Most successful films, animations, studios and companies work as a team, even indie film makers work as a team, its rare to find a successful solo artists who puts out more than one project without the use of asset libraries, even large team pull there assets from massive libraries for models, props, animation and more, its in this spirit of team work that i have created this list of the largest blender libraries any artist can get access to, from textures, models, 3d scanned assets and more.

Hdri Maker

you will always need a background for your world, and hdris are a great way to achieve that with less effort, the Hdri maker is the largest collection of high dynamic range images that can be edited to fit what you are doing, this addon also comes with a volumetric tool to add fog, a shadow catcher and an easy way to edit your world.

Dynamic Pine Biomes

thinking of making a forest, this collection comes with customizable pine biomes, a procedural based scattering system, forest cliffs and rock collections, dynamic landscape materials, and alot more

Hard Ops / Boxcutter Ultimate Bundle

Sometimes you need more than an asset collection, what you need it a complete new set of tools to change how you work, and for this the hardops boxcutter ultimate bundle needs no introduction with nearly 400,000 sales its the most popular hardsurface addon on the market, which a non destructive workflow, brings a ton of new tools like a new knife cutter, a bevel menu, multiple layers approach, array tools, booleans and more.

Khaos: Ultimate Explosion/Destruction Add-On

for vfx artists who want to make explosions, with detailed smoke and debris, allow me to introduce you to khaos ultimate explosion, this addon will help you setup everything you need to make amazing smoke, debris, destruction and rigid body simulations

Simply Cloth Pro

unless if you are making only funs content, you will need to dress up your characters, the simply cloth pro library has been my go to for many years, it an addon and a library of already made character clothes, just place the patterns onto the character and then simulate to dress them up.

Physical Starlight And Atmosphere

the physical startlight and atmosphere is a complete sky system for making day and night time cycles with total control of the sky, clouds, stars, suns, atmospheric fog and more, the addon comes with a template of skies for anyone who wants a quick setup but you also get access to tools that will help you change every aspect of your enviroment.

Geo-Scatter 5.4

if you are thinking of instancing a large number of objects in your scene, geo scatter has been the go to tool for over 13000 artists, when most people think of scattering they think of vegetation, but geo scatter can be used to scatter any asset, in a realistic cohesive way. from scattering tree, buildings, grass, stones and alot more.

Tree And Grass Library Botaniq – Trees

speaking of trees and vegetation, the botaniq library, has to be the most constantly updated plant library on the market, over the years new updates have been added like a shrubs updates, succulent update, flowers update and alot more, botaniq is already the largest plant library on the market and it keeps growing

Sanctus Library – Procedural Materials

if botaniq is the most updated plant library, then sanctus library is the most updated procedural materials library on the market, a library that has materials like bubble rap, welding material, rags, stained glass, a decal tool, it also has the most diverse collection of materials with a bake function to bake the procedural materails to textures, a texture projection tool, to add decals onto surfaces and more.

The Particle Library

particles can be an easy way to add an extra touch of detail to your animations, the particle library has over 57 animation presets for insects, birds, fish with extra categories like abstact, boids, exploisions, fire and sparks, magic, paper and bags, path, weather and more. this library can create realisitc animations in a wide variety of Boid Animations to add realism and ground your scene! Everything from mosquito swarms to bird flocks. Each Boid animation has certain behaviours which can be tweaked to your liking and even include fully textured, pre-animated 3D models to match, these too can be customised or even changed completely should you require. 

Vdblab

if you are making an action packed sequence, waste no time, vdlab is a powerful tool for creating explosions. From emitters, to domain settings and a powerful shader, you can create and save presets of your explosions. Shockwaves, Aerials, Debris… the possibilities are endless. VDBLab has a powerful Presets tool. Besides including presets, VDBLab allows you to easily create your own presets. You can save and share your creations with the community.

Water Library Aquatiq – Water Assets

Add water effects to your scene super quickly with aquatiq. Instead of spending hours creating complex simulations, you add simple planes with animation sequences that can be previewed in the viewport, or add procedural assets and effects to spice up your scene.

The library contains 2D and 3D water assets that can be used as legos to build new effects and assets like fountains, birdbaths, and water materials, it also contains
procedural generators for rain, river or puddles

Geo-Swarm

when it comes to creating swarms no one does it like geo swarm. this is the addon dedicated to creating swarming behavior with different presets, from:

attraction to attract a swarm to a designated target, avoidance to Repel your swarm from a specified target, gravity to Activate real-time physics to make creatures dynamically tumble over steep ledges., follow curves Set a specific path for your swarm to naturally follow., endless spawn Create waves of unrelenting swarms. and more.

Bp Geogen Ultimate Generators Bundle

this is the collectors collection, a library of 50 drag and drop generators, from a ship generator, tree, cables, fire, grass, ices, snow, planet, scales and more.

RBDLab

and finaly for all vfx artists who are serious about making vfx in blender the rbdlab is the tool to transform blender into a complete vfx suite, from advanced fracturing, metal deformation, softbody simulation, cloth and more.