Creative professionals look to technology to expand what's possible in their work. Claude can't replace taste or imagination, but it can open up new ways of working—faster and more ambitious ideation, a more expansive skill set, and the ability for creatives to take on larger-scale projects. AI can also help shoulder the parts of the creative process that eat up time by handling repetitive tasks and eliminating manual toil. Key to both these goals is integrating Claude into the tools the creative industry already knows and trusts.

Today, we’re releasing a set of connectors—tools that let Claude work alongside the software creative professionals rely on, so creatives can extend their reach.

Connecting Claude to creative tools

Connectors allow Claude to access other platforms and tools directly. We are adding several new connectors that are designed to make it easier to use Claude for creative work:

• Ableton grounds Claude’s answers in official product documentation for Live and Push.
• Adobe for creativity enables users to bring images, videos, and designs to life, drawing from 50+ tools across Creative Cloud apps including Photoshop, Premiere, Express, and more.
• Affinity by Canva automates repetitive production tasks across pro creative workflows - such as batch image adjustments, layer renaming, and file export - and generates custom features directly in the app.
• Autodesk Fusion allows designers and engineers with a Fusion subscription to create and modify 3D models through conversations with Claude.
• Blender offers a natural-language interface to its Python API, allowing users to explore and understand complex setups and making it easier to access Blender’s documentation.
• Resolume Arena and Resolume Wire let VJs and live visual artists control Arena, Avenue, and Wire in real time through natural language for live performance and AV production.
• SketchUp turns a conversation with Claude into a starting point for 3D modeling—describe a room, a piece of furniture, or a site concept, then open it in SketchUp to refine.
• Splice gives music producers the ability to search its catalog of royalty-free samples from within Claude.

Using Claude for creative work

Here are a few of the ways Claude can be used for creative tasks:

• Learning and mastering creative tools: Claude can act as an on-demand tutor for complex software. You can ask it to explain a modifier stack, walk you through a synthesis technique, or demonstrate an unfamiliar feature, and it will show you how to use it.
• Extending tools with code: Claude Code can write scripts, plugins, and generative systems for the software you already use. You can ask it to build a custom shader, script a procedural animation, or generate parametric models, and it will produce documented code you can reuse and modify.
• Bridging tools in a pipeline: Claude can translate formats, restructure data, and keep assets in sync across a project that spans multiple applications, so you can move work between design, 3D, and audio tools without manual handoffs.
• Enabling rapid exploration and handoff: Claude Design is a new product from Anthropic Labs that can be used to explore ideas for software experiences. Claude can visualize options and iterate on them based on your feedback. It’s built to export the results to other tools, starting with Canva.
• Taking care of repetitive production work: Claude can handle multi-step tasks like batch-processing assets, setting up project scaffolding, or applying procedural changes across a scene, reducing busywork.

Claude and Blender

Blender is a free, open-source 3D creation suite used across industries, from indie game development and motion graphics to architectural visualization and film production.

The Blender developers have created an MCP connector, which is now officially available for Claude. For example, 3D artists can use the Blender connector to analyze and debug entire Blender scenes, or build custom scripts to batch-apply changes to objects in a scene. And using Blender’s Python API, the connector lets Claude add new tools directly to Blender’s interface.

Anthropic has made a donation to support the Blender project as they continue to develop their Python API, which makes integrations like this possible. And because the connector is built on MCP, it is accessible to other LLMs in addition to Claude, a reflection of Blender’s commitment to open source and interoperability.

Working with students and educators

We’re also working with art and design programs to support curricula that involve creative computation. The first three such programs are Art and Computation at Rhode Island School of Design, Fundamentals of AI for Creatives at Ringling College of Art and Design, and the MA/MFA Computational Arts program at Goldsmiths, University of London. Students and faculty will get access to Claude and the new connectors, and their feedback will help us understand what creative practitioners need from these tools. We look forward to learning from them, and to expanding the program to more institutions in the future.

Updated May 1, 2026: Blender has elected to receive Anthropic's contribution as a one-time donation rather than through the Blender Development Fund; the post has been revised to reflect this. Accordingly, we've also edited the wording used to describe the collaborations listed.