Welcome to the FOSDEM 2026 Media Creation Tools Devroom Call For Participation. The contributor communities of Blender, Godot, Krita, and other popular media creation tools are gathering at the largest open source software event of the year to discuss roadmaps, ongoing and upcoming projects, challenges. If you are running an open source project in the media creation space: connect, join, and share your story!

• Submission deadline: Dec. 1, 2025
• Announcement of selected talks: Dec 15, 2025
• Conference dates: Jan 31 and Feb 1, 2026
• Media Creation Tools devroom date: TBC

The default duration for talks is from 15 to 30 minutes, including discussion. If your proposal is selected, you will receive an email confirmation with further instructions.

The devroom focuses on media creation software and tools. From well-established to new, up-and-coming projects, everyone is welcome. The talks can cover the following subjects:

• Product design discussions
• Development and engineering of media-focused application
• User stories
• Roadmaps
• Community discussion or presentations

Submit your presentation idea via the FOSDEM 2026 Pretalx system, from November the 15th, 2025.

Your submission must include the following information :

• The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects)
• Select “Media Creation Tools” as the track
• Select “Talk” event type
• A short abstract of one paragraph
• A longer description if you wish to do so
• Links to related websites / blogs / …

If you have any question about participating to the media creation tools track, please get in touch with Francesco Siddi: francesco at blender.org.

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

• FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration.
• FOSDEM website

Blender Conference 2025 wrapped up a few days ago! Yet another great event bringing togehter artists, developers and contributors from the Blender community worldwide.

As usual, you can enjoy all the recorded presentations on Blender’s YouTube channel, and on PeerTube.

Overall, feedback was positive. Compared to previous years, food and venue rating slightly declined, while overall satisfaction with the event remains very positive. When it comes to the program, satisfaction is back to “extremely high” from last year’s “high”. The variety, depth and quality of many session was appreciated!

Nowadays, over 60% of respondents are coming to Blender Conference as part of their job. Overall, 79% of respondents plan to come back next year!

The top ten favorite presentations, in no particular order:

• Lightning Talks & Suzanne Awards
• A glimpse into “Flow”
• Blue Prince : Beyond The Doors
• Funny Legs: a 2D show by a 3D animator
• II Baracchino – Donuts don’t die in vain
• I’m a Complete Hack – But This is how simple techniques still make a big impact
• Making of DOGWALK
• The Illusion Engine: The Secrets to Realism
• Keynote
• VFX workflows for Sonic the Hedgehog 3

The event was made possible thanks to the contribution of many people and made memorable thanks to all attendees and speakers. Special thanks to Amerpodia and the Felix Meritis staff, to Creative Technologies audiovisuals and especially to the Blender HQ and remote teams for making this an amazing experience.

See you next year!
Francesco

SIGGRAPH (the premier conference & exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques) will take place in Vancouver (CA) at the Vancouver Convention Center, from Sunday 10th August until Thursday 14th August. Additionally, Blender will be featured at DigiPro (with a Keynote on the technology behind the Flow movie, by Martins Upitis and Konstantins Visnevskis), and at the Open Source Days, also with a Keynote by Martins and Konstantins, plus a presentation by Francesco Siddi on open source development.

This year, the team will be back with a delegation and a booth, similar to the conference in LA 2023. At the booth you can expect demos, and a Blender showreel playing on a giant LED wall. Besides that, several events are planned.

SIGGRAPH is always a great opportunity to connect with the industry and the community, and we look forward to attending.

If you are at SIGGRAPH and want to connect feel free to reach out directly via mail (francesco at blender org) or on social media!

A small delegation of the Blender team (Dalai Felinto and Francesco Siddi) is going to attend the Game Developers Conference – GDC in San Francisco on 17-21 March, with the main goal to connect with individuals and teams using Blender to create interactive content.

This year we are also organizing a Blender Meetup event (Birds of a Feather-style), focused on connecting producers, developers, TDs and artists working in studios where Blender is part of the pipeline. The goal is to share ongoing Blender development, Blender Studio pipeline insights, and give visibility to teams who wish to share their experience using Blender in production.

This time we go for an informal setting on Tuesday, 18 March at 10:00AM at the Yerba Buena Gardens (in front of the Moscone conference center). Look for the Blender flag, bring your own coffee and see you there!

If you want to connect besides the event, reach out to francesco at blender.org.

SIGGRAPH (the premier conference & exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques) will take place in Denver (CO) at the Denver Convention Center, from Sunday 28th July until Thursday 1st August.

Besides the unusual location, there are a few highlights for this trip. The Blender team delegation is minimal, yet at the same time Blender will be visible everywhere:

Next to that, there will be a screening of Wing It! at the Electronic Theatre as part of the computer animation festival, and Blender will be visible at a demo pod the Dell booth in the trade show. If you are at SIGGRAPH and want to connect feel free to reach out directly via mail (francesco at blender org) or on social media!

