More Black Friday offers of interest are coming in. All of these are non-rental, I’m not covering rental/subscription software.
* The Reallusion Store (iClone, Cartoon Animator etc) has “Buy 2 or more items to receive a 50% off the List Price”. Also check your member email for a link to a better price on the vital 3DXchange 7 Pro ($99 vs. $129 via the Store), this being useful even for non-iClone users who want to take .SKP to .OBJ (despite what Reallusion misleadingly says about “no export” in Pro)…
Real-time in iClone is nice and the support and training is excellent, but the iClone ecosystem is an expensive one to get locked into. So be sure you have a plump wallet before getting into iClone. Consider also that a fast 30-series RTX graphics card, enabling a DAZ Studio real-time viewport, could end up being a viable “what you see is what you get” alternative for the equivalent total price.
* “50% on all Boris FX Bundles and 25% on individual products”. Not really for hobbyists but the $295 Continuum 2021 may interest, this being the new name for the paid pro plugin version of Particle Illusion — which emits all manner of pretty FX particles in After Effects and Premiere. Consider the rival HitFilm as the alternative, which bundles video-editing with the FX and is also discounted.
* Serif’s Affinity trio now has 30% off, including the budget DTP software Affinity Publisher. This is the price-comparable rival to the perfectly fine Microsoft Publisher (which, note, you have already have, as Publisher 2013 or 2016 bundled with an old non-subscription edition of Microsoft Office).
* There’s a reduction on the price of uRender, the increasingly capable real-time OpenGL-based plugin for Cinema 4D. It’s sort of like Eevee for C4D, and is now at $99 off the price.