Riley's Recommendations

Nothing makes this list without me reviewing it personally, and using it extensively. If you have an addon, asset, or training that you believe belongs on this list, please contact me for review. I do not accept payment in exchange for review or inclusion on the list.

Addons

Rec & Creator
Link
Type
Tier
Short Summary
Shape Key Selector
Vertex Arcade
https://blendermarket.com/products/shape-key-selector
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful tool and accompaning free tutorial for creating convenient shape-key rigs for stylized facial animation. Tutorial → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Is3oUvHwdM
Graswald & Gscatter
https://www.graswald3d.com/
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Library & addon to create and edit scatter systems within Blender. Very useful for procedural vegetation.
Geo Scatter
bd3d
https://blendermarket.com/products/scatter
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful collection of preset scatter operations for adding procedural variety to the set-dressing process in Blender.
Retopoflow
Orange Turbine
https://blendermarket.com/products/retopoflow
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Essential addon for anybody tackling extensive retopology within Blender.
Physics Dropper
Elin
https://blendermarket.com/products/physics-dropper
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly automate and streamline the process of dropping objects into a scene with rigid body physics. Basically a better and faster interface for physics already within Blender.
UV Squares
radivarig
https://blendermarket.com/products/uv-squares
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly reshape UV selections into a grid.
ToOptimizer
CGoutset
https://blendermarket.com/products/tooptimize-tools
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly analyze, resize, optimize Blend file images.
Camera Shakify
https://github.com/EatTheFuture/camera_shakify
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Easily add organic camera shake to any Blender camera. Quickly animate or edit properties like speed and intensity.
Edit Linked Library
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/addons/object/edit_linked_library.html
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
This one ships with Blender! Easily track down linked blend-file, make modifications, save, and return to your original scene file.
Offroad Rig Generator
Blenderesse
https://blendermarket.com/products/offroad-rig-generator
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Easy automated car rig setup utilizing geometry nodes. Expandable for many car types.
Simplebake
HaughtyGrayAlien
https://blendermarket.com/products/simplebake---simple-pbr-and-other-baking-in-blender-2
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Greatly improve and simplify the baking process in Blender.
Uvpackmaster 3
glukoz
https://blendermarket.com/products/uvpackmaster
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
A suit of UV pack tools. This addon has saved me countless hours.
Fluent: Materializer
CG Thoughts
https://blendermarket.com/products/fluent-materializer
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Incredibly useful procedural texturing toolset for Blender.

