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SpriteLoop is a free 2D animation tool for Windows, Mac and Linux for creating animations from a collection of images, a style known as cut out animations. In many ways it’s a free but limited version of popular animation tools like Spriter and Spine. Features of SpriteLoop include: Key Links
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The creator of the one of a kind Dust3D 3D modelling application has just released a new free & open source tool for 3D modelling – AutoRemesher. This app for Windows, Mac and Linux enables you to quickly retopologize 3D models, converting them from triangle soup to smooth edge loop
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Material Maker, the free and open source Godot Engine powered procedural material making software, just released Material Maker 1.7. Along side the new features of this release, it is also the first time that Material Maker has been made available on Steam. Key Features of the Material Maker 1.7 release:
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In an AI driven stock market, there is no question that AI have been suffering, with their stock taking a rather drastic downturn: One of the major problems that Adobe faces is their investors want them to focus heavily on AI (and are worried they will be supplanted by AI)
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Terrain Studio is a new free and open source world building application for easily creating 3d terrain and worlds. Terrain Studio is built on top of the popular Three.js JavaScript framework and can be run entirely in the browser. You can easily create complex terrain environments and export them out
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PixiEditor is a powerful, free and open source, cross platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) all-in-one 2D graphics application. This application is capable of mixing traditional 2D painting, pixel art, animation and vector graphics workflows, all built on top of a graph based procedural system, making it an extremely powerful and
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Gaussian Splats are increasingly popular in the world of computer graphics (see our recent coverage of Gaussian Splats in Godot), yet they have traditionally been a poor fit for game development for a variety of reasons including the lack of collision data, file sizes and other issues compared to a
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The excellent Godot powered free and open-source procedural texture generation application Material Maker just released Material Maker 1.6. Material Maker is about as close as you can get to a free version of Adobe’s popular Substance Designer application. The 1.6 release is jam packed with great new features: Controlled Variations:
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The number of options when moving away for Adobe continues to grow every day and in the last year several new major alternatives have appeared. These new options are also often free and recently some traditional strongholds such as Lightroom and After Effects now have some major competition. Lightroom Lightroom,
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Guassian Splats are an interesting graphics approach enabling the near flawless capture and recreation of real-life scenes and objects. They are increasingly being used in media and television applications, but what about games? We look at how you can use the new Godot Gaussian Splatting add-on (GDGS) to easily display
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