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Today we are checking out Artbreeder, a machine learning (GAN – Generational Adversarial Network) based art creation tool. Using Artbreeder you can rapidly create portraits, landscapes, characters and more using sampled (or uploaded) existing art, a series of “genes” as well as crossbreeding with other source images or art styles. […]
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PixelOver is a interesting application, developed using the Godot Engine (like Material Maker, BitMap Flow and PixelORama), that enables you to quickly create pixel art from images. This is by no means the only tool to do this, another such example we covered in the past is PixelMash. That said,
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Spine 4 was just released by Esoteric Software. Spine is a powerful tool we have covered several times on GameFromScratch, including this now several years old Hands-On guide. The version 4 release brings several new features including: a complete reworking of graphs enabling your to see all keys at once,
It seems like every single major 3D application are getting behind Pixar’s USD format and NVIDIA have released Omniverse as an interconnect between all of these programs. The USD or Universal Scene Description is an open source standardized interchange format, described succinctly enough as: Universal Scene Description (USD) is an
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There is a “new” Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the aptly named Paint & Draw Bundle. This is a collection of art software and add-ons from Escape Motion. It is important to point out, while a new name, this exact bundle ran back in 2020 as the Natural
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Today Adobe announced the creation of the Adobe Substance 3D collection as well as the launch of an all new 3D modeling application. The Substance 3D collection is a subscription package built heavily around Allegorthmic products acquired by Adobe in 2019, specifically Substance Painter, Substance Designer and the now rebranded
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MagicaCSG is a recently released modelling application that uses signed distance fields to make it easy to create 3D models via boolean operations. MagicaCSG is from the same creator as the popular MagicaVoxel voxel based modelling application and just released version 0.0.1. The major new feature of the 0.0.1 release
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Game publisher Activision have just released an open source project USD Shell Extension. The project is available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 open source license and enables Windows users to interact with USD files, a increasingly industry standard interchange format created by Pixar. Details of the Activision USD Shell
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Mixcraft is an excellent DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that is currently featured in HUMBLE SOFTWARE BUNDLE: MEGA SOUND DESIGNER LOOP CRATE VOL 2. The software was previously released in the first volume in 2020. In addition to Mixcraft the bundle also included several VSTs including Pianissimo Virtual Grand Piano, Surrealist
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MagicaCSG, a free signed distance field 3d modelling and rendering application was just released by ephtracy, the maker of the popular voxel application MagicaVoxel. The development of MagicaVoxel ended in September of 2020 and this appears to be the authors new project. EDIT — 6/15/21 — MagicaCSG can now export
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