creating content for metaverse platforms like High Fidelity.

Blender NLA Midi Copier

. Creates MIDI-driven animations from Blender's Nonlinear Animation view.

Blender Pyblish

. Pyblish publishing-pipeline integration for Blender.

Blender Sculpt Tools

. Base-mesh sculpting tools for Blender, ZSphere-style.

Blender to Unity FBX

. Unity export addon.

Blender Vscode

. VS Code extension for Blender addon development.

Blender XR

. VR and mixed-reality interface for editing Blender scenes with a headset and controllers.

Blender2Godot

. Exports a Blender scene to a Godot Engine project.

BlenderCAM

. Open source CAM toolpath generation for CNC inside Blender.

BlenderSynth

. Blender scripting for generating synthetic datasets at scale.

BlendyPose

. Webcam motion capture inside Blender.

Blign

. Align and distribute objects in Blender with many options.

Bone Widget

. Helps make custom bone shapes for Blender rigs.

Bonsai

. OpenBIM/IFC architectural authoring add-on for Blender. Formerly BlenderBIM.

BookGen

. Generates rows of books on shelves in Blender.

Building Tools

. Building-generation addon for Blender.

Bystedts Blender Baker

Paid. Streamlines texture baking in Blender.

CAD Sketcher

. CAD-style precision sketching with constraints for Blender.

Camera Shakify

. Adds realistic camera shake to Blender cameras.

Capsule

. Export manager for sharing assets between Blender and Unreal/Unity.

CharMorph

. Open source character creation tool for Blender, a rewrite of the now-unmaintained MB-Lab.

COA Tools

. 2D cutout animation suite for Blender, similar to Spine or Spriter.

Crowdrender

Free tier. Distributed rendering across machines.

Curtis Holt Store

Paid. Curtis Holt's storefront for Blender addons and learning products.

Data FX

. Loads and visualizes CSV data within Blender.

Daz to Blender Bridge

. Transfers Genesis 8 and 3 characters from Daz Studio into Blender.

DreamUV

. Manipulate UVs directly in the 3D viewport.

Drop It

. Drops objects quickly onto the ground or a surface in Blender.

Easy HDRI

. HDRI management addon.

Easy Proxy

. Creates VSE proxy files easily via FFmpeg.

EasyBake

. One-click texture baking UI in the Blender 3D viewport.

EdgeFlow

. Adds two edge-loop operators for cleaner topology in Blender.

Embark Blender Tools

. Game-dev workflow tools for Blender, with standardized import/export and new object types.

Engraver

Paid. Carves decals into 3D models in Blender.

Export Paper Model from Blender

. Add-on for unfolding meshes into printable paper models.

EZ Baker

. Simpler alternative to Blender's default texture-bake system.

F Spy Blender

. Official fSpy Blender importer.

FaceBuilder

Paid. Builds photorealistic 3D face and head models from a few neutral-expression photos in Blender.

FLIP Fluids

Paid. High-quality liquid simulation plugin for Blender.

FontSelector

. Font management inside Blender.

Gaffer (Blender addon)

. Light-management panels for fast lighting setup and tweaking in Blender.

Geometry Nodes Pipes

Paid. Geometry Nodes addon for generating complex pipe layouts in Blender.

Geometry Script

. Python scripting API for Blender Geometry Nodes, making node trees easier to build and share.

Glsl Texture

. Create textures from GLSL fragment shaders in Blender.

GoB

. GoZ-style bridge for ZBrush-Blender mesh interchange.

Graswald

Paid. Grass and plants library.

GreaseWriter

. Auto-animates grease pencil strokes to emulate hand-drawn text.

HDRI Sun Aligner

. Automatically rotates a sun to match the brightest point in an HDRI environment texture.

Hi Phy Engine

Paid. High-fidelity physics engine addon with a unified solver for rigid body, cloth, hair, soft body and MPM…

INOX

. Rust game engine integrated in Blender.

IOR Reference

. Blender addon listing IOR values for materials.

JARCH Vis

. Generates common architectural-visualization objects in Blender.

Jet Fluids

. Jet fluid-engine simulator integration for Blender.

JewelCraft

. Jewelry design toolkit add-on for Blender.

Kaleidoscope

. Adds Spectrum and Intensity nodes to speed up material creation in Blender.

KeKit

. Production modeling toolset for Blender.

Laser Slicer

. Slices a Blender object and exports SVG sections for laser cutting.

LeoMoon LightStudio

Paid. Studio lighting system for Blender.

Lib SM64 Blender

. Integrates libsm64 into Blender, with Fast64 integrations.

Lodify

. Level-of-detail and proxy system for Blender.

Loom

. Simplifies rendering image sequences and frame ranges, with batch rendering utilities.

Lumiere

. Interactive lighting addon for Blender.

Magic UV

. UV manipulation toolset that fills gaps in Blender's UV tools.

Maps Models Importer

. Imports 3D models from Google Maps into Blender.

MB Lab

. Character creation (archived, succeeded by CharMorph).

MDSANIMA RenderTime

. Estimates total animation render time from a single frame's render time.

Mesh Align Plus

. Precisely align, move, and measure objects and mesh parts.

Mesh Heal

. Extra Blender operators for healing and repairing surface meshes.

Mesh Maze

. Generates a maze on any mesh in Blender.

MeshSync

. Live-link plugin syncing Blender and other DCCs into Unity.

MifthTools

. Mesh-exchange tools for 3DCoat, Houdini and Modo.

Mixamo Converter

. Blender Plugin that Converts Mixamo animations to work in Unreal Engine 4 with root motion.

Mixer by Ubisoft

. Real-time collaboration addon for Blender from Ubisoft Animation Studio.

Modeling Cloth

. Real-time cloth-like behavior on meshes in Blender.

Modifier List

. Enhanced modifier UI for Blender, with a sidebar tab and popup.

MPFB

. Open source human generator for Blender, a full rewrite of MakeHuman as an addon.

Mr Mannequins Tools

. Exports animations and weighted meshes compatible with the Unreal third-person mannequin without retargeting.

Multi User

. Real-time collaborative editing inside Blender.

Needle Engine

Free tier. Builds interactive web apps from Blender scenes.

OctaneRender Prime for Blender

Free tier. Octane GPU render engine for Blender, free tier.

Parallel Render

. Renders Sequencer output multithreaded from the Render sidebar.

PBR Texture Mapper

. One-click PBR node setup in Blender.

Phobos

. Creates URDF, SDF and SMURF robot models in Blender.

Point Cloud Visualizer

. Display, edit, filter, render and export colored point-cloud PLY files.

Poliigon Blender Addon

. Browse, download and import Poliigon textures, models and HDRs from inside Blender, with material generation from…

Power Sequencer

. Faster editing tools for Blender's Video Sequence Editor.

PresetterProfessional

. View, visibility, 3D cursor and snap presets for Blender.

Principled Baker

. Bake PBR textures from the Principled BSDF in a few clicks.

Projectors

. Create and modify projector lights in Blender.

ProSidebar

. Adds extra properties and operators to the 3D View Sidebar.

PSOFT Pencil+ 4

Paid. NPR line rendering.

QBlocker

. Interactive blockout and object creation tool for Blender.

QuickSwitch

. Quickly switch workspaces and view the render menu in the viewport.

RandoMesh

. Adds randomized geometry to any mesh in Blender.

reflow

. Blender addon to change scene fps.

Render Useful

. Command-line tools for Blender renders.

Rig on the Fly

. Dynamic rigging tool that speeds up Blender animation workflow.

Rigid Body Bones

. Adds rigid-body and spring physics to bones in Blender.

Scene Strip Tools

. Preview VSE scene strips directly in the 3D View.

Screencast Keys

. On-screen keystroke display for Blender screen recordings.

Screenwriter

. Write screenplays in the Blender Text Editor using Fountain markup, with correct formatting on export.

Sculpt Alphas Manager

. Quickly switch alpha textures for sculpt brushes in Blender.

Search Online References

. Search selected text across Blender API/Python docs, Stack Exchange, source code and GitHub.

Shot Manager by Ubisoft

. Adds a true shot entity to Blender scenes for previs and layout.

Sketchfab Blender Addon

. Import and export models between Blender and Sketchfab.

SliceMesh

. Automates mesh slicing in Blender.

Spaceship Generator

. Procedurally generates 3D spaceships.

Spring Bones

. Adds springy dynamic motion to bones in Blender.

Subsimport

. Create and edit subtitles for movies or music in Blender.

SuperPoke

. Iterative poking tool for Blender meshes.

Sverchok

. Node-based parametric modeling for Blender, aimed at architects.

TextCounter

. Text-animation addon for counters and GUI simulations in Blender.

TexTools

. Free UV and texturing toolset for Blender.

The Grove 3D

Paid. Grows natural 3D trees for visualisation and film, with seasonal simulation.

Theme Switcher

. Switch the active Blender theme without leaving the 3D View.

Tilecam

. Renders tileable images in Blender.

Tissue

. Computational and parametric design addon for Blender.

Transform Tools

. Transform, crop and fade video strips in Blender's VSE.

Tree Gen

. Procedural tree-model generation in Blender.

Typewriter

. Typewriter text animation for font objects in Blender.

UcuPaint

. Manage texture layers for EEVEE and Cycles in Blender.

USDZ

. Blender addon to export USDZ files.

UV Packer

. Free automatic UV-packing addon for Blender.

V HACD

. Decomposes a 3D surface into near-convex parts for accurate collision meshes.

Verge3D

Paid. Toolkit for building interactive 3D web experiences from Blender.

VSEQF

. Overhauls Blender's VSE for quick keyboard-and-mouse editing with real-time feedback.

Welder

. Generates weld seams between meshes in Blender.

Wiggle Bones

. Jiggle-bone physics for Blender rigs.

WoT Tank Viewer

. Blender plugins to view 3D models from World of Tanks.

WritingAnimation

. Generates writing animation for selected Bezier curves in Blender.

📖 User Manual

. Official Blender user manual.

Animation & Rigging Manual

. Animation & Rigging Manual.

Blender 3D Architect by Allan Brito

Paid. Blender books and tutorials for architectural visualization by Allan Brito.

Blender Python API Documentation

. Official Blender Python API Documentation.

blenderscripting

. Blog of Blender Python snippets to get started with scripting.

Compositing Nodes List

. Compositing Nodes List.

Motion Tracking Manual

. Motion Tracking Manual.

Programming Add-ons for Blender 2.8

. Free ebook on setting up a Python IDE to write Blender add-ons, worked through a sample plugin.

Realistic Hair in Blender

Paid. Hair creation course.

Texture Paint Manual

. Official Blender manual for the texture paint mode.

Houdini Apprentice

Free learning version of Houdini.See also: Software Reference → 3D Software: Free Tier

Houdini Crash Course (ikrima)

. Fast Houdini fundamentals primer.

Houdini Donut in Any Shape

. Procedural donut by Lewis Orton.

Houdini in Five Minutes

. Quick intro by Entagma.

SideFX Getting Started

. Official Houdini getting-started learning path.

SideFX Learn

. Official curated learning hub.

SideFX Learning Library

. Searchable content browser for all official Houdini tutorials.

Applied Houdini

Paid. Stephen Knipping's FX-focused course series (ILM).

Assorted Houdini Demos (jakericedesigns)

. Assorted Houdini demo scenes and setups.

CGWiki (tokeru.com)

. Matt Estela's CGWiki, the deepest Houdini reference (Joy of VEX, LOPS, particles).

educational-hips (pedohorse)

. Educational Houdini .hip files explaining techniques.

Entagma (site)

Free tier. Advanced design and mograph tutorials. Also Unreal and Blender.

example_hips (dchow1992)

. Collection of example Houdini .hip files.

Farmfield (Vimeo)

. Setups and hip files from Johnny Farmfield.

hip-files (lightReachers)

. Shared collection of Houdini .hip files.

Houdini Escapades (3Dmattias)

. Example .hip files from the 3Dmattias tutorial series.

Houdini Gubbins

. Blog of Houdini tips and workflow notes.

Houdini Hive

. SideFX presentation recordings from artists and studios.

Houdini Kitchen

. Tutorials and articles, including L-systems and procedural setups.

houdini-sandbox (K240)

. Sandbox collection of Houdini scene files.

HoudiniHowtos (jhorikawa)

. Example .hip files and how-to setups.

John Kunz (site)

. Weekly streams. FX, coding, Redshift (Twitch | YouTube).

OdForce Tutorial .hip Library

. Community thread collecting tutorial .hip files.

SideFX Tutorials

. Official tutorials.

SOP Quick Reference

. Quick-reference index of Houdini SOP nodes.

1 Minute VEX

. Bite-sized VEX lessons.

Houdini OpenCL (MysteryPancake)

. Guide to writing OpenCL kernels in Houdini.

HouPy Wiki

. Houdini Python wiki. Packages, shelf scripts, menu customization, node graph hooks.See also: Learning, Community &…

Learning VEX via Bees and Bombs

. OdForce thread recreating Bees and Bombs animations in VEX.

Mantra LPE Cookbook (alexwheezy)

. Light Path Expression recipes for Mantra rendering.

OpenCL in Houdini

. OpenCL notes for Houdini.

Python Snippets for Houdini

. Python snippets wiki.

Python Startup Scripts

. Python startup scripts guide.

VEX Manager

Paid. VEX snippet/code manager HDA by Shir Manor.See also: Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Plugins & Tools

VEX Wrangle Cheat Sheet

. Quick VEX reference by Mr Kunz.

vex_tutorial (jtomori)

. Practical introduction to VEX in Houdini with examples.

VFXBrain VEX

. VEX tutorials blog.

Custom Smoke Solver

. Custom smoke solver walkthrough.

Smart Crown Splash FLIP

. FLIP splash technique.

Secondary Motion in H19

. Paul Esteves. Secondary motion workflows.

Space Girl Rigging

. Legacy rigging series.

Python Snippets for Houdini

. Python snippets wiki.

Art Directing Paint Splashes

. Art-directed paint splashes.

Building Growth Animation

. Building growth animation technique.

Cloner Object

. MoGraph Cloner tutorial.

Extracting Transform Matrices

. How to extract transform matrices.

For Loops Tutorial

. For loops and animated subdivisions.

Houdini for Astronomy

. Astronomy and scientific viz in Houdini.

Houdini Quick Tips

. Short Houdini tips and quick technique walkthroughs.

Muscles Masterclass

. Advanced muscles masterclass.

MysteryPancake Houdini Fun

. Fun experimental Houdini repo.

Node Studies

. Node study slide deck.

Point Cloud to Mesh (Microsoft)

. Point cloud to mesh guide.

Procedural Modeling with VEX

Paid. Tighe Rzankowski procedural modeling course.

Procegen by Konstantin Magnus

. Konstantin Magnus tutorials on procedural modeling, texturing, and tool building in Houdini.

USD Basics with Solaris

. Official tutorial on USD basics in Solaris.

Writing Your Own Polywire

. Jake Rice on custom polywire.

.hips

. Various Houdini tools.

AElib

. Free tools by Nick Taylor (ManVsMachine).

Axiom

Paid. Sparse fluid solver by Matthew Puchala.

CamRig Pro

Paid. Camera rigging tool HDA by Shir Manor.

cb-houdini-tools (conlen-b)

. Collection of Houdini utility tools and HDAs.

EarthMesh Houdini

. Real-world meshes via Google API.

Ffmpeg

. Flipbook to MP4 conversion tool (setup guide).

Houdini Attributes Cheatsheet

. Quick reference of common Houdini geometry attributes.

Houdini Engine for Unreal (AdrianPan optimized fork)

. Rebuilt Houdini Engine for UE, 2x-15x faster.

Houdini Tech Art Challenge Winners 2021

. Winning tech-art tools: HPaint, Polyline Creator, Poly Slice Tool.

Houdini-scripts (JoseZalez)

. Python scripts and utilities for Houdini.

JDB Houdini Toolkit

. JDB Houdini Toolkit.

Microbot VDB Painter

Paid. Interactive painting and manipulation of OpenVDB SDF volumes in Houdini.

MOPS

. Motion graphics toolkit by Toadstorm.See also: Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums

ODTools

Paid. Pipeline tools by Oliver Hotz.

qLib

. Open-source HDA library.

Rich Lord's Tools

. Tools from ex-Valve animator.

SideFX Labs

. Extended official toolset.

Tighe Rzankowski's Tools

Paid. Feather grooming.

TrembleFX

Paid. Procedural noise generator HDA by Shir Manor.

VEX Manager

Paid. VEX snippet/code manager HDA by Shir Manor.See also: Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Plugins & Tools

VFX Fractal Toolkit

. Set of tools for generating fractal and generative art.

Wormhole Content Browser

Paid. Custom Houdini UI for browsing, previewing, and importing content.

ZENO

. Node-based 3D system for cinematic physics effects. Standalone open-source Houdini alternative.

Rebelway

Free tier. FX, procedural modeling, VEX, pyro, destruction, fluid, fur, muscle, lighting, ML courses. Many free…

Awesome Houdini (wyhinton)

. Curated list of Houdini resources, tools, and learning.

Daily Hip

. Houdini tips archive by Eetu Martola.

Houdini Nerd Discord

. Christopher Rutledge's Houdini community.

Houdini Tricks

. Quick tips archive.

John Kunz Discord

. Community Discord for Houdini FX and coding.

OdForce

. Most active Houdini forum.

r/Houdini

. Houdini subreddit.

SideFX Houdini on Bilibili

. Chinese Houdini tutorials.

Think Procedural Discord

. Procedural-focused Houdini Discord.

VFX Arabia Houdini Tools

. Houdini tools blog.

Cineversity

. Official Maxon tutorials.

School of Motion (site)

Paid. C4D, motion graphics, animation, After Effects, design courses.

AEC4D

Paid. After Effects ↔ Cinema 4D bridge.

Video Copilot

Free tier. VFX tutorials, Element 3D, Optical Flares.

Rolando Barry (Gumroad)

Free tier. C4D assets and presets.

Rolando Barry Blog

. C4D tips, shader switch workflows, productivity tricks.

TyFlow

Free tier. Advanced particle/dynamics system. Destruction, cloth, fluids.

Agama Materials

Software for creating PBR materials and painting 3d models. You can create materials and use them for painting models,…

ArmorPaint

Open-source texture painting.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

AwesomeBump

Generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures from a single image.See also: Software Reference →…

Filter Forge

Node-based filter editor with library of thousands of textures and photo effects; standalone or Photoshop/Affinity…

Game Texture Viewer

Fast, reliable, and simple tool for viewing PBR texture sets.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture…

Live Normal

An Android and iOS app for generating materials on the go. You take a photo, and Live Normal creates a tile-able…

Mari

Foundry's high-resolution 3D texture painting app, film-VFX standard for hero assets.See also: Software Reference →…

Material Maker

Open-source procedural texture generator (Substance Designer alternative).See also: Software Reference → Material &…

Materialize

Free texture map generation from a single image.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

Mixos

Browser-based 3D texture painting and PBR material authoring with AI auto-texturing and a pre-made material…

Quixel Mixer

Create photorealistic, tileable, materials in seconds with mixing and painting.See also: Software Reference → Material…

Substance Designer

Node-based procedural texturing.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

Substance Painter

Industry-standard 3D texture painting with smart materials.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation…

Texelpaint3D

Paint directly on 3D model faces without UV unwrapping. 1-pixel-per-triangle workflow.See also: Software Reference →…

TextureLab

Tool designed to make procedural texture generation.See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

xNormal

Free high-poly to low-poly baking (normals, AO, cavity).See also: Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation…

Agisoft De-Lighter

. Standalone tool to remove baked shadows from model textures.

Architextures - Create

Free tier. Web app for creating textures, bump maps, and CAD hatches.

Imogen

. GPU Texture generator using dear imgui for UI.

NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter

. Creates compressed texture files from image sources via CUDA-accelerated compression.

ShaderExpo

. Browser shader editor with inline error logs, autocompletion, and model/texture loading.

SmartNormal 2.0

. Normal map generation from images.

TexGraph

. Procedural texture creation by connecting nodes in a graph.

AutoCAD

Industry-standard 2D/3D CAD.

Bitbybit

Browser parametric CAD via visual nodes (Rete, Blockly) or Monaco code editor. OCCT, JSCAD, Manifold backends.

BricsCAD

AutoCAD-compatible DWG CAD; offers both perpetual and subscription licensing.

CATIA

Dassault Systèmes CAD for aerospace and automotive.

FreeCAD

Free open-source parametric CAD.

LibreCAD

Free open-source 2D CAD.

Onshape Free

Cloud-based CAD with free hobbyist tier (public projects).

OpenSCAD

Code-based CAD for parametric design.

PackCAD

Browser 3D CAD for packaging. Models folded/origami structures with folding simulation.

Pascal Editor

Open-source browser editor for 3D buildings, floor plans, rooms, roofs, furniture, and interiors.

PTC Creo

Parametric mechanical CAD with simulation, generative design, and additive workflows.

Rhino

NURBS-focused 3D modeling for architecture and product design.

Shapr3D

Touch-first parametric/direct CAD on iPad, Vision Pro, Mac, and Windows.

Siemens NX

High-end product engineering CAD/CAM/CAE; NX X is the cloud SaaS variant.

SolidWorks

Mechanical CAD for engineers.

Solvespace

Parametric 3D CAD modeling tool.

3DF Zephyr

Free lite version (up to 50 photos).

3DF Zephyr Free

Free version of 3DF Zephyr photogrammetry software for personal use. It comes with some limitations.

Agisoft Metashape

Professional photogrammetry with GIS features.

CloudCompare

A 3D point cloud (and triangular mesh) processing software. Open-source and designed for visualizing and editing LiDAR…

COLMAP

A general-purpose Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipeline with a graphical and command-line…

KIRI Engine

Cross-platform mobile photogrammetry.

Meshroom (AliceVision)

Free, open-source photogrammetry. Node-based, GPU-accelerated.

MicMac

Free open-source photogrammetric suite that can be used in a variety of 3D reconstruction scenarios.

Open Scan Tools

A collection of open-source tools for photogrammetry, depth-sensing, and 3D reconstruction workflows. Nice rendering…

PCL (Point Cloud Library)

Large-scale open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.

Polycam

Mobile photogrammetry (iOS LiDAR + photo, Android photo). Cloud processing.

Postshot

Desktop Gaussian Splatting tool. Train, clean, edit, export.

Quixel Megascans

World’s largest photogrammetry 2D and 3D asset library. Now it is free for the Epic Games accounts (only UE projects).

RealityCapture

Fast, high-quality photogrammetry (now Epic Games). PPI pricing.

Scaniverse (Niantic)

Free mobile scanning, Gaussian splat support.

3D Coat

Sculpt, retopo, UV, and PBR paint suite from Pilgway. Voxel and surface sculpt, AUTOPO auto-retopo, manual quad…

3D Coat Print

Voxel-sculpt build of 3D Coat aimed at 3D-print workflows.

3D Coat Textura

Texturing-only variant of 3D Coat. PBR paint and bake, no sculpt or retopo modules.

AutoRemesher

Open-source auto-retopology tool intended to convert source meshes into clean, animation-friendly all-quad geometry.

Cozy Blanket

iPad sculpt-to-retopo app. Clay sculpt plus auto-quad retopology for game/film topology, from Naam.

Headus UVLayout

Standalone UV editor, flatten-based.

Instant Meshes

Free, open-source auto-retopology.

RizomUV

Fast UV unwrapping, auto-seam, auto-pack. Standalone or bridge.

Topogun

Standalone retopology and baking.

UVPackmaster

Advanced UV packing, UDIM support. Blender addon + standalone.

Valence 3D

iPad UV unwrap and texture paint app from Naam. Pairs with Cozy Blanket for full iPad asset workflow.

Alan Becker Tutorials

. Animation tutorials by stick-figure animator.

Alex Grigg

. Animation for Anyone series.

Alex Kunchevsky

. Motion design.

Josh Toonen

. Unreal Engine cinematics: animated decals, cinematic environments, faster filmmaking.

Olof Storm

. Animation and motion.

School of Motion (YouTube)

. Motion design education.

The Principles of Animation: Interactive Edition

. Interactive web explainer of the 12 principles of animation.

Toniko Pantoja

. Animation industry and technique.

DeepMotion

Game-ready character animation from video. BVH/FBX export.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

Free Mo Cap

Free open-source motion capture system (traditional, not AI).See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

Live Link Face (Apple)

Free facial mocap via iPhone into Unreal/Maya/Blender.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

Move AI

Highest-accuracy AI mocap with multi-camera triangulation.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

Plask

Browser-based mocap with hand tracking and standard format export.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture…

Rokoko Vision

Free AI mocap from webcam or video.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

Viggle AI

Character animation from video or image input.See also: Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

ActorCore

Free tier. Motion-capture library from Reallusion.

AnimateDiff + ControlNet

. Open-source controlled video animation from poses.

Bandai Namco Research Motiondataset

. Free motion-capture dataset from Bandai Namco R&D for research and personal use.

Carnegie-Mellon University Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database BVH conversions

. 2500 free human motion-capture clips in BVH format.

Mixamo

. Rigged characters, auto-rigger, and free animation library (Adobe).See also: Animation & Rigging → AI Motion Capture…

Cascadeur

AI-assisted physics-based keyframe character animation; free for non-commercial use.

10 Tips for Better Lighting

. Helloluxx lighting tips.

Creative Shrimp

. Blender CG art and lighting tutorials by Gleb Alexandrov and Aidy Burrows.

Get Better Lighting in C4D

. Improve C4D lighting.

School of Motion Lighting Blog

. Shadows, volumetrics, HDRI, and area light techniques.

