How to Make Stylized Concept Art for Interior Scenes

A curated list of awesome Blender add-ons, tools, tutorials and resource for 3D Artists, Hobbyists, Developers, Researchers. Focused generally open up source and gratis resources. Blender two.8+ compatible list.

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• 🔮Add together-ons
  • 🌊Simulation/Physics
  • 🦑Generator/Architect
  • 🧊Modeling
  • 🌠Blitheness
  • 🗜Return Engine
  • 🗺️Texture/UV
  • 🎮GameDev
  • 🪀Misc
• 🪐Resources
  • 🎠3D Models
  • 🤸🏾‍♀️Mocap/Animation
  • 🌑Textures
  • 🌓Blender Materials
  • 🌲Blender Scenes/Files
  • ⛅HDRIs
  • 🖼️Art/Reference
  • 🛰Infinite
  • 🎧Sound/Music
  • 🏞Free Stocks
  • 🌂Useful
• 📥Standalone
  • Blender Builds
  • 3D Tools
  • Various Tools
  • Photogrammetry
  • Texture/Textile
  • Terrain
  • Real-Earth Pinnacle Maps
  • Point Cloud/LiDAR Data
  • Generator
  • AI-Powered
  • Sound/Music
  • Painting
• 🔍Explore Blender
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• 👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials
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  • 🔳Texture Painting
  • 📐Compositing
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🔮Add-ons ^

• Bank check list of Blender'southward built-in add-ons documentation here.
• Blender addon reviews:
  • Blogs: BlenderAddons.org, BlenderNation.
  • Youtube: New Media Supply, Steven Scott, Markom3D, InspirationTuts.
  • BlenderArtists/Released Scripts and Themes.
• Get premium add-ons from BlenderMarket, Gumroad.

🌊Simulation/Physics ^

🦑Generator/Architect ^

🧊Modeling ^

• MACHIN3tools : is a gratuitous, continuously evolving collection of blender tools and pie menus in a unmarried customizable package.
• Sverchok : is a powerful parametric tool for architects, assuasive geometry to be programmed visually with nodes.
• QBlocker : is an interactive object creation tool for Blender.
• fspy : is an open-source camera matching app, extremely useful for modeling directly from a reference prototype. (blender addon)
• PolyQuilt : is provides a few functions in edit manner like creating faces, knife tool, fan, border-loops, etc. It does this with just the left-mouse-button. So no menu'south, no shortcuts. [more info]
• Modeling Material : Create existent-time fabric-similar beliefs in meshes in Blender.
• KeKit : Brings some much needed functionality to Blender, with a whole assortment of production tools.
• Assortment Tools : is an addon for Blender to create translation, scale, rotation array with showtime or global parameters in any management and mix them.
• BezierUtility : This add together-on contains several tools for working with Bezier curves.
• Mesh Heal : is an add-on for Blender, it includes additional Blender operators for healing surface meshes.
• JewelCraft : jewelry design toolkit improver for Blender.
• Box Select X-Ray : Modified box select tool that automatically toggles x-ray mode on and off during selection.
• Polysweeper : is a tool to sweep a face profile along a confront loop.
• Edit Split Normals : Edit normals similar meshes.
• Automobile Mirror : Automate a serial of tasks, such as deleting a half, setting a mirror modifier, setting a clipping, etc.
• Driblet It : Designed to drop fast and simply Objects to Ground or Surface.
• Maxivz's Interactive Tools : Collection of intuitive, context sensitive tools for Blender.
• Synced Modifiers : allows you to add modifiers to multiple objects at the same time and automatically syncs all the modifiers using Drivers.
• Retopology/Remesh:
• Hard Surface:
  • KIT OPS : Can create objects and scenes with farthermost efficiency and speed. Complex industrial designs tin can be generated in a single sitting.
  • HardOps/Boxcutter [$] : HardOps, is intended to be a workflow assistant toolkit. Boxcutter, the about powerful boolean subsystem for blender.
  • Speedflow [$] : Addon for non-destructive workflow.
  • Bevel After Boolean : Addon comes in handy when working with booleans that have a curved surface.
  • EdgeFlow : This addon adds two operators to blender which both work on edgeloop selections.
  • Engraver : is an Blender addon with set of few tools designed to assistance carving decals in 3d models.
  • JMesh Tools : Hardsurface utility Blender addon for fast boolean and bevel operations.
  • Kickoff Edges : this addon introduces a cad-similar feature, which create edges that take consistent altitude from original selected ones.
  • Mesh Utils : Overlapping vert/border/face, interior faces, edges by trait, and other stuff.
  • Poly Source : is designed to simplify the control of the number of different types of polygons. Y'all can see how many Gone, Quad and Tris are on the agile object.
• Sculpt:
  • Blender-Sculpt-Tools : Addon for help sculpting base of operations mesh like Zbrush with Zsphere.
  • Sculpt Alphas Director : This addon provides a elementary solution to be able to quickly switch alpha textures for the sculpt brushes.
  • Speedsculpt [$] : The addon allows you to create very fast characters, to manage Dyntopo Sculpting with booleans, cut curves, skin modifier, decimate, mask etc.
  • GoB : GoZ-alike tools for simple ZBrush-Blender interchange.
  • Brush Director for Blender : is an add-on for Blender that helps you lot to create custom brushes, store them in a file and organize the library of various categories of brushes.
• Snapping-Marshal:
  • Mesh Align Plus : Precisely marshal, movement, and measure+match objects and mesh parts in your 3D scenes.
  • Easy Marshal : Easy Align addon allows you to align mesh objects origins and align mesh objects to each others easily, it works in both Edit mode and Object style.
  • CAD Transform : CAD Transform provide intuitive snap from/to workflow, allow precise motion/rotate/scale using avant-garde snap options and constraints in both object and edit mode.
  • Blign : is an alignment and distribution tool for Blender. It allows users to align and distribute shapes with many different options.
• Mesh Generate/Stylization:
  • Tissue : Addition for computational design.
  • Mech/Fy A procedural workflow that automates the process of hard surfaces modelling.
  • RandoMesh : A blender addon to add randomized geometry to any mesh.
  • SliceMesh : Simple script for Blender to automate mesh slicing.
  • SuperPoke : Iterative poking tool for Blender.
  • MegaGrid : Simple Python script to randomly spam subdivisions.
  • BY-GEN : is an addon designed to simplify the process of creating non-destructive, generative modeling styles in Blender.
  • Fiber Mesh : Generate fiber meshes.
  • Laser Slicer : Cuts up a Blender object and exports the slices to SVG files for cutting on a laser cutter or other post-processing.

