{"slug": "using-blender-with-coding-agents-on-macos", "title": "Using Blender with coding agents on macOS", "summary": "Simon Willison demonstrated that Blender can be controlled by coding agents on macOS by installing the full Mac application from blender.org and prompting ChatGPT Codex to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle, then enhancing it with additional prompts. The image was generated using Blender's Python API, and while covered by his Codex subscription, it would have cost $4.24 at API prices for gpt-6-astra according to AgentsView.", "body_md": "**TIL:** [Using Blender with coding agents on macOS](https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/blender-coding-agents-macos)\n\nI've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac application from [blender.org](https://www.blender.org) and run a prompt like this:\n\n`Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle`\n\nIn this case I followed that up with these two prompts:\n\n`OK add a background and a lot of flair`\n\nThen:\n\n`OK make it a whole lot better`\n\nAnd got this image, generated [using Blender's Python API](https://github.com/simonw/gpt-6-astra-blender-pelican-bicycle/blob/main/work/pelican_final.py):\n\nThis was covered by my existing Codex subscription, but according to [AgentsView](https://github.com/kenn-io/agentsview) it would have cost $4.24 at API prices for `gpt-6-astra`.\n\nTags: [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms), [blender](https://simonwillison.net/tags/blender), [pelican-riding-a-bicycle](https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle), [coding-agents](https://simonwillison.net/tags/coding-agents), [gpt-6-astra](https://simonwillison.net/tags/gpt-6-astra)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/using-blender-with-coding-agents-on-macos", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/5/blender-coding-agents-macos/", "published_at": "2026-09-05 15:51:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 22:00:59.233348+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-tools", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Simon Willison", "Blender", "ChatGPT Codex", "blender.org", "AgentsView", "gpt-6-astra"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/using-blender-with-coding-agents-on-macos", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/using-blender-with-coding-agents-on-macos.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/using-blender-with-coding-agents-on-macos.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/using-blender-with-coding-agents-on-macos.jsonld"}}