Blender Addons – 3D Tool Development

As a long time user of 3D Software (dating back to the 90’s) I am always looking for new ways to automate or make certain tasks easier. Perhaps a feature I wish was included in the software, or a different way of accessing an interface feature to make work easier. Enter Blender Addons; Plug and play additions to my 3D software of choice. But what I needed wasn’t always available, and I wasn’t versed enough in Python coding to write my own. That was until, I teamed up with AI!

The Goal
I wanted to create my own Blender addons using my experience with the software, as well as my experience in User Interface and User Experience Design, to make the already incredible app even better. Using ChatGPT and Claude to assist me, I laid out my ideas for various addons, and asked the large language models to help with the Python code to make them work. After much back and forth and testing, I have so far, created almost a dozen addons from simple UI updates to advanced lip-syncing tools that use AI to create shape key based mouth movements in sync with any audio uploaded, saving time and energy of having to keyframe each mouth movement manually.

These addons are now available for other Blender users on the Blender Marketplace under my ToonUps brand.

Some Examples