{"id":96267,"date":"2026-04-24T14:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/?p=96267"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:30:45","slug":"blender-lab-activity-report-q1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/development\/blender-lab-activity-report-q1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender Lab Activity Report – Q1 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since its announcement<\/a> last year, Blender Lab<\/a> has started pursuing several activities, with the goal of exploring and prototyping new tools and technologies within Blender. Here is a recap of the current projects and their status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tablet Support<\/h2><\/a>\n\n\n\nDuring Siggraph 2025 the Blender booth featured a fully working demo of Blender running on iPad, which gathered lots of attention and positive reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MCP Server<\/h2><\/a>\n\n\n\nThe Blender project keeps a firm artist-centric policy when it comes to AI. With this in mind, some exploration of LLM powered tools has started, with an implementation of an MCP connector for Blender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n