Lattice Magic
This add-on adds two major lattice-based deformation tools as well as some minor additional utilities for lattices to Blender.
Documentation can be found here.
Tweak Lattice
This tool lets you quickly deform a set of mesh objects, similar to Proportional Editing. Except instead of just a fire-and-forget operation, this is done with an object in 3D space, which can be parented to your deforming character, follow their armature deformation, and be animated!
Camera Lattice
This tool lets you deform a collection of objects from a particular camera perspective, essentially like Liquify, except it's operating on vertices instead of pixels. Although lattice points cannot be animated, the add-on provides a workflow for easily managing a set of shapekeys and their keyframes, to help you work with this liquification in an animation.
Both tools were designed to be used for character animation tweaks in a production environment, and so they fully work with linked and overridden animated characters.
What's New
1.0.1 August 29th, 2025
I've apparently been sitting on this version for 10 months not realizing I didn't release it, whoops!
- New automatic parenting option, which is the default behaviour, which will parent the lattice to the same bones as the deforming bones of the nearest vertex to the cursor. This means:
- You no longer need to figure out which bone you want to parent your lattice to.
- The lattice now follows the deforming vertex even if it's deformed by many bones. (But not if it's deformed by shape keys or other modifiers!)
- Fixes the lattice not spawning at the cursor when selecting a parent.
- The old behaviour of manually selecting a parent bone is still there, just have to switch the "Parenting Method" option from "Automatic" to "Manual".
- The "Automatic" option will throw an error when the mesh you're trying to lattice deform is not deformed by any bones.
- Replace fall-off expression with preset fall-off shapes (Linear, Smooth, Root, Sphere, etc). Much more artist friendly, and easier to try out different falloff shapes and see what you like.
- "Adjust Falloff" operator is no longer an operator, just a set of properties in the UI.
- Added poll messages, so if an operator isn't available, the UI will now tell you why.
Really great addon! The camera lattice tool is super helpful for pushing more cartoony animations. One suggestion would be to also have the lattice apply to grease pencil objects as well, it works great with them but its just a little cumbersome manually adding new lattices.
I was looking for a way to make some smear frames and although this isn't what I ended up using, this is still a great tool.