On now, a Kitbash 3D HumbleBundle offer with four city kits and some texture packs. 16 days to run, at time of writing.
Minimum price £28, with proceeds to the charity Girls Who Code which runs girls’ computer clubs in the USA.
On now, a Kitbash 3D HumbleBundle offer with four city kits and some texture packs. 16 days to run, at time of writing.
Minimum price £28, with proceeds to the charity Girls Who Code which runs girls’ computer clubs in the USA.
Here are a few I spotted…
55% off PD Howler 2026, the one which apparently includes some sort of (presumably local) AI autocolour.
The AKVIS Coloriage AI software has a good discount (varies), now integrating a somewhat reasonable local AI auto-colour.
40% off both editions of Moho animation software, use code BLACKFRIDAY at the checkout.
50% sale at the Reallusion store (iClone, Cartoon Animator etc. I assume it’ll be the software as well as the content).
40% off pre-orders of the 3D landscape software ‘Gaea 3’.
35% off everything at Mediachance, including their uniquely affordable/capable NovelForge writing software that can now easily integrate local LLMs.
Richard Rosenman’s high-quality Photoshop plugins, 40% off with coupon-code BLK40 at the checkout.
26% off 3DCoat (perpetual licence).
Anastasiy Photoshop plugins. Nothing on the front page, but apparently “50% off” if you hunt. Has the nice MixColors colour mixing palette for Photoshop, for painters who use Photoshop.
50% off Corel Painter, apparently.
40% off all the KitBash3D kits.
Nothing enticing on my Wishlist at either DAZ (a couple of 80%’s) or Renderosity (just all the usual 50%’s) this year. Also, no discounts on Ken’s Poser scripts. I might have had his Openpose script, if it had been 50% off.
I had a nice sub-$10 haul of three Halloween sale items for Poser today, picked from my Wishlist on Renderosity.
After install The Worm is found in runtime Characters under Coflek Gnorg / Worm, and it has a Nest prop in Props. No poses, but it’s easily posed. Dark and grungy materials, unsuited to tooning, but a simple Gamma shift of “2” (seen left), using the built-in Python gamma script, goes a long way towards making it suitable for tooning (seen right)…
1971s’s Halloween Ghost Lantern is a character rather than a prop, though not poseable. Found in the runtime under Characters / Halloween Ghost Lantern. Again, too dark and grungy for tooning, and it turns out that the shroud material is transmapped thus making it unsuitable for lineart. Oh well. Although it can start to look nicely graphic in b&w, kind of like an Aubrey Beardsley illustration…
Zeekenah is found under Character / Creatures / Zeekenah. With Zeekenah’s five poses found under Poses / Creatures / Zeekenah. Fully poseable. The material is not too dark and grungy, and with the right light one can get pure lineart (suitable for layering in Photoshop),
Although a bit of realtime Comic Book lineart and a Halloween light can also look good, as with this realtime Preview render.
I might have used one of them in the Renderosity Halloween contest, but sadly I see the deadline is today. Oh well.
Currently a bargain on the DAZ Store.
Works with iRay, and found in your runtime as Shader Presets | DimensionTheory | iRayToon Shader, it offers relatively simple drag-and-drop or one-click shaders including edge shaders. There is an excellent intro video on YouTube, also linked from the sales page at the DAZ Store. Note the pack’s main straightforward lineart has a gloopy edge-style is not all that convincing as “hand-drawn”, and the look is far more difficult to control than the real-time Comic Book mode in Poser 11. However, I’m guessing it may produce nice results when fed through an AI filter such as Flux Kontext Dev. Or even G’Mic for Photoshop.
MediBang Paint, a free rival to Clip Studio, is no longer free in its latest version. It’s now $50 on the Windows Store. There is however still a download link to the “old version” for now, which is v29.1. I seem to recall that the free version was ad-supported, though.
A large number of perma-reductions, by the look of it? Even Stonemason’s ‘Streets of Steampunk’ for $3.99. ‘Michael 4 Starter Bundle’ for $1.99. Though it has to be said that I struggled to find 5 x $1.99 items I’d want.
CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX Ver. 1 & POSER 12 Bundle for $49.
EX is the multi-page version, but this is a very early v1 version (now at 4.x, I think?) that I wouldn’t wish on anybody. Know that the official Poser to Clip Studio export script stopped working in Poser 12, due to the Python upgrade. Also note that Graphixly have Poser 12 for $29 separately, and then you can spend the rest on the vastly easier comics production software called Comic Life.
Black Friday deal-of-the-eon, Poser 12 for $29. This is the full ‘Pro’ version, as there’s no longer any division between Pro and Standard.
Come Home to Poser offer…
Until 4th November [2024], users of any previous Poser version can upgrade to Poser 13 for just $99.
A good deal, and I guess it will also put you on much higher on the upgrade track for the forthcoming Poser 14. By “any previous Poser version” I assume they also mean Smith Micro versions?
