Google Summer of Code - 2025 Projects

Current State

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

Coding officially begins - 2 June
Midterm evaluation - 14 - 18 July
Final evaluation - 1 September - 8 September

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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Improving Sampling in the Compositor

by Benjamin Beilharz
Mentor: Habib Gahbiche
Proposal and Reports

Improving Regression Test Coverage for the Compositor

by Ian Yoo
Mentor: Thomas Dinges
Proposal and Reports

Compositor: Glare Node Enhancement

by Mohamed-Hassan
Mentor: Omar Emara
Proposal and Reports

Optimizing Mesh and Multires Sculpting Performance in Blender

by Namit Bhutani
Mentor: Hans Goudey
Proposal and Reports

Create Keyframes in VSE Preview

by Ramón_1
Mentor: Richard Antalik
Proposal and Reports

Edit-Mesh Mirror Improvements

by Tariq
Mentor: Campbell Barton
Proposal and Reports

Pitch Correction for Sound Playback in Sequencer

by TheKaceFiles
Mentor: Aras Pranckevičius
Proposal and Reports

Adding handy features and UI improvements to Flamenco

by Vivian Leung
Mentor: Sybren Stüvel
Proposal and Reports