The Digital Revolution

. Beginner C4D lighting.

Creative Product Lighting with Redshift & C4D

. Jarred van de Voort, NAB 2023.

How to Art Direct Lights in a Cloner

. Art-directing lights across cloners.

Redshift Interior Materials & Lighting

. Interior materials and lighting.

Redshift Lighting Techniques (Essential MoGraph)

. Redshift lighting techniques.

You And Me Academy

. Light groups workflow.

Foundry Katana

Look-development and lighting orchestration tool for film/episodic VFX, scaling to massive scenes via deferred…

CNDL

Free tier. Web tool to create custom IES light profiles.

UE5 Product Viz. IPhone Lighting Breakdown

. UE5 product viz iPhone lighting breakdown.

Houdini

Procedural node-based DCC for VFX, simulation, and FX.See also: Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid

Polygonjs

Node-based WebGL design tool, used for procedural geometry, particles, materialsSee also: Software Reference → Misc 3D…

(2014) Ray tracing with OpenGL Compute Shaders

. Detailed ray tracing tutorial series using OpenGL (LWJGL) by Kai Burjack.

3D Game Shaders (source)

. Open-source project with resources on learning 3D game shaders.

3D Game Shaders for Beginners

. Clear breakdowns of SSAO, bloom, SSR.

3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development

. Book covering the 3D math foundations for graphics and game programming.

3D Programming Weekly Articles

. Collection of shader and math related resources.

A Gentle Introduction to Shaders in Unity3D

. Series of posts introducing shader coding, oriented to developers with little to no knowledge of shaders.

A Pixel is not a Little Square!

. Classic paper debunking "a pixel is a little square." Also an intro to sampling.

A Rapid Hierarchical Rendering Technique for Translucent Materials

. Jensen & Buhler. SIGGRAPH 2002.

A Survey on Participating Media Rendering Techniques

. Cerezo et al. Visual Computer 2005.

A Trip Through The Graphics Pipeline

. A-trip-through-the-graphics-pipeline.

Advanced Cel Shader (Pitchfork Academy)

. Advanced cel shader material breakdown.

Advanced Creative Coding with WebGL & Shaders

Paid. Workshop by Matt DesLauriers going deeper into graphics programming, math, and shaders.

Advanced Materials in Blender - Shader Editor Tutorial

. Blender shader editor material tutorials.

Alan Zucconi's Blog

. Shaders and maths. Well explained and very interesting.

An introduction to Shader Art Coding

. Video tutorial on the basics of creating art with shaders.

Anatole Drupat (XT95)

. Shader artist (ShaderToy XT95).

Anime/Toon/Cel Shading Model (Envieous, UE5)

. Custom UE5 anime/toon/cel shading model. Works with launcher engine versions.

apitrace

. Tools for tracing OpenGL, Direct3D, and other graphics APIs.

Appleseed

. Physically-based global illumination rendering engine.

Bart Wronski's blog

. Real-time rendering, post-processing effects, and advanced graphics techniques.

bgfx

. Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

Blender & ACES

. Setup Blender to work with ACES using OpenColorIO.

Blender Addon PBR

. Blender addon adding a material panel that builds Metallic/Roughness or Specular/Gloss node setups on the Principled…

Blender Interplanety Storage (BIS)

Free tier. Online material/shader storage add-on for Blender. Save node groups to a personal library and search/upload…

BNPR Shaders

. Collection of NPR shaders for Blender (EEVEE Comics Shader, Erisdraw3D, EEVEEToon).

Bonzomatic

. Live-coding editor for OpenGL pixel shaders, where the results appear on background as you edit the code.

Brandon Fogerty's blog

. Blog on real-time rendering, shader programming, and game engine development.

Canvas Debugger

. Tutorial on using Firefox developer tools to debug WebGL shaders.

Casual effects by Morgan McGuire

. Morgan McGuire's site with real-time rendering articles, research papers, and graphics data.

Catlike Coding

. C# and shader tutorials for Unity.

Cel-Shader Playlist (Your Sandbox)

. Cel-shading playlist (17 videos), UE with Lumen.

CelShader

. Cel shader project for Unreal Engine 4.

Cesium

. Open-source library for 3D globes and maps.

CineShader

. Real-time 3D shader visualiser. Uses the Shadertoy API to bring thousands of existing shader artworks into a…

Circular Color Picker Unity

. Shader and script for a circular color picker.

CodeXL

. AMD tool suite with a debugger, profiler, and frame/shader analysis.

Compact YCoCg Frame Buffer

. Paper on compact YCoCg frame buffer for small IBL buffers.

ComputeToys

. WebGPU compute shader editor for experimenting with GPU graphics in the browser.

CppCon 2018: Valentin Galea “Rapid Prototyping of Graphics Shaders in Modern C++”

. CppCon 2018 talk on rapid prototyping of graphics shaders in modern C++.

Cracked Ice Shader

. Cracked Ice material tutorial.

Creative Coding with Canvas & WebGL

Paid. Workshop by Matt DesLauriers on generative art, interactive animations, 3D graphics, and shaders.

Custom shaders with Three.JS

. Introduction to custom shaders, uniforms, textures, and lighting in three.js.

Cyanilux

. Unity shader tutorials (URP focus). Intro to Shader Graph, HLSL, depth, vertex displacement, dissolve, portals,…

Cyos

. Online shader editor.

Efficient Gradient-Domain Compositing Using Quadtrees

. ACM Trans. Graph. 2007.

Embree

. High-performance ray tracing kernels that help engineers improve photorealistic rendering performance.

Everything (or most things) wrong with learnopengl.com/PBR/Theory

. Detailed corrections to the PBR theory page on learnopengl.com.

Experimental analysis of BRDF models

. Ngan et al. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2005.

Extra Lights

. Blender addon adding physically based, photometric lighting presets to the Add menu.

Fabian 'ryg' Giesen's Blog

. Blog on rendering, optimization, and low-level graphics programming with a focus on practical techniques.

Fast Filter-Width Estimates with Texture Maps

. GPU Gems 1, Chapter 25.

Fast Terrain Rendering Using Geometrical MipMapping

. Fast Terrain Rendering Using Geometrical MipMapping.

Fast Volume Rendering Using a Shear-Warp Factorization of the Viewing Transformation

. Lacroute & Levoy. SIGGRAPH 1994.

Fft Ocean

. Fast Fourier Transform ocean rendering for Three.js.

Filament

. PBR engine, available on all platforms (desktop, mobile).

Flow Map Shader

. Flow Map Shader for Unity3D. Used with sprites.

FogSprites

. Modification of Unity's sprite shaders supporting Fog.

Fragment Foundry

. Interactive fragment shader tutorial.

Fragmentarium

. Program to edit and visualize GLSL shaders, mainly focused on fractals and generative systems.

Framer Motion

. Animation library for React, usable with react-three-fiber via the framer-motion-3d package.

fSync

. Unofficial fSpy/Maya bridge which also creates projection shaders.

Glass for EEVEE

. Shader that lets you make realistic glass with EEVEE.

Global illumination using photon maps

. Jensen, H. W. Rendering Techniques 1996.

Glow

. Unity Shader Graph glow effect test.

GLSL Optimizer

. GLSL optimizer based on Mesa's GLSL compiler. Used in Unity for mobile shader optimization.

GLSL Sandbox

. Online live editor for fragment shaders.

GlslEditor

. Simple WebGL fragment shader editor.

glslViewer (GitHub)

. Console-based GLSL sandbox for 2D/3D shaders, for a creative pipeline agnostic to the target platform.

glslViewer (write-up)

. Write-up on glslViewer, a live-coding console tool that renders GLSL shaders.

GPU Zen Blog

. Blog on GPU programming and advanced rendering techniques, often featuring excerpts from the GPU Zen book series.

Graphics for Games

. Introduction to 3D graphics programming covering shaders, math, and post-processing, from Newcastle University.

Graphics Programming Resources

. Papers, talks, implementations aggregated by community.

GrassBending

. Replacement for Unity's terrain grass shader with alpha-blended rendering and touch bending.

gsap

Free tier. Animation library for CSS and JavaScript, framework agnostic and usable with three.js, backed by plugins…

Houdini Gaussian Splatting Viewport Renderer

. HDK/GLSL implementation of Gaussian Splatting in Houdini.

How does a GPU Shader work?

. Academy slides on how a GPU shader works.

How to Create a Fake 3D Image Effect with WebGL

. Tutorial on faking a 3D depth effect in WebGL with displacement maps.

How to read shader assembly

. Guide to reading compiled shader assembly.

ibreakdownshaders

. Explore the math behind shaders.

Íñigo Quílez

. Hardcore math applied to computer graphics by one of the best-known shader authors.

Instanced Line Rendering Part II: Alpha blending

. Covers alpha-blending with triangulated instanced lines.

Intel Open Image Denoise

. Open-source library of high-performance, high-quality denoising filters for ray-traced images.

Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with Shader-Based OpenGL, 6/E

Paid. Textbook on interactive computer graphics with shader-based OpenGL (6th ed.).

Intro Three.js

. Introduction to pixel shaders in three.js.

Introduction to shaders

. Part 1 of an introduction to shaders using three.js.

IOR List

. Index of Refraction values list for use with 3D applications.

ISF

. GLSL shaders for use in interactive applications.

Jendrik Illner's blog

. Ubisoft 3D programmer posts a weekly summary of articles on 3D graphics. Shader tutorials, real-time rendering…

Khronos: Streamlining Render Passes

. Introduces the VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering Vulkan extension.

Learn OpenGL

. Deep rendering concepts from scratch (lighting, shadows, PBR, SSAO).

Learn OpenGL: Skeletal Animation

. Learn OpenGL guest article on skeletal animation.

Learn OpenGL: Text Rendering

. Learn OpenGL chapter on text rendering.

Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine

. Introduces Rotors in Geometric Algebra.

Light field rendering

. Levoy & Hanrahan. SIGGRAPH 1996.

Light House 3D

. GLSL core tutorial series by Lighthouse3D.

Lightning Boy Studio

. Toon and NPR shading for Blender.

Lily Surface Scrapper

. Blender addon that imports materials and shaders from a single URL.

Lygia

. Multi-language shader library of reusable functions.

Lygia (GitHub)

. Granular, multi-language shader library built for performance and flexibility.

Magnum (GitHub)

. 2D/3D graphics engine for modern OpenGL.

Makin' Stuff Look Good

. YouTube channel with shader case studies.

Manga/Outline Shader Playlist (Hepner Kamil)

. Manga/outline shader playlist (18 videos): outlines and toon shaders.

Marmoset Resources

. Baking guides, PBR theory, technical articles.

Matcap - Spherical Environment Mapping Shader

. Matcap - creating a spherical reflection/environment mapping shader.

Memory Management section on Pbrt

. Memory management chapter from the PBR Book (pbrt).

Microfacet Models for Refraction through Rough Surfaces

. Walter et al. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2007.

Mitsuba

. A research-oriented retargetable rendering system, written in portable C++17 on top of the Enoki library.

Moebius-style 3D Rendering (Useless Game Dev)

. Moebius-style rendering: Sobel filter on depth map, crosshatch, fades.

Multitexturing using a Blendmap

. How to use a blendmap to multitexture a terrain.

NEORT

. Digital art platform for creative coders (fragment shaders, JavaScript Canvas).

NeRF-Tex: Neural Reflectance Field Textures

. Baatz et al. EGSR 2021.

Node To Python

. Blender addon that converts Geometry, Shader, and Compositing node trees into legible Python scripts and add-ons.

NodeToy

. Web node-based shader editor with react-three-fiber export.

OpenGL 3D Game Tutorials

. Beginner tutorial series on creating 3D games with OpenGL.

OpenGL 4 Shaders

. Short introduction to OpenGL shaders by Anton Gerdelan.

OpenGL/GLSL Shader Programming

. Slide deck on OpenGL/GLSL shader programming.

Optimally Combining Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Rendering

. Veach & Guibas. SIGGRAPH 1995.

Path tracing fractals

. Path tracing 3D fractals in a fragment shader, by Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen.

Patricio Gonzales Vivo

. Shader artist and educator, main contributor to The Book of Shaders.

PBRT v3

. Source code for pbrt, the renderer from the third edition of "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To…

PBRT v4

. Ray tracer from "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation" book.

Physically Based Rendering (3rd ed online)

. Third edition of the PBR book online, with the ray tracer implementation.

Physically Based Rendering (PBR Book)

. Full book free online. Definitive PBR reference.

Physics-Based Animation

. Learning resources and papers on physics-based animation.

PicoGL.js

. Minimal WebGL 2-only rendering library.

Pixel Shaders

. Interactive introduction to graphics programming.

PixelSpirit Elements Deck

. Tarot-style deck for learning GLSL shaders, each card pairing a visual element with its shader code, ordered…

PixelSpirit GitHub

. Code library for the PixelSpirit Elements deck of GLSL shader cards.

Practical Rendering of Multiple Scattering Effects in Participating Media

. Premoze et al. Rendering Techniques 2004: 15th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering.

Procedural Stochastic Texturing

. Modified Unity Standard shader implementing procedural stochastic texturing.

Ptex

. Texture mapping system developed by Walt Disney Animation Studios for production-quality rendering.

Pyro Shader (Redshift, Arnold, RenderMan)

Paid. Pyro and fire shader presets for Redshift, Arnold, and RenderMan.

Ray Tracey's blog

. Sam Lapere's blog, leads the scientific team at EPFL Blue Brain Project. Lots of post about real time rendering

Ray Tracing Gems

. Book of standalone chapters on various ray tracing topics.

Ray Tracing Gems II

. Second volume of standalone chapters on ray tracing topics.

Ray Tracing in One Weekend

. Peter Shirley's free book to get you implementing a basic ray tracer in C++ in about 40 pages.

Ray Tracing in One Weekend series

. Three short books explaining path tracing concepts and building a software renderer from scratch.

Ray Tracing: The Next Week

. By Peter Shirley, builds on the first book by adding effects like textures and motion blur.

Ray Tracing: The Rest of Your Life

. Peter Shirley's last book in the series, covering more mathematical themes for complete renderers.

Raymarching On Unity 5

. Raymarcher in Unity 5.

Real-Time Rendering

. Companion site to the book, massive curated link collection.

Real-Time Rendering Blog

. Blog tied to the Real-Time Rendering book series, with rendering techniques, industry news, and research.

Real-Time Rendering recommended books

. List of recommended books on the Real-Time Rendering site.

Realistic water shader

. Realistic ocean and water shader for Three.js with notes on the approach.

Reddit Two Triangles

. General discussion and showcase for shaders.

RenderDoc

. Free open-source graphics debugger that captures and analyzes frames from DirectX, Vulkan, and OpenGL applications.

Rendering Resources - Benedikt Bitterli

. Test scenes in Tungsten, Mitsuba, and pbrt-v3 formats.

Resources for Writing Shaders in Unity

. Companion resources for the UNITE Boston 2015 talk Writing Shaders: YOU can do it!

Scene.js

. Extensible WebGL-based engine for high-detail 3D visualisation.

Scratchapixel

. Ray tracing, rasterization, math foundations from first principles.

SDFs by Inigo Quilez

. All you need to know about SDFs and other shader magic.

Semi-Automatic Generation of Transfer Functions for Direct Volume Rendering

. Kindlmann & Durkin. IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization 1998.

Shader Derivative Functions

. Shader derivative functions (ddx/ddy), useful for normals.

Shader Designer

. TyphoonLabs OpenGL shader designer.

Shader Displacement for EEVEE

Paid. Using a few modifiers and a nodegroup, realtime shader displacement in EEVEE is now possible.

Shader Editor

. Tutorial on live-editing WebGL shaders with Firefox developer tools.

Shader Effects

. Unity shader effects.

Shader Graph Tutorials

. Project files for the Brackeys Shader Graph tutorials in Unity.

Shader Lab Lab

. System using T4 Templates to generate Unity ShaderLab code in the editor.

Shader Park

. JavaScript library for interactive procedural 2D/3D shaders, with a built-in raymarcher, SDFs, and boolean operations.

SHADERed

. Lightweight tool for creating and testing HLSL and GLSL shaders.

ShaderForge

. Node-based Unity shader editor, no coding required. Open source and unmaintained.

ShaderFrog

. Online shader editor and asset manager that exports shaders for Three.js, Unity, and other engines, with visual…

ShaderGif

. Open source home for art made with code (WebGL1/2, JavaScript Canvas, P5.js).

Shaderific for OpenGL

. Documentation on GLSL.

Shaderific GLSL

. OpenGL ES shading language reference.

ShaderProject

. Container for a range of handy Unity shaders.

Shaders Laboratory

. YouTube channel about shaders.

ShaderShop editor

. Visual editor for building shaders by composing shaping functions.

ShaderShop videos

. Videos about ShaderShop.

ShaderTool

Paid. Modern shader IDE for programmers and FX artists.

ShadowDrawer

. Shadow matte shader for Unity.

Shadowing by Non-Gaussian Random Surfaces

. Garry S. Brown. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 1980.

Shaping functions

. Set of shaping functions for shaders.

SHDR Editor

. Live GLSL shader editor, viewer, and validator.

Stack.gl

. Modular WebGL shader and graphics tools.

Stanford Bunny Fur With Unity

. Geometry shader generating fur on the GPU.

Static Object Intersections - Real Time Rendering Resource Page

. Collection of intersection algorithms.

Stylized Comic Book Shader (Chris Folea Makes Things)

. Stylized comic book shading in UE without post-processing.

Substance Academy

. Free official Substance Painter/Designer tutorials.

Synthclipse

. GLSL shader prototyping tool.

Temporal light field reconstruction for rendering distribution effects

. Lehtinen et al. SIGGRAPH 2011.

Terrain Rendering Using GPU-Based Geometry Clipmaps

. GPU Gems 2 - Chapter 02.

The Art of Code (channel)

. Tutorials on shaders using ShaderToy, mostly videos on procedural generation.

The Book of Shaders

. Interactive intro to GLSL fragment shaders.

The Book of Shaders Glossary

. Shader glossary by theme.

The Interactive Shader Format (ISF) Editor

. Online tool for creating and editing GLSL shaders in the ISF format, used in VJ software, live performance, and…

The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 1: How Did We Get Here?

. Article on why shader permutations explode in real-time engines.

The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 2: How Do We Fix It?

. Article on strategies for managing shader permutation explosion.

Three Blender

. Blender tool that converts Blender files directly to Three.js.

Tungsten

. High performance physically based renderer in C++11.

Twigl

. Free online shader editor.

Unity Compute Shader Ray Tracing Practice

. Ray tracing compute shader tutorial for Unity.

Unity Fluid Simulation 2D

. Extended camera renders particles, then metaball processing via shader.

Unity Outline Shader

. Source code for an Outline Shader tutorial. Detects edges using the depth and normals buffers.

Unity Raymarching Collision

. Raymarching and rigidbody interaction example.

Unity Shader Cheatsheet

. Collection of Unity shader snippets and gotchas.

Unity Shader Sketches

. Sketches made with ShaderLab in Unity.

Unity Shader Tutorials

. Full project and code for a set of Unity shader tutorials.

Unity Shaders

. Unity project researching shaders and particle systems.

Unity3D Shaders Learning

. Unity3D shader learning examples.

UnityGPUNoise

. Shaders for various noise functions on the GPU.

USD Arnold

. USD Schemas and tools for exchanging Arnold shader information between multiple 3rd party packages.

Vertex Shader Art

. Platform for creating and sharing vertex shaders, with a focus on artistic and experimental uses.

Vertexshaderart

. YouTube playlist about vertex shaders.

VerticalDissolve

. Procedural vertical dissolve shader. Tweak edge color, noisiness, waviness, rim light, emission scrolling.

VFX good night reading

. Curated collection of good reading about VFX and CG.

VilarVRC

. Vilar's shaders for VRChat.

Virtual ray lights for rendering scenes with participating media

. Novák et al. SIGGRAPH 2012.

Virtual Terrain Project

. Tools for constructing real-world terrain in interactive 3D form.

WebGL 2 Basics

. Blog post on getting started with WebGL 2.

WebGL 2 New Features

. Blog post on what is new in WebGL 2.

WebGL Fundamentals

. In-depth WebGL resource covering 3D rendering, lighting, and 2D transforms from first principles.

WebGl Playground

. Editor for working on JavaScript code and GLSL vertex/fragment shaders side by side, with organized formatting and…

Whitestorm.js (site)

. Framework for developing 3D web apps with physics.

Wind Waker Shader

. Cel shading of two thresholds with a blur/gradient between them for Unity.

Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer

. Deep dive on writing an efficient Vulkan renderer.

xeokit

. Web graphics SDK for AEC/BIM applications with 3D tiles, real-world coordinates, and double precision.

Ariev Visuals Resources

. Octane tutorials and assets.

Polymesh to Volume (Arnold)

. Arnold polymesh to volume conversion.

Takua Renderer

. Karl Li's hobbyist physically-based renderer project page with technical write-ups.

Veach Thesis (Stanford)

. Light transport theory. Foundational PBR thesis.

aerialod

A free interactive path tracing renderer for height maps.

AMD Blender USD Hydra

With Pixar's USD system emerging as a tool for 3D graphics pipelines and interchange, this addon is meant to add first…

Arnold (Autodesk)

CPU/GPU hybrid production renderer, bundled with Maya/3ds Max.

Corona (Chaos)

CPU renderer for arch-viz and interiors.

Cycles

CPU/GPU path tracer. Bundled free with Blender.

D5 Render

Real-time GPU renderer for arch-viz.

DreamWork's MoonRay

Physically based path-tracing renderer with a USD Hydra delegate and Arras distributed/cloud rendering.

Enscape

Chaos real-time rendering plugin for Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad, Vectorworks. Subscription only since mid-2025.

Guerrilla Render

Production renderer used on feature films.

Indigo Renderer

Glare Technologies unbiased GPU/CPU renderer with multi-GPU, denoising, and SSS.

Karma (SideFX)

CPU/GPU USD-native renderer, bundled with Houdini.

KeyShot (Luxion)

CPU real-time ray tracing for product visualization.

Krakatoa

AWS Thinkbox volumetric particle renderer for 3ds Max and Maya; free + open source (Apache 2.0) since 2022.

Light Tracer Render

Provides you with everything you need to create photorealistic renderings interactively, in both desktop Web browsers…

Lumion

Real-time architectural visualization renderer with cloud rendering bundled.

LuxCore

Free open-source CPU/GPU unbiased renderer.

Malt

Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) framework. Real-time, customizable rendering for animation and illustration. Works…

Marmoset Toolbag

Real-time PBR viewer, baker, and renderer. Common in game/jewelry portfolios.

Maxwell Render

Next Limit unbiased physically-correct renderer; plugins for Studio, Rhino, SketchUp, C4D, Maya, 3ds Max, ArchiCAD,…

MoonRay

DreamWorks' open-source MCRT production renderer used on feature films.

Octane (OTOY)

GPU unbiased renderer with free tier.

Radeon ProRender

Physically-based engine, product by AMD.

Radeon ProRender (AMD)

AMD's GPU path tracer, free and cross-vendor.

Redshift (Maxon)

GPU-biased production renderer.

RenderMan (Pixar)

Pixar's CPU/GPU hybrid production renderer. Free for non-commercial.

Twinmotion (Epic)

Real-time GPU renderer from Epic for arch-viz.

V-Ray (Chaos)

CPU/GPU hybrid renderer for arch-viz and product viz.

disguise

LED-wall and xR virtual production platform with RenderStream.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Notch

Real-time graphics for live events and virtual production.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Pixotope

Real-time AR and virtual studio platform built on Unreal Engine.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production…

Vizrt

Real-time broadcast graphics and virtual studio platform.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Zero Density

Real-time VFX engine for broadcast and virtual production.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

CasparCG

. Layer-based real-time compositor that plays out professional graphics, audio, and video to multiple broadcast outputs.

NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprints

. Omniverse blueprints and reference pipelines.

AFX

. Everyday compositing plugins for Nuke.

Jam2go

. Procedural art and creative coding.

max rose

. Tech art breakdowns on YouTube.

Nuke Tools (VS Code)

. VS Code extension for Nuke Python/BlinkScript development.

Nuke Tools ST

. Sublime Text package to send Python/BlinkScript code into Nuke.

NXT

. Layered, code-driven graph editor for building reusable rigging and pipeline logic.

OpenWalter

. USD plugins for Arnold, Houdini, Katana, and Maya.

Simon Schreibt

. Game Art Tricks and Workflow Tricks. Technical breakdowns of how games achieve effects (mirrors, fog, rendering…

Visual Tech Art

. Tech art tutorials.

xComp

. Viewer for comparing rendered image versions side by side.

8-bit to Half Float CopyCat (Moving Image Arts)

. Free Nuke CopyCat ML model plus tutorial. Recovers clamped highlights and reduces 8-bit color banding. Downloadable…

Befores & Afters

. Ian Failes. Shot breakdowns and artist Q&As across VFX features.See also: Learning, Community & Industry → 3D…

Book: Compositing Visual Effects (Lee Lanier)

Paid. Lee Lanier. Applied, project-based comp instruction.

Book: Digital Compositing for Film and Video (Steve Wright, 4th ed.)

Paid. Standard text on digital compositing. Math + practical workflow.

Book: The Art and Science of Digital Compositing (Brinkmann, 2nd ed.)

Paid. Ron Brinkmann's theoretical canon for digital compositing.

Cinefex (archive)

. Legacy VFX-making journal archives.

Compositing Academy

Paid. Paid Nuke compositing courses and career training from working VFX compositors.

CompositingMentor

Paid. Tobias Wiesner's paid mentorship-style Nuke courses. Deep compositing focus.

