About

CGI Tools

A workbench for CG and VFX artists: the lookup values, calculators and references you need mid-shot, in one dense place designed to sit next to your DCC. Star things, arrange your Workbench tiles, tune the accent — it's your dashboard.

Built by Pascal M. Wiemers. Feedback and ideas are welcome through the site linked there.

Your data

Everything you save — favorites, Workbench layouts, notes, checklist, project info, copy history, theme and accent — lives in this browser's local storage. Nothing is sent anywhere. Move it between browsers or machines with a settings file:

Data sources & licenses

• physicallybased.info

  PBR material database (MIT-licensed) by Anton Palmqvist — powers the PBR Materials browser, the complex-IOR table and the metal cheat sheet, served from a dated snapshot.

• refractiveindex.info

  Refractive-index database by Mikhail Polyanskiy (data CC0) — the measurement source behind the IOR values.

• Awesome CG/VFX Pipeline

  Community-curated pipeline tool list by CGWire — powers the Awesome CG tab.

• 3Dassets.one

  Federated search across free texture/HDRI/model libraries — powers the Asset Search tab.

Keyboard

• ⌘Ksearch everything — tools, IOR values, materials, sites
• 1 – 9, 0jump to a tool (sidebar order)
• ?show the shortcut overlay