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We looked at Mesh2Motion last year and since then this awesome, easy, free and open source Mixamo alternative continues to gain new features. Now in addition to animating bipedal characters, they have also added several other rigs (and associated animations) including birds, snakes, dragons and more. Features of Mesh2Motion include:
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MubLoop is an awesome new and FREE tool for creating audio loops and clips. Sadly it is only currently available for Windows. The tool is described as: MubLoop is a free Windows tool for creating seamless audio loops and clean clips from audio files, designed for game developers and audio
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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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Autodesk have just released a new completely free 3D modeling application called Project Falcon. Project Falcon runs in the browser, requiring a user account but nothing more and enables you to create 3D models quick and easy using a kitbashing approach. Using the hundreds of built in meshes and combining
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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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Chaos V-Ray, a popular 3D renderer for applications such as 3DS Max, Maya, Cinema4D and more has recently added Blender to the list of supported applications. Even better, they just launched V-Ray for Blender Community Edition, which is a free but somewhat restricted version of V-Ray that can even be
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Cascadeur 2026.1 has just been released. Cascadeur is a powerful animation software available for Windows, Mac and Linux that makes animation incredibly easy while providing a large swath of features. There is a nearly fully functional (export limited) free version of Cascadeur available for download if you wish to check
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Boris FX have just acquired 3 decades old applications – Vegas Pro, Acid Pro and Sound Forge from German audio software company Magix. This is the 3rd time these applications have changed hands, from their creators Sound Foundry, to Sony, then Magix and finally Boris FX. Vegas Pro is a
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The popular open source image manipulation application GIMP has just released GIMP 3.2. This release contains an impressive amount of new features, foundational improvements like non-destructive filter improvements as well as two new non-destructive layer types – link layers and vector layers. Highlights of the GIMP 3.2 release: Key Links
