Blender MCP
Hacker ApprovedRanked 7 of 21 MCP servers by recommenders
People recommend it for letting Claude and other AI models control Blender through chat, including animation and simple asset work. Critics say the topology output is hit or miss and the AI struggles with 3D space.
People recommend it for letting Claude and other AI models control Blender through chat, including animation and simple asset work. Critics say the topology output is hit or miss and the AI struggles with 3D space.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 13
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 81%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 13 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Claude works well with Blender
“If you gave somebody the claude desktop app with blender mcp 10 years ago their minds would be absolutely blown.”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 in “I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories” “Claude produced something useful on the first try and with a little back and forth we got something very nice.”
Comment from 4 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?” “Claude is fire with blender mcp”
Comment from 3 Aug 2026 in “Karpathy's Pelican” Handles animation and low-poly assets
“with SOTA models it is very good at animating and really most Blender tasks you can think of”
Comment from 29 Sep 2026 in “GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price” “Did you try blender MCP and prompt for low-poly vertex colored assets?”
Comment from 6 Sep 2026 in “Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Topology results hit or miss
“the resulting topology can be kind of hit or miss”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Show HN: 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5” Weak understanding of 3D space
“It works-ish! But could be a lot better in understanding 3D space.”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron”
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The four most recommended other MCP servers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playwright MCP | 40 | 22 | 65% | 11 | — | — |
| Context7 | 40 | 7 | 85% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Chrome DevTools MCP | 36 | 22 | 62% | 9 | — | — |
| Serena MCP | 18 | 3 | 86% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Blender MCPThis page | 13 | 3 | 81% | 7 | — | Approved |
What people said
13 of the 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“If you gave somebody the claude desktop app with blender mcp 10 years ago their minds would be absolutely blown.”
“the resulting topology can be kind of hit or miss”
“with SOTA models it is very good at animating and really most Blender tasks you can think of”
“I have used Unity and Blender MCPs”
“Did you try blender MCP and prompt for low-poly vertex colored assets?”
“Claude produced something useful on the first try and with a little back and forth we got something very nice.”
“Claude is fire with blender mcp”
“Then you can ask it how to do things and it will either do it or explain how to do it.”
“the 3d enclosure was awesome”
“Blender-mcp is just an open connection, in a single agent framework.”
“It works-ish! But could be a lot better in understanding 3D space.”
“Blender (18K, F — and it has prompt injection embedded in tool descriptions)”
“Inspired by blender-mcp kudos to them!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.