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
Criss-Ivana
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
Evan Luo
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
Henry Jiang
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
il4n
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
Jerry Wei
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
Owen O'Malley
Blender currently supports exporting MaterialX within USD, but lacks meaningful support for authoring or executing MaterialX-standard shader graphs...
Improving Regression Test Coverage
Yogeshgouda_Patil
Blender's UI regression test suite leaves most of the editor surface untested in CI, meaning regressions are caught only by manual review. This...