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Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite, providing individuals and small teams a complete pipeline for 3D graphics, modeling, animation and games. Blender is being made by 100s of active volunteers from all around the world; by studios and individual artists, professionals and hobbyists, scientists and students, vfx experts and animators, and so on. All of them are united by an interest to have access to a fully free/open source 3D creation pipeline. Blender Foundation supports and facilitates these goals - even employs a staff for that - but fully depends on the online community to achieve it.
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OpenTimelineIO Support in VSE
The Goal of this project is to add the functionality to import and export OpenTimelineIO (.otio) files in Blender. OpenTimelineIO is an open-source...
Compositor: New Nodes from Geometry Nodes
As highlighted during the 2025 Blender Conference, one of the primary challenges facing the Compositor is managing complexity. To address this, the...
Improved Mesh Smoothing for Blender
Blender’s edit-mode smooth operator is a simple iterative uniform Laplacian average. While functional for light cleanup, it has four fundamental...
Modeling: Improved Edge Loop Editing
This task involves various enhancements, such as: "Clone" Support for Edge Slide: An option for the Edge Slide tool which, when enabled, duplicates...
VSE: Strip Transition Handles
Currently transitions in VSE (Blender's video editor) have usability issues, as transitions can't be on the same channel as the input strips, and...
General Brush Engine Improvements
Features 1. Per-brush opt-in for scene-level brush settings (“use unified xxx”). 2. Brush tip roundness (currently available in limited brushes). 3....
MaterialX Shader Authoring in Blender
Blender currently supports exporting MaterialX within USD, but lacks meaningful support for authoring or executing MaterialX-standard shader graphs...
Improving Regression Test Coverage
Blender's UI regression test suite leaves most of the editor surface untested in CI, meaning regressions are caught only by manual review. This...
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