🌠Blitheness ^

🗜Render Engine ^

🗺️Texture/UV ^

🎮GameDev ^

🪀Misc ^

• Management:
  • BlenderKit : Allows you to download assets, materials, and alpha brushes to your blender customer with the click of a button for free. Now you tin find it on congenital-in addons.
  • Blender Interplanety Storage : The online material (shader) storage add-on for Blender 3D cosmos. With the BIS add-on, you can save materials (groups of nodes) to the online personal library and then convenient search and upload them.
  • Asset Magician : is a nugget management addon.
  • NodeCustomBuilder : Preset system for nodes.
  • FontSelector : Like shooting fish in a barrel font management inside Blender.
  • Shot Manager past Ubisoft : is a add-on that introduces a true shot entity in Blender scenes.
• Lighting/HDRI:
• Game Engine:
• Geographic/Maps:
  • BlenderGIS : Blender addons to make the span betwixt Blender and geographic data.
  • Maps Models Importer : A Blender add together-on to import models from Google Maps. [more info]
  • blender-osm : One click download and import of OpenStreetMap and terrain for Blender.
• VR/AR:
  • blender-xr : A complimentary virtual and mixed reality user interface for Blender that enables artists to edit scenes within the software using a suitable headset and controllers.
  • Blender-Metaverse-Addon : Blender toolset for creating content for Metaverses like High Fidelity.
• ArchViz:
• Import:
  • Daz Importer, glTF, Rhinoceros3D files, cityGML, .SVG, .XPS, .GIF, Quake: .BSP .MD3.
  • Sketchfab Blender Addon : Directly import and export models from and to Sketchfab in Blender.
• Export:
  • USDZ, glTF MultiExport, ZBrush, .VTK, Bezier2SVG, Panda3D, .EGG, XRay-engine.
  • Export Paper Model from Blender : Add-on for creating paper models.
  • Batex : Consign selected objects as fbx in batch performance.
  • Blender To Unity FBX Exporter : FBX exporter addition for Blender compatible with Unity's coordinate and scaling organisation.
• Render:
  • BatchRender, Notify, AlarmShutdown, RenderButton.
  • Super Res Render : Plugin that splits renders up into several chunks to brand rendering at super loftier resolutions possible.
  • Super Fast Render : Either uses preset return settings optimised to speed upward render times or Uses a benchmark to detect the fastest settings for the same render quality
  • Super Epitome Denoiser : Super high quality denoiser that desnoises the scene in several layers to reduce artifacts
• Camera:
  • Real Camera : is an addon that allows you to control the Blender camera similar a existent camera.
  • Cameras-Lister : Piece of cake select camera's in popup shortcut is Alt-C.
  • Photographer ii : Camera Exposure, White residuum and Autofocus. Photographer 2 was fabricated completely free for all.
  • Camera Shakify : An addon for Blender that lets you lot easily add realistic camera shake to your cameras.
• Audio Visualizer
  • Bizualizer, Curtis Holt's.
• Display:
  • Screencast-Keys : Status Improver for Blender.
  • Shortcut VUr : With this addon you can display mouse and keyboard input.
  • ExtraInfo : Testify more than info in the viewport.
  • AStats : Evidence Stats in Viewport.
  • QuickRef : Display reference images in Blender.
• VideoEditor:
  • Power Sequencer : Brings smart new editing features to edit faster with Blender's Video Sequence Editor. It is completely Free and Open Source.
  • VSEQF : is an overhaul for Blender's VSE that can completely change your workflow. Designed for quick, mouse and keyboard counterbalanced editing with a focus on existent-time feedback.
  • Transform Tools : Chop-chop transform, crop and fade video strips in Blender's Video Sequence Editor.
  • Piece of cake Proxy : Blender addon to create proxy files for Video Sequence Editor (VSE) easily using FFMPEG.
  • Parallel_Render : Return the output from the Sequencer multithreaded through the Return siderbar.
  • Export EDL : Exports: video, audio and dissolves. to ex. Davinci Resolve, Lightworks, Final Cut Pro & Premiere Pro.
  • Import EDL : Imports: video, audio and dissolves.
  • Freesound Improver : is an addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music.
  • Push to Talk : Convenient recording of scratch dialog for an edit.
  • Scene Strip Tools : Preview Scene Strips directly in the 3D View.
  • Subsimport : is an addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music.
• TextEditor:
  • TexTension : For increasing productivity and generally trying to match the writing experience of a modern text editor.
  • Code Editor : Adds minimap, text tabs, whitespace markers and indent guides.
  • Run in Console : Execute a text cake and catch its output (prints and errors) in Blender'south interactive console.
  • Snippets Library : Allow you apply and manage a library of your own and existing lawmaking snippets.
  • Search Online References : Search current text in API Reference, Python Reference, Blender Stack Exchange, Blender Source Code and Github.
  • Run PEP8 Check : Check current script for pep8 mistakes.
  • Formatting : Trim whitespace modify case and divide and join lines.
  • Insert and Navigate to Text Markers : Insert and navigate to text marker positions.
  • Autocomplete/Intellisense : Autocomplete/Intellisense for the Text Editor.
• Photogrammetry:
  • Photogrammetry Importer : Addon to import different photogrammetry formats into Blender.
  • blender_kitti : Return large signal clouds and voxel grids with blender.
  • Point Cloud Visualizer : Brandish, edit, filter, render, convert, generate and consign colored bespeak deject PLY files.
• EEVEE:
  • Glass for EEVEE : This shader allows you to brand realistic glass with eevee.
  • SSGI for EEVEE : Converts Diffuse and Principled BSDFs to nodegroups that give representation of diffuse component to SSR for SSGI effect.
  • Shader Displacement for Eevee : Using a few modifiers and a nodegroup, realtime shader displacement in Eevee is now possible.
  • Eevee Presets : Save Eevee Presets.
• Projectors : A blender add-on for simple projector creation and modification.
• Simple Renaming Panel : Rename more objects at one time. The tool includes basic functionalities of adding suffixes, prefixes, search and supervene upon, add together suffixes depending on the object type and much more.
• IOR Reference : A blender addon that display IOR values in a list.
• QuickSwitch : A helper to quick switch workspaces and view render bill of fare in viewport.
• MifthTools : 3Dcoat, Houdini, Modo mesh exchange tools and more than.
• Modifier List : Alternative UI layout for modifiers with handy features. Bachelor besides within the sidebar and equally a popup.
• Verge3D : is a powerful yet toll-efficient solution for creating interactive 3D spider web experiences.
• ProSidebar : Add additional backdrop and operators to the 3D View Sidebar.
• Tilecam : Render seamlessly repeatable images.
• Fbx Format Converter : This project allows yous to convert binary fbx files to asciis and vice versa.
• Prepare Viewport Colour : Blender Script to Gear up the Viewport Colour based on a nodetree.
• PresetterProfessional : View and visibility presets, 3d cursor presets, snap presets, etc. presets.
• PowerSave : is a tool intended to streamline saving and make saving itself more attainable, friendly and more artist streamlined.
• Lodify : LOD(Level of Item) and Proxy system for blender.
• Multi-user : Enable existent-fourth dimension collaborative workflows inside blender.
• Screenwriter : Write screenplays in Blender Text Editor in Fountain markup syntax view/consign with correct screenplay formatting.
• VoxelDraw : An addon to describe voxel meshes in edit mode for Blender.
• BlenderBIM : An add together-on for cute, detailed, and data-rich OpenBIM with Blender.
• Kaleidoscope : The add together-on adds two new nodes, Spectrum and Intensity, which essentially improves your workflow inside Blender when creating materials.
• Spread Objects : Spread the selected objects on an evenly spaced grid.
• BagaPie Modifier : This addon create modifier and geometry nodes preset like: boolean, besprinkle, auto array on curve.
• Mixer by Ubisoft : is a Blender addon developed at Ubisoft Animation Studio for Real Fourth dimension Collaboration in 3D edition.
• Daz to Blender Bridge : This like shooting fish in a barrel-to-employ Bridge transfers your Genesis 8 and 3 characters from Daz directly to Blender.
• Substance 3D add together-on for Blender by Adobe : with this add-on you tin can admission your Substance materials directly within Blender.
• Theme Switcher : Addon to quickly change agile theme non leaving 3D View.
• LibSM64-Blender : This addition integrates libsm64 into Blender and provides various additional integrations with Fast64.
• BlenderProc : A procedural Blender pipeline for photorealistic training prototype generation.

