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Google Summer of Code Update

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By on Google Summer of Code

No less than 17(!!) Blender projects have been awarded a Google Summer of Code grant.

Letterrip writes:

This year Google has been especially generous to Blender. We have the privilege of mentoring 17 students.

Some will be familiar faces from the Blender coding community, others are relatively new to the blender code base.

The talents of these students will be put to use all across the Blender core tool set as well as offering some exciting improvements and additions.

We would like to thank the many students who applied this year. We received a number of excellent proposals – many of them for the same areas including UV tools and Collada – which made for some difficult choices, with the number of excellent proposals being much greater than the number of slots available.

We are thrilled to see so much interest in Blender and would encourage students to get involved in Blender development outside of GSoC.

The list is too long to mention here - check it out on the link below. My favorite: camera tracker integration. What's your upcoming killer feature?

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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

54 Comments

  1. dsavi on

    3D audio will be sweet, also looking forward to camera tracker integration and GE nodes! So many awesome projects!

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  15. benni on

    A shame it takes so long for the these projects to get into trunk, now almost a year later none(?) of the projects of last years has been included yet.

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  16. benni on

    Eine Schande, es dauert so lange für die diese Projekte in den Stamm zu bekommen, jetzt fast ein Jahr später keine (?) Von den Projekten der letzten Jahre wurde noch nicht berücksichtigt.

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  17. ShoePie on

    What a great week for Blender! And congrats to the students.

    If I didn't already have PFHoe Pro it would be camera tracking :0) But they all sound great, I look forward to seeing what changes get made to the animation system.

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  18. ShoePie on

    Was für eine großartige Woche für Blender! Und Gratulation an die Schüler. Wenn ich nicht schon tat PFHoe Pro wäre Kamera-Tracking werden: 0) Aber sie alle gut klingen, ich freue mich zu sehen, welche Änderungen erhalten, um die Animation System gemacht zu suchen.

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  29. captainkirk on

    I've been doing some camera tracking today with voodoo and what's frustrated me the most has been going back and forth between voodoo and Blender. At least I won't have to do that for long. 3D sound is also something I've been looking forward to.

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  30. captainkirk on

    Ich habe seit einigen Kamera-Tracking heute mit Voodoo und was mich am meisten frustriert wurde hin und her zwischen Voodoo und Blender. Zumindest werde ich nicht haben, das zu tun für lange. 3D-Sound ist auch etwas, das ich gefreut.

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  31. FreeMind on

    "A shame it takes so long for the these projects to get into trunk, now almost a year later none(?) of the projects of last years has been included yet."

    @Benni The reason for that is the feature freeze for Blender 2.5.
    If they were for 2.49, they would have been implemented.

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  32. FreeMind on

    "Schade, dass es so lange dauert für die diese Projekte in den Stamm zu bekommen, jetzt fast ein Jahr später keine (?) Von den Projekten der letzten Jahre aufgenommen wurde noch nicht." @ Benni Der Grund dafür ist die Feature-Freeze für Blender 2.5. Wenn sie für 2.49, würden sie umgesetzt werden müssen.

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  36. The Fatsnacker on

    Schauen Sie sich die offenen Quellen Predator-Tracking-Software freigegeben, um alle von einem Doktorand. Was TFS

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  37. Simon on

    At least 2 of last years projects are in trunk I think, viewport optimizations and raytrace optimizations. And part of sculpt brush improvements.

    3d tracking will be awesome!

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  38. Simon on

    Mindestens 2 der letzten Jahre Projekte im Kofferraum sind denke ich, Viewport Optimierungen und raytrace Optimierungen. Und ein Teil formen Pinsel Verbesserungen. 3D-Tracking wird genial!

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  39. FreeMind on

    "Then we will hopefully see a lot of new features in the near future."
    To put it shortly, expect 2.6 to be mind blowing.

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  40. FreeMind on

    "Dann werden wir hoffentlich eine Menge neuer Features in naher Zukunft." Um es kurz, erwarten 2,6 bis Geist weht.

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  41. Thomas on

    Blender just keeps taking huge leaps in quality. It amazes me how much can be done to help one piece of software. This along with a new renderer from Brecht is going to be insane! :D

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  42. Thomas on

    Blender geht dann einfach große Sprünge in der Qualität. Es erstaunt mich, wie viel kann getan werden, um ein Stück Software zu helfen. Dies zusammen mit einer neuen Renderer von Brecht sein wird verrückt! : D

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  53. Oliver on

    UV wrapping sounds exciting but Suvro Sarker took up another difficult project it was for the exporter for Yafaray 0.1.2 for Blender 2.5x, it was going good too, but i think he disappeared and DarkTide took it up. I don't think hes gonna follow up on this one either..

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