Training

Rec & Creator
Link
Type
Tier
Short Summary
Shape Key Selector
Vertex Arcade
https://blendermarket.com/products/shape-key-selector
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful tool and accompaning free tutorial for creating convenient shape-key rigs for stylized facial animation. Tutorial → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Is3oUvHwdM
Off World Depot
Riley Brown
https://www.offworlddepot.com/
General Resources
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
I know, I know, I own this one 😂. In all honesty, in it's current state, the site is only in the "worth a look" tier. I have so much more planned, but this is new and it needs time and resources to grow. As it stands it is by no means a must-have.
Poly Haven
https://polyhaven.com/
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Public 3D asset library containing HDRIs, textures, and models. The largest collection of free HDRI images on the web.
Graswald & Gscatter
https://www.graswald3d.com/
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Library & addon to create and edit scatter systems within Blender. Very useful for procedural vegetation.
Geo Scatter
bd3d
https://blendermarket.com/products/scatter
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful collection of preset scatter operations for adding procedural variety to the set-dressing process in Blender.
Retopoflow
Orange Turbine
https://blendermarket.com/products/retopoflow
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Essential addon for anybody tackling extensive retopology within Blender.
Photogrammetry Course
Creative Shrimp
https://blendermarket.com/products/photogrammetry-course
Trainings
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
An in-depth look at photogrammetry providing insight into everything from bootstrap budget to more "professional" workflows.
Physics Dropper
Elin
https://blendermarket.com/products/physics-dropper
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly automate and streamline the process of dropping objects into a scene with rigid body physics. Basically a better and faster interface for physics already within Blender.
UV Squares
radivarig
https://blendermarket.com/products/uv-squares
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly reshape UV selections into a grid.
Dust Particles
Creative Shrimp
https://blendermarket.com/products/dust-particles
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly add optimized animated 3D dust particle animations to your scene. To be fair, with it's interface, this is just as much an addon as it is an asset.
Gobos Light Textures
Bproduction
https://blendermarket.com/products/gobos
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Drag and drop asset library collection of various light textures, both still and animated.
ToOptimizer
CGoutset
https://blendermarket.com/products/tooptimize-tools
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly analyze, resize, optimize Blend file images.
Camera Shakify
https://github.com/EatTheFuture/camera_shakify
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Easily add organic camera shake to any Blender camera. Quickly animate or edit properties like speed and intensity.
Edit Linked Library
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/addons/object/edit_linked_library.html
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
This one ships with Blender! Easily track down linked blend-file, make modifications, save, and return to your original scene file.
Offroad Rig Generator
Blenderesse
https://blendermarket.com/products/offroad-rig-generator
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Easy automated car rig setup utilizing geometry nodes. Expandable for many car types.
Terrascape Collections
Terrascape
https://blendermarket.com/creators/terrascape
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
I've used these so much in various productions! "Indoor Scapes", "Jungle Scapes", "Creeper Scapes". Each comes with a usefully categorized collection of vegetation for dressing different biomes.
botaniq
polygoniq
https://blendermarket.com/products/botaniq-trees?num=2&src=popular
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful collection of vegetation. Sorted well, and organized for quick import.
Poliigon
https://www.poliigon.com/
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Poliigon is a long-standing staple in the 3D asset community. I trust their quality standards and have personally used their assets in many different productions.
Textures.com
https://www.textures.com/
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
One of my favorite and most long-standing texture resource websites. I prefer simple, straight image files where I don't need to juggle with .sbsar files.
Ian Hubert Patreon
Ian Hubert
https://www.patreon.com/IanHubert
Trainings
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
From the mind of Ian Hubert, it's hard to sum up, but lots of useful stuff. I've learned a ton of deep info tricks from his videos.
Flipped Normals
https://flippednormals.com/
General Resources
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Curated and trusted resource for assets and trainings of all types.
Simplebake
HaughtyGrayAlien
https://blendermarket.com/products/simplebake---simple-pbr-and-other-baking-in-blender-2
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Greatly improve and simplify the baking process in Blender.
Uvpackmaster 3
glukoz
https://blendermarket.com/products/uvpackmaster
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
A suit of UV pack tools. This addon has saved me countless hours.
Fluent: Materializer
CG Thoughts
https://blendermarket.com/products/fluent-materializer
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Incredibly useful procedural texturing toolset for Blender.
Efficient Environment Design
Piotr Krynski
https://blendermarket.com/products/efficient-environment-design
Trainings
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Exceptional blend of artistry and technical insights. Some lack of structure, but valuable content. A rare glimpse into high-level environment art in Blender.

