---
title: "Blender MCP by Siddharth Ahuja — 3D scenes tutorial and best practices for AI video"
description: "Lets your agent drive a live Blender: build scenes in Blender Python, check its own renders, pull Poly Haven assets. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command."
url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/blender-mcp
updated: 2026-11-11
---

# Blender MCP by Siddharth Ahuja — guide skill for 3D scenes

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Lets your agent drive a live Blender: build scenes in Blender Python, check its own renders, pull Poly Haven assets.

- **Type:** [Guide](https://varg.ai/how-to/guides.md) · [3D scenes](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/3d-scenes.md)
- **Slug:** `blender-mcp`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Siddharth Ahuja (community)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/ahujasid/mcp-for-blender
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Any MCP client
- **Requires:** Blender with the MCP for Blender add-on enabled, uv (uvx), Optional: Sketchfab, Poly Pizza, Hyper3D, Hunyuan3D, Meshy or Tripo keys (BLENDERMCP_*_API_KEY)
- **Cost:** Free, MIT: runs locally; optional 3D generators bill your own keys or the author's paid Premium
- **Adoption:** 33,912 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-11-10)

## What it does

MCP for Blender (formerly blender-mcp) connects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients to a running Blender through an add-on socket server. Its nine tools run Blender Python, look at the result (viewport, camera, auto-framed multi-angle sheets, animation strips, renders), summarise the scene, search and import Poly Haven, Sketchfab and Poly Pizza assets, and generate models with Tripo, Hunyuan3D, Hyper3D Rodin or Meshy. It is the bridge most Blender skill packs (arjun988's 94 skills, dream-loop) and many Fable 5.2 Blender films build on, and with varg's `blender-code-film` it fills the wanted card `want-previs-animated-story-ad`. Not affiliated with the Blender Foundation; the official server is `blender-lab-mcp`.

## Use when

- build or edit a Blender scene from a prompt or a reference image
- let the agent model, light, rig and animate in Blender with Python
- previs a 3D shot or an animated story ad in Blender
- pull Poly Haven HDRIs and textures, or generate a 3D model straight into the scene
- make a three.js sketch from an existing Blender scene

## Not for

- Headless batch renders with no Blender window: the add-on must be running (varg's blender-code-film writes one-file Python films instead)
- Shared or untrusted machines: the socket has no auth and runs any Python
- The official Blender Foundation server: see blender-lab-mcp

## Install

- Claude Code: `claude mcp add blender uvx mcp-for-blender && uvx mcp-for-blender install-addon`
- Codex: `codex mcp add blender -- uvx mcp-for-blender && uvx mcp-for-blender install-addon`
- Cursor: `uvx mcp-for-blender setup`
- Any MCP client: `uvx mcp-for-blender setup`
- Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install blender-mcp`

## More 3D scenes skills

- [Turn a brief into a Blender film written in Python](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/blender-code-film.md): A brief becomes a Blender film from one Python file: shots as data, stills first, critic loop, Eevee or Cycles.
- [Turn a browser game into a cinematic trailer](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/code-game-trailer.md): Record the browser game your agent built frame-exact, script shots and cameras, then cut a 1080p trailer on the beat.
- [Blender Lab MCP Server](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/blender-lab-mcp.md): Blender's official MCP server: query and edit open scenes with Blender Python, bundled API docs and screenshots.
- [Meshy 3D Generation](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/meshy-3d-agent.md): Meshy's official skill: text or image to a textured 3D model, then remesh, rig, animate and export it as GLB or FBX.
- [Roblox Studio MCP Server](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/roblox-studio-mcp.md): The MCP server built into Roblox Studio: agents edit scripts, run Luau, generate meshes and playtest your game.
- [Scenario 3D Worlds](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/scenario-3d-worlds.md): Walkable 3D worlds as Gaussian splats from text, a photo, a panorama or a video: Marble, HY World and TripoSplat.