Help Make Blender Better by Completing User Survey

The Blender Foundation has launched Blender Survey 2026 to understand its community, real-world workflows, and improvement priorities. Anonymized results are planned for publication as an illustrated

The Blender Foundation has launched its annual user survey, Blender Survey 2026. This survey asks who uses Blender, in what environments and for what purposes, and what should be prioritized in the next stage of development. Rather than simply collecting feature requests, it also examines actual usage conditions, making it a resource for determining the direction of development.

Workflows Become the Basis for Priorities

The survey covers community demographics such as users’ age groups, regions, and professional backgrounds, as well as common use cases and workflows. Even with the same 3D production tool, individual learning, freelance work, and studio pipelines may require different levels of stability, functionality, and support. Separating these differences makes it possible to assess both demand for specific features and bottlenecks in actual work.

It Asks About Improvement Requests and Ways to Participate

The response options include future improvement priorities, ways to connect with and contribute to the Blender project, related spending such as development funding, the marketplace, and education, and the project’s future direction. Choosing to add new features quickly and choosing to refine existing workflows affect different user groups. In this way, the survey is a mechanism for examining at once the intersection of development, community, and sustainable support structures.

The Results Will Remain Public Resources

The Blender Foundation plans to anonymize the responses and publish them as a visual report with analysis, along with the raw data. A Blender ID login is required to participate. Once the aggregated results are published, it will be important to consider both the characteristics of the respondent group and the scope of the sample. Rather than assuming that a high preference for a particular item represents the same need across the entire user base, it should be compared alongside the work contexts from which the responses emerged.

Sources: Blender Foundation official announcement, 80 Level original article