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🪐Resources ^

🎠3D Models ^

• Poly Haven/Models : is a resource of free loftier quality 3D assets for everyone. All models here are CC0.
• Quixel Megascans : World's largest photogrammetry 2d and 3D asset library. At present information technology is free for the Epic Games accounts (simply UE projects).
• Browse the World : is an ambitious community-built initiative whose mission is to share 3D printable sculpture and cultural artefacts using democratised 3D scanning technologies, producing an extensive ecosystem of free to download digital cultural heritage. [mixed license]
• Artec 3D : Download high resolution 3D scans for free.
• Blender Boom : 3D model repository. Free models ready to use.
• Three D Scans : Complimentary 3D scans in .stl without copyright restrictions.
• 3D Digitization Smithsonian : CC0 Photoscan Library from Smithsonian. (Collections)
• Chocofur/Free : Premium quality 3D models & scenes. (blender addon)
• Free3D : is the go to identify where you can share your gratuitous 3D assets and download instantly whatever you lot like.
• CGAxis/free : Go free 3D models, ready to return interior, PBR textures and HDR images. Royalty-Free. (one pack)
• 3DB3 : Check out the best 3D models made past professional person 3D artists.
• Rigmodels : Free rigged, blithe and depression poly models
• RockThe3D : is a web log site to provide and sharing the best 3D related knowledge and resources around.
• CGTrader : Costless 3D models from cgtrader.
• Sketchfab : Free downloadable models from sketchfab.
• TurboSquid/complimentary : Costless models from Turbosquid.
• Hum3D : source of quality 3D models of vehicles in alloy file format.
• Clara.io : Free 3D Modeling, Rendering, Sharing and Models.
• FlyingArchitecture : is both an architectural visualizations studio also as an online store dedicated to 3D models, scenes, materials and tutorials.
• 3D Warehouse : Download sketchup models.
• Free3DBase : Download high quality free 3d models.
• RenderHub/free : Daz Content, 3D models, textures and materials.
• KitBash3d [$] : makes premium 3D assets for VFX, concept fine art and design. Their 3D model kits have immediately been adopted by the industry's elevation artists, studios. Get Mini Kit: Neo Urban center for free.
• Awesome-3D-Meshes : List of famous 3D meshes.
• List of Common 3D Test Models.
• Other Sites:
  • Poly Pizza, Xfree3D, Gumroad/gratis-3d-model, Artstation Marketplace/gratis, Cubebrush/freebies, Daz3D/freebies, 3dsky.org/gratuitous, C4DDownload.com, 3DModelsCC0.com, CadNav, Archive 3D, ThePixelLab/freebies, Models-Resources.com.
• Various Models:
  • Quaternius'due south Ultimate Low-Poly Models, The Art of 3D Insects past Natural History Museum, First Animals by Oxford University, Stylized Characters Base Meshes/Blockouts, Wire Wheels Club: Free Car Models.
• Scanned Models:
  • Scanned Female Head Model by EISKO, Scanned 3D People from Renderpeople, Scans from Louvre Museum, Complimentary 3D Head Model, Deep 3D Studio, Public Domain 3D Cultural Heritage, The Heretic: Digital Homo by Unity, Phenome10K/Scans, Renderbot/free, The Małopolska's Virtual Museums.
• CAD Models:
  • GrabCAD, McMaster-Carr.
• Kitbash Models:
  • Costless Hard Surface KitBash Models, Free sci-fi kitbash set, 3D Kitbashing library, Kitbash Sci-fi Buildings.
• VDB Models:
  • Gratis VDB Simulations Created With Embergen, OpenVDB Sample Models, disneyanimation.com/clouds, Free Volume Cloud and Fume, High Altitude Clouds.