Let’s recap yet another successful Annecy experience for the Blender team. This year we had a corner booth at the film market, a short film selected in the festival, and a studio meet-up event in the city center.

The film market went well. At this point everyone is well aware of Blender’s existence, and there is a growing amount of professional users successfully tackling more and more complex challenges with the software.

I had informal conversations with several high-budget film directors and story artists using and praising Blender for the story development process. Adoption into the production pipeline is still slow for large organization, while in smaller, younger and more agile studio, using Blender at the core is simply the norm. From those studios, there is an active interest in the Blender Studio Tools a set of scripts, add-ons and documentation aimed at facilitating collaborative work in a Blender-centric environment.

There has been a growing trend in the past few years, where individuals and teams come by to share the work in progress on their production, or to let us know that the production was successfully completed. This year, several production were selected and screened at the festival – also winning awards. Congratulations to FLOW (feature film, 4 Awards), The car that came back from the sea (short film, 2 awards), Pictoplasma “opener 2023” (1 award), and The Worlds Divide (feature film).

The Blender for Breakfast event was a great opportunity to create connections between professionals and get a glimpse of the growing Blender-based studio landscape. Will definitely repeat next year.

Finally, special thanks to Dell for supporting us with a demo workstation during the event, so we could present high quality demos of the brushstroke technology from the Gold project, and more.

Blender is truly making it possible for filmmakers to create and share excellent work. See you next time!

A couple of weeks ago, a large delegation of the Blender team attended the Annecy Festival. The festival -and the MIFA film market- keep growing, along with the vibrant animation community. Here are some impressions from the event.

The Blender stand at the film market was always busy, with hundreds of attendees dropping by everyday to say hello and share how much Blender helped them in their personal or professional life. Blender is truly making an impact, especially in emerging markets where the first “fully local” large animated film projects are taking shape. Also, for the first time, some schools are starting to take notice of a slow industry shift towards Blender, and are planning to introduce Blender in their curricula.

Besides the film market presence, the Blender breakfast took place in a café in the old town. With over 70 attendees (some well-known community members, and some new people) this was an opportunity to share Blender project updates, network and connect.

See you next year!

Blender has a long tradition of being present at SIGGRAPH (for over two decades already), with more events being added to the schedule over the past few years, such as CTN and Annecy Animation Film Festival.

This year, a small delegation (Francesco Siddi and Dalai Felinto) of the Blender team will also attend the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, CA. The primary goal is to network with partners and be available for industry outreach.

If you are in the Bay Area during March 20-24 and want to connect, reach out to francesco at blender.org.

At long last, the Blender event of the year happened again! Things have changed quite a bit since BCON19. The incredible growth of Blender and its community have made it possible to have yet another “best Blender Conference ever”.

With over 700 attendees and almost 100 presentations spread over five parallel tracks, the amount and quality of content was unprecedented. You can enjoy all presentations on Blender’s YouTube channel or at video.blender.org.

The new venue, Felix Meritis, proved to be a great space for most activities, and the catering for lunch and dinner was highly appreciated.

Special thanks to all attendees who provided suggestions through the feedback form! While the rating for the venue, sessions, and overall vibe of the event was very positive (check figures) there are several ideas on how to improve things further for the next edition.

Special thanks to everyone who took part in the organization of the event before and while it was happening. You made this possible!

• BCON22 Sponsors: Intel, Coreweave, Sketchfab, Render Street, Protocube, Chocofur, Comovid
• Anja Vugst-Verstappen – Ticketing and store management
• Andy Goralczyk, Simon Thommes and Pablo Vazquez – BCON22 artwork
• Philipp van Ekeren – Conference booklet
• Clement Piot – Blender logos at the entrance and Theater stage
• Pablo Vazquez – Website experience, podcast management
• Beau Gerbrands – Suzanne Awards identity and video processing
• Anna Sirota – Website experience, video processing pipeline, venue screens management
• Andy Goralczyk and Simon Thommes – Audiovisual show
• Marit Stüvel, Pablo Fournier, Simone Eggengoor – Sponsors support, check-in desk and shop
• Arnd Marijnissen – IT systems
• Hannah Umit, Menno Hageman, Tess Fischer – Video processing and general support
• Thomas Beck – Lightning talks
• Bastien Montagne, Sergey Sharybin – Logistics and coordination
• Jelmer de Haas – Photography
• Daan van den Berg – Video recaps and interviews
• Faber – Theater projection and video recordings
• The staff and catering service of Felix Meritis
• All of the speakers!
• Francesco and Ton – Production

Enjoy this recap video for the event, and see you next year!