diff --git a/openpype/hosts/blender/plugins/publish/validate_no_colons_in _name.py b/openpype/hosts/blender/plugins/publish/validate_no_colons_in _name.py
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+++ b/openpype/hosts/blender/plugins/publish/validate_no_colons_in _name.py	
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+from typing import List
+
+import pyblish.api
+import openpype.hosts.blender.api.action
+
+
+class ValidateNoColonsInName(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
+    """There cannot be colons in names
+
+    Object or bone names cannot include colons. Other software do not
+    handle colons correctly.
+
+    """
+
+    order = openpype.api.ValidateContentsOrder
+    hosts = ["blender"]
+    families = ["model", "rig"]
+    version = (0, 1, 0)
+    label = "No Colons in names"
+    actions = [openpype.hosts.blender.api.action.SelectInvalidAction]
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_invalid(cls, instance) -> List:
+        invalid = []
+        for obj in [obj for obj in instance]:
+            if ':' in obj.name:
+                invalid.append(obj)
+            if obj.type == 'ARMATURE':
+                for bone in obj.data.bones:
+                    if ':' in bone.name:
+                        invalid.append(obj)
+                        break
+        return invalid
+
+    def process(self, instance):
+        invalid = self.get_invalid(instance)
+        if invalid:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"Objects found with colon in name: {invalid}")
diff --git a/openpype/hosts/blender/plugins/publish/validate_transform_zero.py b/openpype/hosts/blender/plugins/publish/validate_transform_zero.py
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+++ b/openpype/hosts/blender/plugins/publish/validate_transform_zero.py
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+from typing import List
+
+import mathutils
+
+import pyblish.api
+import openpype.hosts.blender.api.action
+
+
+class ValidateTransformZero(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
+    """Transforms can't have any values
+
+    To solve this issue, try freezing the transforms. So long
+    as the transforms, rotation and scale values are zero,
+    you're all good.
+
+    """
+
+    order = openpype.api.ValidateContentsOrder
+    hosts = ["blender"]
+    families = ["model"]
+    category = "geometry"
+    version = (0, 1, 0)
+    label = "Transform Zero"
+    actions = [openpype.hosts.blender.api.action.SelectInvalidAction]
+
+    _identity = mathutils.Matrix()
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_invalid(cls, instance) -> List:
+        invalid = []
+        for obj in [obj for obj in instance]:
+            if obj.matrix_basis != cls._identity:
+                invalid.append(obj)
+        return invalid
+
+    def process(self, instance):
+        invalid = self.get_invalid(instance)
+        if invalid:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"Object found in instance is not in Object Mode: {invalid}")