🤸🏾‍♀️Mocap/Animation ^

• Mixamo : Animate 3D characters for games, film, and more.
• ActorCore : Move-capture library from Reallusion.
• Carnegie-Mellon University Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database BVH conversions : Contains 2500 free homo motion captures.
• Rokoko Studio : Get 150 free mocap moves from Rokoko'southward Motion Library.
• Motekentertainment/free-samples : Motek has captured and blithe the a large variety of characters, for a great number of projects from various sectors.
• MocapClub : Motion Capture Library is costless to the public and meant for educational purposes just. The library contains more than 500 diferent motions.
• turbosquid/motion-capture, sketchfab/animated.

🌑Textures ^

• Poly Haven/Textures : Poly Haven/Textures is a website where you can discover high quality scanned textures for free.
• ambientCG : Get hundreds of PBR materials and textures for complimentary under the Public Domain license.
• cgbookcase : Observe a library of high-quality PBR textures. Free for every purpose, forever. Some Blender tutorials hither and there.
• 3DAssets.i : is a search-engine which allows you to explore the largest free texture sites all at once.
• 3DTextures.me : Free seamless PBR textures.
• FreePBR.com : Free PBR materials and texture files.
• ShareTextures : Free High Quality Material Archive for everybody.
• Texture.Ninja : Public domain photographic textures, reference images, cutouts.
• 3DXO : Free 3D Models, seamless Textures, Backgrounds, Photos & Graphics.
• Texture Box : We are making gratuitous textures for 3D Artists from all over the world. As well, we offering custome texture services.
• Texture Fun : Free PBR texture sets of common architectural materials, including some nice tile textures.
• C4DCenter : Free C4D Materials created with High Quality Texture Maps for instant download and no limits, Complimentary for Personal and Commercial Use.
• IES Library : Download complimentary IES lighting files. IES files describe how low-cal from a lamp is distributed in a room.
• WildTextures : Free high resolution textures and patterns for commercial or personal use.
• Textures.com [$] : is a website that offers digital pictures of all sorts of materials. Sign upwards for free and download 15 free images every day!
• Substance Share : The free exchange platform for the Substance customs.
• MaterialX Library : AMD launched a free MaterialX-based Material Library. It allows users to download the materials and encourages them to upload their own.
• Substance Source/freebies [$] : Hundreds of high quality PBR materials.
• ScansLibrary [$] : Digital market with thousands of Real-Globe scans.
• Poliigon/freebies [$] : A library of materials, and HDR's for artists including gratis textures that want photorealism.
• Texturing.xyz [$] : Our textures are used in the biggest and industry-leading VFX companies, and help them achieving their goals faster.
• Other Sites:
  • EveryTexture.com, 3DJungle.net, Architecture Inspirations, Sketchup Texture Club, TextureKing, MotionSquared, TextureCan.
• Others:
  • gumroad/juliosillet, gumroad/lebedev, Pixar/CommunityResources, Nikola Damjanov'southward 100 PBR Texture Sets, thirty Displacement Maps, Texture Hunt Collection, Photogrammetry Bark Textures, treesDesigner PBR Leaf Textures, artstation/deepmind, CGTrader/textures, CGIVault/Textures, artstation/alexbeddows.

🌓Blender Materials ^

• Blendermada : Free Blender Material Database. (blender addon).
• The Blendersauce Vault Materials : Abstract, Bricks and Walls, Concrete, Material, Fluids, Food, Manmade, Metallic, Metallic painted Materials, Nature, Plaster, Rocks/Stones, Tiles, Wood.
• 3d-wolf/materials : PBR Materials is an addon with physically based materials.
• BlenderKit : Allows you to download assets, materials, and blastoff brushes to your blender customer with the click of a push for costless. Now you lot tin detect it on built-in addons.
• B3DMatPack : Over 800 procedural materials for Blender.
• Sketch/Toon Shaders:
  • BNPR' Shaders, Eevee Comics Shader v3.0, Erisdraw3D's, EEVEEToon, Komikaze[$](Free: Aqua, Kismet), Ultimate Dirt Shader[$], Erito's Toon Shader for Eevee, Toonkit-Samples.
• Nodevember Results:
  • Curtis Holt'due south Results, Neoyume's Nodeshaders, Kyle Hamm, erindale.
• Others:
  • gumroad/simonthommes, Meta's Massivest Materials, Abstruse Materials.

🌲Blender Scenes/Files ^

• Blend Swap : The one place for Open Source Blender files.
• Blender/demo-files : Demo Scenes from blender.
• BlenderNation.com/models : collects the best free Blender 3D model downloads from all across the Blender customs.
• Mantissa/resources : Free Blender files, resource.
• Gumroad Pages:
  • gumroad/bluefoxcreation, gumroad/curtisjamesholt.
• Rigged Models:
  • Pelting v2, Snowfall v2, Cherry-red-Nelb, Dancing Daughter, Pharah(Overwatch), Luchadora, Rocket Girl, Pikachu, MT-103 Droid, Baqir, Ivan, Cori, Judy Hopps, Scorbunny, Stretch.
• Geometry Nodes:
  • Higgsas Blender, Mesh Tension Map, Droplet Generator, BackdropGen.

⛅HDRIs ^

• Poly Oasis/HDRIs, Pixar/HDRI, Hdrlabs, Hdrmaps/freebies, Hdri-hub/free, Hdri-skies, eisklotz/HDRIs, locationtextures/panoramas, noahwitchell, bobgroothuis, vizpeople/free, noemotionhdrs, iHDRI.

