Google Summer of Code - 2026 Projects

Current State

The information on this page is still to be populated through the duration of the program.

Coding officially begins - 25 May
Midterm evaluation - 6 July - 10 July
Final evaluation - 24 August - 31 August

Communication

Development Forum

All Blender and code related topics will go to the devtalk forum. Here contributors will also post their weekly reports, and can ask for feedback on topics or share intermediate results with everyone.

chat.blender.org

For real-time discussions between contributors and mentors. Weekly meetings will be scheduled here as well.

Projects

Google has granted eight projects to the Blender Foundation.

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Compositor: New Nodes from Geometry Nodes

by Criss-Ivana
Mentor: Omar Emara
Proposal and Reports

General Brush Engine Improvements

by Jerry Wei
Mentor: Sean Kim
Proposal and Reports

Improved Mesh Smoothing for Blender

by Evan Luo
Mentor: Campbell Barton
Proposal and Reports

Improving Regression Test Coverage

by Yogeshgouda Patil
Mentor: Julian Eisel
Proposal and Reports

MaterialX Shader Authoring in Blender

by Owen O'Malley
Mentor: Sebastian Herholz
Proposal and Reports

Modeling: Improved Edge Loop Editing

by Henry Jiang
Mentor: Tariq Sulley
Proposal and Reports

OpenTimelineIO Support in VSE

by Bipin Yadav
Mentor: Aras Pranckevičius
Proposal and Reports

VSE: Strip Transition Handles

by il4n
Mentor: John Swenson
Proposal and Reports