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MB-Lab is a character creation tool for Blender 2.80, based off ManuelBastioniLAB.

  • This rig controls various expressions of a MB-Lab character by using the controls shown above. To add the rig, just click on the Add Face Rig button for your finalized character. To delete the rig, you need to select your finalized character first, then click the Delete Face Rig button.
  • This is a completely new skin shader, using more procedural elements than previous versions, eliminating a lot of texture maps for simple rendering functions (Specular, SSS, Roughness etc).
  • MB-Lab – Blender addon that creates humanoid characters MB-Lab is a project aimed to create a scientific and powerful 3D humanoid editor, based on the popular ManuelBastioniLAB. This software is based on the long experience gained during the realization of various 3d graphics projects, and collected python scripts, new algorithms, original.

All characters in MB-Lab are rigged using the same core skeleton structure, in order to have a stable standard and to easily share poses and animations. The core skeleton is designed to be clean and to match most of motion capture files and game engines. The root is located on the floor, and the detailed rigging for toes is merged in one bone. This repository is intended to spur development of character assets specifically geared to work well with MB-Lab. The original MHC MC vs MB-Lab assets.zip file contains a Blender v2.80beta blend file created with MB-Lab v1.70 with an average human female body asset, and MakeHumanCommunity (MHC) MakeClothes (MC) assets for body, dress, hair, skirt, and tights.

MB-Lab was forked from ManuelBastioniLAB in November of 2018, shortly after Manuel Bastioni ceased development of his addon.As it is open source, it was placed on GitHub with an invite to others to help develop and support this amazing tool.What began as a test to see if things could be changed here or there has turned into a global project with several sub forks of it’s own.

MB-Lab is the continuation of ManuelBastioniLAB, evolved for the next generation of Blender.

Features

Professional topology

Mb Lab Blender

Complete mesh with teeth, tongue, eyelashes, gum, and eyes as part of main mesh to morph them. Optimized topology for subdivision surface and sculpting.

Ready for animation

Standard skeleton and a well tested rigging, developed to match most external applications and motion capture files. Auto fitting of skeleton. Inverse kinematics and simulated muscle system.

Advanced shaders

Procedural texturing in addition to image maps. Provides support for both Cycles and EEVEE.

Clothing and Hair

Add clothing and polygon hair assets to MB-Lab characters. Proxy fitting allows the transfer of weights to assets. New Hair Engine adds Particle Hair!

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Parametric

Mb Lab Blender Addon

Hundreds of morphing parameters. Fuzzy logic algorithm for interpolation permits to mix the parameters in real-time.

Facial Expressions

Along with a library of facial expressions, a custom rig is provided to help animate faces.

Blender 2.80

Mb Lab Blender Anime

Made for Blender 2.80+ and tested daily with new builds.

Open Source

MB-Lab is free and Open Source.

Mb Lab Blender 2.79

Support

Waring Lab Blender

MB-Lab is actively developed and supported by an international team of artists and programmers.