painterly-25d
Free Blender add-on: any 3D scene → hand-painted 2.5D in one click. Oil, watercolour, crayon, pencil, anime cel + Shuffle. AI-agent ready. Free with credit to @KanaWorks_AI.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 100%) · 0 views
Niche: 3d modeling and rendering software · 145 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -13% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- ai-agent
- blender
- blender-addon
- blender-extension
- eevee
- kanaworks
- +4 more
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Could you build this?
Partial The Blender add-on UI and multi-style pipeline are vibe-codeable, but convincing hand-painted looks require real non-photorealistic rendering and shader expertise to get right.
What it would actually take: Build it as a Blender Python add-on that applies non-photorealistic shaders, edge and stroke passes, and texture treatments per style, with a shuffle and preset system on top. The hard part is achieving convincing painterly output across varied scenes, which requires graphics and shader expertise and iterative art direction rather than just code generation.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 268 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #269 of 269 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 370 days after the earliest competitor.
- Painterly · hn · 2026-07-15 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Open Painter · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ToonBliss · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Artly · ph · 2026-10-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Lucidity Paints - Digital Art App · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Toon Soul · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Mix Painter · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Fillbloom: Watercolor Painting · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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