Compositor FX Pack

Updated for Blender 5.2. Blender 5 removed the compositor Texture node, which broke 13 of these effects. They have all been rebuilt and verified in 5.2. The download is leaner too: the .blend went from 167 MB to 40 MB.

Compositor FX is a library of compositor node groups. Drop one between your render and the output and the whole shot changes: inked comic panels, ASCII art, rain on the glass, a sci-fi scan sweeping through the room. No add-ons and no re-rendering: it all runs in the compositor.

Stylise (12)

• ASCII: the image rebuilt from text characters.
• Comic: two-tone ink panels in your own dark and light colours.
• Cross Hatching: pen-and-paper hatching with outlines.
• Outline Edge: clean line art from depth and normal passes.
• Dither Dot, Ordered Dithering, Stylized Dither: retro print and pixel dithering.
• Pixel Sorting: glitch-art smears sorted by brightness.
• Noise: animated film grain.
• CRT: old TV curvature, scanlines and flicker.
• Shifting Color: animated hue cycling.
• Vignette: soft, tintable edge darkening.

Lens & weather (8)

• Broken Glass: cracked lens with refraction and dispersion. Keyframe it for a glass-shattering impact.
• Frozen Glass: frost creeping in from the edges.
• Rainy Window: animated drops and drips over the shot.
• Puddle: rippling puddle reflections.
• Underwater: depth fog, caustics, sun beams and bubbles.
• Ripple: animated circular ripple distortion.
• Glitch: channel shifts, broken blocks and scanlines.
• Warning Glitch: a proximity alert. The bar turns from green to red and the screen glitches as the camera gets close to a target object.

3D-aware scans (3)

• HackWave: a grid-and-stars scan wave expanding from a point in the scene.
• Scene Transition: the scene turns into a wireframe hologram.
• Fire Outline: inky flames around a masked object.

23 colour palettes

Map any value (luminance, depth, a mask) through Autumn, Blues, Cividis, Cool, Coolwarm, GnBu, Hot, Inferno, Jet, Magma, Ocean, PiYG, Plasma, Purple Sunset, Rainbow, RdYlBu, Spectral, Sunset, Toon Ocean, Twilight, Twilight Shifted, Viridis or YlGnBu.

Utilities for your own effects

RGB to CMYK, Voronoi, White Noise, Screen UV, Flipbook, Texture Sample and Debug Float.

How to use

1. Unzip the download and keep the Tex folder next to Compositor.blend (Glitch and Puddle read video files from it).
2. Add the folder as an asset library (Preferences > File Paths > Asset Libraries), or append from Compositor.blend.
3. In the Compositor, drag an effect in from the Asset Browser and connect Image in and Image out.
4. For 3D-aware effects, enable the passes they ask for in View Layer Properties: Z (Depth), Normal, Position, or a Shader AOV as an object mask.
5. Tweak the inputs on the node. Most effects animate with the timeline.

Requirements

• Blender 5.2 or newer
• Works on Eevee and Cycles renders, and on footage or images (it's all compositor)

Demo video footage: "Spring" © Blender Foundation | studio.blender.org/films/spring | CC BY 4.0. The footage is not included in the product; every effect in the video is applied in the Blender compositor.