Easy Custom Normals — Clean Toon & Anime Shading

Easy Custom Normals is a Geometry-Nodes-based Blender toolset for authoring clean custom vertex normals, the fix for anime and toon characters that look great in wireframe but go blotchy the moment you light them. The free tier includes the Laplacian Smooth + Weighted Normals modifier that instantly cleans up shading even on imperfect topology; a paid Pro tier adds an Anime Face Proxy system.

If your anime-style character looks great in wireframe and wrong the moment you light it, the problem usually isn’t your model. It’s your normals.

Distorted normals are why cheeks get blotchy, jaws catch weird shadows, and faces read as lumpy no matter how clean the topology is.

Easy Custom Normals is a free, Geometry Nodes–based Blender add-on that smooths them out.

What’s the shading problem that took you longest to diagnose?

Creator: Fondant · Price: Free tier + Pro (paid) · Get it: Gumroad