# animate1978/MB-Lab

MB-Lab is a character creation tool for Blender 4.0 and above, based off ManuelBastioniLAB

Repository: https://github.com/animate1978/MB-Lab
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mb-lab
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: manuelbastionilab, blender, python, addon, blender-addon
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-07-21T02:46:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2845, "days_push": 773, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2024, forks 347 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:06.688643+00:00)

## What it is
MB-Lab is a Blender addon for parametric 3D human character creation, forked from the discontinued ManuelBastioniLAB. It generates and customizes humanoid characters with morphing, skin shaders, and anime models, requiring Blender 4.0+.

## Use cases
- create realistic 3d human characters in blender
- generate customizable humanoid base meshes
- make anime-style characters in blender
- morph and tweak body and face parameters of a character model
- replace manuelbastionilab for blender 4.0

## When to choose
- you need parametric human character generation inside Blender 4.0+
- you want an open-source alternative to paid character creation tools
- you want anime-style characters with the UCSS CEL shader

## When to avoid
- you need active development - the project has moved to Charmorph
- you rely on BVH animation import or hair presets, which have known bugs
- you use Blender versions older than 4.0

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: graphics, gui, image-processing
- domain: graphics, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: blender-addon, character-creation, 3d-modeling, human-models, manuelbastionilab-fork, game-development, desktop

## Member repositories
- animate1978/MB-Lab (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:06.688643+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:59:49.002620+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/animate1978/MB-Lab (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:06.688643+00:00, sha 1e8d6364dba6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.