Every respectable studio has a technical artist. This is an artist who designs tools used by other artists, like addons, procedural generators, and more. For example, if you are creating a car commercial with the vehicle driving through rough terrain and various environments, it’s typically the technical artist’s job to create the car rig and determine how to make it easier for the other artists to use. They may even add some Python programming to enhance its behavior. Nowadays, with Blender, this is mostly done using Geometry Nodes. Today, we’re going to explore these kinds of tools that are usually created by technical artists to improve the workflow and quality of life for other artists.

Offroad Rig Generator

this offroad rig generator is a great example of what technical artists do, this is not just a car rig, its basically a car animator, add physics, secondary motion, suspension, works with different types of vehicles and works on different roads, a typical car rig is not setup to do all this, what technical artists do usually goes beyond what works by default, they always have a great understanding of the structure of the program they are using, building new tools on top of what exists.

Folds Modifier

like this folds modifier, it adds wrinkles to any character as they move, this is such an invaluable tool to have, a few wrinkles and folds on a character can enhance the characters look so much, yet it requires very little effort to implement with an addon like this, this is a geometry nodes tools so you dont even need to create a simulation, the wrinkles are all made in realtime.

Wrap Master

some of the most challenging things to do in 3d are simple things you dont imagine to be that difficult to do, until you try to actually do them, like wrapping ropes, bandeds and other things onto something, blender does not provide an easy way to do this by default neither do other 3d programs, these kind of tasks are usually left to technical artists, unfortunately most blender artists are everything in one, you have to be the artist, the supervisor, the animator and now the technical artist!. fortunately there are alot of skilled blender artists who have made it there job to become everyones technical artists by figuring out an easy and efficient way of doing these challenging things and offering there solutions as addons and geometry nodes setups like this wrap master.

Aqua Flow Pro

blender is like a pack of building blocks to hellp you create anything you can imagine, while its enough to make anything you want, these building blocks are in there most basic shapes, the technical artists we have in the community are the ones who transform these basic and primitive shapes into more nuonced more complex shapes that can be used by other artists to create even more complex systems, for example this addon aqua flow, the technical artist who created it new that blender already had a fluid simulation system built in that could do pretty much anything, it was hard to make amazing effects like water following a curve all simulated with custom forces in realtime, doing the same thing using barebones blender requires using a domain which limits where the fluids can go, and also requires alot of subdivisions and hours of baking to get the same results as this addon, while aqua flow may not do everything the builtin fluid simulator does, its offers a great alternative that is fast and can create comparable results as the builtin manta flow.

Bp Geogen Ultimate Generators Bundle

there are so many tools that can improve your workflow, small tools that can have a great impact on the overrole look and feel of your project, while these tools might look simple they are crafted to create the best looking results without costing you hours and hours in setup and rendering, there are alot of great geometry nodes tools out there scattered all over, this artist made a bundle of 50 drag and drop generators that you can access in one place, including cables, fire, grass, planet generator, vines, icecles, wires, ropes, trees and alot more.

Platform Generator

i hear artists say there are so many blender addons and procedural generators, i hope that’s not a complain but an appreciation for the variety of tools and skilled developers developing for blender, these applications blender, maya, cinema 4d, 3ds max are like the apple store or google play store, the more developers the better, or video game consoles, success of a console is measured by the number of users who are always attracted by the variety of games and apps on a platform, this is not different in the 3d industry, Blender attracts a lot of developers and artists from various fields, so many generators are designed to target different audiences. At first glance, some of these tools may seem like they’re creating similar results, but their setups yield unique outcomes. Take this impressive platform generator, for instance—it can be used directly in Blender, exported to game engines, and adapted for multiple applications. All you need to do is extrude faces, and it generates detailed platforms for you.

Knitting Generator Addon

or this knitting generator, this is not something you just model or setup in a day and you are done, but wouldn’t be wonderful if you needed a knitting generator for your project and its just sitting in your blender addon or geometry nodes collections, with different designs, patters and configurations so you can choose what works best for your setup.

Drawscatter V2

we all make better art, better renders when we corroborate, god know we need that with all the Ai on the horizon, great thing is there is still type for us, and tools like these are going to help us compete when that time comes, just look at how easy and how you can place objects with this drawscatter addon, and you still have control over how objects are placed and look.

Back_Scapes (120 Assets City)

the blender community has created an assembly line similar to what ford created when marking the modal T, every artists including those you will never meet in other countries and continents contribute a pixel in someway, from the textures, grass blades and more, for example, if you need to add realistic buildings of major cities around the world, you dont have to fly there, someone has gone through the trouble of flying a drone or how ever they did it, dealing with filming permits, visas and more to 3d scan these real places in the world so that your renders feel grounded in reality.

G Trash

And they did not stop there, the same artists, collected trash and gabage to create a trash generator that you can use in your projects, there is so much trush they must have collected these nasty dirty trash by hand one by one after its used, isolate each one individually and photograph it, i can’t imagine the smell they had to tolerate but am glad they did because this trash looks amazing, and when you couple these amazing models with there trash scattering addon, then you get the best looking trash in any render.

World Blender – Advanced Landscape Generator

while adding trash to your scenes makes your render look more realistic and more relatable to the world we live in and the cities we spend most of our lives in, sometimes you just want to create pure beauty, for people to escape reality, and this world blender generator is the right tool for that, it can create mountains, add erosion, snow, sand, rocks and anything you want to make your scenes look amazing.

Fly Swarm 

you can even throw in a swam of insects, birds, to make your scenes more lively, this addon comes with a system just for that, creating realitic insect movement, swarms, flocks and more and its not just that, its also a collection of different insect species that you can add in your scenes to make them look more realistic.

Forest Generator |

like a said the blender community is an assembly line for art of different type, realistic, stylized a mix of both and more, every artist in the community can take a turn at directing and commanding the community to produce a specific part that will fit in there overall story, you need a forest, order your minions and they will produce one for you, or they will antispet it before you think of it, like this forest generator, everything you need has been thought of, ground cover, small bushes, large bushes, you can make the forest as big as you want or as your computer will allow, and the generator has options that let you cut out space for placing other objects.

Stylized Tree Asset Generator

like i said hundreds of artists working for you, before you even ask, here is a stylized tree asset generator mi lady or mi lord for when you want to create an anime style animation, the trees and vegetations are all customizable to get you the look you want.

Medieval City Generator

maybe what you want is a medieval city, what would it take you to make something like this from scratch, at the any scale, first you need to prepare, make the models for each house, create materials and textures, and you need several buildings or just using this thats ready to go, and ready to use plus it looks better than what most of us can make in a limited time.

Epic Burn: A Procedural Fire Destruction Effect In Blender

what is even amazing, is the level of expertise these technical artists are not noobs who just started using blender, these are industry experts who most of the time have expert knowledge from other applications, offering what they can do at a fraction of a cost compared to what they normally charge, take a look at how satisfying this melting mesh effect looks, these are artists and developers who would actually be able to create blender from scratch if it dint exist already, and they are working for you now, maybe not directly but still, what we have in this community is just unimaginably beautiful, hopefully we all treasure it to the end.

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