Get VFX artist Thomas Marcos’ free Blender clouds shader

It’s here! The Procedural Clouds Shader is now available for free!🌥️

Can’t wait to see how you’ll use it in your projects.
Details and link below 👇#b3d pic.twitter.com/AQalJq5gix

— Thomas Marcos (@thomas__marcos) April 21, 2025

VFX artist and tools developer Thomas Marcos has released a handy free Procedural Clouds Shader for Blender.

The lightweight shader is designed for use in real production conditions, and is compatible with Blender’s Eevee and Cycles renderers.

A lightweight cloud shader for VFX and motion graphics production
Marcos has over five years’ experience in VFX, as a 3D Generalist at Belgian studios benuts and Mac Guff Belgium, and the cloud shader is designed for a “production-like context”.

It generates realistic-looking cloud layers without external textures, with the clouds shown in the demo video above rendering in 30-60 seconds per frame.

Price and system requirements
Thomas Marcos’s Procedural Clouds Shader compatible with Blender 4.4+. It’s free, but if you like it, you can make a voluntary donation when downloading the file.

Download the free Blender Procedural Clouds Shader from Thomas Marcos’s Gumroad store
(Enter a figure of €0 to download the add-on for free, or add a voluntary tip)

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