Startup Anthropic has released a set of connectors that enable Claude to work directly with popular design and 3D tools: Blender, Adobe, Autodesk, Ableton, SketchUp, and others.

“Claude may not replace taste or imagination, but it can open up new ways of working — faster and more ambitious idea generation, a broad skill set, and the ability for creative individuals to tackle large-scale projects,” the company stated in its blog.

Among the available options:

  • Ableton — leverages Claude's responses as outlined in the official documentation for Live and Push products;
  • Adobe — brings ideas to life through images, videos, and designs using over 50 tools within Creative Cloud applications, including Photoshop and Express;
  • Affinity by Canva — automates repetitive tasks in professional creative workflows;
  • Autodesk Fusion — allows designers and engineers with a Fusion subscription to create and edit 3D models through dialogue with Claude;
  • Blender — provides an interface for the API in Python;
  • Resolume Arena and Resolume Wire — enable visual effects artists to manage Arena, Avenue, and Wire;
  • SketchUp — “turns conversations with Claude into a starting point for 3D modeling;”
  • Splice — allows music producers to search for samples in their catalog directly from the Claude app.

The developers of Blender have created an MCP connector, officially available for Claude. This allows 3D artists to analyze and adjust entire scenes or create their own scripts for batch applying changes to objects.

Anthropic has joined the Blender Development Fund as a patron to support the project's ongoing development of the Python API.

Use Cases

The company provided several examples of how Claude can be used for creative work:

  • Tool training — Claude acts as a personal tutor for complex software, explaining modifier stacks, synthesis methods, or unfamiliar functions;
  • Enhancing capabilities through code — AI writes scripts, plugins, and generative systems for software;
  • Integrating tools into a unified workflow — Claude converts formats, restructures data, and synchronizes resources within a project;
  • Automating routine tasks — batch processing resources, setting up project structures, applying procedural changes.

Anthropic is collaborating with students and educators to implement educational programs. They will gain access to Claude and the new connectors.

As a reminder, in April, Anthropic introduced the experimental product Claude Design — an AI-based design generation tool.