Foundry Learn (Nuke)

. Official Foundry training. Free tutorials plus certification tracks.

Hugo's Desk (Hugo Guerra)

Mixed. Pro Nuke compositing tutorials and breakdowns from CG Supe Hugo Guerra.

NukePedia

. Canonical Nuke community library. Gizmos, scripts, tutorials, plugins.See also: Software Reference → VFX &…

Steve Wright Training

Paid. Steve Wright (author of the standard Nuke text) structured comp course series.

The Art of VFX

. VFX supervisor interviews per film.

VFX Apprentice (Allan McKay)

Paid. Paid VFX career courses. Nuke + Houdini overlap.

After Effects

Motion graphics and compositing.

Boris FX Optics

Photo and film stylization plugin and standalone. Filters, grain, lens FX, color.

Boris FX Particle Illusion

Standalone particle generator. Free version; Pro features available inside Continuum.

ButtleOFX

Simple open-source node-based compositing software.

Continuum

Boris FX broadcast/post effects collection. Titles, particles, image restoration, color.

DaVinci Resolve Fusion

Node-based compositing, free with Resolve.

Effekseer

Real-time VFX editor and runtime.

EmberGen

Real-time volumetric fluid sim (fire, smoke, explosions).

Fusion

Free node-based compositing software from Blackmagic Design.

GeoGen (JangaFX)

Real-time terrain generation.

IlluGen

Real-time procedural node-based generator for tiling noise, normal maps, flowmaps, 3D FX meshes, caustics, masks,…

KeenTools

Face and geometry tracking plus FaceBuilder for Blender, Nuke, AE, Houdini.

LiquiGen

Real-time liquid simulation.

MadMapper

Projection mapping software.

Magic Animator

Web-based animation creator.

Mocha Pro

Boris FX planar tracker for VFX. Roto, object removal, screen replacement, lens distortion.

Natron (community fork)

Free open-source node compositor, Nuke-like.

Nuke

Industry-standard node-based compositing software by The Foundry. Free non-commercial version available.

Nuke (Foundry)

Industry-standard compositing. Non-Commercial free version available.

Red Giant Complete

Maxon-owned VFX/motion suite. Trapcode, Magic Bullet, VFX Suite, Universe.

Resolume

Live visuals and VJ software.

Sapphire

Boris FX 270+ VFX/transition plugins for AE, Premiere, Resolve, Nuke, Flame, Avid, OFX hosts.

Silhouette

Boris FX node-based roto/paint compositor with AI-driven matte tools.

TOOLL3

Graph-based procedural real-time motion graphics for live performance or rendering.

TouchDesigner

Node-based real-time visual programming for interactive media, installations, and live visuals.

VectorayGen

Free node-based vector field generator for real-time VFX. Computes flows, noise, and turbulence to drive GPU particle…

3DEqualizer

High-end matchmoving (major VFX studios).

fSpy

Free, open-source single-image camera matching → Blender.

PFTrack

Professional matchmoving, object tracking, mesh generation.

SynthEyes

Camera tracking with lens distortion solving.

ARwall

LED virtual production stages and ARFX Pro plugin.

Aximmetry

Virtual production and broadcast compositor with Unreal integration. Free Community tier.

Brainstorm InfinitySet

Virtual set and AR for broadcast.

disguise

LED-wall and xR virtual production platform with RenderStream.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

grandMA3

Industry-standard lighting control console and software for live shows, theatre, and broadcast.

Notch

Real-time graphics for live events and virtual production.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Pixotope

Real-time AR and virtual studio platform built on Unreal Engine.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production…

Smode

Real-time 2D/3D creation, compositing, and video-mapping engine.

Vizrt

Real-time broadcast graphics and virtual studio platform.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Zero Density

Real-time VFX engine for broadcast and virtual production.See also: Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Ben Marriott

. After Effects and motion design.

Jitter Templates

. Free motion graphics templates.

Top 5 Expressions (graymachine)

. Essential AE expressions.

Multichannel EXR (Fusion forum)

. Multichannel EXR workflow in Fusion.

Split EXR in Fusion

. Split EXR in Fusion guide.

Friction

Free open-source motion graphics and 2D vector animation. After Effects-style workflow.See also: Software Reference →…

Natron (community fork)

Free open-source node compositor, Nuke-like.

TOOLL3

Graph-based procedural real-time motion graphics for live performance or rendering.

Ads of the World

. Advertising reference.

AEJuice

Free tier. Free and premium motion presets, transitions, and effects packs installable directly via a panel inside…

After Effects Facebook Group

. Join the After Effects community on Facebook.

Animation Nodes (GitHub)

. A node-based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender.

Animation Nodes (site)

. A node-based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender.

Art of Style Frame

. Style frame showcase.

Art of the Title

. Title sequence deep dives.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

Behance Motion

. Motion design gallery.

Commotion

. Blender add-on for motion graphics.

Eyecannndy

. Visual effects and motion inspiration.

FilmGrab

. Curated film stills archive. Free.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding &…

Flim AI

Free tier. Film frame search engine.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding &…

FrameRate

. Community showcase for motion design and music video work by video professionals.

Hall of Frame

. Community-submitted archive of motion design, typography, 3D, and VFX references, filterable by category and format.

Houdini 2 AE

. Tool for exporting camera and locators from Houdini to After Effects.

John Berube

. Motion design portfolio and resources.

Mobox Graphics

. In-depth After Effects tutorials focused on motion design.

Motionographer

. Motion design showcase.

nexrender

. Data-driven render automation for After Effects.

Opening Titles (Vimeo)

. Title sequence collection.

PlayPhrase.me

Free tier. Phrase-based film clip search.

RailCut

Paid. Multi-track clip editing directly in After Effects with NLE-style tools like ripple edit, rolling edit, slip,…

React UMG

. A React renderer for Unreal Motion Graphics with Unreal.js.

Reddit - r/AfterEffects

. The After Effects subreddit for community discussions and sharing.

Rubberhose 2

Paid. Shape-layer-based IK limb rigging system for fast character animation with one-click rig creation.

ShotDeck

Paid. Searchable film still library for storyboards and references.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling →…

Stash Magazine

Free tier. Motion design and animation showcase.

Trapcode Suite

Paid. A set of 3D motion graphics and visual effects plugins for After Effects.

Effekseer

Real-time VFX editor and runtime.

MadMapper

Projection mapping software.

Magic Animator

Web-based animation creator.

Mocha Pro

Boris FX planar tracker for VFX. Roto, object removal, screen replacement, lens distortion.

Red Giant Complete

Maxon-owned VFX/motion suite. Trapcode, Magic Bullet, VFX Suite, Universe.

Resolume

Live visuals and VJ software.

TouchDesigner

Node-based real-time visual programming for interactive media, installations, and live visuals.

Caddis

Paid. Motion design app with layer timeline and node compositing.

Easing Functions

. Visual reference of common easing curves with code snippets.

Element 3D

Paid. A 3D plugin for After Effects that allows you to import and animate 3D models.

Jitter

Free tier. Browser-based collaborative motion design tool.

Lottielab

Free tier. Editor for Lottie animations targeting apps and websites.

Nukepedia Lens Engine

. Lens simulation gizmo for Nuke.

Nw Wrld

. Experimental motion tool.

Periodic Table of Motion

. Reference chart of motion design principles and techniques.

PixelCrash

Paid. Creative motion and visual tools.

Plate

Paid. WebGPU motion design tool running in the browser, with macOS and Windows builds.

React Spring

. Library for physically accurate animations, works with react-three-fiber.

Aseprite

Pixel art editor with animation tools (source on GitHub).

Autograph

USD-based motion graphics, compositing, and VFX (After Effects alternative). Free for individuals incl. commercial…

Cavalry

Procedural 2D motion design (After Effects alternative). Free tier available.

Clip Studio Paint

Industry-standard illustration and comics with animation timeline.

DoAnimation

Browser frame-by-frame 2D animation. Layers, onion skinning, GIF/MP4 export. Files stay local.

DragonBones

Open source 2D skeletal animation. Flash-origin workflow, runtimes for multiple engines.

Friction

Free open-source motion graphics and 2D vector animation. After Effects-style workflow.See also: Software Reference →…

GraphicsGale

Pixel art and sprite animation tool (free).

Krita

Free open-source digital painting app from KDE; v5.3 and v6.0 shipped March 2026.

LibreSprite

LibreSprite is an open source fork of Aseprite.

Lightcube

Pixel art editor for Windows w/ PSD, JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF support.

Moho (Smith Micro)

2D vector and bone-rigged animation.

OpenToonz

Studio Ghibli's animation engine, open-sourced.

Pencil2D

Free lightweight 2D animation.

Pickle

Pixel art editor.

Pixa.Pics

Browser pixel-art tool w/ vectorization.

Pixel Composer (itch.io)

Node-based 2D VFX and compositing for pixel art.

Pixelator

Turn any image into pixel art.

Pixelorama

Free pixel art editor (made in Godot).

PixelOver

Convert artwork to pixel art with animation, bone rigging, and pixel-perfect transforms.

Pixen (GitHub)

Pixel Art Editor for OSX

Pixen (site)

Paid, works on macOS and iOS. Superb OS integration, create pixel art on a tablet using pressure-sensitive drawing.

Pro Motion

Paid with trial, works on Windows. Advanced features tailored to creating pixel art for games.

Procreate

IPad painting app. Procreate Dreams for animation.

PyxelEdit

Pixel art editor for tilesets, levels, animations.

Rebelle 8 Pro

Natural-media painting app simulating real watercolor, oil, acrylic, ink with fluid dynamics.

REXPaint

Free ASCII art editor with layers, animation, and palette tools. Built for roguelike and terminal art.

Rive

Interactive animation for apps and web.

Spine (Esoteric Software)

2D skeletal animation w/ mesh deformation, IK, skins/attachments. Runtimes for Unity/Unreal/Godot/web. Used on Cult of…

SpriteMancer

2D VFX and sprite animation.

Spriter Pro

Modern tool for sprite animation (2D bone rigging).

Synfig Studio

Free open-source 2D vector animation.

Tahoma2D

2D and stop-motion animation (OpenToonz fork w/ modernized UI and features).

TexturePacker

Sprite sheet packing, multi-engine export.

Toon Boom Harmony

Professional 2D animation (studio standard).

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro

Industry-standard storyboarding software.

Apple Compressor

Encoding and delivery companion app for Final Cut Pro.

Apple Motion

Motion graphics app and FCP template authoring tool from Apple.

Avid Media Composer

Long-standing film/TV finishing NLE. Standard for collaborative editorial in features and broadcast post.

Avidemux

Simple OSS cut/filter/encode tool. Not a full NLE.

CapCut Desktop

ByteDance's free desktop/mobile editor, dominant in social workflows.

Clipchamp

Microsoft's browser editor bundled with Windows 11.

DaVinci Resolve

Free professional editing, color grading, Fusion, Fairlight audio.

Descript

Transcript-driven video and podcast editor. Edits by editing the text.

Filmora

Wondershare beginner-friendly editor; watermarked free tier.

Final Cut Pro

Apple-native NLE with magnetic timeline.

GoZen

Free open-source video editor built with Godot (alpha).

HitFilm

Artlist-owned editor + VFX combo. Free tier plus Pro paid version.

iMovie

Apple's free consumer editor for macOS and iOS/iPadOS.

Kdenlive

Free open-source NLE.

Lightworks

Pro NLE with free tier (1080p export) and paid Pro/Create tiers. Used on feature films historically.

OBS

Software designed for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content efficiently.

OpenShot

Award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Premiere Elements

One-time-purchase consumer Premiere variant.

Premiere Pro

Industry-standard NLE from Adobe.

Shotcut

Free open-source video editor.

VEED

Browser editor with auto-subtitles, AI tools, and screen recording.

Vegas Movie Studio

Consumer/prosumer Vegas variant for hobbyist editing.

Vegas Pro

Magix Windows NLE with track-based timeline, HDR, and AI-assisted tools.

VSDC Free Video Editor

Windows non-linear editor, free + Pro tier.

Ableton Live

Session and arrangement DAW. Standard for electronic music and live performance.

Adobe Audition

Professional audio workstation.

Ardour

OSS multitrack DAW.

Audacity

Free open-source audio editor and recorder.

Audio Design Desk

Sound design app that places SFX, foley, and music against picture from typed cues.

Bespoke Synth

Open-source modular DAW where patch cables rewire the signal path while it plays.

Bfxr

Retro and chiptune SFX generator (browser and desktop).

Bitwig Studio

DAW with deep modular Grid synthesis engine.

Cakewalk by BandLab

Full Sonar successor, free on Windows.

ChucK

Strongly timed audio programming language for livecoding and synthesis.

Csound

Sound and music computing system with a text-based orchestra and score model.

Cubase

Steinberg DAW with strong MIDI and scoring.

Dolby Atmos Renderer

Reference Dolby Atmos production renderer.

FabFilter Pro Suite

Pro EQ, compressor, reverb, and limiter plugins (Pro-Q, Pro-L).

Fairlight

Professional audio built into DaVinci Resolve.

FL Studio

Pattern-based DAW with lifetime free updates.

Flux Spat Revolution

IRCAM-derived object-based spatializer for immersive mixing.

FMOD

Industry-standard adaptive audio. Free for indie <$200k.

GameSynth (Tsugi)

Node-based procedural SFX generator for games.

GarageBand

Free Apple DAW with built-in loops, drummers, and amp models.

iZotope RX

Industry-standard audio restoration suite.

Krotos

Performance-driven foley and monster vox plugins (Reformer, Dehumaniser).

LMMS

Free FL-style DAW, cross-platform.

Logic Pro

Apple pro DAW for macOS and iPad.

Max/MSP (Cycling '74)

Visual patcher for audio, MIDI, and video (Jitter).

Melodyne

Pitch and timing editor that separates notes inside polyphonic recordings.

Ocenaudio

Free waveform editor with real-time effect preview and large-file handling.

Pro Tools

Industry standard for post-production audio mixing and finishing.

Pure Data (Pd)

Open-source visual programming environment for audio, MIDI, and multimedia.

Reaper

Full DAW with $60 personal license.

Renoise

Tracker-style DAW with sample-level editing and per-line command control.

Sonic Pi

Code-based music livecoding environment, education-friendly.

Sound Particles

CGI-style 3D sound design with thousands of simultaneous sources. Big in immersive/film audio.

Soundly

Desktop SFX platform with curated library and local library management.

SoundThread

Node-based patching front end for the Composers Desktop Project sound manipulation tools.

Steam Audio

Physics-based spatial audio by Valve. Free.

Strudel

Browser TidalCycles port (JS).

Studio One

PreSonus drag-flow DAW.

SuperCollider

Server-based audio synthesis and livecoding language.

Surge XT

Open-source hybrid synthesizer with wavetable, FM, and subtractive engines.

TidalCycles

Haskell-based pattern livecoding for algoraves.

VCV Rack

Open-source Eurorack modular synthesizer emulator. Free core; paid Pro and premium modules.

Vital

Spectral warping wavetable synth. Free tier covers most sound design work.

Waveform Free

Tracktion DAW with unlimited tracks at no cost.

Wavewright

Modular music sandbox inspired by analog synthesizers (Early Access).

Wwise

AAA audio middleware with free tier.

Godot Asset Store

. Official addon, plugin, and asset marketplace (beta). Replaces the legacy Asset Library.

Godot Documentation

. Official docs. GDScript, C#, 2D/3D, shaders, physics, networking.

Godot Proposals

. Feature request tracker and roadmap.

Godot Shaders

. Community shader library with visual previews.

Dialogic 2

. Full-featured dialogue and timeline system.

GdSpy

. Unofficial fSpy importer for Godot.

Godot 4 glTF runtime import

. Godot 4 glTF runtime import.

Godot Package Manager

. Package manager for Godot using npm.

GodotSteam

. Steamworks SDK integration.

Gut

. Unit testing framework for GDScript.

Limbo AI

. Behavior trees and state machines.

Phantom Camera

. Dynamic camera system (Cinemachine-inspired).

SmartShape2D

. Intelligent 2D terrain/shape tool.

Brackeys (Godot)

. Returned in 2024 with Godot content.

DevDuck

. Dev logs and tutorials.

GDQuest

Free tier. Premium courses plus free YouTube tutorials.

GDScript.com

. Interactive GDScript learning.

Introduction into the new Godot OpenVR Asset

. Bastiaan Olij YouTube. Godot OpenVR and XR tutorials.

KidsCanCode Godot Recipes

. Clear beginner-friendly guides.

Miziziziz

. Tutorials and game dev challenges.

The Shaggy Dev

. Godot-focused tutorials.

Godot Discord

. Official Discord.

Godot Forums

. Official forum.

r/godot

. 350k+ members, very active.

Visual Studio (Windows)

Official supported IDE for Unity in Windows platform. Mac version here.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline &…

2D Rope System

Paid. Scripts for creating 2D ropes in the editor or at runtime.

2D Tech Demos

. Official Unity tech demos for 2D features.

50 Unity Tips

. Fifty Unity tips spanning editor tools, serialization, and UI shortcuts, with a mobile focus.

A Crack In The Slab

. Recreation of a Dishonored 2 effect in Unity.

A Star Pathfinding for Unity

. Multithreaded 3-axis A* pathfinder for Unity.

A* Pathfinding Project Pro

Paid. Fast pathfinding system for Unity with grid, navmesh, and point graphs.

Actors Unity3d Framework

. Decouples data from behavior in Unity.

Adic

. Lightweight dependency injection container for Unity.

AdMob Unity Plugin

. Unity extension for placing AdMob banners in Android games.

AI Companion

. Unity 5 AI learning project with behavior trees and A* pathfinding.

AirPeer

. WebRTC-based networking plugin for Unity.

Akka.Unity.Sample

. Sample running Akka.NET in Unity.

AngryBots2

. Example Unity project from Unity Technologies demonstrating several features.

Animation Texture Baker

. Bakes legacy animations into textures, targeting ECS.

Animator Timeline

. Timeline editor for Unity.

AR Foundation Docs

. Manual for Unity's cross-platform AR framework (ARKit, ARCore).

Artimech

. Open-source visual scripting and state machine system for Unity.

Asset Auditing Tools

. Official Unity editor tools to audit project assets and fix errors.

Astar Pathfinding

. 2D A* pathfinding for Unity.

Atlas Unity

. Gradle plugin to run Unity batchmode commands and unit tests and export .unitypackage files.

AudioRecorder

. Audio recorder component for Unity.

AudioTexture

. Generates a Unity Texture2D from an AudioClip.

Auto Save Scene

. Unity editor helper that auto-saves the scene to minimize lost work.

Autoya

. Thin application framework for Unity.

Barebones Master Server

. Master server framework for Unity.

Beautiful Text Outline for Unity UI

. Text outline and vertex effects for Unity UI.

Bep In Ex

. Unity game patcher and plugin framework for modding shipped games.

Better Defines

. Manage preprocessor directives in Unity.

BetterDefines.cs

. Gist: improved scripting define symbol management for Unity.

BezierCanvas

. Illustrator pen-tool style bezier editor for Unity.

BitpackingTools

. Bitpacking and serialization libraries behind the NetworkSyncTransform and TransformCrusher Unity assets.

Bitstrap

. BitCake's collection of Unity workflow tools.

Bolt

. Visual scripting for Unity to build gameplay and interactive systems without code. Now bundled with Unity as Visual…

Bullet Pattern Editor Unity

. Editor for authoring shoot-em-up bullet patterns.

CAFU Core

. Clean-architecture framework for Unity.

CameraLib4U

. Third-person chase-camera system for Unity.

CarPaint

. Car paint material for the Unity Standard Assets car.

Chanquo

. Partial Go-channel implementation for Unity.

CharacterController2D

. 2D controller that behaves like Unity's CharacterController component.

Charon Unity3D

. Charon game data editor plugin for Unity to define data structures, edit data, and access it from code.

Cheatography Unity Cheatsheet

. Hotkey reference for the Unity editor.

Chest Of Property Drawers

. Collection of small reusable Unity property drawers.

ClassTypeReference for Unity

. Serializable references to System.Type with a custom property drawer for dropdown class selection.

CO2

. Android plugin generator for Unity.

ColorPalette

. Lightweight color palette asset for Unity.

Colorus

. Coloring book game for web and iOS made with Unity.

Command Terminal

. In-game console and command terminal for Unity.

Complete Unity 2018 Game Development

. Companion code for the Complete Unity 2018 Game Development book.

Constellation

. Visual scripting language for Unity, no code required.

Coop Design

. Prototype for runtime cooperative level design in Unity.

CoroutineChain

. Chainable coroutine helper for Unity.

CosineGradient

. Cosine gradient generator for Unity.

Cpp Unity TCP Client Server

. Sample Unity TCP client with a C++ (Boost) server.

CropTexture

. Crop and resize textures in the Unity editor.

Crystal AI

. Utility-based AI framework for C# and Unity.

CUDLR

. Console for Unity debugging and logging remotely.

CurveTexture

. Encode arbitrary curves into textures and apply them to materials or shader properties.

Custom 2D Colliders

. Custom 2D colliders for Unity.

DataRenderer2D

. Generates line and polygon meshes in Unity.

DeadSimple Pixel-Perfect Camera

. Pixel-perfect orthographic camera script for 2D Unity scenes.

Deform

. Deformer system for Unity meshes.

DeltaDNA Unity SDK

. deltaDNA analytics and smartads mediation SDK for Unity games.

Devdog UnityTips Compilation

. Collected Unity tips and tricks posted by developers.

Dissonance

. Real-time voice chat asset for Unity multiplayer.

DownloadManager.cs

. Download manager gist for Unity.

DT Compile Time Tracker

. Unity editor extension that tracks compile time.

DTCommandPalette

. Command palette for Unity to run methods and open scenes.

Dual Quaternion Skinning for Unity

. Dual quaternion skinning implementation for Unity.

EasingCore

. Simple easing-function implementation for Unity.

EasyMOBA

. MOBA game template for Unity.

ECS Tween

. Unity tweening system built on ECS that also works with GameObjects.

ECSRx.unity

. Reactive ECS framework for Unity built on UniRx.

Edge Detect Post Processing Unity

. Unity legacy edge-detect image effect ported to Post Processing Stack v2.

Enhanced Scroll View

. 3D scroll view for Unity (NGUI and uGUI support).

EnumDispatcher

. ECS-backed C# enums as Flux/Redux actions in Unity.

EpPathFinding3D.cs

. 3D jump-point-search pathfinding for cube-based games in C#.

EZ Item Editor

. Game data editor for Unity for entering, maintaining, and consuming game data.

EzySlice

. Mesh slicer framework for Unity, written in C#.

Firestorm

. Makeshift Cloud Firestore C# API for Unity over REST. Basic functions only.

Fixed Function States from Materials (gist)

. Aras Pranckevicius gist on driving fixed-function render states from materials and scripts in Unity.

FlexibleUI Unity

. Multiple GUI theme system for Unity.

Fluid Behavior Tree

. Code-first behavior tree micro-framework for Unity.

Flurry Unity Plugin

. Flurry analytics library for Unity on Android and iOS.

FrameDump

. Exports image sequences from Unity.

Fungus

. Unity library for building illustrated interactive-fiction and visual-novel games.

Futile

. A code-first 2D framework for Unity.

Game View Maximizer

. Maximizes the Unity game view with a keyboard shortcut.

GameAI Movement

. NPC movement algorithms built in Unity for an AI-for-games university course.

GameFramework (EllanJiang)

. Game framework for Unity that encapsulates common game modules and standardizes the development process.

GameFramework (FlipWebApps)

. Free Unity framework adding common game systems and features.

Gamekit3D

. Official Unity 3D game kit sample project from Unity Technologies.

Gendarme

. Mono rule-based static analysis tool, usable on Unity project assemblies.

Get Social Deep Linking Activity.java

. Gist activity that captures onNewIntent deep links missed by Unity when backgrounded.

GetSocial Unity SDK

. GetSocial social SDK and demo for Unity.

GitHub: mob-sakai

. GitHub profile with open-source Unity tools and effects.

GitHub: mrzapp

. GitHub profile with open-source Unity tools and utilities.

Gizmos

. Draw runtime gizmos in builds and the editor in Unity.

GOAP

. Goal-oriented action planning AI for Unity.

Good Coding Practices in Unity

. Trello board of good coding practices for Unity.

Google Analytics Plugin for Unity

. Google Analytics plugin for Unity.

Google Mobile Ads Unity Plugin

. Official Unity plugin for the Google Mobile Ads SDK.

Google Sheets Unity

. Read data from private Google Sheets into Unity (read-only).

Graphmesh

. Graph-based procedural mesh generation inside the Unity editor.

Green Mamba Stealth

. Stealth system for Unity that detects how well-lit a character is, so they can hide in dynamic shadows.

Guitar Hero Unity

. Guitar Hero fan game made in Unity.

HermodToolkit

. A set of 2D tools for Unity.

HexTiles

. Hex tile editor for Unity.

HiSocket

. Lightweight socket library for Unity and C# projects.

Hogwarts

. Open-source Harry Potter sandbox game made in Unity.

How to Set Up Unity's VR Editor (EditorVR)

. Tutorial on setting up Unity's experimental EditorVR.

Hydrogen CSharp

. C# framework for Unity providing collections, utilities, and helpers.

Ico Sphere Creator

. Icosphere mesh creation tool for Unity.

Imgui Unity

. Dear ImGui integration for Unity.

In-Game Editor UI

. In-game runtime Hierarchy and Inspector for Unity, like the built-in editor.

