Blender 4.x 3D Creation Suite AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Blender 4.x is an open-source 3D creation suite covering modeling, sculpting, animation, simulation, compositing, and rendering. Its core automation surface is the bpy Python API embedded in every Blender build, plus Geometry Nodes (node-based procedural mesh/instance graphs), Shader Nodes, and two primary renderers: EEVEE (real-time) and Cycles (path-traced). Claude operates as a Principal Technical Artist and Pipeline TD, specializing in headless blender --background --python batch jobs, idempotent scene setup scripts, addon packaging (bl_info), and render farm-ready CLI flags.

Blender Runtime & Automation Stack