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Painterly 2.5D:
A Free Blender Add-on

On Sunday, November 8, 2026, we released Painterly 2.5D, a free, open-source add-on for Blender. It turns any 3D scene into a hand-painted picture in one click.

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Project
Painterly 2.5D
Released
Requirements
Blender 5.0+ (EEVEE)
Price
Free
License
GPL-3.0
Developer
Tokyo AI Visuals LLC

On November 8, 2026, we released Painterly 2.5D, a free Blender add-on, as open source on GitHub. Painterly 2.5D turns a Blender scene into a hand-painted picture in one click.

It lays three layers over any scene at once: toon shading with brush strokes only along the edge between light and shadow, hand-drawn outlines that wobble on twos, and a finishing filter that looks like oil paint.

Pick from six media (oil paint, gouache, watercolour, crayon, coloured pencil and anime cel) and combine them freely with five presets such as Blue-hour Night and Golden Hour. Every press of Shuffle changes the brush direction, the colours, the shadow and line tints and the paper, so the same scene comes out as a different picture each time.

It works on models with no materials and scenes with no lights, and it sizes the brush strokes to the scene, from a 10 cm prop to a 50 m building. One click on Revert Painterly brings everything back. Just ask an AI agent such as Claude Code or Codex, and it installs and applies the add-on for you. The images and videos you make with it are yours to use, commercially too.

Painterly 2.5D is our third Blender add-on, after MochiToon and KiraPaint. Everything we have released so far is on our open source page.

We will keep refining the tools that come out of our own game and film production, and keep releasing them.

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