InfinityScroll

. Makes Unity ScrollRects scroll infinitely.

iOS Unity Vuforia Guide

. Guide to integrating Unity + Vuforia into a native iOS app.

iTween Expansion

. Expansion of Bob Berkebile's iTween tweening plugin for Unity.

Jitter Physics

. C# real-time physics engine ported into Unity.

JourneySand

. Unity project reproducing the sand rendering style of Journey.

JSONObject

. JSONObject parsing library for Unity.

JWT for Unity

. JSON Web Token implementation for Unity / .NET 3.5+.

KEngine

. Unity asset bundle framework (LGPL).

KinoBloom

. Bloom post-processing effect for Unity.

KinoObscurance

. Screen-space ambient obscurance image effect for Unity.

KlakHap

. HAP video player plugin for Unity.

KlakSyphon

. Syphon video-sharing plugin for Unity on macOS.

Knight Windjson

. JSON parser for Unity.

Knowledge Representation

. Small Unity project showing AI responding to changes in the game world.

Koch's Fractals

. Koch fractals demo for Unity.

kode80SSR

. Open-source screen-space reflections for Unity 5.

L Systems In Unity

. L-system rewriting for modeling plants, letting you generate plants in Unity games.

Leading Ones (LeadingOnesVR)

. Quick look at Unity's EditorVR.

LibPdIntegration

. libpd (Pure Data) audio wrapper for Unity.

Light Probes Placement

. Unity project showing automatic light probe placement via the LightProbesVolumes package.

LINQ to GameObject for Unity

. Traverse the GameObject hierarchy using LINQ.

Live2D with Unity

. Imports Live2D models and reads mtn motion files in Unity.

Lochie Westfall

. YouTube channel with Unity VR tutorials.

log4net.unity

. log4net helpers and a UnityEngine.Debug appender for Unity.

Loxodon Framework

. MVVM framework for Unity with data binding, localization, and uGUI support.

LuaProfiler For Unity

. Profiler for Lua inside Unity.

MafiaUnity

. Open-source Mafia game framework for Unity.

Marschner Hair Unity

. Marschner hair shading model implemented in Unity.

MassiveNet

. Unity UDP networking library for high-CCU, multi-server architectures.

Master Unity Handles

. Examples of custom handles in the Unity editor.

MeshDecimator

. Mesh decimation library for .NET and Unity.

Message Pack Grid View

. MessagePack data viewer built on MessagePack-CSharp and Unity TreeView.

MessagePack CSharp

. Fast MessagePack serializer for C# (.NET, Unity, Xamarin).

Metaverse Standards Forum

. YouTube channel of the Metaverse Standards Forum, with talks and panels.

Minesweeper

. Tile-based Minesweeper with high scores made in Unity.

MiniMap

. Minimap and radar system for Unity.

Missing References Unity

. Unity editor extension for finding missing object references.

MLAPI

. Game networking framework for Unity (now Netcode for GameObjects).

MMD for Unity

. MikuMikuDance model and motion importer for Unity.

MOBA CSharp Unity

. MOBA game framework for Unity with a Unity-independent server that runs on Linux.

Msgpack Unity3D

. MessagePack and JSON serializer for Unity.

MVPScriptGenerator4Unity

. MVP script generator for the Unity editor.

My S7 Pro Sim Lib

. Connects Unity to Siemens PLCSim via COM interop (S7PROSimLib).

Nakama Unity

. Unity client for the Nakama game server.

Naphier Gists

. Collection of reusable Unity code gists.

NATPunchthroughClient

. Example NAT punchthrough combined with Unity's UNet HLAPI.

NAudio Unity

. Port of NAudio to the Mono subset used by Unity.

NaughtyAttributes

. Inspector attribute extensions for Unity.

NaughtyCharacter

. Third-person character controller for Unity.

NDocumentation

. Documentation window for the Unity editor that displays rich-text pages.

Net Peeweek Console

. Interactive runtime console for Unity, distributed as a package.

NGTools

. Unity editor extensions and tools by Napland Games.

Node Inspector

. Node graph editor extension for Unity.

NPBehave

. Event-driven behavior trees for Unity.

NVIDIA Hair Works Integration

. NVIDIA HairWorks hair simulation integration for Unity.

OpenConvo

. Open-source dialogue framework for Unity.

OpenEd

. Open-source runtime editor for Unity.

OpenFile

. Open-source serialization for Unity.

OpenFramework

. Lightweight Unity framework with dependency injection.

OpenGUI

. Open-source GUI framework for Unity.

Openpath

. Open-source pathfinding for Unity.

OpenStash

. Open-source inventory framework for Unity.

OSMTrafficSim

. Traffic simulation built on Unity ECS.

P2P.NET

. Peer-to-peer networking in Unity using WebRTC with a free signaling server (formerly UnityP2P).

Pacman

. Pacman clone with original AI made in Unity.

Path

. Pathfinding library for Unity.

PBD Fluid in Unity

. Position-based-dynamics fluid simulation running on the GPU in Unity.

Pedometer API

. Native pedometer API for Unity on mobile.

PerfAssist

. Performance and profiling components for Unity development.

Perfect Spheres

. System for rendering spheres cheaply and accurately in Unity.

Physical Camera

. Official Unity component describing physical camera attributes.

Pitaya

. Go game server framework with clustering and client libraries, including Unity via the C SDK.

Pixel Camera 2D

. Pixel-perfect camera with scaling options for 2D games.

Pixel Render Unity3D

. Real-time rendering of 3D scenes as 2D pixel art in Unity.

Pixel Sprite Generator Unity

. C# port of PixelSpriteGenerator for Unity.

PNGCS

. PNG encoding and decoding for Unity.

Pomelo Unity Client

. Unity client for the Pomelo distributed Node.js game server.

PPOL

. Crowd simulator using Unity ML-Agents and PPO reinforcement learning.

ProbePolisher

. Light probe editor for Unity.

Procedural Level Generator Unity

. Unity plugin for procedural dungeon generation.

ProceduralMesh

. Simple procedural mesh generation for Unity.

ProjectRider Unity

. JetBrains Rider integration for Unity.

Protobuf3 for Unity

. Protocol Buffers v3 runtime for Unity (.NET 3.5).

Psd2UnityImporter

. PSD importer for Unity.

QuadWarp

. Quad-warp projection sample for Unity.

Quickfracture

. Mesh fracture and destruction effect for Unity.

Ray Marching

. Ray marching of signed distance functions in Unity, by Sebastian Lague.

Raywenderlich.com Unity Cheatsheet

. Cheatsheet of common Unity development problems and fixes.

RecyclerKit

. Object pool manager for Unity.

Reflected Inspector

. Inspector system for Unity that serializes non-Unity types, similar to SerializedProperties.

Reign Unity Plugin

. Cross-platform unified API plugin for Unity.

Render Queue

. Render queue editor extension for Unity.

Reorderable Inspector

. Automatic reorderable lists for Unity component inspectors.

Reorderable List Editor Field for Unity

. Drag-to-reorder list field for Unity inspectors.

Resharper Unity

. JetBrains ReSharper and Rider plugin for Unity.

RestClient (proyecto26)

. Promise-based HTTP and REST client for Unity, with callback support.

RestClient (Unity3dAzure)

. REST client for Unity with JSON and XML parsing, including nested arrays and abstract types.

Restifizer Unity3D

. Restifizer SDK for Unity to build RESTful services backed by MongoDB.

RiderProxy

. Unity support for both ReSharper and Rider.

RPGCore

. Framework for building RPG games and mechanics in Unity.

Runtime Unity Editor

. In-game inspector and debugging tools for Unity applications.

San Andreas Unity

. Open-source port of GTA San Andreas to Unity.

SceneHistory Unity

. Open scenes quickly from a custom scene history, with additive support.

Script Templates for Unity

. Editor window that generates C# source stubs for Unity.

ScriptableObject Architecture

. Makes ScriptableObjects a core part of your Unity architecture.

ScriptFinder

. Unity editor extension to find script references across a project.

SDF Gen Unity

. Signed distance function generator running inside Unity.

SearchTools

. Search tools for the Unity editor.

Selection History Navigator

. Unity editor extension to navigate between object selections.

SerializableCallback

. Serializable callbacks for Unity that return values, blending UnityEvent and System.Func.

Serialized Parameter Unity

. Attribute that persists field data between Unity play-mode sessions.

SetProperty

. PropertyAttribute/PropertyDrawer combo for exposing C# properties in the Unity inspector.

Settings Unity

. Settings management utility for Unity.

Shapes

. Hand-drawn meshes and vector shapes for Processing and Unity.

Shortcuter

. Shortcut utility for Unity.

Show Toast Unity Android.cs

. Gist showing native Android toast messages from Unity.

Signals (UnityPatterns)

. Editor-driven signal/event system for Unity.

Signals (yankooliveira)

. Type-safe lightweight messaging library for Unity.

Simple ECS

. Example of Unity's Entity Component System, inspired by Roll-a-ball.

Simple Light Probe Placer

. Simple tool for placing light probes in Unity scenes.

SmartData

. Editor-driven Unity framework for connecting data and events, designer-friendly.

Smrvfx

. Example passing skinned-mesh data into the Unity VFX Graph.

SonarFx

. Sonar scanning effect for Unity.

SpacePuppy Unity Framework 3.0

. Collection of tools for making games in Unity.

SpatialOS GDK for Unity

. SpatialOS game development kit for Unity. Discontinued.

Spine Runtimes

. Spine 2D animation runtimes, including a Unity runtime.

SpriteDicing

. Unity extension for reusing sprite texture areas to cut memory.

SpriteMaker

. Tool for making sprites inside Unity.

Sproto Unity

. Demo of using sproto-csharp in Unity.

Static Blured Screen

. Static (non-realtime) screen blur for Unity, handy as a dialog background.

Strange Io C

. Lightweight extensible inversion-of-control (IoC) framework for C# and Unity.

StyleBrowser

. Editor window to browse all built-in Unity GUI styles.

Super Character Controller

. Custom character controller for Unity.

Super Mario Bros AR Game

. Channel showing an AR Super Mario game built with Microsoft HoloLens and Unity.

Terrain Tool Samples

. Official Unity terrain tools and brush asset samples.

Texture3DPreview for Unity

. Interactive previews of Texture3D assets in the Unity inspector.

TexturePanner

. Unity shader for scrolling-texture effects like neon signs and conveyor belts.

ThreeDScans

. Scanned statue models from the Three D Scans project, optimized for real-time use.

Tidy Up

. Keeps Unity projects organized by sorting assets into designated folders.

Time Flow Shiki

. Timeline GUI skeleton for the Unity editor.

TsiU AIToolkit CSharp

. AI toolkit for Unity.

TTConsole

. Runtime debug console for Unity.

Typogenic

. Signed-distance-field text rendering for Unity.

U Net Voice

. Tiny voice chat implementation for Unity.

U Texture Send Receive

. Unity network texture sender and receiver for video and frame streaming.

UDBase

. Module-based Unity game template where controllers can be swapped without changing project source.

uGUI LinkImageText

. Adds inline links and images to Unity uGUI Text.

uMVVM

. Simple MVVM framework for Unity.

UndoPro

. Command-based undo system integrated with Unity's native undo/redo.

UNet Controller

. Character controller built for Unity's UNet networking system.

Uni Android Vibration

. Unity Android plugin for triggering device vibration.

Uni Version Manager

. Reads app and build version in Unity across editor, iOS, and Android.

UniClipboard

. Simple clipboard plugin for Unity.

Unidux

. Redux-style state architecture for Unity.

UniGif

. GIF image decoder for Unity.

UniIosAudioService

. Unity iOS plugin for playing iOS system sounds.

UniLua

. Pure C# implementation of Lua 5.2, compatible with Unity.

UniteBerlin

. Companion repo for the Unite Berlin talk on working faster in Unity.

Unity 2D Platformer Controller

. Customizable 2D platformer motor with double jumps, wall jumps, and corner grabs, plus a drop-in player prefab.

Unity 5 Effects

. Collection of effects for Unity 5.

Unity A Star Navigation

. A* navigation for Unity using Burst-compiled jobs.

Unity Ableton Link

. Ableton Link tempo-sync plugin for Unity.

Unity Ads

. Official Unity ad monetization SDK.

Unity AI

. AI behavior tree framework for Unity.

Unity AR Foundation and MARS

. Unity's AR tooling: AR Foundation cross-platform framework plus MARS authoring environment.

Unity Asset Usage Detector

. Finds which objects reference the selected assets or objects in a Unity project.

Unity Async Routines

. Lightweight async coroutine library for Unity.

Unity Atoms

. Modular ScriptableObject-based architecture pieces for Unity.

Unity Auth Manager

. Example JWT-based authentication for a Unity app.

Unity Beat Detection

. Musical beat detection and audio spectrum analysis for Unity.

Unity Bezier Solution

. Bezier spline solution for Unity with utilities like constant-speed traversal.

Unity Bitmap Drawing

. Bitmap drawing API extension methods for Unity's Texture2D class.

Unity BitmapFontImporter

. Unity editor extension for importing bitmap fonts.

Unity Camera Follow 2D

. 2D camera-follow script for Unity.

Unity Camera Shake

. Pseudo-random camera shake using Perlin noise.

Unity CameraSizeToVelocity2D

. Script that scales camera size with target velocity.

Unity Character Customization

. Character customization demo for Unity.

Unity Color Picker

. Standalone color picker asset for Unity.

Unity Color Wheel

. Color picker element for the newer Unity uGUI system.

Unity ColourLovers Importer

. Unity editor tool to load colors and palettes from COLOURlovers.com.

Unity Compact Field Attribute

. Per-property label widths in the Unity inspector to stop labels getting cut off.

Unity Delaunay

. Delaunay/Voronoi library for Unity, with a simple destruction effect.

Unity Documentation for VR

. Unity manual section on VR development.

Unity Dynamic Scroll View

. Dynamic scroll view built on uGUI.

Unity ECS Instanced Sprite Renderer

. Performant sprite renderer example using Unity's ECS.

Unity Editor Helper

. Scripts that make editor scripting in Unity easier.

Unity Editor Hotkeys

. Unity manual page listing editor hotkeys.

Unity Editor Icons

. Reference of built-in Unity editor icons loadable via EditorGUIUtility.IconContent.

Unity Editor Junkie

. Editor scripts that improve working with the Unity editor.

Unity Editor Snippets

. Collection of Unity editor productivity helpers.

Unity Editor Spotlight

. macOS-Spotlight-style file search inside the Unity editor.

Unity Editor Texel Density

. Texel density checker for Unity.

Unity EditorXR

. Unity editor authoring in VR. Formerly EditorVR.

Unity Elevator Compiler

. Plugin that plays elevator music while Unity compiles your code.

Unity Engine Analyzer

. Roslyn analyzer for Unity that flags common performance pitfalls.

Unity Events

. Strongly typed event system for Unity with global and per-GameObject events.

Unity Extensions.Inspect Inline

. Inspect and edit object references inline and embed objects as subassets in Unity.

Unity Extensions.Selection History

. Adds navigation menu items in the Unity editor: Edit/Selection/Back and Edit/Selection/Forward.

Unity File Debug

. Enhanced debug logging for Unity, with JSON/CSV export and an HTML viewer.

Unity File Extension

. Shows file extensions in the one-column project window.

Unity First Person View

. First-person view asset where viewmodel objects do not clip the environment, use a separate FOV, and receive shadows.

Unity Flurry SDK

. Unity plugin for the Flurry analytics SDK.

Unity Framework

. Application framework for C# Unity game projects.

Unity Frosted Glass

. Frosted glass material made in Unity.

Unity Good Practices

. Unity best-practices reference from Futurice.

Unity Inmediate Color Picker

. Color picker for Unity in immediate-mode GUI.

Unity Interface Reference

. Serializable wrapper that holds a reference to an interface in Unity.

Unity Jobs View Frustum Culling

. View frustum culling jobs for Unity's job system.

Unity Logs Viewer

. View editor console logs inside the running game.

Unity LoMenu

. UI menu package for Unity.

Unity Main Thread Dispatcher

. Thread-safe way to run actions on Unity's main thread.

Unity Math Reference

. Game math reference, visualized in Unity.

Unity Mecanim VR IK vs Final IK

. Channel comparing VR IK using native Unity Mecanim IK versus Final IK.

Unity Mesh Counter

. Shows mesh data counters in Unity.

Unity Mesh Simplifier (Unity-Technologies)

. Mesh simplification for Unity. Official Unity-Technologies fork.

Unity Mesh Simplifier (Whinarn)

. Mesh simplification for Unity.

Unity Mesh Triangulator

. Mesh triangulator for Unity, forked from alexmuab's version.

Unity Movement AI

. Steering-behavior movement scripts for NPCs in Unity.

Unity Native Scripting

. Write Unity scripts in C++.

Unity Neural Network

. Simple neural network implemented in C# for Unity.

Unity Non Null

. [NonNull] attribute for fields and classes in Unity.

Unity Object Pool

. Object pool and manager for Unity.

Unity Object Pooler

. Simple object pool for Unity.

Unity Open API

. RESTful API client generator for Unity.

Unity Optix Plugin

. Example Unity plugin for NVIDIA OptiX.

Unity Package Manager Lifecycle

. Unity manual page on the Package Manager release lifecycle.

Unity Path Finding

. Dijkstra shortest-path finding for Unity.

Unity Pause Menu

. Open-source pause menu for Unity, originally built for the game New Horizons.

Unity Physics CSP

. Client-side-prediction demo in Unity with all network traffic simulated in one instance.

Unity Pixel Camera

. Resolution-independent pixel-perfect camera for Unity.

Unity Plane Mesh Splitter

. Script to split any mesh into smaller chunks.

Unity Preview Generator

. Generates preview textures and icons for Unity models and sprites.

Unity Procedural Flower

. Procedural flower generator for Unity.

Unity PSD Layout Tool

. Imports Photoshop .psd files into Unity.

Unity QuickPool

. Simple object pooling toolkit for Unity.

Unity Raytracer

. Ray tracing demo built in Unity.

Unity Remote 4 (iOS/tvOS)

. Unity Remote app to preview play mode on iOS and tvOS devices.

Unity Resource Checker

. Editor utility to check scene resources in Unity, including textures, materials, meshes, and which objects use them.

Unity Routines

. Coroutine replacement for Unity with hierarchical routines and pooling.

Unity Rulers

. Ruler editor to measure distances between objects in the Scene view.

Unity RuntimeCodeExecuter

. Executes arbitrary code at runtime via the .NET 2.0 library, aimed at Unity.

Unity Rust Plugin

. Example of writing a Unity native plugin in Rust.

Unity Scene Camera Controller

. Drive a runtime camera like the SceneView camera.

Unity Scrolly

. Touch/drag scroll list using Unity GUI (4.6+).

Unity SemVer

. SemVer 2.0.0 implementation for Unity.

Unity Serializer NG

. Revival of Mike Talbot's discontinued Unity Serializer (Unity 5).

Unity Simple File Browser

. uGUI-based runtime file browser for Unity, draggable and resizable.

Unity SimpleUsefulGizmos

. Extra scene-view gizmos for Unity like colored colliders and rotation indicators.

Unity Singleton MonoBehavior

. Singleton pattern implementation for Unity MonoBehaviours.

Unity Snippets

. Unity code snippets for various IDEs.

Unity Socket IO

. Socket.io client for Unity.

Unity Stb Easy Font

. Port of stb_easy_font.h to Unity and C#.

Unity Symlink Utility

. Editor extension that adds a menu item to add folders as symlinks in Unity.

Unity Texture Packer

. Combines color channels from different textures into a single output.

Unity Timeline Conditions

. Experimental port of Animator conditions to Timeline events.

Unity Timeline Sync

. Synchronize multiple Unity Timelines over UDP.

Unity Timelord Blender

. Demo of custom blending for Unity Timelines.

Unity Tools

. VS Code extension with tools for Unity development.

Unity UI Polygon

. Polygon renderer for the Unity UI system.

Unity Unet Movement

. Server-authoritative movement for Unity UNET with client-side prediction and reconciliation.

Unity VariableTileLayout

. Pinterest-style variable tile layout for Unity UI.

Unity Virtual Reality

. Unity's official documentation on developing virtual reality applications.

Unity Visual Behavior Tree

. Reactive visual-scripting behavior tree tool for Unity 2018+.

Unity Voxel Tools

. Collection of voxel utilities for Unity. Experimental.

Unity VS Toolbox

. Visual Studio toolbox of MonoBehaviour events in execution order, plus installable templates.

Unity Wave Function Collapse

. Wave Function Collapse procedural generation for Unity.

Unity Web Socket

. WebSocket client for Unity.

Unity Webview

. WebView overlay plugin for Unity on Android, iOS, Web Player, and macOS. Windows is unsupported.

Unity.Library.eppz

. Collection of utility libraries for Unity.

Unity.ProceduralContentGeneration Terrain

. Procedural terrain content generation for Unity.

Unity2D Components

. C# components for 2D games: pixel-art cameras, events and messaging, save/load, collision handlers, object pools.

Unity3D Async Await Util

. Helpers that make async/await easier to use in Unity.

Unity3D Automatron

. Automation tool for Unity.

Unity3D ComponentAttribute

. Attribute that auto-loads components in Unity.

Unity3D Extensions

. Extension and utility methods for Unity.

Unity3D Official Blog

. News and development insights from Unity.

Unity3D PerlinCameraShake

. Perlin-noise camera shake MonoBehaviour for Unity, coroutine-driven and self-exiting.

Unity3D Prefab Pool

. Simple prefab pool for Unity.

Unity3D Quick Search

. Command palette for Unity.

Unity3D Script Library

. Collection of reusable Unity C# scripts.

Unity3D Sound Manager

. Sound manager for Unity with AudioSource pooling, 3D positioning, and completion callbacks.

Unity3DPolylineEditor

. 2D polyline editor for Unity.

Unity3DVim

. Vim editor integration for Unity on Linux.

UnityComponent

. Resource and component management helpers for Unity.

UnityEffects

. Collection of free effects for Unity.

UnityExtensions MeshIntersection

. Raycast against one or more meshes in Unity.

UnityGameFramework Template

. Starter project template based on UnityGameFramework.

UnityGraphicsProgramming Vol.2

. Unity graphics programming techniques and shader samples, volume 2.

UnityHelpers

. Collection of helper scripts for Unity.

UnityHTTP

. TCP-based HTTP library for Unity.

UnityIO

. File manipulation API for Unity that wraps AssetDatabase.

UnityOctree (Nition)

. Loose octree for Unity in C#, the upstream of the Unity-Technologies fork.

UnityOctree (Unity-Technologies)

. Dynamic loose octree implementation for Unity in C#.

UnityPhysics2D

. Examples of Unity 2D physics components and features.

UnityPooling

. Optimized object pooling for Unity.

UnityRandom

. Random number library in C# for Unity.

UnitySpline2D

. A simple 2D spline library for Unity. Unmaintained.

Unitystation

. Open-source remake of Space Station 13 in Unity.

UnityStudio

. Tool for exploring, extracting, and exporting assets from Unity games and apps.

UnitySVG

. SVG renderer for Unity.

UnityTetris

. Tetris clone written in C# and rendered with Unity.

UnityTile3D

. Simple 3D tile editor for Unity.

UnityTimer

. Library for running actions after a delay in Unity.

Universal Unity Hooks

. Framework for hooking into and modifying methods in Unity games via DLLs.

UniVoice

. Peer-to-peer VoIP for Unity.

UVPreview

. Preview UV islands for textures in the Unity inspector.

UXF

. Framework for running human behavior experiments in Unity.

Variable Infinite Scroll

. Variable-size infinite scroll for Unity UI.

VariableAssets

. ScriptableObject variable assets for Unity.

Vector Graphics Samples

. Official Unity SVG and vector graphics sample project.

Vexe Framework (VFW)

. Editor extension adding advanced inspector and editor extensibility to Unity.

Volumetric Clouds

. Volumetric clouds for Unity.

Volumetric Lines Unity

. Source for the Volumetric Lines Unity Asset Store asset.

VoxBlend

. Blend shape controller plugin for Unity.

Voxel Mesh Generator

. Generates voxel 3D meshes in Unity using greedy meshing.

Voxelmetric

. Efficient voxel framework for Unity.

VoxelWorld

. Voxel world demo built in Unity.

VSCode Unity Code Snippets

. Unity development code snippets for VS Code.

VSCode Unity Debug Support

. Official Unity debugging support for VS Code.

VSCode Unity Integration

. VS Code integration for Unity.

Warfest Voxel Unity

. Voxel game prototype made with Unity.

WaveformProvider

. Generates a texture that simulates waves in Unity.

Weaver

. Code-weaving framework for Unity, based on Fody.

Web View Hook

. Exposes the internal UnityEditor WebView API.

WebRTC Unity Plugin

. Cross-platform WebRTC support for Unity apps.

Xamarin.Forms.Unity

. Xamarin.Forms platform implementation for Unity.

xNode BehaviourTree

. Behaviour tree built on the xNode node editor for Unity.

yaSingleton

. Singleton pattern for Unity using ScriptableObjects instead of MonoBehaviour.

8th Wall

Niantic's WebAR platform. Markerless world tracking, image targets, face effects via the browser. No app required.

Mozilla Hubs

Open-source social VR rooms in the browser. Forked and maintained by community after Mozilla sunset.

A-Frame VR

. Blender add-on allows you to model your scene in Blender and export it to an A-Frame VR project with a single click.

Advanced VR Mechanics With Unity and the HTC Vive Part 1

. Tutorial: advanced VR mechanics in Unity with the HTC Vive (part 1).

Advanced VR Mechanics With Unity and the HTC Vive Part 2

. Tutorial: advanced VR mechanics in Unity with the HTC Vive (part 2).