🖼️Art/Reference ^

• Dezoomify : Download zoomable images from Google Arts & Culture, The National Gallery, Gallica, Van Gogh Museum and more than. (Desktop App) (Desktop App GUI) (Extension)
• Birmingham Museums Trust : Thousands of our out-of-copyright images are now available for all to use under a Artistic Commons Cipher Licence. More than images are regularly being added. (Unsplash Profile)
• Wikimedia Commons/Art : A collection of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
• The Art Institute of Chicago : Download public-domain artworks from Art Institute of Chicago online drove.
• Paris Musées Collections : Paris Musées has released over 100,000 artworks into the public domain. They are all bachelor for free high-resolution download online.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Browse more than 406,000 hullo-res images of public-domain works in The Met collection that can exist downloaded, shared, and remixed without brake.
• USEUM : Download thousands of royalty complimentary images of artworks and use them in anyway you like, anywhere around the world.
• National Gallery of Art Images : Download images from collections of the National Gallery of Fine art. More than than 51,000 open admission digital images are available complimentary of charge for download and utilise.
• Rijksmuseum : one of the largest museums in Europe defended to arts and history, made 250,000 works from its huge collection bachelor for free online viewing or download.
• National Gallery of Denmark : You can explore our highlights and get free images in high resolution of those artworks that are in the Public Domain.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art : Download public-domain artworks from LACMA'south collections.
• J. Paul Getty Museum : The Getty makes bachelor, without accuse, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to exist used for any purpose. No permission is required.
• Indianapolis Museum of Art Collection : Many images of public domain artworks are bachelor for complimentary download from the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields' collection pages.
• Smithsonian Open Access : Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images right now, without request.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library : 300,000+ Botanical and Animal Illustrations available for complimentary download.
• Natural History Museum, Data Portal : Explore and download the Museum's research and collections data. Collection information, images, sounds, videos, enquiry results, 3D scans.
• British Museum : The British Museum Just Made 1.9M Stunningly Detailed Images Free Online.
• Open Image Collections : is a collection of digital image sources include museum digital collections, stock images, photo archives, blueprint resources and image search engines.
• List of Museums & Libraries with Public-Domain Collection.
• Mindat, Mineral Database : is the globe's largest open up database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from.
• Anatomy 360, Costless Reference : 3D scanned human being reference images.
• Wildlife Reference Photos : Wildlife reference photos for artists.
• Flickr, Creative Commons : Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license.
• The Empire University, Weapons Library : Free reference resource for many types of weapons.

🛰Space ^

• Solar Textures : These textures stand for existent planetary maps in equirectangular projection. Textures in this pack are based on NASA elevation and imagery information.
• NASA-3D-Resource : Here y'all'll find a growing collection of 3D models, textures, and images from inside NASA. All of these resources are free to download and utilize.
• Celestia Motherlode : is a repository for various addons similar textures, models or celestial objects.
• NASA : Hubble Image Gallery (NASA), NASA Image and Video Library, Astronomy Picture of the Day.
• ESA : ESA - Observing the World (Image Archive).
• Earth View : Earth View is a collection of the most beautiful and hit landscapes found in Google World.
• Areo Browser : is a web-app that allows y'all to explore near 2000 Martian terrain models, in full 3D, straight in your browser.
• Others:
  • CGI Moon Kit, Moon 64k, Earth 42k, Natural World III, Planets Pack.

🎧Sound/Music ^

🏞Costless Stocks ^

• Image/Vector : unsplash, pexels , pixabay, stocksnap, rawpixel, burst.
• Video/VFX/Footage : videvo, actionvfx/free-vfx, videezy, pixabay, freemotionbacks, actionvfx, productioncrate/free, benharker.
• Cutouts : MrCutout, nonscandinavia, clipped, vishopper/free.
• Visual Loops : Mantissa, BEEPLE, Vimeo/Catmac, SSWIII, rptv.
• Fonts : google, theleagueofmoveabletype, beautifulwebtype, openfoundry.

🌂Useful ^

• Sheep it Render Farm : is a gratis distributed renderfarm for Blender.
• Render on Google Colab :
  • This script can be used to render with blender on Google Colab. Only Cycles. (Culling) (Video Tutorial)
  • This is an example on how to apply Meshroom in Google Colab with uploaded images to generate a textured mesh (OBJ) that tin exist downloaded.
  • How to run OpenGL desktop programs on Google Colab. You should follow this instruction if you want to piece of work with Eevee.
• Daily Blender Tips : blender.daily, Blender Secrets(tw, yt).
• IOR List : Alphabetize of Refraction values list for use with 3D applications.
• MatCaps : Huge library of matcap PNG textures organized by color.
• Blender Matcap Shader : An implementation of Blender'south workbench matcap shading in shader nodes.
• UE Sponsored Content : Every month Epic Games gives away several avails from the Unreal Engine marketplace for free.
• Blender & ACES : Setup Blender to piece of work with ACES using OpenColorIO.

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📥Standalone ^

Blender Builds ^

• Bforartists : is a fork of the Blender, with the goal to modify the UI.
• Open Mesh Upshot for Blender : This is an edited version of Blender including an Open Mesh Furnishings based modifier.
  • Houdini-Engine Open Mesh Effect : Convert whatever OBJ or SOP based Houdini Digital Asset library (.hda or .otls file) into an Open Mesh Effect plugin.
• Blender.Community/GraphicAll : Blender builds for the masses.

