Blender add-on  ·  by LarkLab

AURA LAB

20 procedural character auras for Blender

Turn any character into a power-up shot. Select a mesh, pick an aura, click Add. Every aura is built around its own geometric idea: fire tongues, lightning arcs, light-feather wings, a black hole, blood streams, soul wisps, a full-body dissolve. It follows animated rigs, renders in Cycles and Eevee, and needs no textures or UVs.

The 2-minute showcase · all 20 auras on an animated character · rendered in Cycles

20  auras16  signature generators1  click to add0  textures or UVs2  engines: Cycles + Eevee

Most aura packs recolour the same handful of particles. Here every aura has its own signature geometry, plus support layers (rim light, embers, mist, debris) that make it read in a shot.

01 · Elemental Inferno Volumetric fire tongues	02 · Energy Golden Ascension Anime ki outline with flame spikes	03 · Energy Thunder God Re-striking lightning arcs	04 · Dark Symbiote Black tentacles from the back
05 · Light Seraph Light-feather wings and a halo	06 · Elemental Glacial Ice spikes and creeping frost	07 · Elemental Molten Core Lava skin, magma veins, drips	08 · Dark Singularity Black hole and accretion spiral
09 · Light Prism Radiance Sweeping spectral light beams	10 · Energy Cosmic Avatar Galaxy skin, orbiting planets	11 · Dark Crimson Blood Glowing blood streams in a red haze	12 · Dark Hellchains Red-hot whipping chains
13 · Elemental Hydro Refractive water orbs and streams	14 · Elemental Tempest Wind vortex, dust and stones	15 · Light Astral Echo Afterimages peeling off the body	16 · Energy Supernova Shockwave rings and a corona
17 · Energy Cyber Glitch Flickering voxels, hologram skin	18 · Elemental Titan Awakening Ground fissures and rising rock	19 · Dark Wraith Soul wisps in green soul-fire	20 · Dark Ashen Dissolve Chars, crumbles, black fumes

Crimson Blood in the live Cycles viewport · Aura Lab sidebar on the right

Each aura is a small stack of layers. The top sliders act on the whole aura; open a layer to reshape it. Everything is keyframable. Intensity Brightness of every layer and light at once. Hue Shift · Saturation Recolour the whole aura with one slider. Speed Slow it down for a dramatic beat or speed it up. Start Time Trigger the aura mid-shot, in seconds. Layers Toggle each layer for viewport and render, edit its colours, glow and every geometry input: count, length, spin, rise, flap, writhe...

Animate any value. In the showcase one parameter of each aura is keyframed live:

Inferno Flame Height 0.65 → 1.10	Crimson Blood Blood Spin 1.00 → 2.40	Prism Radiance Beam Length 2.40 → 3.40
Supernova Shock Radius 2.20 → 3.50	Cosmic Avatar Orbit Speed 0.70 → 2.50	Cyber Glitch Breakup 0.30 → 0.85

Aura Lab reads the evaluated mesh, so armatures, shape keys and modifiers all just work. Wings, the halo, tentacles, blood streams and soul wisps are anchored to patches of skin picked in the rest pose, so they stay on the back, the head and the torso while the character walks, runs or fights.

Stepping through the timeline in the Cycles viewport · Inferno on a Mixamo run cycle

Every aura is procedural Geometry Nodes and shaders, so you see it straight in the viewport and change it while it plays. No baking, no simulation caches, no flipbooks.

Effects that develop over time start at the aura's Start Time, so you can cut to them on a beat. Ashen Dissolve chars the body, crumbles it away and releases it as black fumes. Glacial grows its ice from the feet up, Titan Awakening splits the ground open.

Ashen Dissolve · chars → embers → crumbles → fumes → gone

Hellchains · Hue Shift 0.00 · +0.25 · +0.50 · −0.25

Full guide: Aura Lab documentation

Want more magic? Aether Pillars and Aether Gates add summoning beams and portals, Buffs & Debuffs adds stylized status effects, Post Alchemy FX finishes the shot in the compositor.

Aura Lab by LarkLab. All renders on this page were made in Blender with Aura Lab. Character: Blender Studio Human Base Meshes (CC0).