Modules

Modules

This is an overview of the modules that Blender contributors organize themselves in. New contributors to the Blender project can find the right point of contact for design or code review here.

Module owners have responsibility for the module and make decisions when needed. The list of developers reflects which developers are active in each module. Anyone actively contributing code can be listed as a developer, there is no formal process to join.

Read more about the roles of module owners and members.

See the top-parent task for the module owner todos on developer.blender.org as well.

Blender

Blender Foundation Chairman: Ton Roosendaal
Development Coordinators: Dalai Felinto, Nathan Letwory
Lead Architect: Brecht Van Lommel
Admins: Brecht Van Lommel, Campbell Barton, Bastien Montagne, Sergey Sharybin, Dalai Felinto

The admins take decisions regarding the overall Blender project, when no consensus can be reached among contributors.

Development Management

Projects: under development or planned

	Developers
Feature / code / design review	Brecht Van Lommel
Release, bug tracker, communication	Dalai Felinto
Documentation, forum, new contributors / onboarding, infrastructure	Nathan Letwory

User Interface

Coordinator: William Reynish
Owners: William Reynish, Pablo Vazquez, Campbell Barton, Brecht Van Lommel
Projects: under development or planned
Paper cuts: small projects for new and existing contributors

	Developers
User Interface	Pablo Vazquez, William Reynish, Campbell Barton, Brecht Van Lommel, Julian Eisel, Harley Acheson
Window Manager	Campbell Barton, Brecht Van Lommel, Julian Eisel
Drawing & OpenGL	Clément Foucault
Internationalization	Bastien Montagne
Tools & Operators	Campbell Barton, Julian Eisel
Outliner	Brecht Van Lommel, Dalai Felinto

Modeling

Coordinator: Campbell Barton
Owners: Campbell Barton, Bastien Montagne, Howard Trickey
Projects: under development or planned

	Developers
Meshes, Modifiers	Campbell Barton, Bastien Montagne, Howard Trickey
NURBS, Curves, Text	Campbell Barton, Bastien Montagne, Sergey Sharybin
Metaballs
Transform & Snap	Campbell Barton, Germano Cavalcante
UV Editor	Brecht Van Lommel, Campbell Barton
OpenSubdiv	Sergey Sharybin

Sculpt, Paint, Texture

Coordinator: Jeroen Bakker
Owners: Campbell Barton, Bastien Montagne, Jeroen Bakker
Projects: under development or planned

	Developers
Sculpting	Pablo Dobarro
Texture Painting	Campbell Barton
Texture Nodes	End of life, to be replaced with shading nodes

Animation

Coordinator: Sybren Stüvel
Owners: Joshua Leung, Alexander Gavrilov, Sybren Stüvel, Hjalti Hjálmarsson, Jason Schleifer, Luciano Muñoz Sessarego.
Projects: under development or planned

	Developers
Animation Editors & Tools	Joshua Leung, Alexander Gavrilov, Sybren Stüvel, Sergey Sharybin
Inverse Kinematics	Brecht Van Lommel

Grease Pencil

Coordinator: Antonio Vazquez
Owners: Antonio Vazquez, Charlie Jolly, Daniel Lara, Matias Mendiola
Projects: under development or planned

Eevee & Viewport

Coordinator: Clément Foucault
Owners: Clément Foucault, Jeroen Bakker, Dalai Felinto
Projects: under development or planned

	Developers
Eevee	Clément Foucault
Workbench, Overlays	Clément Foucault, Jeroen Bakker
GPU, OpenGL, Vulkan	Clément Foucault, Germano Cavalcante
Multiview	Dalai Felinto
Virtual-Reality	Dalai Felinto, Julian Eisel

Render & Cycles

Coordinator: Brecht Van Lommel
Owners: Brecht Van Lommel, Sergey Sharybin, Stefan Werner, Lukas Stockner
Projects: under development or planned
Cycles Project Wiki

	Developers
Cycles	Brecht Van Lommel, Sergey Sharybin, Stefan Werner, Lukas Stockner
Render APIs	Brecht Van Lommel
Freestyle	Tamito Kajiyama
Baking	Dalai Felinto, Brecht Van Lommel
Color Management	Brecht Van Lommel, Sergey Sharybin

Data, Assets & I/O

Coordinator: Bastien Montagne
Owners: Bastien Montagne, Sybren Stüvel
Projects: under development or planned

	Developers
Data-Blocks Management	Bastien Montagne
Append & Link & Override	Bastien Montagne
Asset Manager	Bastien Montagne
COLLADA	Gaia Clary
Alembic	Sybren Stüvel
File Browser	Bastien Montagne
DNA & RNA	Campbell Barton, Bastien Montagne, Brecht Van Lommel

Python & Add-ons

Coordinator: Campbell Barton, Bastien Montagne
Owners: Campbell Barton, Bastien Montagne, Brendon Murphy
Projects: under development or planned

	Developers
Python API	Campbell Barton, Bastien Montagne, Andrew Hale, Jacques Lucke
Add-ons	Campbell Barton, Bastien Montagne, Brendon Murphy, Jacques Lucke, Sybren Stüvel
Console Editor	Campbell Barton
Text Editor	Campbell Barton

VFX & Video

Coordinator: Sergey Sharybin
Owners: Sergey Sharybin, Jeroen Bakker, Richard Antalík, Sebastian Koenig, Sean Kennedy
Projects: under development or planned

	Owners
Video Sequencer	Richard Antalík
Compositor	Jeroen Bakker, Sergey Sharybin
Motion Tracking	Sergey Sharybin
Libmv	Sergey Sharybin
Audio	Jörg Müller

Nodes & Physics

Coordinator: Sebastián Barschkis
Owners: Jacques Lucke, Sergey Sharybin, Brecht Van Lommel, Sybren Stüvel, Sebastián Barschkis
Projects: under development or planned

	Owners
Particle Nodes	Jacques Lucke
Dependency Graph	Sergey Sharybin
Rigid Body	Sergej Reich
Particles & Hair	End of life, to be replaced with new systems
Cloth	Luca Rood
Fluid & Smoke	End of life, to be replaced with Mantaflow
Mantaflow	Sebastián Barschkis
Softbody	None
Node Editor	Brecht Van Lommel

Platforms, Builds & Tests

Platform maintainers typically perform the following tasks:

• Release builds.
• Build 3rd party libraries for releases.
• Keep the build-system working.

Projects: under development or planned

	Owners
Linux	Sergey Sharybin, Bastien Montagne
Windows	Ray Molenkamp, Brecht Van Lommel
macOS	Arto Kitula, Brecht Van Lommel
Build System	Campbell Barton
Automated Tests