Bino

. 3D video player with support for 180/360 video and VR headsets.

Building an AR game with ARKit and Spritekit

. Tutorial: building an AR game with ARKit and SpriteKit.

Capturing Body Motion in 3D | Apple Developer Documentation

. Apple ARKit documentation: capturing body motion in 3D.

How to Create a Minimap for VR in Unity

. Tutorial: creating a minimap for VR in Unity.

How to support GearVR and Google Cardboard in one Unity3D project

. Tutorial: supporting Gear VR and Google Cardboard in one Unity project.

HTC Vive VR Input

. Tutorial: VR GUI input module for Unity with the HTC Vive.

I3D Past Projects

. Virtual 3D teleportation in real-time by Microsoft Research

Medium by Adobe

. Medium is a dedicated VR sculpting and painting package for users of Oculus headsets, capable of exporting models to…

North Star Kit

Paid. Hardware kit implementing Leap Motion's open-source Project North Star AR headset reference design (dual…

Oliver Kreylos's blog

. Good resource to get started learning about VR / stereo rendering.

RealityKit

. High-level AR framework by Apple. Comparable to Unity and Unreal Engine but specific for AR solutions.

Rigging a Model for Motion Capture | Apple Developer Documentation

. Apple ARKit documentation: rigging a model for motion capture.

Sceneform Android SDK Maintained

. ARCore Android SDK with Google Filament 3D engine. Continuation of Google Sceneform

Tensorflow2 Ue4 AR

. Augmented Reality Computer Vision Application using TensorFlow 2 and the Unreal Engine 4.23

Three.js Editor

. Online 3D editor with AR export capabilities.

Ultraleap

Paid. Hand-tracking hardware and SDK (formerly Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion).

Unity VR Video Recording Test

. Sample Unity project for recording VR sessions.

ViroCore: A cross-platform AR/VR renderer

. Open-source cross-platform AR/VR renderer, with ViroReact for React Native.

VR Development - Unity Learn

. Unity Learn pathway preparing you for VR development jobs.

Vuforia

Free tier. AR SDK that is directly integrated in the Unity Editor. Proprietary license, free to develop with

. Official naming conventions for folders and asset files.

📺📜 Control Rig ~ Ask A Dev

. Control Rig tutorials for character animation. 22 videos.

Acl Ue4 Plugin

. Official Animation Compression Library plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Alex Forsythe

. Deep-dive tutorials on Unreal's game framework and replication.

ALS Community

. Replicated, optimized community fork of Advanced Locomotion System V4.

ALS Refactored

. Reworked C++ version of Advanced Locomotion System V4.

AndroidNative

. Call Java functions via JNI from Unreal Engine on Android.

Animated Crosshairs UE4

. 17 ready-to-use animated UMG crosshair widgets with a demo scene.

Articy Importer For Unreal

. Imports articy:draft narrative data into Unreal Engine.

Async Loading Screen

. Configure an async loading screen system from Unreal Engine project settings.

Audio Analysis Tools

. Audio analysis functions for Unreal Engine. Pairs with Runtime Audio Importer.

Ble Utilities Unreal

. Scan, connect to, and subscribe to Bluetooth LE devices from Unreal Engine.

blueprintUE

. Paste and share Unreal Blueprint nodes online.

cashgenUE

. Runtime procedural terrain generator for Unreal Engine.

CensoredUE4

. World-space area censoring (mosaic/blur) attachable to any actor.

Cesium for Unreal

. Brings 3D geospatial tiles and globes into Unreal Engine.

Code Like Me

. A wide variety of Unreal Engine tutorials.

DataConfig

. Serialization framework for the Unreal property system.

DungeonGenerator

. Procedural dungeon generator for Unreal Engine 4.

Easy Json Parser

. JSON parsing library for Unreal Engine.

EasyXMLParser

. XML parsing library for Unreal Engine.

Fairy GUI Unreal

. Flexible UI framework for Unreal Engine.

FastSwitcher

. UMG widget switcher that loads only the active widget in Unreal Engine 4.

Fresh Cooked Tweens

. Tweening library with curve easing for any value in Unreal Engine.

Game Development & Unreal Engine Programming Guide

. Notes and guide on game development and Unreal Engine programming.

GameDev.tv Unreal 5.0 C++ Developer: Learn C++ and Make Video Games

Paid. Course teaching C++ game programming in Unreal Engine 5.

GASP ALS

. Game Animation Sample with ALS locomotion layering.

GASShooter

. Advanced FPS/TPS sample project for the Gameplay Ability System.

GGPOUE4

. GGPO rollback netcode port for Unreal Engine 4.

Ghost Mesh Plugin

. Creates ghost/silhouette mesh effects in Unreal Engine 4.

Global Event System Ue4

. Loosely coupled global event system for cross-map and cross-Blueprint communication.

Gorka Games

. Long tutorial series, short tutorials, and Unreal Engine news.

Greebler

. Auto-scatters rubble and greeble detail across a scene. UE4 and Unity.

Hermes

. Adds deep links into the UE4 editor.

Horizontal 360 Radar

. 360-degree radar system (Skyrim-style) for Unreal Engine 4.

Houdini Engine for Unreal

. Plugin bridging Houdini Digital Asset workflows into Unreal.

InfraworldRuntime

. Use Google gRPC services from C++ or Blueprints in Unreal Engine 4.

Inventory + Equipment System

. Inventory container and equipment system for Unreal Engine 4.

Japanese Village (Marketplace)

Paid. Japanese medieval village asset pack.

KawaiiPhysics

. Simple fake secondary-motion physics for Unreal Engine 4.

Kotlin Unreal

. Use the Kotlin language with Unreal Engine 4.

LeapUnreal

. Leap Motion hand-tracking SDK for Unreal Engine.

LocalizationUE4

. Standalone translation editor for Unreal Engine 4.

Locus Replication Graph

. Replication Graph setup helper for Unreal Engine multiplayer.

LuaMachine

. Lua API integration plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

MassSample

. Community sample project for the Mass Entity (ECS) framework.

Mathew Wadstein

. Short videos covering nearly every Unreal class and Blueprint node.

MD Meta Data Editor

. Edit metadata on Blueprint properties, functions, and parameters. UE 5.1+.

Medieval Houses (Marketplace)

Paid. Modular medieval house asset pack.

Mixed Reality UX Tools Unreal

. UX tools and components for Mixed Reality apps in Unreal Engine 4.

MobileUtils

. Integrate common mobile utilities into Unreal Engine 4 projects.

mod.io

. Integrate mod.io user-generated-content management into your Unreal game.

Morphs Player

. Play morph targets directly on a skeletal mesh animation track.

Mqtt Utilities Unreal

. Exposes MQTT client functionality to Blueprints in Unreal Engine.

My SQL Connector UE4 Plugin

. MySQL database connector plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Myo Ue4

. Myo armband input plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Nano

. Minimal starter template for small Unreal Engine games.

NiagaraUIRenderer

. Render Niagara particle systems inside UMG UI widgets.

nimue4

. Nim language integration for Unreal Engine 4.

Nuke.Unreal

. C# scriptable workflow for automating Unreal Engine project tasks, built on Nuke.

ObjectDeliverer

. Data transmission and reception library for Unreal Engine.

OceanProject

. Ocean simulation project for Unreal Engine 4.

OpenCL.uplugin

. OpenCL GPU compute plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

OpenLand

. Open source landscape auto-material for Unreal Engine.

OSVR Unreal

. OSVR open-source VR headset plugin for Unreal Engine.

PBCharacterMovement

. HL2-style classic FPS movement for Unreal Engine, written in C++.

PluginTemplate

. Starter Unreal plugin template with editor and runtime modules.

Prefabricator Ue4

. Prefab system plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

ProjectExodus

. Transfers Unity scenes and projects into Unreal Engine.

Ps Facebook Mobile

. Facebook authorization for mobile in Unreal Engine 4.

Ps Real Vehicle

. Simple force-driven vehicle simulation plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Ps Replay Kit

. iOS plugin to record or stream screen video plus app and mic audio.

Ps Web Server

. CivetWeb web server integration plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

puerts

. Write game logic in TypeScript for Unreal Engine 4 or Unity.

Quests

. Quest system plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Realtime Mesh Component

. Unreal Engine 5 component for rendering runtime-generated meshes.

RedTalaria

. Set of Hermes deep-link endpoints for Unreal Engine.

RemCommon

. Common gameplay utilities for Unreal Engine.

RemRanges

. Combines IGRanges and ranges-v3 for Unreal Engine.

Runtime Audio Importer

. Import audio of various formats at runtime in Unreal Engine.

Runtime Files Downloader

. Download files over HTTP/HTTPS at runtime in Unreal Engine.

Runtime Mesh Component

. Unreal Engine 4 component for rendering runtime-generated meshes.

Runtime Mesh Loader

. Import meshes at runtime in Unreal Engine 4.

Runtime Speech Recognizer

. Offline real-time speech recognition for Unreal Engine, based on whisper.cpp.

Ryan Laley

. Primarily Blueprint-based Unreal Engine tutorials.

SCUE5 Plugin

. Steam Core updated for Unreal Engine 5.

SilvervineUE4Lua

. Lua scripting plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

sluaunreal

. Lua scripting plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Socket IO Client Unreal

. Socket.IO client plugin for Unreal Engine.

Socketer

. TCP socket Blueprint library for Unreal Engine.

Socketio Client Ue4

. Socket.io client plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

SQLite3UE4

. SQLite3 database plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Stats + Attributes

. Stats, attributes, and leveling system for Unreal Engine 4.

Street Map

. Import OpenStreetMap XML data into your Unreal Engine project.

Sublime Unreal Snippets

. Sublime Text 3 snippets for writing Unreal Engine 4 game code.

Swipe

. Exposes mobile swipe gestures as Blueprint events in Unreal Engine 4.

Tcp Ue4

. Convenience TCP wrapper for Unreal Engine 4.

TCP Unreal

. Convenience TCP wrapper for Unreal Engine.

Tensorflow Ue4

. TensorFlow machine-learning plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Tom Looman UE5 Tutorials

Free tier. Unreal C++ and gameplay tutorials, courses, and articles.

UAssetAPI

. Low-level .NET library for reading and writing Unreal Engine 4 game assets.

Udp Ue4

. Convenience UDP wrapper for Unreal Engine 4.

UDP Unreal

. Convenience UDP wrapper for Unreal Engine.

UE BUI Tween

. UMG UI tweening library for Unreal Engine, usable from C++.

UE DSS Plugin

. MMO server instancing, dungeon instancing, and player balancing subsystem for Unreal Engine.

UE Easy JWT

. JWT wrapper subsystem for Unreal Engine.

UE Easy Kafka

. Kafka/Redpanda client subsystem for Unreal Engine, usable from Blueprint and C++.

UE4 Aurora Effect

. Raymarched aurora borealis effect for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Binary Builder

. Builds installed (Rocket) Unreal Engine binaries from GitHub source.

UE4 BYG Localization

. Simple CSV-based localization system for Unreal Engine 4.

Ue4 Canvas GUI

. Simple canvas-based GUI with mouse input for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Custom Gravity Plugin

. Custom directional gravity plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Ue4 Docker

. Windows and Linux containers for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Env. project

. Open environment simulation project (day/night, weather) for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 EOS Plugin

. Plugin and sample implementing the Epic Online Services SDK in Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Game Lift Client SDK

. AWS GameLift client SDK for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Node Graph Assistant

. Speeds up node graph editing in Unreal Engine 4.

UE4 Plugin Resources

. Community resource list for Slate, graphs, and UE4 plugin development.

Ue4 Protobuf

. Integrates Protocol Buffers into Unreal Engine 4 without extra system setup.

Ue4 Uitween

. UMG UI tweening library for Unreal Engine 4, written in C++.

UE4GamepadUMG

. Use a gamepad like a mouse in UMG menus in Unreal Engine 4.

Ue4MarchingCubes

. 3D Perlin noise meshing via marching cubes for Unreal Engine 4.

UE4MasterServer

. Server registration and discovery against a master server in Unreal Engine 4.

UE5 Styleguide

. Guidelines for keeping Unreal Engine projects consistent.

UE5 Stylized Post Process

. Stylized post-process effects for Unreal Engine 5.

ue5coro

. C++20 coroutine plugin integrated with Unreal Engine 5.

UELlama

. llama.cpp LLM inference plugin for Unreal Engine 5.

UEWebsocket

. WebSocket plugin for Unreal Engine 4, usable from C++ and Blueprint.

Ultraleap SDK

. Brings Ultraleap hand-tracking data into Unreal projects.

UMG Resizable Widget

. Resizable UMG widget for Unreal Engine 4.

Unreal Bp Csv Parsing

. Adds CSV parsing Blueprint nodes to Unreal Engine.

Unreal Docs: Game Features And Modular Gameplay

. Docs for Game Features and Modular Gameplay plugins.

Unreal Docs: Gameplay Ability System

. Docs for the Gameplay Ability System (GAS): abilities, attributes, and effects.

Unreal Docs: Gameplay Camera System

. Docs for the Gameplay Camera System.

Unreal Docs: Gameplay Targeting System

. Docs for the Gameplay Targeting System.

Unreal Docs: Getting Started With Texture Graph

. Docs for Texture Graph, Unreal's node-based texture authoring tool.

Unreal Docs: InstancedStruct

. API reference for InstancedStruct, a container for instanced UStruct data.

Unreal Docs: Mass Entity

. Docs for Mass Entity, Unreal's ECS framework for large agent counts.

Unreal Docs: Metahuman Documentation

. Docs for MetaHuman creation and integration.

Unreal Docs: Modeling And Geometry Scripting

. Docs for in-editor modeling tools and Geometry Script.

Unreal Docs: Motion Design

. Docs for Motion Design, Unreal's broadcast and motion-graphics toolset.

Unreal Docs: Mutable Overview

. Docs for Mutable, runtime character customization and mesh generation.

Unreal Docs: Procedural Content Generation Framework

. Docs for the Procedural Content Generation (PCG) framework. See also Electric Dreams PCG.

Unreal Docs: Scriptable Tools System

. Docs for the Scriptable Tools System (Blueprint-authored editor tools).

Unreal Docs: Smart Objects

. Docs for Smart Objects, registerable interaction points for AI.

Unreal Docs: State Tree

. Docs for State Tree, a hierarchical state machine for AI and logic.

Unreal Docs: Umg Viewmodel

. Docs for UMG ViewModel (MVVM-style UI data binding).

Unreal Docs: Water System

. Docs for the Water System (rivers, lakes, oceans).

Unreal Engine Advanced Functions

. Library of handy Blueprint utility functions for Unreal Engine.

Unreal Engine Learning

. Getting-started tutorial for Unreal's Texture Graph.

Unreal Engine Official YouTube

. Official Unreal Engine YouTube channel with weekly live streams.

Unreal Engine Python

. Embed Python scripting in Unreal Engine 4.

Unreal Fast Noise

. Modular, Blueprint-friendly noise generation for Unreal Engine 4.

Unreal Fast Noise2

. Blueprint wrapper for the FastNoise2 noise generation library.

Unreal Fetch

. Fetch API-inspired HTTP client for Unreal Engine.

Unreal Im GUI

. Integrates Dear ImGui debug UI into Unreal Engine 4.

Unreal Library

. UE Explorer's library for parsing data from Unreal Engine games.

Unreal Magic Nodes

. Custom Kismet node system that lets you write C++ inside Blueprint graphs.

Unreal Rust

. Opinionated Rust integration for Unreal Engine.

Unreal Sandbox Terrain

. Smooth voxel terrain plugin for Unreal Engine.

Unreal Signal R

. SignalR client for Unreal Engine.

Unreal UMG 3 D Object In Widget

. Sample showing how to render a 3D mesh inside a UMG widget.

Unreal Version Changer

. Fakes a plugin's UE version so it installs on newer engine versions.

Unreal.hx

. Haxe integration for Unreal Engine.

Unreal.js

. JavaScript runtime built for Unreal Engine.

UnrealCLR

. Unreal Engine integration for .NET 6 (C#).

unrealcpp

. Collection of Unreal Engine 4 C++ examples.

unrealcv

. Connects computer vision research to Unreal Engine.

UnrealLive2D

. Render Live2D models in Unreal Engine 4.

USharp

. C# scripting plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

Va Fog Of War

. Fog of War solution for Unreal Engine.

Va Tex Atlas

. Texture atlas support for Unreal Engine 4 UMG.

VaRest

. REST API plugin for Unreal Engine.

Velocity Grid Export

. Tool to export vector fields out of Houdini for Unreal.

ViewportManager

. Multiple customizable viewports for Unreal Engine, in C++.

Virtus Learning Hub

. Unreal Engine tutorials with several long course series.

Voxel Plugin

. Volumetric, destructible, infinite voxel worlds in Unreal Engine.

VS Code Setup for UE

. Official guide to setting up VS Code for Unreal C++ work.

Vscode Unreal Snippets

. VS Code snippets for Unreal Engine, based on the Sublime snippet set.

Weapon Trace Unreal

. Weapon tracing plugin for reliable melee combat hits.

WindowCapture2D

. Capture and display OS windows in real time inside Unreal Engine.

Working with Data (Unreal Engine Learning)

. Tutorial on data tables, data assets, and UProperty specifiers.

XJ music

. Adaptive music plugin for Unreal Engine games.

ZipUtility Plugin

. Event-driven 7-Zip compression utility for Unreal Engine 4.

LDtk

Modern 2D level editor by Dead Cells creator.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

Mappy

Free tilemap editor.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

OGMO Editor 3

Free project-based 2D level editor with grid and entity layers.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map…

Sprite Fusion

A free level design tool to craft beautiful 2D tilemaps right in your browser using any tileset.See also: Software…

Tiled

General-purpose tilemap editor. TMX format.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

TrenchBroom

Quake-style level editor, great for blockouts.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

Chisel.Prototype

. Work in progress prototype for the Chisel Level Editor, for Unity.

Editor2D

. Tile based level editor for Unity

GILES

. A runtime level editor for Unity3D.

Sprytile (GitHub)

. Blender add-on for building tile-based low-poly scenes with paint and map-editor tools.

Sprytile (itch.io)

. Blender addon for tile-based 3D levels.

Tiled2Unity

. Export Tiled Map Editor (TMX) files into Unity.

Unity2D TMX

. A small library to import and render tilemap in Unity2D, only support TMX file format.

Articy:draft

Professional narrative design middleware.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Ink

. Narrative scripting by Inkle (Heaven's Vault, Sable).

Ink Unity Integration

. Unity integration for the open source ink narrative scripting language.

Prototype

. Prototype component pattern for Unity.

Twine

. Free, open-source interactive fiction.

Yarn Spinner

. Dialogue tool for Unity/Godot (Night in the Woods).

FMOD

Industry-standard adaptive audio. Free for indie <$200k.

Steam Audio

Physics-based spatial audio by Valve. Free.

Wwise

AAA audio middleware with free tier.

Wwise Unreal Plug-in

Free tier. Plugin for integrating Wwise assets for realtime playback in-engine.

Epic Online Services

Free multiplayer, matchmaking, voice chat.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Nakama

Open-source game server (social, matchmaking, leaderboards).See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production…

Photon Engine

Cloud multiplayer (PUN, Fusion, Quantum SDKs).See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

SmartFoxServer 2X

A SDK for rapidly developing multiplayer games and applications with Adobe Flash/Flex/Air, Unity, HTML5, iOS, Windows…

Basic Multiplayer Unity

. Fast-Paced UDP Client-Server implementation.

Bomber

. Open-source Bomberman multiplayer game made in Unreal Engine 5.

Colyseus

. Node.js multiplayer framework.

Colyseus Unreal

. Colyseus Multiplayer SDK for Unreal Engine

Fish Net

. High-performance Unity networking.

Forge Networking Remastered

. Free open-source multiplayer networking system with good Unity integration.

Gambetta_Networked Demo

. Fast-Paced Multiplayer: Sample Code and Live Demo - Gabriel Gambetta's Multiplayer Network Demo in Unity C# as…

GameDev.tv Unreal Multiplayer Master: Video Game Dev In C++ Course

Paid. Course on building Unreal Engine multiplayer games in C++.

Mirror (GitHub)

. A community replacement for Unity's abandoned UNET Networking System.

Mirror (site)

. Open-source Unity networking.

Unity Multiplayer Packages

. Unity multiplayer packages and samples.

LibreSprite

LibreSprite is an open source fork of Aseprite.

Lightcube

Pixel art editor for Windows w/ PSD, JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF support.

Pickle

Pixel art editor.

Pixa.Pics

Browser pixel-art tool w/ vectorization.

Pixelator

Turn any image into pixel art.

Pixelorama

Free pixel art editor (made in Godot).

PixelOver

Convert artwork to pixel art with animation, bone rigging, and pixel-perfect transforms.

Pixen (GitHub)

Pixel Art Editor for OSX

Pro Motion

Paid with trial, works on Windows. Advanced features tailored to creating pixel art for games.

PyxelEdit

Pixel art editor for tilesets, levels, animations.

SpriteMancer

2D VFX and sprite animation.

TexturePacker

Sprite sheet packing, multi-engine export.

Cheetah Texture Packer

. High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool

Ez Sprite Sheet

. Creates sprite sheets from animated GIFs

Fusion Character Animator

. Small tool for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 to facilitate the animation of 2D character sprites for developers.

GlueIT

License unspecified. Free Simple Spritesheet Tool

Kavex's Spritesheet Maker

. Free spritesheet maker to replace GlueIT. Has much newer export formats.

Laigter

. Free normal/specular/AO map generator for 2D.

Leshy SpriteSheet Tool

. HTML5 tool for creating, packing, and modifying sprite sheets and texture atlases

Libgdx Texture Packer

. Texture Packer built into Libgdx

Make Your Own Pixel Art

Paid. Walks you step-by-step through the available tools, pixel art techniques, the importance of shapes, colors,…

Owlboy

. Explore a detailed steampunk world in the clouds. With it's range of endearing animations and expressions the world…

Paul Robertson

. Australian, creating cute, sometimes cosmic and psychedelic, and sometimes weird nightmarish pixel art.

PixelCraft

. Open source and free, works in the browser. Easy to try out in the browser and as a PWA offline.

ShoeBox

. Adobe Air based app with game and ui related tools.

Sprite Sheet Maker

. Sprite Sheet Maker is a handy no fuss utility to pack sprites

Sprite Sheet Slicer

. Sprite Sheet Slicer is a handy no fuss utility to slice sprites

SpriteLib

. Collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites).

SpriteUV2

Paid. Tool for creating optimal meshes for textures/sprites and packing them into an atlas.

Starbound

. Travel across vibrant, colorful and expansive galaxies, including creative dynamic animations.

Stitches

. An HTML5 sprite sheet generator

Talos VFX

. Node based, open source VFX Editor with interface and a ready to use libGDX runtime.

Tilesplit

. CLI text-based tilesheet splitter and namer. Turn a spritesheet into many separate files with names you pick, or not…

Walking animation cycle in games

. Tutorial series on 2D walk-cycle animation for games.

Wobblepaint

. Pico8 editor that give life to pixel art with a little wobble.

Houdini Engine (SideFX product)

Procedural generation pipeline for Unreal/Unity/Godot.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management…

DotRecast

. A port of Recast & Detour, navigation mesh toolset for games, Unity3D, servers, C#.

Fast Noise Lite

. Fast noise generation (Perlin, Simplex, Cellular).

Machinations

Paid. Visual tool for designing and simulating game economies.

Procedural GL JS

. Based on Three.js, this framework is dedicated to generating a 3D Map experience on a web service.

Wave Function Collapse

. Procedural generation from example patterns.

Box2D v3

. 2D physics engine rewrite by Erin Catto.

Box2D.NET

. A port of Box2D, is a 2D physics engine for games,.NET C#, Unity3D, servers.

Cannon.js

. Lightweight and simple 3D physics engine for the web.

Jolt Physics

. Open-source 3D physics (used in Horizon Forbidden West).

Lockstep Framework

. A framework designed for games that need lockstep simulations. It includes a deterministic 2D physics engine,…

Rapier

. Rust physics engine (2D/3D, used with Bevy).

UnrealJolt

. Jolt physics integration (Plugin) for Unreal Engine 5 (UE5)

Perforce Helix Core

Industry standard for large assets (free ≤5 users).See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management…

Plastic SCM / Unity Version Control

Artist-friendly binary version control.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Git LFS

. Large file storage for Git.

Steam Playtest

. Free playtesting on Steam.

Open 3D Engine (O3ED)

Successor to Amazon Lumberyard, an open-source, real-time, multi-platform 3D engine to build AAA games

Deconstructor of Fun

. F2P game design and business.

DevianArt7Soul1

License unspecified. Offers a specific set of 420 pixel art icons designed for RPG games.

Epic Games

. Epic Games on GitHub. Official Unreal Engine and related repos.

friflo ECS

. High-performance C# ECS with simple API. Supports.NET, WASM/WebAssembly, Native AOT, Unity, Godot, MonoGame,..

Game Programming Patterns

. Lots of great game development patterns useful when making games with or without Unity.

Game UI Database

. Searchable database of game UI/UX screenshots for interface reference.

How To Market A Game

. Marketing strategies for indie games.

LWF

. Lightweight SWF. LWF is an animation engine which can play animation data converted from FLASH contents in HTML5,…

Phototiler

License unspecified. Lightweight photorealistic map renderer that allows quick rendering of 3D maps for creative…

Pixel Composer (GitHub)

. Node-based VFX editor for pixel art.

pixeldudesmaker

. Small pixel-art character generator, with basic animation.

