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  • Published 28 Dec 2025

Animation Browser for action editor and NLA editor Workflow

Currently in blender, we browse through the slot in action editor to find the find desired animation. The more animation we have, the messy these existing system will become.

May be having an action browser make the process a bit more organized and easy to work with. When we create an action in the action editor the action gets stored in animation broweser. Which we select and the action editor changes action to the selected action in the animation browser. We also create collections and group different actions.

These kind of feature makes blender more enhance in animation pipe line. Animators can share through animation browsers, making blender for collaborative worflows for animators. Also these there will be a visual representation of animations from thumbnail. animation browser ai gen img.jpg sorry for using generated image, but i hope i shown the idea proper. May be some text and UI style is incorrect.Only image is AI Generated, idea is real.

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suhail1
28 Dec 2025

2 Comments

sheldon_j

This would be a great feature for sure. But I think they stated that no more updates will be done on the NLA. This is because they plan to work on a new system with animation layer. So hoping they can add something like what you stated in it. HOPING!

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suhail1 Author

don't have to be on NLA editor, just need a library store animations like storing poses in pose library. If u guys support these, the developers would consider these, we could have amazing feature, if not they won't even notice these!!!