3D Tools ^

• MeshLab : Open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.
• AutoRemesher : Open-source automobile-retopology tool intended to catechumen source meshes into clean, animation-friendly all-quad geometry.
• Instant Meshes : Interactive field-aligned mesh generator.
• Magica Voxel : A free lightweight 8-bit voxel art editor and GPU based interactive path tracing renderer.
• ZBrushCoreMini : is designed for new artists of all ages, with a streamlined interface that lets anyone jump correct in and kickoff sculpting immediately.
• Goxel : Create voxel graphics. Export to obj, pyl, png, magica voxel, qubicle.
• aerialod : A free interactive path tracing renderer for height maps.
• Make Man : Open up-source tool for making 3D characters. (blender addon)
• Adobe Fuse : Create unique human characters, designs, prototypes and more than. Available as gratis beta.
• Neobarok : Intuitive and costless 3D modeling software for anybody.
• Dust3D : is a cross-platform open-source modeling software. It helps you create a 3D watertight model in seconds.
• EmberGen [$] : is a real-time volumetric fluid simulation tool that tin can instantly simulate, render, and export flipbooks, prototype sequences, and VDB volumes.
• HDR Light Studio [$] : Lets yous easily create and edit HDR lighting with your existing 3D software.
• Sweet Home 3D : is a free interior design application that helps you draw the programme of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D.
• TreeIt : is an easy to use real time 3D tree generator for the unproblematic creation.
• Cascadeur : is a standalone software for creating keyframe animation of 3D characters, humanoid or otherwise. Gratis for early adopters.
• Sculptron : GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches and for converting mesh sequences to volumes. The software is currently bachelor free during early development.
• CNDL : An IES lighting creation toolset. Improve your renders with custom IES lighting.
• 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.
• Spline : Easily create and publish 3D web experiences. Build and iterate fast with production-ready results.
• Connecter : Free and visual creative assets direction for 3d, AEC and blueprint professionals.
• Phototiler : is a lightweight photorealistic map renderer that allows quick rendering of 3D maps for artistic cartography.
• VRoid Studio : a 3D character maker that specializes in Japanese anime-like expressions.

Various Tools ^

Photogrammetry ^

Texture/Material ^

Terrain ^

• TerreSculptor : is a terrain cosmos and editing software. It is freeware.
• World Machine : Control powerful tools similar erosion and advanced colormaps to create terrain heightmaps, meshes, and textures for your game or 3D scene. Y'all can use the Basic Edition for free.
• Terragen : Ray-tracing supported terrain generator. In that location is free version with some limitations.
• Earth Creator [$] : is a real-time terrain generator and landscape generator.
• Gaea : Sophisticated and modern terrain design software for apex results in moments. There is Community Free edition with some limitations.
• Instant Terra : Existent-fourth dimension terrain generation tool. Create your terrain, world, and landscape for your game, moving picture, or simulation.

Existent-World Superlative Maps ^

• terrain.party : The easiest way to get real-world elevation maps.
• Tangram Heightmapper : is an interactive grayscale heightmap browser, which tin can generate heightmaps for employ in 3D applications.
• OpenTopography/datasets : Facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resource. Registration required.

Point Cloud/LiDAR Data ^

• OpenTopography : is a collaborative information repository for LiDAR users.
• NOAA's Data Access Viewer : This online tool allows a user to search for and download lidar, imagery, and country cover data.
• United States Interagency Height Inventory : is a collaborative effort of the USGS and NOAA with contributions from other federal agencies.
• USGS/TNM : U.Southward. Geological The National Map. You can also use the World Explorer (USGS). [info]
• USGS/Entwine : This website provides Potree and Plasio.js interfaces to the AWS USGS LiDAR Public Dataset.
• Sketchfab/lidar, Sketchfab/point-cloud.

Generator ^

AI-Powered ^

Sound/Music ^

• Audacity : Complimentary, open source, cross-platform audio software.
• AudioMass : Open-source spider web based audio and waveform editing tool.
• SFX Generators : rFXGen, sfxia, LabChirp, Bfxr.

Painting ^

• Krita : is a professional free and open up source painting program. It is made by artists that want to run across affordable art tools for everyone.
  • Link Krita and Blender
  • Custom Digital Painting Workflow In Krita
• HEAVYPAINT : is a simple app designed for graphic painting. The UI is streamlined for fluid, happy painting with as piffling friction as possible.

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🔍Explore Blender ^

Documantation ^

📖 User Manual | 🔗 Python API | ⚙️ Developer Wiki

Developement ^

🔌 Programmer Portal | 💭 DevTalk | 💻 Developers Blog

Community ^

• 👨🏽‍🚀Blender.Community : is an contained community aggregator, by Blenderheads for Blenderheads.
  • ☕Blender.Today : Community-driven Blender news, chat, and live streams! Stream playlist.
  • 🖱️Right-Click Select : Got an idea for a feature that you call back Blender absolutely must have?
• 👨‍🎨Blender Artists Community : Home of the Blender Community.
• 📰BlenderNation : daily news, fine art and tutorials for Blender, the open source 3D content creation suite.
• 💬blender.chat : official conversation server for artists and developers.
• 🗨️discord/blender : community-managed Discord server.
• fb/blender : blender facebook group.
• blender.stackexchange.com : questions and answers.

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🖇Social ^

🔍Explore Artworks ^

🐦Twitter Accounts ^

Some accounts where yous can find different kinds of content related to blender.

@pablodp606, @3DBystedt, @ppaawweeuu, @mxeon1001, @Mrdodobird, @ArtFromRachel, @wanoco4D, @dedouze_, @AFX_LAB, @Yokohara_h, @Karl_poyzer, @Kazlyan, @arc4g, @FlipFluids, @CGGeeks, @PabloVazquez_, @IMilk_ManI, @bluefox_3d, @LucaRood, @janurschel, @zuggamasta, @andrewpprice, @brentpatterson, @FinEskimo @VicDoval

📢Youtube Channels ^

• IanHubert : Lazy tutorials, modeling, animating, vfx, cinematic.
• Midge Sinnaeve : modifiers, weird sh!t, art streams.
• CGMatter : short tutorials.
• Default Cube : CGMatter'due south 2d channel used for longer tutorials and other kinds of videos.
• SouthernShotty : stylized modeling, character creation, sculpting.
• Blender Guru : Most pop blender channel on youtube.
• CG Geek : second nearly popular blender channel on youtube.
• Gleb Alexandrov : one of the best-known blender channel on youtube.
• Ducky 3D : abstract designs, modifiers.
• Regal Skies LLC : Speed tutorials, texturing, mapping, nodes, animation.
• Grant Abbitt : modeling, animation, sculpting, low-poly, game avails.
• Chris Prenninger : blitheness nodes, particle systems, shading.
• Jayanam : Shading, coding, modeling.
• CG Boost : modeling, sculpting.
• CG Cookie : free tutorials from CG Cookie.
• FlippedNormals : sculpting, modeling.
• Curtis Holt : modeling, modifiers, coding.
• Polygon Runway : stylish low-poly modeling.
• Steven Scott : add-ons, feature reviews.
• Blender NPR : non-Photorealistic and expressive rendering.
• Martin Klekner : modeling, texturing.
• Danny Mac 3D : character modeling, posing, rigging, retopology, sculpting.
• Daniel Krafft - DSO : blender tips, add-ons.
• Imphenzia : low poly modeling, rigging.
• Saqib Hussain : modeling, modifiers, texturing, shading.
• CrossMind Studio : introduction, modeling, shading, lighting, modifiers.
• CBaileyFilm : blender animation projects.
• Josh Gambrell : hard surface modeling.
• CG Masters : modeling, texturing, shading.
• Peter French republic : modeling, texturing, shading, vfx.
• Polyfjord : animation.
• Cédric Lepiller : hard surface modeling.
• FlyCat : character modeling.
• Stylized Station : game art.
• Iridesium : simulation, vfx.
• Lightning Male child Studio : toon shader, npr.
• Giulia Marchetti : sculpting, character modeling.
• CG Fast Track : modeling, blitheness.
• 3DGreenhorn : isometric modeling.
• Bad Normals : modeling, animation.
• Kevandram : grease pencil.
• Noggi : sculpting.