Red Blob Games

. Interactive visual explanations (pathfinding, hex grids, noise).

Resemble

License unspecified. AI voice cloning and speech generation for game dialogue.

Slynyrd

. American, game designer with tons of material, game specific knowledge and mini-tutorials.

SpriteKit

. SpriteKit code to make your game work on iOS, macOS, and tvOS without a hitch.

Spritemate

. Online Editor for Commodore 64 Sprites

Timanthes

. A pixel art editor for the Commodore 64 computer running on Windows

Turbulenz

. HTML5 game engine for building, publishing, and monetising games with 3D effects and real-time physics.

Unity Audio Manager

. Plugin to play, change, stop, and mute 2D/3D sounds in Unity.

Unity Game Programming Patterns

. Game Programming Pattern Examples in Unity3D.

Unity in Action (book)

License unspecified. Hands-on Unity game development book (Manning).

Unity Technologies

. Unity Technologies on GitHub. Official Unity repos and samples.

📺 Learning All IN ORDER ~ Game Dev Cave

. Unreal game-dev tutorial channel: blueprints, C++, quests, and GAS, ordered for beginners (160+ videos).

Aarthificial

. Pixel art devlogs.

Acerola

. Graphics programming.

Blackthornprod

. 2D art and design.

Cain On Games

. Tim Cain (Fallout creator) on game design philosophy and war stories.

Freya Holmer

. Math for game devs, shaders.

Game Maker's Toolkit

. Game design analysis.

GDQuest (YouTube)

. Godot tutorials.

Jonas Tyroller

. Indie dev logs.

Libgdx Wiki

. Libgdx documentation wiki (includes Texture Packer page).

Lincoln Margison

. Procedural animation tutorials. Step by step walkthroughs for game dev rigging and motion.

Masahiro Sakurai

. Game design philosophy, 250+ episodes.

MFGD - Fragment Shaders

. YouTube playlist about fragment shaders.

Pontypants

. Animation for games.

Sebastian Lague

. Procedural generation and simulations.

SimonDev

. 3D programming, WebGL.

t3ssel8r

. Stylized rendering.

The Cherno Project

. While not specific to Unreal Engine, Cherno has tons of great C++ and general game engine content.

Thomas Brush

. Indie business and marketing.

CS50 Game Development (Harvard)

. Free, covers Love2D, Unity.

Polyglot Gamedev Mastersheet

. Massive community-curated master list of game dev resources across engines, art, audio, and design.

Brackeys Discord

. Brackeys Discord community.

Game Dev League

. Game dev Discord.

Games Artist

. Game art community with breakdowns, tutorials, and showcases.

IndieDB

. Indie game database and promotion.

r/gamedesign

. Game design subreddit.

r/gamedev

. 1.5M+ game dev subreddit.

r/IndieDev

. Indie developer subreddit.

r/indiegaming

. Indie gaming subreddit.

r/pixelart

. Pixel art subreddit.

r/unrealengine

. Unreal Engine subreddit.

TIGSource Forums

. Long-running indie forum.

Unreal Slackers

. Unreal Engine Discord community.

Work With Indies

. Indie game job board.

Brackeys Game Jam

. Beginner-friendly jam.

Global Game Jam

. Annual, in-person worldwide.

GMTK Game Jam

. Largest jam by entries.

itch.io Jams

. Hundreds of active jams.

JS13KGames

. 13KB size limit JavaScript jam.

A Frame

An easy web framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences.

Armory3D

Blender-integrated Haxe game engine.

axys

A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0, it has Full Support OpenAL for all platforms, single texture multi GPU texture handler and…

Babylon.js

JavaScript 3D engine/framework for browser games and apps.

Bevy

Rust data-driven ECS game engine.

Blend4Web

JavaScript framework for interactive 3D in browsers. Blender integration.

Blitz3D

3D BASIC-like programming language for fast 3D desktop games.

Ceramic

Haxe cross-platform 2D framework. Exports to Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, HTML5/WebGL, Unity.

Cocos Creator

TypeScript mobile/web game engine.

Cocos2d X

C++ OpenGL 2D/3D engine with JS and Lua bindings. Targets all major mobile and desktop platforms.

CopperCube

CopperCube is an all-in-one 3D game engine. Very easy to use.

CopperLicht

JavaScript library and WebGL 3D engine for games and 3D applications.

Dash

A free and open 3D game engine written in D.

Defold

Lua-based 2D mobile game engine by King.

Diligent Engine

Modern cross-platform low-level graphics library supporting D3D11/12, OpenGL/GLES, and Vulkan.

Ebitengine

Go 2D game engine.

Flax Engine

High-fidelity 3D engine. Free for small studios.

FNA

C# XNA reimplementation for ports.

Folded Paper Engine

Blender-to-Godot game mechanics engine/plugins. 2.5D/FPS/TPS controls, triggers, inventory, holdable items.

Fusee

A multiplatform 3D C# real-time engine with strong emphasis on content transformation.

Fyrox

Rust 3D engine with scene editor.

gameplay

A free, open-source, cross-platform, 2D + 3D game framework written in C++. It is aimed towards indie game developers…

Godot 4

MIT-licensed 2D/3D engine. GDScript, C#, C++.

Harfang 3D

C++ 3D visualization library usable in Python, Lua, and Go.

Heaps.io

Haxe engine. Dead Cells, Northgard.

Irrlicht

Open source high-performance realtime 3D engine (C++).

jMonkeyEngine 3

3D open-source game engine for Java developers.

JPCT

3D engine for desktop Java and Android.

Juno

Framework for making 2D games with chunky pixels in Lua.

Leadwerks

Easy-to-learn game engine for 3D and VR.

Love2D

Lua 2D game framework.

LumixEngine

3D game engine built on C++.

Lums

2D/3D framework written in C++11. Efficient and modern. Heavy development.

Macroquad

Rust minimal 2D/3D with WASM support.

Magnum (site)

Lightweight modular 2D/3D graphics/game engine written in C++11.

MonoGame

C# XNA successor (Celeste, Stardew Valley).

Neo Axis Engine

Integrated development environment with built-in 3D and 2D game engine.

O3DE

AAA-grade Linux Foundation open-source engine.

Ogre

Open source graphical rendering engine (C++).

Overload

3D game engine with editor.

Panda3D

Python-based 3D engine (originated at Disney VR Studio, now CMU ETC).

Pixel Vision 8

Teaches retro game development with streamlined workflows. 8-bit fantasy console.

PixiJS

Newcomer HTML5 game renderer - first released in early 2013. A main appeal of the engine is its use of WebGL for…

Raylib

Minimal C library for learning game programming.

Screen 13

Easy-to-use Vulkan rendering engine with render graph for Rust.

Solar2D

Lua 2D mobile framework (formerly Corona SDK).

SpriteBuilder

Open source game development suite for macOS.

Stride

C# 3D game engine (formerly Xenko).

Superpowers

HTML5 Collaborative 2D/3D Game Maker

Three.js

JavaScript 3D library. The standard for web 3D.

Torque3D

C++ engine with decades of Torque technology lineage.

UPBGE (GitHub)

Integrated game engine in Blender.

UPBGE (site)

Open-source 3D game engine forked from old Blender Game Engine, deployed with Blender itself. GitHub

Urho3D

Cross-platform rendering and game engine.

ursina

A game engine powered by Python and Panda3D.

Whitestorm.js (GitHub)

3D JavaScript framework for building apps and games.

Wonderland Engine

WebXR-focused engine with visual editor. Targets VR, AR, and standard browser 3D. Free for indies.

Construct 3

Browser-based no-code 2D engine with visual scripting.

CryEngine

High-fidelity 3D engine, pay-what-you-want.

Evergine

Enterprise-focused graphics engine for 3D business and industry applications.

GameMaker

GML-based 2D engine (Undertale, Hotline Miami).

GDevelop

Open-source event-based no-code 2D.

PlayCanvas

JavaScript browser-based 3D engine.

Ren'Py

Python visual novel engine (industry standard).

RPG Maker MZ

JavaScript-based RPG creation.

SceneKit

Apple proprietary 3D game engine (available on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS and watchOS).

Unbound

SDF-based game development platform. Non-destructive real-time editing, Lua 5.3 scripting, FBX/glTF export. Early…

Unity

Cross-platform engine with massive asset store ecosystem (current major release Unity 6).

Unreal Engine 5

AAA engine from Epic. Free until $1M revenue, then royalty.

LDtk

Modern 2D level editor by Dead Cells creator.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

Mappy

Free tilemap editor.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

OGMO Editor 3

Free project-based 2D level editor with grid and entity layers.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map…

Sprite Fusion

A free level design tool to craft beautiful 2D tilemaps right in your browser using any tileset.See also: Software…

Tiled

General-purpose tilemap editor. TMX format.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

TrenchBroom

Quake-style level editor, great for blockouts.See also: Software Reference → Level Design & Map Editing Software

Awesome Illustrations

. Curated awesome-list of illustration resources, tools, and references.

Awesome Stock Resources

. A collection of links for free stock photography, video and Illustration websites.

Illustration Tools

. Directory of tools and resources for illustrators, creatives, and artists.

Michael Mattesi

. Force drawing (Instagram).

Neural Network-Generated Illustrations

. Google Research article on AI-generated illustrations for Allo.

Pixen (site)

Paid, works on macOS and iOS. Superb OS integration, create pixel art on a tablet using pressure-sensitive drawing.

Rebelle 8 Pro

Natural-media painting app simulating real watercolor, oil, acrylic, ink with fluid dynamics.

Animation with Dall-e + AE | Reddit

. Reddit thread on AI-assisted animation with DALL-E and After Effects.

ArtStation Learning

. Free courses from Blizzard, Riot, Pixar pros.

BodyVisualizer

. 3D body shape visualizer for proportion reference.

Ctrl+Paint

. Structured free video library. Digital painting fundamentals, value studies, color.

Graphite 3D

Paid. A collaborative drawing tool for modeling precise shapes in real spaces.

Human Anatomy for Artists

. Massive free photo reference by body part and angle.

Instanced Line Rendering Part I

. Builds on "Drawing Lines is Hard" to draw lines via instanced rendering.

Intro to JS: Drawing & Animation

. Use JavaScript and the ProcessingJS library to create drawings and animations.

Learn HTML5 Graphics and Animation

Free tier. Introduction to the canvas 2D drawing API.

Line of Action

. Free timed gesture drawing (figures, animals, hands, faces).

Posemaniacs

. Rotatable 3D pose reference with muscle groups.

Proko Free Library

Free tier. Anatomy, figure drawing, portrait (substantial free tier).

QuickPoses

. Timed drawing practice with huge photo library.

SketchDaily Reference

. Timed drawing sessions across categories.

/r/FOSSPhotography

. Reddit community on free open-source software for photography.

B&H Explora Photography

. Deep technical articles on lighting modifiers and color temperature.

Cambridge in Colour

. Photography tutorials on exposure, color, and composition.

Femto-Photography: Visualizing Photons in Motion at a Trillion Frames Per Second

. Raskar et al., SIGGRAPH 2012.

Fstoppers Education

. Studio lighting, portrait ratios, product photography.

Gavin Hoey (Adorama)

. Studio lighting tutorials with setup diagrams.

Open Source Photography Community on Google+

. Open-source photography community on Google+.

PIXLS.US

. Community for tutorials and workflows on high-quality photography with free-software tools.

Strobist Lighting 101

. Definitive free course on shaping light (directly applicable to 3D lighting).

Workphlo

. Studio product photography lighting breakdowns with placement diagrams.

CinemaTyler

. Deep analysis of lens choice, color, blocking, lighting in film.

Every Frame a Painting

. Gold-standard video essays on composition, camera, editing rhythm.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling →…

How to Create Stunning Cinematic Lighting

. Cinematic lighting tutorial.

In Depth Cine

. Practical lighting setups and narrative technique.

No Film School. Cinematography

. Constant stream of technique articles.

Roger Deakins on Learning to Light Ep. 1

. Cinematography Techniques Ep. 1.

Roger Deakins on Learning to Light Ep. 2

. Cinematography Techniques Ep. 2.

Roger Deakins on Learning to Light Ep. 3

. Cinematography Techniques Ep. 3.

Shane Hurlbut ASC Blog

. Real DP knowledge on cinematography, lens choice, lighting setups.

StudioBinder Film Guides

. Shot composition, camera shots encyclopedia, camera movements, lighting.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling…

Wolfcrow

. Cinematography fundamentals, color science, exposure theory.

Can't Unsee

. Interactive game training visual alignment and spacing precision.

Handprint Color & Composition

. Deepest free color theory resource online. Covers perception and harmony.

Laws of UX

. Gestalt principles, visual perception laws (directly applicable to 3D composition).

Neil Blevins Art Lessons

. Composition types, tangents, visual hierarchy by a Pixar artist.See also: Learning, Community & Industry → 3D…

PhotoPills Golden Ratio Guide

. Golden ratio, spirals, triangles with overlay diagrams.

Animation Resources

. Archives of classic animation, frame-by-frame studies.

Animator Island. 51 Exercises

. Structured practice curriculum by difficulty.

Endless Reference

. Video clips browsable by action type (walk, run, fight, etc.).

Hippydrome

. Richard Williams walk cycle and timing chart reference.

iAnimate Free Resources

. Webinars from Disney/Pixar/DreamWorks animators.

New Frame Plus

. Animation analysis in games (walk cycles, weight, timing).

The 12 Principles (Illustrated)

. GIF breakdowns of each principle.

Better Web Type

. Free typography course on rhythm and hierarchy.

How to Proof a Typeface

. Jonathan Hoefler's proofing guide.

Kerning Tool

. Kerning typography in Houdini.

NNGroup Visual Design

. Research-backed principles on hierarchy, contrast, whitespace.

Practical Typography

. Free online book on type fundamentals, hierarchy, spacing.

The Futur

. Graphic design fundamentals, typography, grid systems.

Typewolf

. Curated typography inspiration. Fonts in real-world use.

Adobe Color

. Color wheel, harmony tool, palettes.

Canva Color Palettes

. Pre-made palettes.

Color Hunt

. Curated color palette collection.

Color Method

. Interactive color matching game.

ColorBox

. Systematic color scale generator.

Coolors

Free tier. Fast palette generator.

Fast Palette Studio

. Rapid palette creation for pixel art and game dev.

Gradient Horse

. Experimental gradient generator.

Huemint

Free tier. AI-assisted brand color generation.

Lospec Palette List

. Pixel art palette repository.

Paletton

. Classic color scheme designer.

Palitra

. Search brand color palettes.

poline

. Esoteric palette generation via polar color interpolation.

Randoma11y

. Generate accessible color combinations.

Swatchr

. A color palette management system for Unity.

WebGradients

. Gradient library.

Adobe Express

Quick Adobe design tool.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Adobe Illustrator

Industry-standard vector graphics editor; available on iPad.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Adobe InDesign

Page layout and publishing for print and digital.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Adobe Photoshop

Industry-standard raster image editor and compositor; available on iPad.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

ArcBrush

Node-based non-destructive image editor for generating asset variants and export formats; optional credit-based AI…

Eagle

Visual asset organizer.See also: Software Reference → Design Software, Art, Design & Visual Storytelling →…

Graphite

Open-source 2D vector and raster graphics editor with procedural node-based workflow. In active development.See also:…

Krita

Free open-source digital painting app from KDE; v5.3 and v6.0 shipped March 2026.

Photopea

Free browser-based Photoshop alternative with full PSD support.See also: Software Reference → Misc 3D Utilities…

Sketch

Mac-native UI/UX design tool with web previews and collaboration.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Are.na

Free tier. Collaborative visual research blocks and channels.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling →…

BabyTrack

. Blob tracking effect.

Bendito Mockup

Free tier. Premium and free product mockups.

Brandfetch

Free tier. Look up brand logos, fonts, and colors.

Carbon

. Code snippet screenshot generator.

ContentCore

. Curated creative content.

Cosmos

. Visual content curation platform.

Efecto

. ASCII and dithering effects.

effect.app

Free tier. Browser-based live effects for photo and video.

EZGIF

. Online GIF and video editing and conversion tools.See also: Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Miscellaneous 3D Tools &…

Gradientool

. Browser gradient generator with grain, shadow, and 3D effects. Exports stills and animated MP4 up to 8K.

GraphicBurger

. Free design mockups and graphic assets.

Halftone Maker

. Halftone generator.

LottieFiles

Free tier. Library of free Lottie web animations.

Maneken

Free tier. Browser-based editable product mockups.

Mockup Photos

Free tier. Device and print mockup library.

Mockup World

. Free PSD mockup library.

Muzli

. Design inspiration Chrome extension.

OS Design Directory

. Open-source design resources directory.

Pacdora

Free tier. Packaging design with dielines and 3D mockups.

Previewed

Free tier. Turn screenshots into 3D mockup images and animations.

Resource Boy

. Free design resources and mockups.

Savee

Free tier. Visual bookmarking tool.

Shots.so

Free tier. Device mockup generator in the browser.

Smart Mockups

Free tier. Browser mockup generator.

Space Type Generator

. Experimental type generator.

The Toolbox

. Curated creative tools directory.

Tiled Art

. Tessellation creator.

Undesign

. Design learning resources.

X Design

Free tier. Browser-based design editor for product photos and visuals.

5 Decades of Digital Art History

. YouTube playlist surveying 50 years of digital art.

Activation Ideas

. Brand activation inspiration.

Awwwards

Free tier. Web design and interaction awards gallery.

Behance

. Adobe portfolio network for creative work.

But Does It Float

. Contemporary design and art feed.

coverjunkie

. Magazine cover design showcase.

Creative Boom

. Art and design news and inspiration.

D&AD Archive

. Archive of D&AD award-winning design and advertising.

deck.gallery

. Gallery of well-designed pitch and brand decks.

Designspiration

Free tier. Design inspiration feed.

DETHJUNKIE

. Dark creative blog.

Dribbble

Free tier. Design portfolio showcase community.

FX References (Sylvain Nouveau)

. Collected real-world FX reference footage.

FYFD

. Fluid dynamics blog with reference imagery for FX.

Generative Art Timeline

. Interactive timeline of generative art history.

Geometric Design (Canva)

. Geometric design article.

H.R. Giger (Artnet)

. H.R. Giger gallery archive.

Houdini on Dribbble

. Houdini work tagged on Dribbble for inspiration.

Inspora

. Design inspiration gallery updated hourly, split into web, branding, product, motion, illustration, 3D, and print.

Instagram

. Motion and 3D work under the xuxoe hashtag.

Mech Blog

. Mecha design inspiration.

Movie Scenes Inspired by Art

. Thread on movie scenes mirroring paintings.

Mr Cup

. Graphic design blog.

mr5ivethou5and

. Tumblr archive of motion and abstract visual inspiration.

Muddycolors

. Pro illustrator blog.

OTAKU GANGSTA

. Anime/otaku visual blog.

Sakuga Booru

. Animation clip archive (non-www mirror).

Supahero

Free tier. Library of website hero section designs.

The Black Workshop

. Design inspiration blog.

The Brand Identity

. Graphic design and branding showcase.

Truchet's Tiles

. On Truchet tiles and patterns.

Vimeo Staff Picks

. Curated short films picked by Vimeo staff.

2D Tutorials. Draw a Box

. Free drawing fundamentals course.

Anatomy 360, Free Reference

. 3D scanned human reference images.

Dimensions.com

. Dimensioned drawings database.

National Gallery of Art (NGA)

. Open-access collection of historical paintings, drawings, and prints. High-res downloads for reference.

Saint11 Pixel Art

Paid. Pixel art tutorials.

ArtDeck

Reference boards for images, video, links, and notes. Study tools for value, color, composition, and motion.See also:…

Boords

Browser storyboard, animatic, and script sync for teams.

Celtx

Browser script + breakdown + pre-prod.

Cinetracer

Real-time cinematography simulation on Unreal Engine. Lights, lenses, cameras.

Eagle

Local image and video asset manager with tags.

Eagle

Visual asset organizer.See also: Software Reference → Design Software, Art, Design & Visual Storytelling →…

Fade In

Pro screenwriting at a lower price point.

Final Draft

Industry-standard screenwriting with breakdown tagging.

FrameForge Storyboard Studio

3D previs/storyboard hybrid with accurate lens and camera simulation.

Highland

Fountain-native Mac screenwriter.

Kuadro

Minimal floating image viewer for references.

Milanote

Visual notes and moodboards for creative planning.

Movie Magic Scheduling

Industry-standard scheduling and stripboards.

PureRef

Floating reference canvas. Standard for artists.See also: Software Reference → Misc 3D Utilities Software

ShotPro

iOS and desktop 3D storyboard and previs.

Storyboard Pro (Toon Boom)

Industry-standard storyboarding with animatic, camera, and audio timeline.

Storyboarder (Wonder Unit)

Free, fast sketch-first boarding tool with Shot Generator.

StudioBinder

Cloud production suite. Script breakdown, shotlists, storyboards, call sheets.

WriterDuet

Realtime collaborative screenwriting in the browser.

Are.na

Free tier. Collaborative visual research blocks and channels.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling →…

Art of the Title

. Title sequence deep dives.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding & Script Tools

ASC Magazine

. American Society of Cinematographers magazine. Cinematography and on-set VFX features.

Cine Designer (C4D)

Paid. Cinema 4D previs and techvis plugin for lights, lenses, set pieces.

Cosmos

Free tier. Visual discovery and moodboard curation tool.

Every Frame a Painting

. Gold-standard video essays on composition, camera, editing rhythm.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling →…

EYECANDY

Free tier. Library of visual techniques in film and motion.

FilmGrab

. Curated film stills archive. Free.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding &…

Flim AI

Free tier. Film frame search engine.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Pre-Production, Storyboarding &…

Frame Set

Free tier. Searchable stills from films, commercials, and music videos.

Halon Entertainment

. Previs, VP, and virtual scouting case studies and tooling writeups.

Lessons from the Screenplay

. Story and screenplay analysis on YouTube.

Magnopus

. VP and XR studio. Tooling and case studies.

Refsee

Free tier. Video reference search across films and commercials.

Same.Energy

. Visual similarity image search engine.

Shot.Cafe

. Searchable film and TV frames.

ShotDeck

Paid. Searchable film still library for storyboards and references.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling →…

Spectacle.is

Free tier. Search commercial and branded video.

StudioBinder Film Guides

. Shot composition, camera shots encyclopedia, camera movements, lighting.See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling…

The Third Floor

. Previs and postvis studio blog with breakdowns from major features.

VES (Visual Effects Society)

. VES handbook, talks, and methodology resources for on-set VFX.

Yarn.co

Free tier. Search movie and TV dialogue, export clips or GIFs.

Adobe Express

Quick Adobe design tool.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Adobe Illustrator

Industry-standard vector graphics editor; available on iPad.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Adobe InDesign

Page layout and publishing for print and digital.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Adobe Photoshop

Industry-standard raster image editor and compositor; available on iPad.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Affinity

Unified vector, photo, and layout app. Free, by Canva.

ArcBrush

Node-based non-destructive image editor for generating asset variants and export formats; optional credit-based AI…

Clip Studio Paint

Industry-standard illustration and comics with animation timeline.

Figma

Collaborative UI/UX design with free tier.

FontLab 8

Professional font editor.

FotoSketcher

Windows freeware that converts photos to sketch, painting, and pastel renders. Batchable.

GIMP

Free open-source image editor.

Google Drawings

Free browser-based diagramming and simple vector tool. Collaborative.

Graphite

Open-source 2D vector and raster graphics editor with procedural node-based workflow. In active development.See also:…

Inkscape

Free open-source vector editor.

Krita

Free open-source digital painting app from KDE; v5.3 and v6.0 shipped March 2026.

Lunacy

Free graphic design app from Icons8. Native Sketch file support, built-in icons/illustrations/photos, AI tools.

Microsoft Paint

Built-in Windows raster editor. Now ships with layers, transparency, and Cocreator AI.

Origami Studio

Free interaction design and prototyping tool by Meta. Patch-based logic, Figma import.

Paint.NET

Free Windows raster editor with layers, plugins, and unlimited undo. Sits between Microsoft Paint and Photoshop.

Penpot

Open-source design platform. Native SVG/CSS/HTML output. Cloud-hosted or self-host. Figma alternative.

Picsart

Photo and video editor with AI tools. Web, mobile, and desktop.

Pixelmator

Full-featured image editing app for the Mac.

PixiEditor

Universal 2D graphics editor. Procedural graphics w/ node graph, image editing, vectors, pixel art, animations.

PowerPoint

Microsoft presentation app. Used as a quick-draft motion/layout tool for storyboards and diagrams.

Procreate

IPad painting app. Procreate Dreams for animation.

ProtoPie

High-fidelity interaction prototyping for apps and connected devices.

Sketch

Mac-native UI/UX design tool with web previews and collaboration.See also: Software Reference → Design Software

Unicorn Studio

Browser-based interactive scene and motion design for the web. No-code, exports to embed.

Vectorpea

Free browser-based vector editor by Photopea team. Opens AI/SVG/PDF/EPS/CDR.

3D Machine Learning

. Resource repository for 3D machine learning.

Awesome 3D Human

. Curated list of papers and resources on 3D human research, including face, body, hand and motion.

DINOv2

. Meta self-supervised vision features. Strong general-purpose image embeddings. Useful as backbone for CG ML tasks.

Generative AI Genius 2024

. Free generative AI course material by Aishwarya Naresh Reganti.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

. Publishes technical articles on the theory, design, and applications of neural networks and related learning systems.

Introduction to Generative AI Community Course

. Free community course on generative AI fundamentals by iNeuron.

