Open source. Open possibilities.

Bring your
surfaces to life.

A complete 3D texturing studio. Right inside Blender. Free to create. Yours to make your own.

Blender 5.2+ · macOS, Windows & Linux · No account needed

Six Open Painter materials rendered in Blender: rust, chrome, wood, painted steel, leather and oxidized copper
Real materials. Rendered in Blender Cycles. Included with Open Painter.

A better starting point

Good things come
with texture.

50 smart materials. 18 smart masks. Every one is an editable starting point for something only you can make.

Meet your materials

Build it, layer by layer

Beautiful on the surface.
Brilliant underneath.

Rusting Painted Steel with weatheringRusting Painted Steel · Included material

Every detail counts

Let corrosion, runoff and cavity dirt tell the story. Open any layer and make the material your own.

Corrosion & grime100%
Red paint coatNormal
Deep oxideNormal
Steel substrateNormal

Explore the layers above. This preview uses actual material renders.

A stack of possibilities

Layers, masks and procedural generators. Every material is a process you can open and change.

At home in Blender

Your brushes. Your workspaces. Your files. Paint, bake and export without breaking your flow.

Create on your terms

No account, subscription or connection needed. The complete painting engine works offline.

Meet Materials+

More to work with.
More room to create.

A maintained library of materials, alphas and generators, delivered into Blender through Connect. Your subscription supports the tools everyone gets to use.

The painter stays free. Installed files stay yours.

Antique bronze from the bundled library, showing the detail of an Open Painter surface

A material world. An open foundation.

Antique Bronze · Bundled library

Built in the open

Great tools belong
in everyone’s hands.

Read the code. Suggest an idea. Make a material. Open Painter is a community effort, with an open format and a free, GPL-licensed engine at its heart.

Make something with us
GPL-3.0 licensed engineOpen material formatCommunity driven