by GAKU·Modeling
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Deep Paint earns its place for bundling Grease Pencil modeling, custom brushes, stylized materials, and asset generators into one Eevee-focused Blender add-on. It holds a 5-star rating from 7 reviews on superhive.
Deep Paint is a Blender tool set from GAKU that combines modeling and painting in 3D with Grease Pencil to create stylized 3D illustrations. It works with Blender 3.6 and up to the latest, and runs on Eevee only.
The GP to Mesh feature builds a mesh from Grease Pencil strokes, with GP to curve, fill mesh, and line mesh options, while Quick Modifier applies a modifier instantly without leaving history for organic modeling. You get custom Grease Pencil brushes through a pop-up window and custom texture paint brushes such as Water Color, Pastel, and Air Brush. The DPM material applies a vertex-paint-based stylized shader with a one-click outline, and material presets cover options like noise texture mixed with a vertex mask without UVs, edge blur, and shadow only.
Utility tools add tree gen and vine gen to populate assets like trees and flowers as instances, tweakable from surface or curves, a camera rig for quick camera paths, and sky paint for stylized images. Documentation is available, and the add-on is released under the GPL license. A separate Deep Paint 3.0 release supports Blender 5.2.
Deep Paint is best for blender artists creating stylized 3D illustrations by modeling and painting with Grease Pencil in Eevee.
Deep Paint is completely free to download and use.
Deep Paint works with Blender 3.6 and up to the latest, and is supported for Blender 5.1. It runs on Eevee only. A separate release, Deep Paint 3.0, supports Blender 5.2 and is sold as a new product through the developer's Gumroad page, with a discount noted for existing customers who send the invoice from a previous purchase. For current details on versions and the newer release, check the developer's page.
Deep Paint is built for Eevee only. Its DPM material, a vertex-paint-based stylized shader, and the one-click outline button both work only in Eevee. The custom Grease Pencil and texture paint brushes, GP to Mesh conversion, and material presets are part of the same Eevee-focused workflow. If your project relies on Cycles, this add-on's stylized shading and outline features are not intended for that renderer, so plan around the Eevee requirement.
Deep Paint is listed here as free and released under the GPL license. Licensing terms can change, so check the developer's page for current details before you rely on them. Note that the newer Deep Paint 3.0, which adds Blender 5.2 support, is sold separately as a new product through the developer's Gumroad page; the developer mentions a discount for existing customers who provide the invoice from a previous purchase.
Deep Paint turns Grease Pencil strokes into geometry through its GP to Mesh feature, which quickly builds a mesh from a stroke. It also offers GP to curve, fill mesh, and line mesh conversions. Alongside conversion, the Quick Modifier applies a modifier instantly without leaving history, aimed at quick organic modeling. Together with custom Grease Pencil brushes accessed through a pop-up window, these tools support building the hand-painted style illustrations the add-on is made for.
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