Dalai Felinto has just released an update regarding Blender's development roadmap for 2023 on the Blender Developers Blog. This comes a few months after a post in the beginning of the year outlining the big projects in store for Blender's development in 2023, funded by development grants thanks to the development fund.
These are the projects currently supported by the Blender Development Fund ? https://t.co/mCoqH0tTOI #b3d #DevFund
— Blender Developers ? (@BlenderDev) May 5, 2023
Here is the full list of projects and developments, organized by order of scheduling within each category:
Cycles
- Light Linking
- Custom Normals
- Grease Pencil Integration
Extensions Platform
Character Animation
Viewport Compositor
EEVEE Next
Brush Assets
Grease Pencil 3.0
Physics & Simulation
- Simulation Nodes
- Node Operators
- Realtime Mode
- Node Tools R&D
Vulkan
- Compute Pipeline and Resources
- Graphic Pipeline
- Feature Complete
- Optimizations
UV Improvements
Check out the full blog post on the link below, and contribute to the dev fund to keep supporting Blender's development and the freedom to create!
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Node updates are probably the most exciting one. Eevee Next is looking cool too.