General Resources

Rec & Creator
Link
Type
Tier
Short Summary
Shape Key Selector
Vertex Arcade
https://blendermarket.com/products/shape-key-selector
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful tool and accompaning free tutorial for creating convenient shape-key rigs for stylized facial animation. Tutorial → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Is3oUvHwdM
Off World Depot
Riley Brown
https://www.offworlddepot.com/
General Resources
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
I know, I know, I own this one 😂. In all honesty, in it's current state, the site is only in the "worth a look" tier. I have so much more planned, but this is new and it needs time and resources to grow. As it stands it is by no means a must-have.
Poly Haven
https://polyhaven.com/
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Public 3D asset library containing HDRIs, textures, and models. The largest collection of free HDRI images on the web.
Graswald & Gscatter
https://www.graswald3d.com/
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Library & addon to create and edit scatter systems within Blender. Very useful for procedural vegetation.
Geo Scatter
bd3d
https://blendermarket.com/products/scatter
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful collection of preset scatter operations for adding procedural variety to the set-dressing process in Blender.
Retopoflow
Orange Turbine
https://blendermarket.com/products/retopoflow
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Essential addon for anybody tackling extensive retopology within Blender.
Photogrammetry Course
Creative Shrimp
https://blendermarket.com/products/photogrammetry-course
Trainings
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
An in-depth look at photogrammetry providing insight into everything from bootstrap budget to more "professional" workflows.
Physics Dropper
Elin
https://blendermarket.com/products/physics-dropper
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly automate and streamline the process of dropping objects into a scene with rigid body physics. Basically a better and faster interface for physics already within Blender.
UV Squares
radivarig
https://blendermarket.com/products/uv-squares
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly reshape UV selections into a grid.
Dust Particles
Creative Shrimp
https://blendermarket.com/products/dust-particles
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly add optimized animated 3D dust particle animations to your scene. To be fair, with it's interface, this is just as much an addon as it is an asset.
Gobos Light Textures
Bproduction
https://blendermarket.com/products/gobos
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Drag and drop asset library collection of various light textures, both still and animated.
ToOptimizer
CGoutset
https://blendermarket.com/products/tooptimize-tools
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly analyze, resize, optimize Blend file images.
Camera Shakify
https://github.com/EatTheFuture/camera_shakify
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Easily add organic camera shake to any Blender camera. Quickly animate or edit properties like speed and intensity.
Edit Linked Library
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/addons/object/edit_linked_library.html
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
This one ships with Blender! Easily track down linked blend-file, make modifications, save, and return to your original scene file.
Offroad Rig Generator
Blenderesse
https://blendermarket.com/products/offroad-rig-generator
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Easy automated car rig setup utilizing geometry nodes. Expandable for many car types.
Terrascape Collections
Terrascape
https://blendermarket.com/creators/terrascape
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
I've used these so much in various productions! "Indoor Scapes", "Jungle Scapes", "Creeper Scapes". Each comes with a usefully categorized collection of vegetation for dressing different biomes.
botaniq
polygoniq
https://blendermarket.com/products/botaniq-trees?num=2&src=popular
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful collection of vegetation. Sorted well, and organized for quick import.
Poliigon
https://www.poliigon.com/
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Poliigon is a long-standing staple in the 3D asset community. I trust their quality standards and have personally used their assets in many different productions.
Textures.com
https://www.textures.com/
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
One of my favorite and most long-standing texture resource websites. I prefer simple, straight image files where I don't need to juggle with .sbsar files.
Ian Hubert Patreon
Ian Hubert
https://www.patreon.com/IanHubert
Trainings
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
From the mind of Ian Hubert, it's hard to sum up, but lots of useful stuff. I've learned a ton of deep info tricks from his videos.
Flipped Normals
https://flippednormals.com/
General Resources
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Curated and trusted resource for assets and trainings of all types.
Simplebake
HaughtyGrayAlien
https://blendermarket.com/products/simplebake---simple-pbr-and-other-baking-in-blender-2
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Greatly improve and simplify the baking process in Blender.
Uvpackmaster 3
glukoz
https://blendermarket.com/products/uvpackmaster
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
A suit of UV pack tools. This addon has saved me countless hours.
Fluent: Materializer
CG Thoughts
https://blendermarket.com/products/fluent-materializer
Addons
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Incredibly useful procedural texturing toolset for Blender.
Efficient Environment Design
Piotr Krynski
https://blendermarket.com/products/efficient-environment-design
Trainings
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Exceptional blend of artistry and technical insights. Some lack of structure, but valuable content. A rare glimpse into high-level environment art in Blender.

Assets & Textures

Rec & Creator
Link
Type
Tier
Short Summary
Poly Haven
https://polyhaven.com/
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Public 3D asset library containing HDRIs, textures, and models. The largest collection of free HDRI images on the web.
Dust Particles
Creative Shrimp
https://blendermarket.com/products/dust-particles
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly add optimized animated 3D dust particle animations to your scene. To be fair, with it's interface, this is just as much an addon as it is an asset.
Gobos Light Textures
Bproduction
https://blendermarket.com/products/gobos
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Drag and drop asset library collection of various light textures, both still and animated.
Terrascape Collections
Terrascape
https://blendermarket.com/creators/terrascape
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
I've used these so much in various productions! "Indoor Scapes", "Jungle Scapes", "Creeper Scapes". Each comes with a usefully categorized collection of vegetation for dressing different biomes.
botaniq
polygoniq
https://blendermarket.com/products/botaniq-trees?num=2&src=popular
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful collection of vegetation. Sorted well, and organized for quick import.
Poliigon
https://www.poliigon.com/
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Poliigon is a long-standing staple in the 3D asset community. I trust their quality standards and have personally used their assets in many different productions.
Textures.com
https://www.textures.com/
Assets & Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
One of my favorite and most long-standing texture resource websites. I prefer simple, straight image files where I don't need to juggle with .sbsar files.

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