Over the past year I’ve been working on something that started as a simple upgrade to Curves to Mesh and ended up growing into its own tool entirely.

Today I’m pleased to share this new Blender add-on, Loft Curves.

Loft Curves is built for artists who prefer shaping with curves and want a more flexible, modifier-based approach to creating clean surfaces inside Blender. It lets you loft between two or more curves, guide the flow of the surface using additional curves, and adjust everything in real time thanks to a Geometry Nodes-driven modifier.

Why Loft Curves?

One of the recurring requests I’ve seen over the years is for a straightforward way to loft between curves directly in Blender—without needing to jump into external software, and without the overhead of manually building node setups.

During early development, the goal was to extend Curves to Mesh. But as the workflow developed, testers pointed out that this felt like a different modelling approach altogether. Curves to Mesh specialises in patch-based surface generation using split curve grids. Loft Curves, by contrast, is built for freeform lofting driven by multiple profiles, guide rails, and sweep curves.

Rather than cram both approaches into a single add-on (and compromise each), Loft Curves has been released as a separate companion tool.

Curves to Mesh will continue to be fully supported and developed. It remains the best choice for structured patch modelling, while Loft Curves focuses on intuitive, modifier-driven lofting between two or more curves.

What Loft Curves Can Do

Here are some of the core features:

Modifier-Based Workflow

Loft Curves adds a custom Geometry Nodes modifier to your object. Adjust any curve and the surface updates instantly in the viewport.

Loft Between Multiple Curves

Use two, three, or more profile curves to generate the surface. Perfect for blocking out concepts quickly.

Guide Curves for Control

Add guide curves to refine how the loft transitions from one profile to another. Great for wings, hulls, footwear forms, and more complex shapes.

Profile + Sweep Tools

Choose or customise a sweep profile to control cross-sections along your shape.

UV Support

Loft Curves generates usable UVs to help with texturing and shading right away.

Flexible Applications

• Product shells
• Hard-surface concepts
• Organic surfaces
• Sci-fi paneling
• Vehicle and aircraft components
• Architectural forms

If you prefer to think in curves first and refine later, I hope you’ll find this workflow a good fit.

Documentation and Preview

Full documentation is available from:

📘 Documentation: https://loft-curves.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Release Details

If you’re a Curves to Mesh user, you should already have received a dedicated discount code c2mloft as a thank you for your support over the years.

Final Thoughts

It’s been fascinating developing Loft Curves and seeing how artists approach curve-based workflows. The feedback from early testers helped shape this tool enormously, and I’m excited to see what the wider Blender community will create with it.

As always, thanks for your support and if you have questions, want to share your creations, or think of features you’d like to see next, feel free to get in touch.

When I first built the Bend Modifier, I almost didn’t release it.

On the surface, it looked too simple, just a way to bend geometry in Blender. Behind the scenes though, it involved quite a lot of maths: arcs, tangents, limits, and all the fiddly details to make sure it behaved cleanly with tails, pivots, and arbitrary axes. Not as straightforward as some might have you believe.

I worried it might not be enough of a tool to stand on its own.

But since releasing it on Superhive (formerly Blender Market) just the other day, it’s taken off with over 200 downloads already. It turns out that sometimes the simple, focused tools are the ones people need most. Blender’s built-in Simple Deform has always been a bit awkward (one word: empties), so giving people a true modifier with a proper gizmo and real-world controls filled a gap I wasn’t sure existed until now.

The feedback has been great, from users coming over from 3ds Max who miss its bend modifier, to Blender modelers who just want a clean, UV-safe, stackable bend that doesn’t need extra objects cluttering the scene.

It’s been a reminder for me: even if a tool feels “too simple,” if it removes friction from everyday workflows, it can be valuable.

Here’s an introduction:

What’s next?

My next project is a major overhaul of Curves to Mesh. It’s just come out of testing and early feedback has been really positive. This one is a lot more complex under the hood, but I’ve learned not to underestimate the power of simple presentation paired with solid maths.

Thanks to everyone who’s tried the Bend Modifier so far, it’s been encouraging to see it bend its way into so many hearts so quickly.

The latest Quad Maker Blender retopology add-on update is here, bringing a few useful improvements:

• Smooth by Selection
• Shortest Path Selection (Shift extends/moves a selection, Ctrl finds shortest paths)
• Improved mirrored vertex smoothing
• Retopology view default updated (now matches Blender’s 0.01 setting)

When I first built Quad Maker, I wanted it to be a straightforward tool—something inspired by Maya’s Quad Draw but designed to fit neatly into Blender. That philosophy hasn’t changed.

Keeping Quad Maker focused and “boring” has some real advantages:

1. It stays simple and easy to learn (see the documentation and video to get started).
2. It stays stable and reliable. Blender’s Python API already gets pushed hard by Quad Maker, so focusing on core features avoids adding unnecessary complexity.
3. It helps keep development costs under control. Since Quad Maker is a one-off purchase rather than a subscription, I want to make sure that updates add real value without inflating ongoing costs.

So while I am always open to feature requests, I’m careful to only add the ones that really matter. The result is that Quad Maker remains exactly what it was meant to be: a dependable, no-fuss retopology tool.

Sometimes boring is best. 🙂

It’s often been requested, and here it is – an introductory tutorial on converting a curve network to a mesh in Blender using my Curves to Mesh add-on. Any questions, do let me know….enjoy!

An extensive pack of 271 objects have been made available by SolCommand. This pack has been made specifically for the Plating Generator And Greebles Blender add-on.

The collection contains 271 3D meshes that you can use to spread across the walls and hulls of your spaceships, stations, futuristic cities and other projects you may have, in order to quickly make them look much more detailed and complicated in your final renders.

The pack contains various objects arranged in folders ranging from sensors, vents, signs, fuel storage, hatches, scaffolding and many more other random objects and shapes.

The Pack is available both on Gumroad and Blender Market.

I’m gradually making my Blender Market add-ons also available on Gumroad, one by one…next one up is the Plating Generator, which adds a range of plating patterns onto an object, as well as the ability to add greeble effects – that is, adding lots of smaller objects onto a larger object’s faces.

Read more about it here: