Startup Anthropic released a set of connectors enabling Claude to work directly with popular design and 3D tools: Blender, Adobe, Autodesk, Ableton, SketchUp, and others.
“Claude cannot replace taste or imagination, but it can open up new ways of working—faster and more ambitious idea generation, an extensive skill set, and the opportunity for creative people to tackle large-scale projects,” the company blog states.
Available options include:
- Ableton—relies on Claude’s responses as outlined in the official documentation for Live and Push products;
- Adobe—bring ideas to life as images, videos, and designs using over 50 tools in Creative Cloud applications, including Photoshop and Express;
- Affinity by Canva—automates repetitive tasks in professional creative processes;
- Autodesk Fusion—enables designers and engineers with a Fusion subscription to create and edit 3D models through dialogue with Claude;
- Blender—provides an interface for API in Python;
- Resolume Arena and Resolume Wire—allow visual effects artists to manage Arena, Avenue, and Wire;
- SketchUp—“turns a conversation with Claude into a starting point for 3D modeling”;
- Splice—enables music producers to search their sample catalog directly from the Claude application.
Blender developers have created an MCP connector, officially available for Claude. It allows 3D artists to analyze and adjust entire scenes or create custom scripts for batch applying changes to objects in a scene.
Anthropic has joined the Blender Development Fund as a patron to support the project in further developing the Python API.
Use Cases
The company provided several examples of using Claude for creative work:
- learning to use tools—Claude acts as a personal tutor for complex software: explaining modifier stacks, synthesis methods, or unfamiliar functions;
- expanding capabilities through code—AI writes scripts, plugins, and generative systems for software;
- integrating tools into a single pipeline—Claude converts formats, restructures data, and synchronizes resources within a project;
- automating routine tasks—batch processing of resources, project structure setup, application of procedural changes.
Anthropic collaborates with students and educators to implement educational programs. They will gain access to Claude and the new connectors.
In April, Anthropic introduced an experimental product, Claude Design—a tool for AI-based design generation.