💻Blogs ^

• Blender Sushi : Collection of 3D ideas, poetries and experiments blended in Blender 3D.
• Artisticrender : Tutorials, tips, resources about Blender and 3D.
• Creative Shrimp : High quality CG tutorials and Blender tutorials, digital art and lighting tutorials with Gleb and Aidy.
• Blender 3D Architect : is the place to find news, tutorials, resource and preparation related to architectural visualization using Blender.
• BlenderAddons.org : provides a list of gratuitous and paid Blender addons. Notice the addon yous demand nether categories or tags.
• Interplanety : Blender tutorials, articles, tips, notes.
• Darkfall : Blender python tutorials, nodes.
• The CG Essentials : 3D modeling, rendering, animation, particle simulation, and more than, this is the identify to be for Blender Tutorials.
• Blender Secrets : is home to hundreds of one-minute or less video tutorials that teach you specific topics.

🎊Challenges ^

• Nodevember : The yearly issue for everything procedural. Feel like doing a challenge? #nodevember is all about creating and promoting procedural awesomeness! A whole month to improve and testify off your procedural skills.
  • Meet works: tw/#nodevember, ig/#nodevember, artstation/nodevember
• SculptJanuary : Challenge yourself over 31 days with a set of 31 topics. Sculpt every twenty-four hours and amend your sculpting skills.
  • See works: tw/#sculptjanuary, ig/#sculptjanuary, artstation/sculptjanuary
• 36 Days of Type : is a yearly open call inviting designers, illustrators and visual artists to share their view on the messages and numbers from our alphabet.
  • Run into works: tw/#36daysoftype, ig/#36daysoftype, artstation/36daysoftype
• Competitions: /r/blender: contest, blenderartists.org/contest.
• Render Challenge : The most up-to-date database of 3D art challenges on the Internet! Go notified of new render challenges every Friday.
• pwnisher : Clinton Jones' Youtube channel regularly organizes 3D Challanges.

🎉Events ^

• Blender Conference : The yearly Blender Conference in Amsterdam. (Playlists: Bcon20, Bcon19, Bcon18, Bcon17).

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👩🏻‍🏫Tutorials ^

▷ video, ☰ playlist, ☷ channel, 🧾 doc.

🍩Kickoff ^

• ☰Blender Fundamentals by Blender.
• ☰Blender Basics by CG Cookie.
• ☰🍩Blender three.0 Beginner Donut Tutorial by Blender Guru.
• ☰🍦Blender Consummate Beginner Tutorial Form by CG Geek.
• ☰🍏Blender Beginner Tutorial Series by CG Boost.
• ☰⚔️3D Modeling a Sword for Complete Beginners by YanSculpts.
• ☰🪑Beginner Modelling Chair Tutorial by Blender Guru.

🗿Modeling ^

• 🧾Modeling Transmission.
• ▷Blender Beginner 3D Modeling Tutorial.
• ☰Beginner Exercieses - Low Poly Asset Modeling past Grant Abbitt.
• ▷Recording Studio in Blender- 3D Isometric Modeling Process.
• ▷All 50+ Modifiers in Blender Explained in 30 Minutes.
• Sculpting:
  • ☷YanSculpts' Channel
  • ☷Julien Kaspar'southward Aqueduct
  • ▷Introduction to Sculpting in Blender - Sculpting Essentials.
  • ▷The Speed Sculpting Guide - Learn from Limitation.
  • ▷Sculpting in Blender - Beginners Detailed Guide - Every Castor.
• Graphic symbol Modeling:
  • ▷Stylized Character Workflow with Blender.
  • ▷Modeling a graphic symbol BaseMesh in Blender.
• Hard Surface:
  • ☰Hard-surface Modeling in Blender by Gleb Alexandrov.
  • ▷Blender Hardsurface Sculpting Tips.
• Procedural Modeling: (Sverchok, Sorcar, Modifiers)
  • 🧾Sverchok Documentation.
  • ▷Sverchok Nodes - Quick Guide 4 minutes.
  • ☰Sverchok Exploration by Jimmy Gunawan.
  • 🧾Sorcar Documentation.
  • ▷Exploring Nodes of Sorcar.
  • 🧾Modifiers Manual.
  • ▷Generative Modeling with Modifiers.
  • ☷Midge Sinnaeve's Channel

🌌Geometry Nodes ^

• 🧾Geometry Nodes Manual.
• ☰Geometry Nodes by Chris Prenninger.
• ☰Geometry Nodes past Blue Fob.
• ☰Geometry Nodes Basics for Beginners past Bradley Animation.

🔘Shader Nodes ^

• 🧾Shader Nodes List.
• ▷Shading Editor Basics by Blender.
• ▷Blender - Everything About The Principled BSDF (In 3 Minutes).
• ▷Advanced Materials in Blender - Shader Editor Tutorial.
• ☰Blender Procedural Nodes Playlist by Default Cube.
• ☰Node School Playlist past Grant Abbitt.
• ☰Blender Principled BSDF (Speed Tutorials) by Royal Skies LLC.
• ☰Blender Procedural Texturing (Speed Tutorials) by Royal Skies LLC.
• ▷All eighty+ Blender fabric nodes explained in nether 30 minutes.

