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Bonsaiwright grows a complete bonsai display in Blender with one click: a trained tree, its pot, the soil, moss, stones and a wooden stand. Pick one of 60 designs from a picture gallery, or pick a style and a species and shape the tree yourself. Everything rebuilds live while you drag a slider.

The trees follow the real bonsai styles, so they look trained, not wild: tapering trunks with a wide root flare, branches wired down into flat foliage pads, and a domed apex. Leaves and bark are photo-scanned, the pots use a real ceramic shader, and the ground is photo textured.

60 bonsai, one click each
Pines, junipers, maples, azaleas, forests, rafts and trees on rocks. Pick one from the picture gallery and change anything.

Four seasons on one tree
Fresh spring green, deep summer, red and gold autumn, and a bare winter silhouette that shows every fine twig.

Drag a slider, watch it grow
Trunk movement, lean, branches, pads and roots are all sliders. The bonsai rebuilds live while you drag.

15 pots, real glazes
Rectangles, ovals, drums, lotus and hexagon pots in brown clay, celadon, namako, cobalt, tenmoku and more, or a stone slab.

Styles

• 18 classic styles: formal upright, informal upright, slanting, cascade, semi-cascade, literati, windswept, broom, twin trunk, clump, forest group, raft, root over rock, planted on rock, exposed root, driftwood, weeping and coiled
• Forest plantings with up to 15 trunks, rafts growing from a fallen trunk, and roots that clasp a rock

Species

• Juniper, Japanese black and white pine, spruce, Japanese and red maple, trident maple, Chinese elm, zelkova, ficus, satsuki azalea, boxwood, olive, cherry, plum, willow and bougainvillea
• Four seasons: fresh spring green, summer, red and gold autumn, and bare winter trees that show their fine twigs
• Azaleas, cherries, plums and bougainvillea in bloom, in any flower color

Deadwood and training

• Jin, apex jin and shari with a spiral, in bleached silver deadwood
• Copper or aluminium training wire coiled around the trunk and branches

Pots and display

• 15 pot shapes: rectangle, oval, round, square, hexagon, octagon, inverted corners, lotus, drum, literati bowl, nanban, cascade, semi-cascade, suiban tray and stone slab
• 15 glazes and bare clays, rims, feet, studs and an aged patina
• Akadama, dark soil, gravel, lava or sand top dressing, moss cushions, accent stones and pebbles
• Walnut slab, table stand, or a tall stand for cascades

Easy to use

• Pick by picture in the sidebar; every choice shows what it makes
• Surprise, Vary and Look buttons for endless variations, and Fit Pot to Tree
• Shohin and mame sizes, real-world scale in meters
• Four detail levels and Convert to Mesh

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS. Works in Cycles and EEVEE.