Meta 3D Gen

. Meta research pipeline for text-to-3D. Combines AssetGen geometry with TextureGen materials. Paper and results.

PyTorch3D

. Meta FAIR library for 3D deep learning. Differentiable rendering, mesh ops, point cloud utils on PyTorch.

Adobe Firefly 3

Commercial-safe, deep Creative Cloud integration.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Aga Miko/pixel Character Generator

Generating retro pixel game characters with Generative Adversarial Networks. Dataset "TinyHero" included.See also:…

FLUX.2 (Black Forest Labs)

Open-weight photorealism with Kontext editing.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

GPT Image (OpenAI)

Instruction-following image model with strong text rendering. GPT Image 1.5.See also: Software Reference → AI Image &…

Grok Aurora (xAI)

Photorealistic image gen integrated into Grok.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

HunyuanDiT (Tencent)

Open-source DiT-based, strong Chinese text.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Ideogram 2.0

Best-in-class typography and text rendering, canvas mode.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation…

Imagen

Google photoreal image model via Gemini and Vertex.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Jimeng / Dreamina (ByteDance)

High quality, integrated with video pipeline.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Kolors (Kuaishou)

Open-source, bilingual Chinese/English.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Krea AI

Real-time generation, upscaling, and style transfer platform.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture…

Leonardo AI

Real-time generation with artistic control.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Midjourney v7

Industry-leading artistic coherence and stylized output.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation…

Nano Banana Pro (Google Gemini)

Instruction-based editing with character and product consistency across edits.See also: Software Reference → AI Image…

Playground v3

Mixed-mode design canvas for graphic design.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Recraft V3

Design-oriented gen. Vector, icons, brand assets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Reve

Image model with strong prompt adherence.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Snowpixel

Generate Images/Videos/Animations/Audio/Music/3D Objects with Text and/or Image. Upload your own data to create custom…

Stable Diffusion 3.5

Open-source diffusion (Large, Medium, Turbo sizes).See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Visual Electric

AI image generator aimed at designers.

Canva AI Text-to-Image Generator

Free tier. Canva's free built-in text-to-image generator.

RenderNet

Free tier. AI tool for generating images and videos with control over character design, composition, and style.

Stable Diffusion Frivolous

. Community response to the Stable Diffusion litigation.

Word-As-Image for Semantic Typography

. Semantically transforming fonts into illustrations.

Cog Video X

Tsinghua/Zhipu open-source, multiple sizes.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Drawstory

Cinematography and story sequencing with strong character continuity.See also: Software Reference → AI Video…

Frameo

Script to cinematic video with scenes, characters, audio, and timeline assembly.See also: Software Reference → AI…

Genmo Mochi 1

Open-source video gen model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Google Flow

Filmmaking app over Veo with scenebuilder and ingredients-to-video.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation…

Hailuo AI / MiniMax

"Director" model. Strong motion and character consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Haiper

Ex-DeepMind team, animation and video-to-video modes.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

HeyGen

AI avatar marketing videos with a talking-head focus.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

HunyuanVideo 1.5

Open-source 8.3B params, runs on 14GB VRAM.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

InVideo AI

Prompt to video for marketing and social content.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Kling 3.0

Up to 5min clips, strong human motion. Motion Brush control.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

LTX Studio

Pre-production to video pipeline with storyboards, character consistency, and timeline.See also: Software Reference →…

LTX-2 (Lightricks)

Fast open video model. LTX-2 Fast ranks top-3 in the arena.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Luma Dream Machine

Atmospheric image-to-video. Ray3 is the first native 16-bit HDR video model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video…

Mootion

Idea to a 2-minute cinematic video in one tool.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Morphic

AI film studio for story-driven video.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Pika 2.0

Extended video gen with improved consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

PixVerse

Style-specific modes (anime, 3D, realistic), character consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation…

Runway Gen-4.5

Motion brushes and scene consistency on the GWM-1 world model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation…

Seedance 2.0 (ByteDance)

High raw quality video gen with audio. Tops the Artificial Analysis ranking.See also: Software Reference → AI Video…

Stable Animation SDK

Text-to-animation SDK for developers by Stability AI.

Veo 3.1 (Google DeepMind)

Top leaderboard, native audio, 60s+ clips.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Vidu

16s clips, strong human motion (Shengshu).See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Wan 2.2 (Alibaba)

Cinematic MoE diffusion, 8GB+ VRAM. Open source.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Deforum Notebook v0.5 (Stable Diffusion animation)

. Deforum v0.5 notebook for Stable Diffusion animation with math automation, perspective flips, prompt weights, and…

Deforum Stable Diffusion Animation (Artificial Selections)

. YouTube channel covering Deforum Stable Diffusion animation techniques.

Emu Video (Meta)

. Meta's text-to-video research model. Factorized generation, image-then-video. Demos and paper.

Stable Diffusion KLMC2 Animation

. Colab notebook by @RiversHaveWings generating animation from scripted prompts via KLMC2 discretization of…

Stable Diffusion KLMC2 Animation (forked)

. Colab notebook for Stable Diffusion animation, forked by @DigThatData.

3DTopia

Open-source text-to-3D pipeline (coarse → refined).See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Ashawkey/stable Dreamfusion

A pytorch implementation of text-to-3D dreamfusion, powered by stable diffusion.

InstantMesh

Fast single-image-to-3D reconstruction.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Intangible

Prompt and drag-drop to 3D scenes for previz. No-code.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Kaedim

Image-to-3D with hybrid AI plus artist cleanup for production quality.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation…

Luma Genie

Text/image to 3D, integrated with Dream Machine.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Meshy v4

Production-reliable, improved topology and PBR textures.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Rodin Gen-2 (Hyper3D)

10B params, photorealistic, free generation tier.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Sloyd

Procedural 3D generation with parametric control.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Spline AI

Generate 3D objects and textures from text prompts in-editor.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Stability SPAR3D

Open-source single-image 3D reconstruction.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

TRELLIS.2 (Microsoft)

Full PBR materials, complex topologies.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Tripo v3.0

Sculpture-level precision, clean quad topology.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

TripoSR

Tripo/Stability collab. Fast open-source image-to-3D.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Unique3D

High-quality mesh from single image (NeurIPS 2024).See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Wonder3D++

Cross-domain diffusion, textured meshes in 2-3min.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

NativeBlend CLI

. AI CLI to generate and edit low-poly 3D game assets in Blender from text prompts.

Pixal3D

. Single-image to 3D asset generation via pixel-feature back-projection. Outputs geometry and PBR textures.

Point-E (OpenAI)

. OpenAI point-cloud diffusion for text and image to 3D synthesis.

Threestudio

. A unified framework for 3D content generation.

Transforming 2D Images into 3D with AdaMPI

. Guide to using the AdaMPI model to create 3D photos from 2D images.

Adobe Firefly Textures

Prompt-to-edit texture workflows.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

InstaMAT

Material authoring with AI workflows (Substance alternative).See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture…

Meshy Textures

Integrated with 3D pipeline.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Poly

AI-generated PBR textures and materials, tileable with full map sets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture…

Ponzu

AI texture gen from text prompts for uploaded meshes.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation…

Scenario

Game-ready PBR materials, full map sets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

ComfyUI

Node-based AI generator for image/video/3D/audio.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Awesome ComfyUI

. Curated custom nodes collection.

Comflowy

. ComfyUI tutorials for ControlNet, SDXL, FLUX workflows.

Comfy UI Manager

. Install and manage custom nodes and dependencies.

ComfyUI Registry

. Community workflow and subgraph sharing.

ControlNet SD3.5

. Blur/Canny/Depth models, free commercial use.

Autodesk Flow Studio (Wonder Dynamics)

AI VFX, auto CG characters in live footage, USD export.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Blockade Labs Skybox AI

AI-generated 360° skyboxes/HDRIs from text.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Gigapixel AI

AI photo enlargement that adds detail to upscaled images.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Let's Enhance

Photo upscaler up to 16x with a free tier.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Magnific AI

Creative upscaler that adds detail. Folded into Freepik plans Apr 2026.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG…

Rosebud AI

Vibe coding platform for creating 3D games and interactive web apps with AI.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted…

Topaz Photo AI / Video AI

Upscaling, denoising, and sharpening. Topaz Bloom adds unlimited creative upscaling.See also: Software Reference →…

UneeQ Digital Humans

Cloud platform for real-time interactive digital humans.

Unity Muse

Unity in-editor AI for texture, sprite, and animation generation.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Upscayl

Open-source desktop upscaler that runs locally at no cost.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

AI Game Developer

. Unity Editor and Unity Runtime AI integration. Unit Test, Coding, C# Roslyn, Reflection, Assets. Helps to create…

AI Render (Stable Diffusion in Blender)

. Blender addon that renders an AI image from a text prompt and your scene via Stable Diffusion.

ClipDrop: Image Upscaler

Free tier. AI image upscaler and enhancer.

Comfy UI Blender AI

. Run ComfyUI workflows inside Blender.

ControlNet

. Depth/pose/edge control for precision CG workflows.

Coplay

Free tier. AI copilot for Unity.

CorridorKey

. Corridor Crew's open keying tool. AI-driven chroma key for VFX work.

CoTracker

. Meta FAIR point tracker for video. Tracks arbitrary points jointly across frames. Useful for matchmove and roto prep.

DEVA (Tracking Anything)

. Decoupled video segmentation. Long-form, multi-object roto with text or click prompts.

Dream Textures (Blender)

. Generate textures in Blender via Stable Diffusion, locally.

Genetic Drawing

. Python library that generates a stylized rendering from an image.

GPT 4

. Prompt engineering techniques for GPT-4, including tips, applications, limitations, and additional reading materials.

RIFE for Nuke

. Real-Time Intermediate Flow Estimation for video frame interpolation (ML framerate upscaling) for Nuke.

Robust Video Matting (RVM)

. Real-time human video matting. Strong alpha mattes with no greenscreen.

Rotobot

Paid. Paid AI roto plugin for Nuke and After Effects. Auto-mattes people and objects.

SAM 2 (Segment Anything Model 2)

. Meta's promptable segmentation for images and video. Masks objects across frames from a single click. Useful for…

Sammie Roto 2

. SAM-based rotoscope app. Click-to-mask, propagates across frames.

SolidUI

. AI-generated visualization prototyping and editing platform, support 2D, 3D models, combined with LLM(Large Language…

Track Anything

. SAM plus XMem for interactive video object tracking and segmentation. Useful for roto and matte propagation.

Wonder Studio (Autodesk Flow Studio)

Free tier. AI character replacement with auto roto, body tracking, and re-lighting from a single video. Now part of…

ACE Studio

AI singing voice synthesizer with expression control.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

AIVA

AI composition, good for orchestral/cinematic scoring.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation…

DiffRhythm

Open-source full-song gen with vocals from lyrics.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

ElevenLabs

Voice cloning, narration, music generation.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

F5 TTS

Open-source zero-shot voice cloning TTS.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

Fish Audio

Open-source TTS with voice cloning, fast and multilingual.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation…

Suno v5

Full song generation, 100M+ users.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

Udio

Strong electronic/pop, licensed for commercial use.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

AudioCraft (MusicGen / AudioGen / EnCodec)

. Meta's open audio generation stack. MusicGen for music, AudioGen for SFX, EnCodec for neural audio compression.

COVAL

. Guide to building, scaling, and evaluating voice AI, from speech recognition to emotional intelligence.

Hugging Face Transformers

. NLP models and pipelines.

Hunyuan Video I2V

. Image-to-video, multilingual.

sd-concepts-library (Stable Diffusion Concepts Library)

. Community library of Stable Diffusion textual-inversion concepts to browse and use in prompts.

SV3D (Stable Video 3D)

. Orbital video from single image.

3D Neural Scene Representations for Visuomotor Control

. Li et al., CoRL 2021 Oral

3DALL-E: Integrating Text-to-Image AI in 3D Design Workflows

. ArXiv 2022 paper on integrating text-to-image AI in 3D design workflows.

A Higher-Dimensional Representation for Topologically Varying Neural Radiance Fields

. Park et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

A Shading-Guided Generative Implicit Model for Shape-Accurate 3D-Aware Image Synthesis

. Pan et al., NeurIPS 2021 | github

Align Your Gaussians: Text-to-4D with Dynamic 3D Gaussians and Composed Diffusion Models

. 🌐 Project Page

AligNeRF: High-Fidelity Neural Radiance Fields via Alignment-Aware Training

. Jiang et al., CVPR 2023

Animatable Neural Radiance Fields for Modeling Dynamic Human Bodies

. Peng et al., ICCV 2021 | github

Animatable Neural Radiance Fields from Monocular RGB Videos

. Chen et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

AutoInt: Automatic Integration for Fast Neural Volume Rendering

. Lindell et al., CVPR 2021 | github

BeyondPixels: A Review of the Evolution of Neural Radiance Fields

. AKM Shahariar Azad Rabby and Chengcui Zhang, Arxiv 2023

Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis

. Tancik et al., Arxiv 2022

BundleSDF: Neural 6-DoF Tracking and 3D Reconstruction of Unknown Objects

. Wen et al., CVPR 2023 | github

CADOps-Net: Jointly Learning CAD Operation Types and Steps from Boundary-Representations

. 3DV 2022 | [project]

CLA-NeRF: Category-Level Articulated Neural Radiance Field

. Tseng et al., ICRA 2022

CLIP-NeRF: Text-and-Image Driven Manipulation of Neural Radiance Fields

. Wang et al., CVPR 2022 | github

CodeNeRF: Disentangled Neural Radiance Fields for Object Categories

. Jang et al., ICCV 2021

Color-NeRF

. NeRF research paper on color and appearance modelling.

Consolidating Attention Features for Multi-view Image Editing

. 🌐 Project Page

Contrastive Lift: 3D Object Instance Segmentation by Slow-Fast Contrastive Fusion

. Bhalgat et al., NeurIPS 2023 (Spotlight)

CROSSFIRE: Camera Relocalization On Self-Supervised Features from an Implicit Representation

. Moreau et al., ICCV 2023

D-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Dynamic Scenes

. Pumarola et al., CVPR 2021 | github

Deep Generative Models on 3D Representations: A Survey

. 🌐 Project Page

DeepCAD: A Deep Generative Network for Computer-Aided Design Models

. ICCV 2021 | [project] [code]

Deformable Neural Radiance Fields

. Park et al., Arxiv 2020 | github

Depth-supervised NeRF: Fewer Views and Faster Training for Free

. Deng et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

DeRF: Decomposed Radiance Fields

. Rebain et al., Arxiv 2020

DFNet: Enhance Absolute Pose Regression with Direct Feature Matching

. Chen et al., ECCV 2022 | github

Direct Voxel Grid Optimization: Super-fast Convergence for Radiance Fields Reconstruction

. Sun et al., CVPR 2022 | github

DM-NeRF: 3D Scene Geometry Decomposition and Manipulation from 2D Images

. 💻 Code

DMV3D: Denoising Multi-View Diffusion using 3D Large Reconstruction Model

. 🌐 Project Page

DONeRF: Towards Real-Time Rendering of Compact Neural Radiance Fields using Depth Oracle Networks

. Neff et al., CGF 2021 | github

Dream3D: Zero-Shot Text-to-3D Synthesis Using 3D Shape Prior and Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

. 🌐 Project Page

DreamCraft3D: Hierarchical 3D Generation with Bootstrapped Diffusion Prior

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

DreamGaussian4D: Generative 4D Gaussian Splatting

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

DreamWaltz: Make a Scene with Complex 3D Animatable Avatars

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

DyLiN: Making Light Field Networks Dynamic

. Yu et al., CVPR 2023 | github

Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields for Monocular 4D Facial Avatar Reconstruction

. Gafni et al., CVPR 2021 | github

DynIBaR: Neural Dynamic Image-Based Rendering

. Li et al., CVPR 2023

Editable Free-viewpoint Video Using a Layered Neural Representation

. Zhang et al., SIGGRAPH 2021 | github

Editing Conditional Radiance Fields

. Liu et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

En3D: An Enhanced Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Humans from 2D Synthetic Data

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

EndoGaussian: Real-time Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Endoscopic Scene Reconstruction

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

ENeRF: Efficient Neural Radiance Fields for Interactive Free-viewpoint Video

. Lin et al., SIGGRAPH 2022 | github

FastNeRF: High-Fidelity Neural Rendering at 200FPS

. Garbin et al., Arxiv 2021

FiG-NeRF: Figure Ground Neural Radiance Fields for 3D Object Category Modelling

. Xie et al., Arxiv 2021

From 2D CAD Drawings to 3D Parametric Models: A Vision-Language Approach

. AAAI 2025 | [project]

GALA3D: Towards Text-to-3D Complex Scene Generation via Layout-guided Generative Gaussian Splatting

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

GARF: Gaussian Activated Radiance Fields for High Fidelity Reconstruction and Pose Estimation

. Chng et al., ECCV 2022

GaussianAvatars: Photorealistic Head Avatars with Rigged 3D Gaussians

. 🌐 Project Page

GaussianObject: High-Quality 3D Object Reconstruction from Four Views with Gaussian Splatting

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Gemini Robotics 1.5

. Embodied reasoning, thinking, and motion transfer.

Generative Occupancy Fields for 3D Surface-Aware Image Synthesis

. Xu et al., NeurIPS 2021 | github

GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields

. Niemeyer et al., CVPR 2021

GNeRF: GAN-based Neural Radiance Field without Posed Camera

. Meng et al., Arxiv 2021

GO-NeRF: Generating Objects in Neural Radiance Fields for Virtual Reality Content Creation

. 🌐 Project Page

GRAF: Generative Radiance Fields for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis

. Schwarz et al., NeurIPS 2020 | github

GRF: Learning a General Radiance Field for 3D Scene Representation and Rendering

. Trevithick and Yang, Arxiv 2020 | github

Ha-NeRF: Hallucinated Neural Radiance Fields in the Wild

. Chen et al., CVPR 2022 | github

HumanNeRF: Free-viewpoint Rendering of Moving People from Monocular Video

. Weng et al., CVPR 2022 | github

IBRNet: Learning Multi-View Image-Based Rendering

. Wang et al., CVPR 2021 | github

IDE-3D: Interactive Disentangled Editing for High-Resolution 3D-aware Portrait Synthesis

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Image Sculpting: Precise Object Editing with 3D Geometry Control

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

In-Place Scene Labelling and Understanding with Implicit Scene Representation

. Zhi et al., Arxiv 2021

iNeRF: Inverting Neural Radiance Fields for Pose Estimation

. Yen-Chen et al. IROS 2021

InfNeRF: Towards Infinite Scale NeRF Rendering with O(log n) Space Complexity

. Liang et al., SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 | github

Instant3D: Instant Text-to-3D Generation

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

KiloNeRF: Speeding up Neural Radiance Fields with Thousands of Tiny MLPs

. Reiser et al., ICCV 2021 | github

KiloNeuS: Implicit Neural Representations with Real-Time Global Illumination

. Esposito et al., Arxiv 2022

L2G-NeRF: Local-to-Global Registration for Bundle-Adjusting Neural Radiance Fields

. Chen et al., CVPR 2023 | github

Learned Initializations for Optimizing Coordinate-Based Neural Representations

. Tancik et al., CVPR 2021 | github

Learning Compositional Radiance Fields of Dynamic Human Heads

. Wang et al., Arxiv 2020

Learning Neural Transmittance for Efficient Rendering of Reflectance Fields

. Mohammad Shafiei et al., BMVC 2021

Learning Object-Compositional Neural Radiance Field for Editable Scene Rendering

. Yang et al., ICCV 2021 | github

Learning the 3D Fauna of the Web

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Lightning NeRF: Efficient Hybrid Scene Representation for Autonomous Driving

. Cao et al. ICRA 2024 | github

Loc-NeRF: Monte Carlo Localization using Neural Radiance Fields

. Maggio et al., ICRA 2023 | github

Local 3D Editing via 3D Distillation of CLIP Knowledge

. Hyung et al., CVPR 2023| github

M3DBench: Let's Instruct Large Models with Multi-modal 3D Prompts

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Magic3D: High-Resolution Text-to-3D Content Creation

. 🌐 Project Page

Make-A-Character: High Quality Text-to-3D Character Generation within Minutes

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Make-It-3D: High-Fidelity 3D Creation from A Single Image with Diffusion Prior

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

MinD-3D: Reconstruct High-quality 3D objects in Human Brain

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

MINE: Towards Continuous Depth MPI with NeRF for Novel View Synthesis

. Jiaxin Li et al., ICCV 2021 | github

Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fields

. Barron et al., Arxiv 2022

Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields

. Barron et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

Mixture of Volumetric Primitives for Efficient Neural Rendering

. Lombardi et al., SIGGRAPH 2021

MVSNeRF: Fast Generalizable Radiance Field Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo

. Chen et al., ICCV 2021 | github

NeO 360: Neural Fields for Sparse View Synthesis of Outdoor Scenes

. Irshad et al., ICCV 2023 | github

NeRF (paper site)

. Mildenhall et al., ECCV 2020 | github

NeRF in the Dark: High Dynamic Range View Synthesis from Noisy Raw Images

. Ben Mildenhall et al, arXiv 2021

NeRF in the Wild: Neural Radiance Fields for Unconstrained Photo Collections

. Martin-Brualla et al., CVPR 2021

NeRF--: Neural Radiance Fields Without Known Camera Parameters

. Wang et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

NeRF-In: Free-Form NeRF Inpainting with RGB-D Priors

. Liu et al., Arxiv 2022

NeRF-MAE: Masked AutoEncoders for Self-Supervised 3D Representation Learning for Neural Radiance Fields

. Irshad et al., ECCV 2024

NeRF-SOS: Any-view Self-supervised Object Segmentation on Complex Real-world Scenes

. Fan et al., ICLR 2023

NeRF-VAE: A Geometry Aware 3D Scene Generative Model

. Kosiorek et al., Arxiv 2021

NeRF: Neural Radiance Field in 3D Vision, Introduction and Review

. Kyle Gao, Yina Gao, Hongjie He, Dening Lu, Linlin Xu, Jonathan Li

NeRF++: Analyzing and Improving Neural Radiance Fields

. Zhang et al., Arxiv 2020 | github

NerfingMVS: Guided Optimization of Neural Radiance Fields for Indoor Multi-view Stereo

. Wei et al., ICCV 2021

NeRV: Neural Reflectance and Visibility Fields for Relighting and View Synthesis

. Srinivasan et al. CVPR 2021

Neural 3D Video Synthesis from Multi-view Video

. Li et al., CVPR 2022

Neural Body: Implicit Neural Representations with Structured Latent Codes for Novel View Synthesis of Dynamic Humans

. Peng et al., CVPR 2021 | github

Neural Radiance Flow for 4D View Synthesis and Video Processing

. Du et al., Arxiv 2020

Neural Rays for Occlusion-aware Image-based Rendering

. Liu et al., Arxiv 2021

Neural Refinement for Absolute Pose Regression with Feature Synthesis

. Chen et al., CVPR 2024 | github

Neural Scene Flow Fields for Space-Time View Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes

. Li et al., CVPR 2021 | github

Neural Scene Graphs for Dynamic Scenes

. Ost et al., CVPR 2021

Neural Sparse Voxel Fields

. Liu et al., NeurIPS 2020 | github

Neural Volume Rendering: NeRF

. Dellaert and Yen-Chen, Arxiv 2020 | blog

NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstruction

. Wang et al., NeurIPS 2021 | github

Non-Rigid Neural Radiance Fields: Reconstruction and Novel View Synthesis of a Deforming Scene from Monocular Video

. Tretschk et al., Arxiv 2020 | github

NoPe-NeRF: Optimising Neural Radiance Field with No Pose Prior

. Bian et al., CVPR 2023 | github

One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

ParSeNet: A Parametric Surface Fitting Network for 3D Point Clouds

. ECCV 2020 | [project] [code]

PC2WF: 3D Wireframe Reconstruction from Raw Point Clouds

. ICLR 2021 | [code]

Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D

. Snavely, Seitz, Szeliski. SIGGRAPH 2006.

pi-GAN: Periodic Implicit Generative Adversarial Networks for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis

. Chan et al., CVPR 2021

pixelNeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from One or Few Images

. Yu et al., CVPR 2021 | github

PlankAssembly: 3D Reconstruction from Three Orthographic Views with Learnt Shape Programs

. ICCV 2023 | [project] [code]

PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields

. Yu et al., Arxiv 2021 | github

Point-NeRF: Point-based Neural Radiance Fields

. Xu et al., CVPR 2022 | github

Point2Cyl: Reverse Engineering 3D Objects from Point Clouds to Extrusion Cylinders

. CVPR 2022 | [project] [code]

PolyGen: An Autoregressive Generative Model of 3D Meshes

. ICML 2020 | [code]

Ponder: Point Cloud Pre-training via Neural Rendering

. Huang et al., ICCV 2023

PonderV2: Pave the Way for 3D Foundation Model with A Universal Pre-training Paradigm

. Zhu et al., Arxiv 2023 | github

PoRF: Pose Residual Field for Accurate Neural Surface Reconstruction

. Bian et al., ICLR 2024 | github

Portrait Neural Radiance Fields from a Single Image

. Gao et al., Arxiv 2020

Progressive3D: Progressively Local Editing for Text-to-3D Content Creation with Complex Semantic Prompts

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

PSAvatar: A Point-based Shape Model for Real-Time Head Avatar Animation with 3D Gaussian Splatting

. 💻 Code

Putting NeRF on a Diet: Semantically Consistent Few-Shot View Synthesis

. Matthew Tancik et al., Arxiv 2021

PVA: Pixel-aligned Volumetric Avatars

. Raj et al., CVPR 2021

PVDeconv: Point-voxel deconvolution for autoencoding cad construction in 3D

. ICIP 2020 | [project]

Reconstructing Editable Prismatic CAD from Rounded Voxel Models

. SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

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.