I doubt it will go lower than this on Black Friday (29th November, this year). Of course, once Poser 14 has been out a while, it might become a $50 bargain at some third-party cyber-store. But I’m guessing that may be a while yet.
DAZ Studio has split into free and subscription versions. DAZ Studio 4.23 Premier ($18.98 a month at present, with auto-renew) has features not present in the free version. “Available exclusively to DAZ Premier members, this enhanced version…” etc. The paid features mentioned are…
– “batch rendering”
– “new dForce management tools”
– “advanced sculpting tools”
– G8 to G9 “pose converter” and G3, G8 to G9 “shape transfer”.
That’s it. Though add-ons also in the subscription are…
* the various game-engine rig exporters
* a Blender “environments exporter”
* the DAZ to Blender Bridge
* the DAZ to Maya Bridge
* There are also various monthly discounts on content, offers, etc.
The Premier web page also appears to imply that the DAZ Install Manager is now Premier-only. Though that would be strange if it were true. Why would DAZ lock their ‘content installer for dummies’ away from the mass of buyers? Anyway, never used it myself… so no loss.
In fact, no loss at all. I wouldn’t use any of the above, don’t much care about G9, or about exports. As for the bundled discounts, I prefer to snipe the 70%/80% discount bargains as they pop up on my Wishlist.
Now, if they’d have had seamless AI integration, that would have been something. With depth and OpenPose renders plugging straight into ControlNet slots, even. Maybe Poser 14 will beat them to that?
A nice 86% sale at DAZ (today) enabled me to complete my Predatron fantasy collection for Poser, by loading up with a lot of Troglodye items for around $12.
I now have the complete: Trogoldyte and variants plus accessories, horns, boots and armour; Goblin and cowl etc; Giant Spider and riding saddle etc, Angor the goat priest and robes; the Warhound, and the Upland Troll.
A Humble Bundle Poser 12 $25 (£20) licence key. If you’re rendering then you really want Poser 13 for the improved Blender Cycles rendering and improved OIDN de-noiser. But for those who use Poser for real-time comic-book renders, reference images for manual over-inking and over-painting, or for AI export, then Poser 12 will be fine. P12 is also good for export to the now-free E-on Vue.
However Poser 14 is coming soon, and if they have the sense to add a free integration of Stable Diffusion as a render option… then many will feel like they wasted $25 on Poser 12 over what will then be the must-have Poser 14.
More Black Friday notes.
The usual DAZ and Renderosity sales.
The worthy 2D animation software Moho has 40% off both the Debut and Pro editions. Use the discount code BLACKFRIDAY at the checkout. Moho can also now be had mailed to you on physical media, for those with flaky Internet connections (or none at all).
OctaneRender Studio has discounts on subscriptions. Last time I looked, DAZ Studio could run Octane.
Richard Rosenman’s worthy Photoshop plugins have 40% off. Add the discount code BLK40 at the checkout.
30% off all Mediachance software with BLACK2023 coupon code.
Clip Studio Paint has discounts on both editions. Note also “One-time purchase of version 2 will get a free update to version 3 when that’s released in March 2024.”
TyranoBuilder Visual Novel Studio, 35% off. Steam only.
XP-Pen has substantial discounts on its worthy ‘draw on the screen’ pen monitors.
QuadSpinner has discounts on Gaea pre-orders.
Planetside Software has chosen Black Friday to release of Terragen 4.7. Improved exporting of clouds and terrains.
Looks like a fairly hefty Black Friday sale has started on Renderosity. Much of my Wish List appears to be 50% off. Even items that are rarely on a discount sale. DAZ also has a lot of 50% and 65% discounts.
I splurged $13 of my meagre Renderosity store credit on Grotto’s Vampire for Michael 3, and the M4 and V4 Child Dials. Grotto’s Vampire being from the guy who made the quality Mr. Happy, which takes Poser’s real-time comic-book line-art really well. And the morph dials being of potential use in creating hobbits, gremlins, etc that can wear M4 and V4 clothes. And all three being the sort of thing that is likely to vanish, as people’s interest in M3 and M4 fades.
Demos when I get the time to install and test.
A round-up of pre- Black Friday deals, spotted so far:
E-on’s Vue 3D landscape software has subscription discounts up to 40%. Still imports Poser scenes.
KitBash3D has discounts on the model packs.
Topaz has the usual deal on Gigapixel AI enlarger software.
DxO Nik Collection (worthy Photoshop filters) has 24% off.
Escape Motions is offering 80% of preorder for the new version of Rebelle (version 7) painting software.
PD Howler has discounts.
Serif’s Affinity line of Adobe-clones is said to have 40% off. Be aware the UI’s small font sizes can’t be enlarged. Try before you buy.
And a seemingly perpetual offer, Poser 12 for $49.
