blender-modeling-workflow

Blender Modeling Workflow

Read the shared execution guidance once per task for autonomous decisions, evidence cadence, and long-task continuity.

Create the asset as source-controlled Python plus generated .blend and .glb outputs. Treat the script as the durable source and Blender as the execution runtime.

For a render-only scene, route final delivery through the rendering workflow: source, self-contained .blend, images and render manifest are sufficient. Require GLB and fresh-import gates when a downstream asset/export is part of the contract. Do not imply that procedural shaders, atmospheric volumes or Cycles lighting survive a GLB export unchanged.

Establish the contract

1. Resolve the exact Blender executable and record blender --version.
2. Resolve routine visual and technical choices from context and state useful defaults. Use $blender-agent-studio:blender-art-direction-intake when an unresolved decision would cause substantial rework and context provides no reasonable default, or when the user explicitly requests a brief/concept.
3. Convert the request into a short modeling contract before editing:
   • required parts and visible relationships;
   • intended style and materials;
   • intended finish quality and whether low-poly is actually requested;
   • dimensions and an appropriate triangle range or performance target;
   • moving parts, pivots, or required contexts;
   • named stages, review evidence, and any user approval gates;
   • deliverables and evidence views.
4. Keep subjective goals as explicit review questions. Do not silently turn them into arbitrary geometry thresholds.
5. Read references/modeling-contract.md for the contract shape.

Default to a finished-quality asset

Treat “game-ready,” “stylized,” and “optimized” as quality constraints, not as synonyms for visibly low-poly.

• Unless the user explicitly requests low-poly, blockout-only, voxel, faceted, PS1-era, or an unusually strict platform budget, target a polished smooth model with clean silhouettes, bevels or support geometry, appropriate subdivision or curve resolution, and readable secondary and tertiary forms.
• Use the lowest density that preserves the intended finish from every evidence view. Do not optimize away the shape language, material breaks, or contact detail that makes the asset feel complete.
• Preserve an explicitly requested low-poly style. Do not smooth or subdivide away intentional planar forms merely because the normal default is polished.
• A triangle ceiling is a limit, not a target. Do not celebrate being far under budget when the result still reads as a blockout.