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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: til.simonwillison.net/llms/blender... GPT-6 Astra (medium): > Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle > OK add a background and a lot of flair > OK make it a whole lot better Result:

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Flat 18
@f18-dev.bsky.social

The useful bit is how quickly the task moves from prompt to inspectable artefact. Keeping the render step visible makes the agent’s output easier to assess and iterate.

Michal
@arathunku.com

I wonder how well would it work with FreeCAD with 3D printer focus... 😅 I recently used Claude successfully with it for a woodworking project

VLDMR VRNKN
@vladimir.varank.in

My spouse (ex-aspiring 3d artist) is asking how much did it cost in API tokens, so she could sleep, knowing that she'd abandoned her dream of finding a junior artist position, before she's been replaced by AI

Andrei Jiroh Halili (he/they)
@andreijiroh.dev

👀👀👀 maybe a nervous ask here since there's 67.89% of you getting pipebombed/dogpilled by anti-AI purists here, but does Blender MCP has support for attaching Content Credentials (aka those C2PA metadata) when AI tools were involved for transparency purposes as well as for chain of custody tracking?

DSB
@dsb000.bsky.social

How is the topology with something like this? My understanding is that they’re not great with reasonable poly counts right? Still: super impressive result

🦆
@pretzelkins.bsky.social

Surprised no linkage / mcp is needed; I wonder if something like that would help. Also, wonder if this works as well for parametric modeling; going to have to do some research.

austin
@aparker.io

my early tests say “yes” in terms of parametric stuff but i’ll show something off when it’s done

Chris Patil
@donotgogently.bsky.social

Thanks Simon! I just used that to make 3d renders of a room of my house with all the furniture removed. I wonder also about the general applicability of the formula "Use the already-installed [application of whatever kind] to [make my life easier]"... I'll certainly be trying it for everything

Laurens
@laurenshof.online

it is very funny that you can now have a regular workfow that says 'do it better', and a Serious Work workflow that has 'explain what you think would make it better and why, and then do that'

Ted Underwood
@tedunderwood.com

We're going to need a more challenging version of this, like: "engineer pelicans that actually can ride bicycles; and, for extra credit, otters that use wifi."

Dave Sanders
@itsdavesanders.com

"Build a small village of Pelican bicycle enthusiasts and have them solve every problem with modern city bicycle transit and lack of bicycle path herring stations. Then petition local, state, and Federal governments to enact such measures. Loop until goal is met."

max power 🌌
@sneptech.bsky.social

mine made a ref of its fursona in Blender Astra Max reasoning tho bsky.app/profile/snep...

max power 🌌@sneptech.bsky.social

when prompting Astra on SONA-bench again it now changed from raccoon to... pine marten? I thought maybe there's some .md note somewhere spelling that out but no, this is a fresh reinstall of Fedora and it picked a marten again anyway this is the sona it modeled in Blender