I am Michel Anders and I am a developer, writer and educator.
My most visible achievements to date are my books and Blender add-ons: they were available on BlenderMarket, Smashwords and Packt and major online retailers.
But lately I turned away from these activities to focus on different subjects. Most of them are not Blender related, but I am in the process of open sourcing the add-ons I previously sold on BlenderMarket, and those will appear in repositories here on GitHub. The ones available already are:
- Snap!, a time saving tool for people who often work with modular assets packs or creators of asset packs who want to make their product easier to use.
- Weightlifter, a Swiss army knife of recording mesh attributes to vertex weights or -colors.
- IDMapper, IDMapper simplifies creation and editing of vertex color layers that can be used as ID-maps in texturing software like Substance Painter or Quixel.
I'll try and keep those add-ons up to date (no promises), but bug fixes, enhancements etc. from anyone are welcome too: just issue a PR on their respective repositories.
I also started a new project/GitHub repo and a series of blog articles with the aim to help people professionalize their Blender add-on development. The focus is on maintainability, including automated testing and profiling, all within a a well defined Docker container that doubles as a vscode development container.
