by Antonis Karvelas·Workflow
Images © Antonis Karvelas. Used for product review; image policy.
Advanced Sculpting was developed with help from Dimitris Chloupis's Blender-Python library Morpheas and ideas contributed by Kostas Nikolopoulos. The add-on was renamed because the previous name confused some users.
Advanced Sculpting is an add-on for Blender that changes the way you sculpt by adding brush categories, texture folders and a custom UI that is both simple yet complete. Brush categories let you group your brushes together and navigate through them easily, which helps when you collect or make more brushes than you can handle. Note that brushes are not included — this is an add-on, not a brush set.
Texture folders let you select a brush, choose a texture folder and hit "Get Textures" to open a custom dialog containing only those textures, rather than adding each one individually in Blender. The UI follows a minimalist philosophy: rarely used settings are hidden but quick to access, brush navigation is kept easy, and emphasis is placed on the sculpted mesh.
The add-on's UI is organized into three parts — Control Panel, Brushes Panel and Widget — which can be turned on and off separately. The Control Panel and Brushes Panel can be locked in place or moved around freely. UI colors can be changed from the control panel, stored per file. Brush categories can be imported from .blend files and re-import themselves on reopening Blender.
Advanced Sculpting is best for blender sculptors who collect or create many brushes and textures and want an organized, minimalist workspace.
Advanced Sculpting is completely free to download and use.
Advanced Sculpting is an add-on, not a brush set, so the brushes shown in previews are not included. The add-on provides the brush categories system that lets you group and navigate your own brushes into a list, along with texture folders and a custom UI. You can add any brush you want to a category, use the name sample to add many brushes at once, and import brush categories organized inside .blend files. Those imported categories re-import themselves the next time you close and reopen Blender, unless you remove them.
Advanced Sculpting adds texture folders so you can use a set of textures without making a new brush for each one. You select the brush you want, choose the texture folder, and hit "Get Textures". This opens a custom dialog containing only those textures, which is easier to handle than navigating dozens of textures already loaded in your project. This approach saves adding each texture into Blender individually, which the developer notes is time consuming.
Advanced Sculpting organizes its interface into three parts: the Control Panel, the Brushes Panel and the Widget, each of which can be turned on and off separately. The Control Panel and Brushes Panel can be locked in place or moved around freely as you wish. You can also change the UI's colors from the control panel; this setting is not global but stored in the file, so to always use a specific color you would need to alter your start-up file. The add-on works with region overlap as well.
Advanced Sculpting is listed as free in this catalog. For current licensing details, the developer's page is the best place to confirm. For feedback, bug reports or feature requests, the developer points users to the Blender Artists page or direct email. A demo video is also available if you want to see the add-on before installing it into your Blender sculpting workflow.
Also in Workflow for Blender.
by topchannel1on1
True Image Editor V2 Update builds a layer-based editing workspace into Blender's Image Editor, letting you stack and blend layers, paint or generate masks, crop, tile, adjust colors, add text, and bake to a final image without leaving the editor.
by Milad_Kambari
The Blender To Substance Painter Live Link Plugin is a bi-directional, real-time bridge between Blender and Substance Painter, handling geometry, materials, and textures across a full PBR round-trip with one-click connect and sync.
by tmkdigital
Simple Camera Addon is a Blender tool for experimenting with sensor and lens settings quickly, offering resolution templates and camera templates for commonly used camera and resolution settings through an intuitive, simple design.
by blenderig_master
Bendy Bone Gizmo is a Blender addon for riggers and animators that adds gizmo controls for adjusting the curve, scale, and roll attributes of B-Bones without manual parameter-by-parameter tweaking.
by Styriam sp. z o.o.
Styriam ICC Image Compressor is a Blender add-on that embeds display color profiles or converts images to sRGB, optimizes image size with OptiPNG or MozJPEG, and exports animations as GIF.
by Salt Media
BlenderAe2 by Salt Media transfers 3D data and objects between Blender and After Effects in both directions, covering vertices, 3D layer transforms, camera data and layer synchronization.
by MACHIN3
Machin3Tools is a continuously evolving collection of tools and pie menus for Blender, gathered in a single customizable package. It ships in two base variants, Prime and DeusEx, with the DeusEx variant adding more advanced tools.
by MikhailRachinskiy
3D Print Toolbox is a Blender add-on with utilities for 3D printing. It analyzes mesh volume and surface area, checks and fixes geometry, hollows shapes, aligns models to the print bed, and exports to STL, PLY, and OBJ.
by glukoz
UVPackmaster 4 is a UV packing engine for Blender that packs UV maps on the CPU and GPU, using the Cuda and Vulkan APIs, and can run on the CPU and all system GPUs at once.
by MMD
MMD Tools is a Blender add-on for editing MikuMikuDance (MMD) models. It handles importing and exporting model, motion and pose data, along with chopping and joining parts, plus rigid body, material and motion editing.
by HaughtyGrayAlien
SimpleBake brings PBR and traditional texture baking to Blender from a single panel. Select objects, choose maps, and bake — no special node groups or new workflow, working with whatever materials you've already built.
