Claude integrates into Adobe, Blender and other creative apps

Anthropic said on April 28 it added nine Claude connectors for creative software, including Adobe, Blender, Ableton, Autodesk Fusion, SketchUp and Splice. (anthropic.com) The company said the connectors let Claude work alongside existing apps instead of replacing them, handling tasks such as editing help, asset search, scripting and file handoffs. (anthropic.com) Adobe’s connector covers more than 50 Creative Cloud tools, including Photoshop, Premiere and Express, according to Anthropic’s announcement. (anthropic.com) Blender’s connector gives Claude a natural-language interface to Blender’s Python application programming interface, which Anthropic said can help users inspect scenes, write scripts and pull documentation. (anthropic.com) (macrumors.com) The other connectors target specific production jobs. Ableton ties Claude to Live and Push documentation, Autodesk Fusion lets subscribers create and modify 3D models through chat, and Splice lets producers search royalty-free samples from Claude. (anthropic.com) Affinity by Canva is aimed at repetitive production work such as batch image adjustments, layer renaming and file export, while SketchUp turns a text description into a starting point for a 3D model. (anthropic.com) Anthropic also included Resolume Arena and Resolume Wire, which it said can be controlled in real time with natural language for live visuals and audio-visual production. (anthropic.com) The release builds on Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, or MCP, an open standard the company introduced on November 25, 2024 for connecting artificial intelligence assistants to outside tools and data sources. (anthropic.com) Anthropic has been pushing further into creative work this month. On April 17, it introduced Claude Design, a separate research-preview product for making visual work such as prototypes, slides and one-pagers. (anthropic.com) Tuesday’s update moves that strategy into the software many creators already use, with Claude positioned as a helper inside the workflow rather than a standalone design app. (anthropic.com)