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Hot on the heels of the October 2025 release which saw Material Maker ported to Godot 4.x, Material Maker 1.5 has just been released. A good part of the 1.5 release involved fixing the various bugs that cropped up after such a major port. That said, user williamchange stepped up
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Friction is a powerful, lightweight and cross-platform open-source 2D animation package, similar to Adobe Animate or After Effects. Friction is a fork of the now abandoned ENVE project(learn more) that is rapidly approaching the 1.0 milestone release. It has come a long way since being forked from ENVE and is
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GIMP is known for many things… being an excellent free and open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop is among the best of them. Now… the GIMP user interface… not so much! Thankfully projects like PhotoGIMP exist that give GIMP 3.x a facelift to be more familiar to Photoshop users. Key
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The suite of graphics applications from Serif, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher have long been viewed as the perfect alternative to Adobe’s subscription only suite of tools. However, last year Serif was purchased by Canva and many feared the era of reasonably priced but powerful tools was coming
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There are a pair of graphics application Humble Bundles of interest to game developers, the Ultimate 3D & VR Sculpting (Shapelab 2025) Mega Bundle and the Design Unlimited (Corel Draw 2024) Bundle. Ultimate 3D & VR Sculpting (Shapelab 2025) Mega Bundle: 1$ Tier Wings of Detail: Feather Sculpting CollectionFarm Animals
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Zed is an interesting new code editor from the creators of the OG Atom editor (that ultimately inspired Visual Studio Code) with a heavy focus on performance and it shows. Written entirely in Rust and utilizing the GPU it is quick to start up and incredibly responsive once loaded. Originally
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If you are looking for a reasonably priced, non-subscription based alternative to Adobe Products Serif’s products including Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo have long been at the top of that list. You can buy them for a very reasonable one time price the way software used to be sold… at
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Blockbench is an incredibly easy to use 3D modelling application we checked out earlier this year that has a major release coming soon. Currently available in Beta 3, Blockbench 5 is a major update including a new user interface design, improved animation tools, new modelling tools and more. Blockbench is
Back in the summer I talked about the upcoming 1.4 release of the awesome open source Godot engine powered Material Maker. Now that release is here and it has gained even more new features over the last few months including a complete shader system rewrite, new more configuarable UI, a
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest the Neon & Noir – Elite Photos with Luminar Neo Humble Bundle. Luminar Neo is an amazing photo editing application that I use on a daily basis(including for this post!), that makes it easier to ditch Adobe suite of software (especially Lightroom
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