Blender Production Director

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Starting any new Blender asset such as a prop, environment or character
• Planning a multi-step pipeline across modeling, UVs, materials, rigging and export
• Matching a reference photo or concept art in Blender
• Choosing polycount targets and an export format for a game engine

Example prompts

• “Plan and build a low-poly horror lantern prop for a mobile game, ready for FBX export.”
• “Here is a concept art image of a sci-fi crate. Recreate it in Blender and compare against the reference.”
• “Create a production brief for a stylized creature with a rig and walk cycle before touching Blender.”

Requirements

• Blender with an MCP connection the agent can drive
• The specialist Blender skills from the same repository that this skill routes to

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Check Blender MCP availability before Phase 1 execution
2. 2Create collection hierarchy via MCP immediately
3. 3Query scene state after each pipeline phase
4. 4Never describe UI steps when MCP can execute
5. 5See ../references/mcp-integration.md

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8f778d2. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Blender Production Director loads about 4.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 73 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,282 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~73

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~4.8k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~5.9k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from arjun988/blender-skills at commit 8f778d2, republished under its MIT licence (© arjun988). 1,282 words, ~4,830 tokens.

name

blender-director

description

Use when starting any Blender asset task, planning a production pipeline, coordinating multiple disciplines, or matching a reference photo/concept art. Invoke for game-ready assets, hard surface, environment, character, creature, export, or any multi-skill Blender workflow.

license

MIT

metadata.author

https://github.com/arjun988

metadata.version

1.0.0

metadata.domain

blender

metadata.role

orchestrator

metadata.triggers

Blender, 3D asset, game-ready, pipeline, workflow, plan, coordinate, technical artist

metadata.related-skills

blender-modeler, hard-surface, prop-artist, vehicle-artist, environment-artist, character-artist, asset-optimization, export-pipeline, qa-review

1. ANALYZE    → Parse request, identify asset type, target platform, art direction
2. PLAN       → Select skills, define polycount/texture budgets, export format
3. BRIEF      → Output structured production brief before any Blender operations
4. DELEGATE   → Activate specialist skills in pipeline order
5. EXECUTE    → Drive work via Blender MCP (see ../references/mcp-integration.md)
6. VALIDATE   → Run checklist (../references/validation-checklist.md)
7. DELIVER    → Export + validation report

1. REFERENCE ANALYSIS  → reference-analysis-template.md (written, before MCP)
2. BASELINE SCREENSHOT → get_viewport_screenshot
3. CAMERA MATCH        → CAM_* + EMPTY_CamTarget_* before detailing
4. GEOMETRY TIERS      → silhouette → panel breaks → greebles
5. MATERIALS           → palette from reference; per-object emissive lights only
6. LIGHTING + WORLD    → key direction, rim, space/env mood
7. GRADING             → AgX exposure/look; EEVEE for animation preview
8. COMPARE LOOP        → screenshot → gap list → fix (×3 max)
9. VALIDATE            → visual-match-checklist.md

## Production Brief: [Asset Name]

**Type:** [prop/environment/character/creature]
**Target:** [game engine / cinematic / portfolio]
**Style:** [horror/lowpoly/stylized/realistic]
**Poly Budget:** [triangles] (ref: polycount-budgets.md)
**Texture Budget:** [resolution]
**Export:** [format + settings]
**Pivot:** [floor/grip/hinge/center]
**Animation:** [none/rigged/animated]

### Active Skills
1. [skill] — [role in pipeline]
2. [skill] — [role in pipeline]

### Pipeline Phases
- [ ] Reference & Planning
- [ ] Blockout & Silhouette
- [ ] Modeling
- [ ] Cleanup & Topology
- [ ] UVs
- [ ] Materials/Textures
- [ ] Optimization
- [ ] Rig/Animate (if needed)
- [ ] Export & Validation

### MCP Execution Plan
[Ordered list of MCP operations]

blender-director → hard-surface → materials → uv-workflow → asset-optimization → export-pipeline

blender-director → prop-artist → uv-workflow → materials → lookdev → asset-optimization → export-pipeline

blender-director → vehicle-artist → lod-pipeline → collision-proxy → materials → unreal-export|unity-export

blender-director → environment-artist → geometry-nodes → uv-workflow → asset-optimization → export-pipeline

blender-director → character-artist → sculpting → retopology → hair-groom → cloth-sim
  → uv-workflow → materials → rigging → animation → export-pipeline

blender-director → horror-style → environment-artist → set-dressing → lighting → asset-optimization → export-pipeline

blender-director → psx-horror-style → environment-artist → lowpoly-style → lighting → compositing

blender-director → geometry-nodes → procedural-modeling → asset-optimization

blender-director → [discipline] → lookdev → camera-cinematography → lighting → rendering → compositing → qa-review

blender-director → asset-optimization → lod-pipeline → collision-proxy → unity-export|unreal-export|godot-export → qa-review

User attached photo / concept / "match this"?
├── YES → reference-image-match.md (full workflow)
│         → Analyze → Camera → Geometry tiers → Materials → Lighting → Compare loop
└── NO  → Standard pipeline below

Is style specified?
├── Horror → horror-style (+ psx-horror-style if PS1 crunch)
├── Lowpoly → lowpoly-style + relevant modeling skill
├── Anime/cel → anime-style + relevant modeling skill
├── Voxel → voxel-style + relevant modeling skill
├── Isometric → isometric-style + camera-cinematography
├── Stylized → stylized-style + relevant modeling skill
├── Realistic → realistic-style + relevant modeling skill
├── Archviz → archviz + lookdev
└── Unspecified → Ask or infer from context

What is the asset?
├── Vehicle / mech → vehicle-artist
├── Everyday / hero prop → prop-artist
├── Sci-fi / weapon / industrial HS → hard-surface
├── Human → character-artist (+ hair-groom / cloth-sim as needed)
├── Creature → creature-artist
├── Vegetation → vegetation-artist
├── Environment / level → environment-artist + scene-assembly
└── FX / sim → vfx-fx / physics-sim / cloth-sim

Engine delivery?
├── Unity → unity-export
├── Unreal → unreal-export
├── Godot → godot-export
└── Generic → export-pipeline

Does it need animation?
├── Yes → Add retopology, rigging, animation
└── No → Static pipeline

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in .claude/skills/blender-director of arjun988/blender-skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/skill-routing.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8f778d2