Blender Foundation

The Freedom to Create

Technologies
c, python, opengl, c++, vulkan
Topics
games, graphics, 3d, rendering, animation
The Freedom to Create
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.
2023 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
MelissaGoon
Mentor
Campbell Barton
Organization
Blender Foundation
UV Editor Improvements
The goal of this project is to implement user-suggested improvements to the UV Editor tools in order to help users create UV maps more easily. The...
Contributor
shinbay
Mentor
Julian Eisel
Organization
Blender Foundation
Outliner Tree Element Refactoring
This project aims to port the remaining tree elements to the new object-oriented design of the Outliner codebase. The project will involve creating...
Contributor
Eveline Anderson
Mentor
Sybren Stüvel
Organization
Blender Foundation
Improve Distributed Rendering & Task Execution under Flamenco.
Summary from Official Website description: Last year Flamenco had a major release. It is more popular than ever, but still missing certain key...
Contributor
Colin Marmond
Mentor
Brecht Van Lommel
Organization
Blender Foundation
Node preview in the shader editor
The node previews in the shader editor had been removed when Eevee replaced the Internal render engine. This project ’s aim is to bring it back....
Contributor
Lucas Tadeu Teixeira
Mentor
Richard Antalik
Organization
Blender Foundation
Improve Waveform drawing speed
Blender supports video editing through its video sequence editor. While the editor allows users to load videos and audio files, computing the audio...