Add-ons for the Blender compositor

Small tools that fix the slow parts of compositing.

Masks, cleaner node graphs, before/after checks, relighting and speed. Everything is made to turn the compositor into a more powerful tool.

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The Maskwright PRO node in the Blender compositor

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Maskwright

One compositor node for spline masks: draw, soften, trace, track and export. Lite is free, and Basic and PRO add Auto Mask, AI Subject and Edge Refine.

Launch offer on Basic and PRO ends 7 Dec.

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Each one works on its own

Maskwright

One node for spline masks, Auto Mask, AI Subject, Edge Refine and tracking. Lite is free.

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Linkwright

Set and Get portal nodes for the compositor. Name a value once, pick it up anywhere, and stop dragging cables across the whole canvas.

Coming soon

Diffwright

Compare the previous node with the selected one using a bar you drag across the image. Works in the Image Editor as well as the compositor backdrop.

Coming soon

Shadewright

Relight a finished render in the compositor, with controls tuned for toon and painterly looks.

Coming soon

Wrapwright

Light wrap for the compositor: let the background light spill over the edge of your character so it sits in the plate.

Coming soon

Swiftwright

Makes the Blender 5.x compositor faster, with three modes: Performance, Balanced and Full. Blender 5.x only.

Coming soon

Made by FurryMisty

I'm a 3D modeler dedicated to hard surface. I render my own characters and finish them in the compositor. These add-ons come from the slow, repetitive parts of that work, so each one is built to save you a step.

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Feature	Lite	Basic	PRO
Draw / Edit Spline, Soft Edge, Invert, Opacity, Viewer Output	Yes	Yes	Yes
Border Width, Effect Mask input, custom canvas size	No	Yes	Yes
Quick Shapes: Ellipse and Rectangle	No	Yes	Yes
Quick Shapes: Rounded and Polygon	No	No	Yes
Shape keys with Motion Blur	No	Yes	Yes
Auto Mask (a matte into editable splines)	No	Yes	Yes
Copy / paste shapes, SVG and JSON import and export	No	Yes	Yes
Spline layers, blend modes, fades, Transform Mask, easing	No	No	Yes
Follow a tracked point, plane tracking, Track Layer	No	No	Yes
Follow a 3D object or bone (Blender 4.4 or newer)	No	No	Yes
AI Subject (with the optional, free AI Pack)	No	No	Yes
Edge Refine for hair, fur and fine detail	No	No	Yes
Export to other compositing applications	No	No	Yes
Bake, Convert to Node Group, Batch and command line	No	No	Yes

Socket	Type	Use
Image (input)	Color	Reference image. Sets the automatic canvas size and feeds the Image output.
Effect Mask (input)	Float	An external mask combined with the drawn one.
Mask (output)	Float	The resulting mask.
Image (output)	Color	The input image cut out with the mask, as alpha.

Control	What it does	Range, default
Viewer Output	What the Viewer shows while editing: Ref, Mask, Cutout or Overlay (the mask as translucent red over the image).	Ref
Custom Size	Off: the canvas follows the input image or render size. On: your own width and height.	1920 × 1080
Soft Edge	Blurs the mask contour, in pixels.	0 to 500, 0
Border Width	Grows (positive) or shrinks (negative) the mask, in pixels. Basic and PRO.	−500 to 500, 0
Fast Border	A fast stepped algorithm, much quicker at 4K. Off uses the exact Euclidean distance.	On
Opacity	Overall opacity of the mask.	0 to 1, 1
Invert Mask	Inverts the mask.	Off
Effect Mask, Combine	How the Effect Mask input joins the drawn mask: Multiply (intersect), Add (union) or Subtract (cut out).	Multiply

I want	Do this
A cutout with a soft border	Draw the shape, raise Soft Edge, and connect Mask to Alpha Over, Set Alpha or Mix.
Limit the mask with another mask	Connect the other mask to Effect Mask and choose Multiply.
A shape that changes over time	Open Animation, press Insert Key on the first frame, change the points on a later frame and press Insert Key again.
A hole inside the mask (PRO)	Add a layer, draw the hole and set its Layer Blend to Merge Subtract.
A top-to-bottom gradient (PRO)	Fade, Directional, then Draw Fade Line and drag the line in the Image Editor.
A mask that follows a moving object (PRO)	Track the object in the Movie Clip Editor, choose the clip and track in Animation and press Parent Points.
Render a heavy mask fast (PRO)	Save the .blend and press Bake Mask. Press Edit Source whenever you need to change it.
Check the result	Switch Viewer Output between Ref, Mask, Cutout and Overlay.

Small tools that fix the slow parts of compositing.

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Maskwright

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Maskwright

Linkwright

Diffwright

Shadewright

Wrapwright

Swiftwright

Made by FurryMisty

Maskwright

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