🌠Blitheness ^

• 🧾Animation & Rigging Manual.
• ▷Blender Animate Running In 2 Minutes!
• ▷Rig whatever Character for Animation in 10 Minutes!
• ▷Blender Character Animation: Shape Keys.
• ▷Create Loop Animations.
• ☰Blender Animation (Speed Tutorials) by Regal Skies LLC.
• ☰Blender Rigging (Speed Tutorials) by Royal Skies LLC.
• ▷Quick Shine Camera Movements.

🔲UV Mapping ^

• 🧾UV Editor Transmission.
• ▷UV Unwrapping - Blender Fundamentals.
• ☰Blender UV Mapping (Speed Tutorials) by Majestic Skies LLC.

🔳Texture Painting ^

• 🧾Texture Paint Manual.
• ▷Blender Beginner Texturing Painting Tutorial.
• ▷Blender Texture Painting- Quick Showtime.
• ☰Blender Texture Painting (Speed Tutorials) by Imperial Skies LLC.

📐Compositing ^

• 🧾Compositing Nodes List.
• ▷How to composite renders in Blender.
• ▷Blender Render Passes and Very Basic Compositing.
• ▷Return Passes in Blender - What are they and why even apply them?
• ▷How to use blender's compositor to improve a rendered frame sequence.
• ▷Blender Compositor for Mail Processing.

🤺Motility Tracking/Capture ^

• 🧾Motion Tracking Manual.
• ☰Blender Motion Tracking Series by CGmatter.
• ▷Add CGI Characters to Live Footage by CG Geek.
• ▷Blender Facial motion capture tutorial.
• ▷How to 3D Motion Capture Like shooting fish in a barrel and Gratuitous with a Phone!

Premium Tutorials ^

• Blender Deject
• CG Cookie, CG Masters, CG Boost Academy, polygonrunway
• gumroad/blender:
  • jamajurabaev, janurschel, yansculpts,
• udemy/blender:
  • Creating 3D environments in Blender by Rob Tuytel
• blendermarket/training, lynda/blender, skillshare/blender

Fundamentals ^

• 📦Pixar in a Box : Pixar and Khan Academy have collaborated to create, develop, and promote a series of learning tutorials that demonstrate how traditional schoolhouse subjects such as math, science, and the arts are a vital part of the everyday work put into Pixar'due south filmmaking procedure.

📚Books ^

• Blender For Dummies by Jason van Gumster
• Blender Secrets by Jan van den Hemel
• Blender 3D Architect past Allan Brito

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👩🏽‍💻Development ^

Scripting/Developing ^

• 🧾Documentation:
  • Blender Python API Documentation : Official Blender Python API Documentation.
  • Programming Add-ons for Blender 2.8 : It shows how to gear up up a professional IDE for writing Python programs for Blender, on the instance of a simple plugin. It is an ebook, published freely on Creative Commons license.
  • blenderscripting : blender related python snippets to get you started.
  • Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Python Scripting : Python Scripting from Blender 3D: Noob to Pro volume.
• Video Tutorials:
  • ☰Scripting for Artists by Blender.
  • ☰Blender Programming Tutorials by Olav3D.
  • ☰Blender Scripting by Darkfall
  • ▷Blender 2.8 Addon Development Tutorial for Beginners by jayanam.
  • ▷Creating a Blender 2.8 Voxelize Python Script, [part2]
• Posts:
  • Blender two.8 Python Scripting Superpowers for Not-Programmers : If y'all've been using Blender or whatever other 3D app for a while, you've found yourself slogging through the same tasks over and over once again and at some point thinking, "I actually wish Blender only did this for me". Through scripting, information technology can!
  • Blender 2.viii Grease Pencil Scripting and Generative Art : learning the nuts of scripting for Blender Grease-Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground.
  • Visualizing Complex Numbers in Blender : This tutorial introduces how to make patterns with complex numbers in Blender.
• Sources:
• Support:
  • devtalk/python : Questions about using and developing the Blender Python API, both for Blender itself and add-ons.
  • blenderartists/python-support, stackoverflow/tagged/bpy

Blender Source ^

• 🧾Developer Documentation : Here you can detect data about Blender'southward development process, pattern and architecture, too every bit instructions for Edifice Blender.
• 🔌 Developer Portal | 💭 DevTalk | 💻 Developers Blog

Learn Python ^

• Crawly Python : A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resource.
• All Algorithms implemented in Python.

Learn Computer Graphics ^

• Figurer Graphics from scratch This book will not teach y'all how to employ OpenGL or DirectX; instead, it can teach you how OpenGL and DirectX work.
• tinyraytracer : Understandable RayTracing in 256 lines of blank C++.
• tinyrenderer : Tiny Renderer or how OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code.
• Crawly Computer Graphics : A curated list of awesome stuff to learn computer graphics.
• crawly-graphics : Curated list of computer graphics tutorials and resource.

Related Awesome Lists ^

• awesome-3d-human : A curated listing of papers & resources linked to 3D Human inquiry including face up, body, hand and motion modeling.
• awesome-3d-printing : A curated list of awesome 3D printing resources.
• 3D-Machine-Learning : A resource repository for 3D car learning.
• Awesome Gamedev : A curated list of adept stuff related to the development of games.
• Crawly Design Tools : The best blueprint tools and plugins for everything.
• Awesome Blueprint : Curated design resources.
• Crawly Stock Resources : A collection of links for free stock photography, video and Illustration websites.
• GameDev Resources : A wonderful list of Game Development resource.
• VFX Good Dark Reading : Curated collection of good reading about VFX and CG.

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Symbols ^

[$] paid ones, repo link, blender market, 🧾 doc.

Video Symbols:

▷ video, ☰ playlist, ☷ channel.

License Symbols:

CC, CC0, By, NC

MIT, GPL

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Contributing ^

Your contributions are always welcome! ^_^ If you want to contribute to this list, transport a pull asking, open up an issue or contact with me @agmmnn. Please read the contributing guidelines first, some sections have their own guidelines as a comment line.

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