Avastar review
A focused Blender toolkit for rigging, animating, and exporting virtual-world avatars.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Avastar is a Blender add-on for creating, fitting, rigging, posing, animating, and exporting avatars and attachments for Second Life and OpenSim. It is aimed at content creators working with virtual-world characters, clothing, attachments, and animations. Reference avatar characters, shape sliders, fitted-mesh workflows, and developer-kit support give creators a dedicated workflow for preparing assets around these platforms. Human and non-human mesh support also makes it relevant to projects that extend beyond standard avatar forms.
The product uses a paid model with two listed options. Purchase provides a full product license for new customers, while Renewal is intended for renewing or extending support access. The published starting price is 36, and there is no free plan. This structure suits creators who need a dedicated tool for ongoing Second Life or OpenSim work, but it gives prospective users less room to evaluate the product through a free tier before committing.
Avastar’s main strength is the depth of its virtual-world rigging workflow inside Blender. It combines weight inspection, editing, copying, and automatic bone-based binding with pose tools, motion transfer, animation-priority management, and rig-conversion workflows. Exports cover Collada (.dae) for rigged meshes and Second Life .anim or BVH for skeletal animation. Choose Avastar if Blender is already part of your workflow and your target is Second Life or OpenSim. Creators seeking a broader range of hosts, platforms, or general-purpose rigging pipelines should consider a less specialized option.
Avastar pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Supports human and non-human mesh rigging
- Includes weight editing and fitted-mesh workflows
- Exports Collada, Second Life .anim, and BVH files
- Where it doesn't
- Works as a Blender host plugin
- Focused on Second Life and OpenSim workflows
- No free plan is available
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