animation tool
3D Flipbook Animator
3D Flipbook Animator is a Blender flipbook addon by Wilhelm Ogterop (Melo Wilo) for stop-motion style, frame-by-frame animation in 3D. It plays a collection of meshes back in sequence, then gives you the tools to sculpt, morph and edit every frame, including the Hybrid Armature Workflow, where you sculpt keyframes while the rig still drives the pose. Export to Alembic, USD or Shape Keys. Blender 4.2 through 5.2, with over 2 hours of tutorials.
- 13 Jul 2026
- Last updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- Released
- Works with
- Blender 4.2 through 5.2
- Licence
- Perpetual
- File size
- 40.8 KB
- Export
- Alembic, USD or Shape Keys
- Tutorials
- Over 2 hours included
- Support
- 12 months included
Blender 4.2
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What it does
Three things Blender never made easy for frame-by-frame animators
The problem
Frame-by-frame has never been native to Blender
Blender is strong at rig-driven animation, not stop-motion style work. The addon turns a collection of meshes into one Geometry Nodes object that shows a mesh per frame, and Morph Blend Frames inbetween where you want smoother timing.
The problem
The rig cannot land every shape
The Hybrid Armature Workflow runs both systems at once: the armature drives locomotion and body mechanics while you sculpt keyframes for the face, fabric folds or anything the rig alone cannot reach.
The problem
Alembic sequences have no Edit Mode
Anything that can be snapshotted becomes a flipbook, and every editing tool then works on it. Pull in a simulated sequence or an Alembic cache and fix the one frame that is wrong.
Inside the tool
Inside the 3D Flipbook Animator
Melo built the addon because he needed it on his own project: something that could work in any style around the flipbook idea, at speed. The core mechanism is simple, a collection of meshes played back in sequence. On top of it sits a full toolset for converting, sculpting, morphing, retiming and exporting, and the 2 hours of tutorials are split into chapters so you can jump straight to the tool you need.
FLIPBOOK
Collection to flipbook
Converts any collection of meshes into one Geometry Nodes driven object that updates per frame. Merge two flipbooks, geometry and materials, into a new sequence.
EXTRACT
Unified extraction
Snapshots animated meshes, Curves, Metaballs and Text into sequential frame-by-frame meshes.
SCULPT
Per-frame sculpt and edit
An Edit Mesh toggle handles visibility for you, so you can sculpt or model single frames while scrubbing, or put the whole flipbook into Edit Mode at once.
ONION SKIN
Onion skinning
A GPU-accelerated overlay shows ghosts of the previous and next frames in red and green, wireframe or solid.
MORPH
Morph blending
Interpolates vertex positions between two frames across a range, with Linear, Ease In and Ease Out options. Topology Analysis finds the ranges with matching vertex counts.
VERTEX
Vertex clipboard
Copy and paste vertices in local or world space, paste relative to a stored baseline, and blend the paste with a 0 to 100% influence slider.
RANGE
Range tools and hold frames
Delete, Duplicate, Reverse or Ping-Pong a frame range. Hold Before and Hold After fill time around the flipbook, and start and end markers are added for you.
RIGGING
Skeletal transfer and deform baking
Copy vertex groups and weights onto the whole sequence, bake armature poses into the mesh with Apply Deforms, and paste a modifier stack across a range.
SHAPE KEYS
Flipbook to Shape Keys
Converts a multi-object sequence into one mesh with keyed Shape Keys, from every frame, every Nth frame or the frames you pick.
EXPORT
Safe export and material tools
Bake Mode switches off the visibility logic so Alembic and USD exports do not crash. Batch apply and sync materials, or split the flipbook by material.
Will it run for you
Compatibility
- Blender
- 4.2 through 5.2
- Type
- Blender Extension, add-on
- Export
- Alembic, USD, Shape Keys
- Support
- 12 months, with updates in that period
- Licence
- GPL
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Supported
Questions and bug reports go straight to Melo Wilo and Wilhelm Ogterop, or email support@anim.works.
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