RichDreamer: A Generalizable Normal-Depth Diffusion Model for Detail Richness in Text-to-3D

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Rig3DGS: Creating Controllable Portraits from Casual Monocular Videos

. 🌐 Project Page

Rodin: A Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Digital Avatars Using Diffusion

. Wang et al., CVPR 2023 | github

RT-NeRF: Real-Time On-Device Neural Radiance Fields Towards Immersive AR/VR Rendering

. Li et al., ICCAD 2022

SEEAvatar: Photorealistic Text-to-3D Avatar Generation with Constrained Geometry and Appearance

. 🌐 Project Page

Self-Calibrating Neural Radiance Fields

. Jeong et al., ICCV 2021 | github

SIGNeRF: Scene Integrated Generation for Neural Radiance Fields

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

SINE: Semantic-driven Image-based NeRF Editing with Prior-guided Editing Field

. Bao et al., CVPR 2023 | github

SinNeRF: Training Neural Radiance Fields on Complex Scenes from a Single Image

. Xu et al., ECCV 2022 | github

Space-time Neural Irradiance Fields for Free-Viewpoint Video

. Xian et al., CVPR 2021

Streaming Radiance Fields for 3D Video Synthesis

. Li et al. NeurIPS 2022 | github

Street Gaussians: Modeling Dynamic Urban Scenes with Gaussian Splatting

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

StyleNeRF: A Style-based 3D-Aware Generator for High-resolution Image Synthesis

. Gu et al., Arxiv 2021

Supervised Fitting of Geometric Primitives to 3D Point Clouds

. CVPR 2019 | [code]

SurfelNeRF: Neural Surfel Radiance Fields for Online Photorealistic Reconstruction of Indoor Scenes

. Gao et al., CVPR 2023 | github

Switch-NeRF: Learning Scene Decomposition with Mixture of Experts for Large-scale Neural Radiance Fields

. Mi et al., ICLR 2023 | github

Taming Mode Collapse in Score Distillation for Text-to-3D Generation

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

Text-To-4D Dynamic Scene Generation

. 🌐 Project Page

Text2CAD: Text to 3D CAD Generation via Technical Drawings

. NeurIPS 2024 | [project]

TextField3D: Towards Enhancing Open-Vocabulary 3D Generation with Noisy Text Fields

. 🌐 Project Page

TextureDreamer: Image-guided Texture Synthesis through Geometry-aware Diffusion

. 🌐 Project Page

TiNeuVox: Fast Dynamic Radiance Fields with Time-Aware Neural Voxels

. Fang et al., SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 | github

TOSS:High-quality Text-guided Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image

. 🌐 Project Page

Triplane Meets Gaussian Splatting: Fast and Generalizable Single-View 3D Reconstruction with Transformers

. 🌐 Project Page

UV Volumes for Real-time Rendering of Editable Free-view Human Performance

. Chen et al., CVPR 2023 | github

ViCA-NeRF: View-Consistency-Aware 3D Editing of Neural Radiance Fields

. 💻 Code

Volume Rendering of Neural Implicit Surfaces

. Yariv et al., NeurIPS 2021 | github

Wonder3D: Single Image to 3D using Cross-Domain Diffusion

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code

X-NeRF: Explicit Neural Radiance Field for Multi-Scene 360° Insufficient RGB-D Views

. Zhu et al., WACV 2023 | github

Zero123++: a Single Image to Consistent Multi-view Diffusion Base Model

. 🌐 Project Page | 💻 Code | 🤗 Hugging Face

Adobe Firefly 3

Commercial-safe, deep Creative Cloud integration.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Adobe Firefly Textures

Prompt-to-edit texture workflows.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Aga Miko/pixel Character Generator

Generating retro pixel game characters with Generative Adversarial Networks. Dataset "TinyHero" included.See also:…

ComfyUI

Node-based AI generator for image/video/3D/audio.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

FLUX.2 (Black Forest Labs)

Open-weight photorealism with Kontext editing.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

GPT Image (OpenAI)

Instruction-following image model with strong text rendering. GPT Image 1.5.See also: Software Reference → AI Image &…

Grok Aurora (xAI)

Photorealistic image gen integrated into Grok.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

HunyuanDiT (Tencent)

Open-source DiT-based, strong Chinese text.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Ideogram 2.0

Best-in-class typography and text rendering, canvas mode.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation…

Imagen

Google photoreal image model via Gemini and Vertex.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

InstaMAT

Material authoring with AI workflows (Substance alternative).See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture…

Jimeng / Dreamina (ByteDance)

High quality, integrated with video pipeline.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Kolors (Kuaishou)

Open-source, bilingual Chinese/English.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Krea AI

Real-time generation, upscaling, and style transfer platform.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture…

Leonardo AI

Real-time generation with artistic control.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Meshy Textures

Integrated with 3D pipeline.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Midjourney v7

Industry-leading artistic coherence and stylized output.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation…

Nano Banana Pro (Google Gemini)

Instruction-based editing with character and product consistency across edits.See also: Software Reference → AI Image…

Playground v3

Mixed-mode design canvas for graphic design.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Poly

AI-generated PBR textures and materials, tileable with full map sets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture…

Ponzu

AI texture gen from text prompts for uploaded meshes.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation…

Recraft V3

Design-oriented gen. Vector, icons, brand assets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Reve

Image model with strong prompt adherence.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Scenario

Game-ready PBR materials, full map sets.See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Snowpixel

Generate Images/Videos/Animations/Audio/Music/3D Objects with Text and/or Image. Upload your own data to create custom…

Stable Diffusion 3.5

Open-source diffusion (Large, Medium, Turbo sizes).See also: Software Reference → AI Image & Texture Generation Software

Cog Video X

Tsinghua/Zhipu open-source, multiple sizes.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Drawstory

Cinematography and story sequencing with strong character continuity.See also: Software Reference → AI Video…

Frameo

Script to cinematic video with scenes, characters, audio, and timeline assembly.See also: Software Reference → AI…

Genmo Mochi 1

Open-source video gen model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Google Flow

Filmmaking app over Veo with scenebuilder and ingredients-to-video.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation…

Hailuo AI / MiniMax

"Director" model. Strong motion and character consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Haiper

Ex-DeepMind team, animation and video-to-video modes.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

HeyGen

AI avatar marketing videos with a talking-head focus.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

HunyuanVideo 1.5

Open-source 8.3B params, runs on 14GB VRAM.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

InVideo AI

Prompt to video for marketing and social content.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Kling 3.0

Up to 5min clips, strong human motion. Motion Brush control.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

LTX Studio

Pre-production to video pipeline with storyboards, character consistency, and timeline.See also: Software Reference →…

LTX-2 (Lightricks)

Fast open video model. LTX-2 Fast ranks top-3 in the arena.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Luma Dream Machine

Atmospheric image-to-video. Ray3 is the first native 16-bit HDR video model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video…

Mootion

Idea to a 2-minute cinematic video in one tool.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Morphic

AI film studio for story-driven video.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Pika 2.0

Extended video gen with improved consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

PixVerse

Style-specific modes (anime, 3D, realistic), character consistency.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation…

Runway Gen-4.5

Motion brushes and scene consistency on the GWM-1 world model.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation…

Seedance 2.0 (ByteDance)

High raw quality video gen with audio. Tops the Artificial Analysis ranking.See also: Software Reference → AI Video…

Veo 3.1 (Google DeepMind)

Top leaderboard, native audio, 60s+ clips.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Vidu

16s clips, strong human motion (Shengshu).See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

Wan 2.2 (Alibaba)

Cinematic MoE diffusion, 8GB+ VRAM. Open source.See also: Software Reference → AI Video Generation Software

3DTopia

Open-source text-to-3D pipeline (coarse → refined).See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

InstantMesh

Fast single-image-to-3D reconstruction.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Intangible

Prompt and drag-drop to 3D scenes for previz. No-code.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Kaedim

Image-to-3D with hybrid AI plus artist cleanup for production quality.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation…

Luma Genie

Text/image to 3D, integrated with Dream Machine.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Meshy v4

Production-reliable, improved topology and PBR textures.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Rodin Gen-2 (Hyper3D)

10B params, photorealistic, free generation tier.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Sloyd

Procedural 3D generation with parametric control.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Spline AI

Generate 3D objects and textures from text prompts in-editor.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Stability SPAR3D

Open-source single-image 3D reconstruction.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

TRELLIS.2 (Microsoft)

Full PBR materials, complex topologies.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Tripo v3.0

Sculpture-level precision, clean quad topology.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

TripoSR

Tripo/Stability collab. Fast open-source image-to-3D.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Unique3D

High-quality mesh from single image (NeurIPS 2024).See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

Wonder3D++

Cross-domain diffusion, textured meshes in 2-3min.See also: Software Reference → AI 3D Generation Software

ACE Studio

AI singing voice synthesizer with expression control.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

AIVA

AI composition, good for orchestral/cinematic scoring.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation…

DiffRhythm

Open-source full-song gen with vocals from lyrics.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

ElevenLabs

Voice cloning, narration, music generation.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

F5 TTS

Open-source zero-shot voice cloning TTS.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

Fish Audio

Open-source TTS with voice cloning, fast and multilingual.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation…

Suno v5

Full song generation, 100M+ users.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

Udio

Strong electronic/pop, licensed for commercial use.See also: Software Reference → AI Audio & Music Generation Software

Autodesk Flow Studio (Wonder Dynamics)

AI VFX, auto CG characters in live footage, USD export.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Blockade Labs Skybox AI

AI-generated 360° skyboxes/HDRIs from text.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Gigapixel AI

AI photo enlargement that adds detail to upscaled images.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Let's Enhance

Photo upscaler up to 16x with a free tier.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Magnific AI

Creative upscaler that adds detail. Folded into Freepik plans Apr 2026.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG…

Rosebud AI

Vibe coding platform for creating 3D games and interactive web apps with AI.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted…

Topaz Photo AI / Video AI

Upscaling, denoising, and sharpening. Topaz Bloom adds unlimited creative upscaling.See also: Software Reference →…

Unity Muse

Unity in-editor AI for texture, sprite, and animation generation.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Upscayl

Open-source desktop upscaler that runs locally at no cost.See also: Software Reference → AI-Assisted CG Software

Flora

Node canvas for image and video gen with 50+ models and Style DNA.

Freepik Spaces

Node workflows tied to the Freepik stock library.

Higgsfield Canvas

Node editor chaining prompts, style transfer, motion, and render across image and video.

Kaiber

Unified canvas for image and video generation and editing. Superstudio.

Omma

Prompt-driven builder from Spline that generates 3D scenes, sites, games, and decks. Accepts GLB, OBJ, and data files…

Weavy

Node canvas with pro editing for compositing, matte, and relighting. Acquired by Figma.

Websim

Generates and remixes interactive web pages and toys from a prompt or URL.

Wireflow

AI workflow canvas with a developer lean.

Arko.ai

Arch-viz AI renderer for sketch and 3D model screenshots.

LookX

Arch-viz AI renderer with style references.

Mnml.ai

Arch-viz AI renderer from sketch and 3D screenshot input.

NewArc

Sketch to render for product, fashion, and automotive design.

SketchPro

Sketch, SketchUp, and massing to render for architecture.

The New Black

AI fashion workspace for clothing concepts, virtual try-ons, tech packs, fashion models, and 3D garments.

Visualizee

Sketch and 3D screenshot to render for architecture and interiors.

Vizcom

Sketch to render for industrial, product, and footwear design with line control.

Claid.ai

Catalog image cleanup and AI product shots at ecommerce scale.

Emersya

3D and AR product experiences from ideation to ecommerce.

Flair.ai

AI product photography canvas. Drag products into staged scenes.

Omi

3D digital twins of products for virtual photoshoots. Built for CPG brands.

Photoroom

Marketplace-first mobile app for batch product listing images.

Threekit

Enterprise 3D twins with photoreal renders and configurators from one file.

AL USD Maya

. Animal Logic's Maya plugin for round-tripping USD scene data into Maya.

Animal Logic's USD Docker

. Docker build scripts that fetch and compile Pixar USD and its open-source dependencies.

Apple USD Tools

. Usdz_converter, Reality Composer.

Luma USD

. USD plugins and schemas from Luma Pictures.

NVIDIA USD Resources

. Omniverse, tutorials, tools.

OpenUSD

. Official Pixar USD site. Specification, tools, resources.

USD Cookbook (Colin Kennedy)

. Code recipes and examples.

USD Manager

. Lightweight app for browsing, managing, and editing USD files.

USD Noodle

. Node-graph viewer showing the dependencies of a USD file.

USD Qtpy

. Python Qt components for building custom USD tools.

USD Shell Extension for Windows

. Windows File Explorer extension adding USD thumbnails, side previews, and deep-metadata search.

USD Survival Guide

. Practical USD guide for VFX artists.

USD URI Resolver

. URI-based asset resolver for USD, with custom plugin support.

USD Working Group (ASWF)

. Alliance for Open Media USD resources.

UsdQt

. Qt components for building custom USD tools.

CGAL

A software project that provides easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of a C++…

CGRU

CG tools pack that includes AFANASY, a free open-source render farm manager.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline &…

Coalition

Render-farm manager from Mercenaries Engineering (makers of Guerilla Render).See also: Software Reference → Pipeline &…

Flamenco (Blender render farm)

Blender Foundation's free render-farm manager.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Flamenco (flamenco.io)

From the Blender FoundationSee also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

ftrack

Production tracking.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Gaffer (GafferHQ compositing)

Gaffer is a great toolbox, it's a VFX application that enables look developers, lighters, and compositors to easily…

Godot Game Tools

Blender addon that eases Mixamo animation import into Godot.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production…

Kitsu (CGWire)

Production tracker.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Medieval Fantasy City Generator

Browser tool that generates random medieval city map layouts.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production…

Open3D

Modern library for 3D data processing. Point clouds, meshes, voxels, reconstruction.See also: Software Reference →…

OpenCue (docs)

Open-source render management.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

OpenTimelineIO (site)

(repo) - Editorial timeline.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Pandora

Open-Source Renderfarm-Manager.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Prism Pipeline

Animation and VFX pipeline.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

TerraForge3D

A procedural terrain generation and procedural modeling toolkit.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production…

Tik Manager (GitHub)

Artist friendly asset and pipeline manager.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

Tik Manager (site)

Artist-friendly asset and pipeline manager.See also: Software Reference → Pipeline & Production Management Software

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

. Sample Python scripts for 3ds Max, Maya, and Blender automation.

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

. Forum for pipeline TDs and studio tool developers.

Prisma

. Computational photography pipeline tool that performs multiple inferences (masks, depth, motionvectors) from any…

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (INRIA reference impl)

. Original implementation.

3DGS Introduction

. HuggingFace introductory guide to 3D Gaussian Splatting.

3DGS.cpp

. Cross-platform, high performance 3DGS renderer in C++ and Vulkan Compute, supporting Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and…

4D Gaussian Splatting

. Dynamic scenes (CVPR 2024).

Brush

. Cross-platform Gaussian Splatting reconstruction and viewer (Rust/wgpu), runs in browser.

Gaussian Head Avatars: A Summary

. Summary of Gaussian-splatting head-avatar techniques (Towards Data Science).

LichtFeld Studio

. Native desktop app for training, inspecting, editing, and exporting 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes. Plugin extensible.

MegaSaM

. Structure and motion recovery from casual handheld video.

msplat

. A modular differential gaussian rasterization library.

Pointrix

. Differentiable point-based rendering framework for Gaussian Splatting.

PyTorch Implementation

. Curated implementation of Vanilla 3DGS in PyTorch

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).

vkgs

. Cross-platform, high performance 3DGS renderer in C++ and Vulkan Compute/Graphics.

Warp 3DGS

. Warp/Python-based implementation (AGPL-3.0).

3DF Zephyr

Free lite version (up to 50 photos).

3DF Zephyr Free

Free version of 3DF Zephyr photogrammetry software for personal use. It comes with some limitations.

Agisoft Metashape

Professional photogrammetry with GIS features.

Artec Studio

Capture and alignment software for Artec handheld scanners.

CloudCompare

A 3D point cloud (and triangular mesh) processing software. Open-source and designed for visualizing and editing LiDAR…

COLMAP

A general-purpose Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipeline with a graphical and command-line…

Depthkit

Depth-sensor volumetric capture toolkit.

FARO SCENE

Capture and process FARO Focus scan data.

Geomagic Wrap

Convert point clouds to polygon meshes (Oqton, formerly 3D Systems).

HDR Light Studio

Interactive HDRI editing and relighting tool for 3D. Bridges to Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, Cinema 4D, Modo, Blender.See…

HDR Shop

Debevec's HDR assembly and panoramic transform tool. Historical software, still downloadable.

Hugin

Free OSS panorama stitcher built on Panorama Tools.

KIRI Engine

Cross-platform mobile photogrammetry.

Leica Cyclone

Point cloud registration and processing for Leica scanners.

Luminance HDR

HDR workflow. Merge brackets, tonemap, convert EXR/HDR/RGBE.See also: Software Reference → Viewers & File Utilities,…

Meshroom (AliceVision)

Free, open-source photogrammetry. Node-based, GPU-accelerated.

MipMap

Drone mapping photogrammetry for mining, construction, and surveying. Outputs textured mesh, point cloud, and Gaussian…

Open Scan Tools

A collection of open-source tools for photogrammetry, depth-sensing, and 3D reconstruction workflows. Nice rendering…

OpenDroneMap / WebODM

Open source drone photogrammetry stack.

PCL (Point Cloud Library)

Large-scale open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.

Pix4D

Survey and mapping photogrammetry suite.

Polycam

Mobile photogrammetry (iOS LiDAR + photo, Android photo). Cloud processing.

Postshot

Desktop Gaussian Splatting tool. Train, clean, edit, export.

PTGui Pro

Industry-standard panorama stitcher. Full HDR/bracketed support, mask painting, viewpoint correction.

Quixel Megascans

World’s largest photogrammetry 2D and 3D asset library. Now it is free for the Epic Games accounts (only UE projects).

RealityCapture

Fast, high-quality photogrammetry (now Epic Games). PPI pricing.

Scaniverse (Niantic)

Free mobile scanning, Gaussian splat support.

Trimble RealWorks

Survey-grade point cloud registration and modeling.

360 Gaussian Splatting

. Generate gaussian splatting directly from 360 images

3D Gaussian Splatting (joeyan reimpl)

. Python/CUDA Gaussian Splatting reimplementation (MIT).

3D Gaussian Splatting (WangFeng18 reimpl)

. Python/CUDA Gaussian Splatting reimplementation (MIT).

4DViews

Paid. Volumetric capture stages and HOLOSYS rigs.

Awesome-3DGS Paper List

. Curated list of 3D Gaussian Splatting papers, maintained by MrNeRF.

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 and photography.

Compressing Gaussian Splats

. PlayCanvas blog. Compressing Gaussian Splat data for the web.

CyArk

. Heritage site laser scanning archive. Free models for cultural sites worldwide.

Direct Gaussian Style Optimization (DGSO): Stylizing 3D Gaussian Splats

. Applying style transfer during gaussian optimization to produce stylized gaussian splats of a scene.

Eisko

Paid. Digital human scanning and asset service.

Gaussian Splats Town Hall - Part 2

. PixelReconstruct YouTube. Community town hall on Gaussian Splatting tooling.

Gaussian Splatting 3D

. Python/CUDA Gaussian Splatting implementation.

Gaussian Splatting is pretty cool

. Aras Pranckevicius blog. How Gaussian Splatting works under the hood.

Gaussian Splatting Lightning

. A 3D Gaussian Splatting framework with various derived algorithms and an interactive web viewer

Infinite-Realities (Triple-I)

Paid. Photogrammetry and light-stage rentals for film and games.

Intro to gaussian splatting (and Unity plugin)

. Blog walkthrough of Gaussian Splatting with a Unity plugin demo.

JaxNeRF

. Deng et al., 2020. JAX NeRF with multi-device training.

Light Probe Image Gallery

. Original mirror-ball HDR probes (Grace Cathedral, Uffizi, etc.). Still used in IBL teaching.

Making Gaussian Splats more smaller

. Aras Pranckevicius blog. Further Gaussian Splat size reduction.

Making Gaussian Splats smaller

. Aras Pranckevicius blog. Shrinking Gaussian Splat file sizes.

Meshroom

. AliceVision photogrammetry pipeline. Reconstructs 3D meshes from photos.

Metastage

Paid. LA volumetric capture studio using Microsoft tech.

Mip-NeRF

. google, 2021. Anti-aliased NeRF reference implementation.

MrNeRF (awesome-3D-gaussian-splatting)

. Curated awesome-list of 3D Gaussian Splatting papers, tools, and viewers.

NeRF

. Mildenhall et al., 2020. Original NeRF reference implementation.

NeRF (PyTorch3D)

. facebookresearch, 2020. NeRF project inside PyTorch3D.

NeRF-PyTorch (yenchenlin)

. Yen-Chen Lin, 2020. Faithful PyTorch reimplementation of NeRF.

NeRF-PyTorch-Lightning (nerf_pl)

. kwea123, 2020. NeRF in PyTorch-Lightning.

Nerfstudio gsplat

. CUDA-accelerated Gaussian Splatting library integrated with Nerfstudio (Apache-2.0).

Nerfstudio Unofficial

. Unofficial Nerfstudio fork adding Gaussian Splatting support.

Neural Rendering (YouTube)

. Ben Mildenhall

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

. Towards Data Science article. End-to-end 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

. Guide to photogrammetry covering applications, libraries, and tools.

Photogrammetry Importer

. Addon to import different photogrammetry formats into Blender.

Polyscope

. A C++ & Python viewer for 3D data like meshes and point clouds.

Smithsonian 3D

. Historical artifacts.See also: Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Photogrammetry & 3D Scanning

Stanford Digital Michelangelo

. Foundational large-statue laser scanning project (Marc Levoy).

SuperSplat

. A browser-based tool for inspecting, editing, optimizing and publishing 3D Gaussian Splats.

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.

3D Coat

Sculpt, retopo, UV, and PBR paint suite from Pilgway. Voxel and surface sculpt, AUTOPO auto-retopo, manual quad…

AutoRemesher

Open-source auto-retopology tool intended to convert source meshes into clean, animation-friendly all-quad geometry.

Cozy Blanket

iPad sculpt-to-retopo app. Clay sculpt plus auto-quad retopology for game/film topology, from Naam.

Instant Meshes

Free, open-source auto-retopology.

Topogun

Standalone retopology and baking.

AutoRemesher Blender Bridge

. Blender addon that runs AutoRemesher on selected meshes and imports the quad result back into the scene.See also:…

Danny Mac 3D

. Character modeling, posing, rigging, retopology, sculpting.

Instant Meshes Remesh

. Blender addon wrapping Instant Meshes for fast auto-retopology.

Quad Remesher

Paid. Auto-quad retopology plugin (Exoside) for Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Modo, Houdini, ZBrush. ZRemesher-style…

Retopo MT

Paid. Tool for retopo, you use it in addition with other addons or tools in Blender, in Edit Mode.

RetopoFlow 3

Paid. Blender retopology suite with sketch, contour, strip, patches, and tweak tools. Sold via Blender Market.See…

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…

Headus UVLayout

Standalone UV editor, flatten-based.

RizomUV

Fast UV unwrapping, auto-seam, auto-pack. Standalone or bridge.

UVPackmaster

Advanced UV packing, UDIM support. Blender addon + standalone.

Valence 3D

iPad UV unwrap and texture paint app from Naam. Pairs with Cozy Blanket for full iPad asset workflow.

UV Checker Map Maker

. Custom UV checker textures.

UV Grid Generator

. Web tool to generate custom UV checker textures.

UV Toolkit

Paid. Tools collection for UV editing in blender.

AccuRIG

. Free application designed for fast and easy character rigging.

AnimKit

Paid. Dockable Maya toolbar of selection-aware animation tools for tweening, key manipulation, and workflow cleanup.

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.

3DEqualizer

High-end matchmoving (major VFX studios).

fSpy

Free, open-source single-image camera matching → Blender.

KeenTools

Face and geometry tracking plus FaceBuilder for Blender, Nuke, AE, Houdini.

Mocha Pro

Boris FX planar tracker for VFX. Roto, object removal, screen replacement, lens distortion.

PFTrack

Professional matchmoving, object tracking, mesh generation.

Silhouette

Boris FX node-based roto/paint compositor with AI-driven matte tools.

SynthEyes

Camera tracking with lens distortion solving.

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.

VFX Camera Database

. Reference database of camera sensor sizes, formats, and specs for matchmoving and lens setup.See also: Too

See category

Magictools

ellisonleao/magictools

:video_game: :pencil: A list of Game Development resources to make magic happen.

Fresh★ 17k73 entriesPushed 3 days ago

Awesome Godot

Calinou/awesome-godot

A curated list of free/libre plugins, scripts and add-ons for Godot

Fresh★ 11k335 entriesPushed 17 days ago

Awesome Löve

love2d-community/awesome-love2d

A curated list of amazingly awesome LÖVE libraries, resources and shiny things.

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Awesome Open Source Games

michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games

Collection of Games that have the source code available on GitHub

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Awesome Game Boy Development

gbdev/awesome-gbdev

A curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.

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Games of Coding

michelpereira/awesome-games-of-coding

A curated list of games that can teach you how to learn a programming language.

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