Saturday, 5th September 2026
I've been having fun with Blender in ChatGPT Codex on my Mac recently. Getting it to work with coding agents is really easy: install the full Mac application from blender.org and run a prompt like this:
Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle
In this case I followed that up with these two prompts:
OK add a background and a lot of flair
Then:
OK make it a whole lot better
And got this image, generated using Blender's Python API:
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers (via) Blink and you'll miss it, but there's a familiar creature at 1m59s:
Across the board, Astra has more attention to detail, better understanding of the user's prompt, and can build more sophisticated outputs. In particular, it excels at building 3D models. I've seen it make incredible renderings of gardens, shipyards, animals, cityscapes, even Dyson spheres.
Astra really does believe in putting a red neckerchief on a pelican riding a bicycle.