SHOT DIRECTOR

More Than Lighting. A Complete Product Studio for Blender.

Build a Complete Product Studio in Seconds. Save Hours of Manual Setup.

Stop building every product presentation from scratch.

Shot Director is a Blender add-on that analyzes your 3D product and automatically creates a tailored studio setup with lighting, cameras, backgrounds, and presentation elements — all in just a few clicks.

Every Product Gets Its Own Tailored Studio Setup.

Unlike generic studio presets that apply the same setup to every object, Shot Director's Auto mode analyzes the selected product's geometry, dimensions, proportions, colors, and material properties to create a presentation adapted to that specific model.

Scene layout, lighting configuration, camera framing, color palette, and decorative elements are automatically selected and adjusted based on the product's characteristics.

Different products. Different setups. Just one click.

Beyond automatic studio creation, Shot Director also lets you explore shot variations, customize individual settings, and create product or camera animations — all within Blender.

Select your product. Let Shot Director build the setup. Refine the result when needed.

SMART PRODUCT ANALYSIS

Every product is different. Your studio setup should respond to those differences.

Shot Director examines your selected 3D model and estimates:

• Product dimensions, proportions, and shape

• Representative material colors

• Metallic and roughness properties

• Transparency and glass-like material characteristics

• Surface appearance and color characteristics

These properties are used to automatically tailor the scene layout, color palette, lighting, camera positioning, and visual composition to the selected product, creating a product-specific presentation rather than a one-size-fits-all studio setup.

The analysis is based on geometry and material properties, not AI-based product category recognition.

AUTOMATIC STUDIO SCENE CREATION

Start with your own 3D model and generate a product display environment without assembling the entire studio manually.

Six available scene layouts:

• Studio

• Gallery

• Architectural

• Floating

• Cyclorama

• Editorial Set

Choose automatic scene recommendations or select a layout manually.

Shot Director can generate backgrounds, floors, podiums, and simple geometric decorations such as rings, panels, slabs, discs, beams, and walls.

Podiums can be round, square, floating, or disabled.

Scene elements are sized relative to the product.

MATERIAL-AWARE LIGHTING

Lighting is generated with the product's analyzed surface properties in mind.

Shot Director creates a four-light studio setup:

• Key Light

• Fill Light

• Rim Light

• Top Light

The lighting configuration responds to material characteristics and the selected visual style.

Six lighting and presentation styles:

Commercial, Luxury, Clean, Dramatic, Soft, and Editorial.

You can adjust lighting power, light size and softness, and light color.

Choose automatic lighting colors or use Warm, Cool, or Custom settings.

AUTOMATIC CAMERA SETUP

Shot Director creates three product cameras:

• Hero Camera

• Alternate Camera

• Front Camera

Camera positioning and framing take product dimensions and proportions into account.

You can also select camera angles manually and override the lens focal length.

GIVE ME ANOTHER SHOT

Want to explore another presentation direction?

Use Give Me Another Shot to generate a new variation using changes to camera placement, lighting parameters, and automatic scene colors or decorations where applicable.

Manual settings remain available when you want more control.

Explore alternatives without rebuilding the studio from the beginning.

66 PRODUCT & CAMERA ANIMATION OPTIONS

Shot Director goes beyond static product images with two independent animation systems.

25 Object Animation Options

Includes movements such as:

• 360° Spin and Reverse Spin

• Half Turn and Quarter Turn

• Lift, Drop, and Float

• Bounce, Rock, and Sway

• Slide, Pulse, and Reveal

• Jump, Shake, and Pop In

• Circle and Helix

41 Camera Animation Options

Includes movements such as:

• Full Orbit and Half Orbit

• Dolly In and Dolly Out

• Crane and Truck movements

• Camera Reveals

• Spiral In and Spiral Out

• Hero Sweep

• Dynamic Drift

Adjust animation timing, speed, motion amount, camera travel, and easing.

Object and camera animations can be applied independently.

Animations generate Blender keyframes, ready for rendering through Blender's normal animation workflow.

QUICK TOOLS & MANUAL CONTROL

You don't have to regenerate everything when you only want to change one part of the setup.

Quick Tools allow you to rebuild:

• Scene

• Lighting

• Cameras

Additional controls include scene color, background, podium, decorations, camera settings, and output resolution presets.

Use Remove Generated Setup to remove Shot Director-generated elements and restore saved scene-level camera, world, and resolution settings.

WHY CHOOSE SHOT DIRECTOR?

More than a lighting rig.

Instead of focusing only on light placement, Shot Director combines product analysis, scene generation, lighting, cameras, shot variations, and animation tools in one workflow.

Product-aware setup. Automatic decisions are informed by geometry and material characteristics rather than using the same settings for every object.

Faster scene preparation. Generate the main studio elements from your selected model instead of positioning every element manually.

Creative control. Use Auto settings for a starting point or override individual parameters.

Static shots and animation. Prepare product images and animated presentations using the same add-on.

HOW TO USE

1. Select your 3D product in Blender.

2. Click Use Active Object and, optionally, Analyze Product.

3. Choose Auto settings or customize the scene, lighting, and cameras.

4. Click DIRECT MY PRODUCT.

5. Explore variations with Give Me Another Shot.

6. Optionally apply object or camera animation.

7. Render your result using Blender.

REQUIREMENTS & NOTES

• Blender 4.2 or newer

• Your own 3D product model

• No external AI service or cloud connection required

• Works using Blender's built-in functionality

• Studio objects, lights, and cameras are generated; product models are not included or automatically created

• Final visual quality depends on product materials, geometry, render settings, and any manual adjustments

SHOT DIRECTOR — Analyze. Direct. Light. Animate.