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Release: Curvy 3D 5.0

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The Windows desktop sculpting software Aartform Curvy 3D 5.0 final is now available, having been in beta since November 2020. Cost is $99 (around £92 in the UK), and there are further discounts available if you purchased an earlier version (check your email).

An important new feature in 5.0 is adaptive subdivision on the meshes. There’s no video trailer yet for 5.0, but the YouTube channel will likely have one soon.

EmmaAndJordi have a 50% sale

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EmmaAndJordi have a 50% sale on…

On our Gumroad store we have all products 50% off using this coupon:

saintvalentine2023

They also say “Sale ends on January 17” but that must be a typo for ‘February’, since it’s a Valentine’s Sale with the details only posted today.

Nice items I noted while going through their entire store…

EJ Demon Races Creator and Morphs for G8.

EJ Alien Creator Morphs for G8F.

EJ Face Morphs and Details for G8M.

And a good complete G8M Conan-a-like, EJ Lorcan Deluxe Pack For G8M – Character, Outfit, and Poses.

In older items, Kids4 Fit Addon For Violet Hair and two other K4 hair-fits, Tyler Moods – Organized Expressions For Tyler (should you still have Tyler in your runtime), and a Morphing Ice Pop (choc-ice on a stick).

Uniform deals

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On Renderosity -renapd- is retiring some items, with heavy discounts for those who want them while still available. The most unusual are the RTproductions Napoleonic-era military uniforms for M4, including British and French packs. I also see a Russian Cossack and a Cossack Peasants pack for M3. Very niche, but no doubt they have a certain appeal in Europe.

“Worth having” discounts, starting to appear ahead of Black Friday

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Not much sign of “worth having” new discounts ahead of Black Friday (25th November), other than the usual year-round perma-discounts. But I noticed…

* The XPPen Store has discounts on its ‘draw on the screen’ monitors. The XPPen Artist 22 (2nd gen) is probably the target model for most people, and has a nice discount. I have one, and am pleased with it.

* Serif’s Affinity 2.0 bundle continues with its launch discounts. Try before you buy, as the fixed and squinty user interfaces don’t suit everyone.

* E-on has large 45% discounts on the subscriptions for its Vue landscape software. Subscriptions, but… worthy software that can still talk to Poser 11 and 12.

* Reallusion’s Cartoon Animator 5 has a good introductory discount, and all versions are now effectively the Pipeline version. Which makes it bargain if you’re looking for a friendly but powerful 2D animator.

* “Courses from £10.99 until 25th Nov” at Udemy. A nice $10 price on Udemy’s Make Motion Comics video tutorial. Sadly it’s all Adobe software though. Also a $10 price on Poser Pro Game Dev Fundamentals, which may be of interest to those who never moved to Poser 11.

* No discounts on Clip Studio EX (the proper multi-page version of the comics production software), but there is a “get 2.0 free when it appears” flash…

It appears that Clip Studio 2.0 is set for Spring 2023. It’ll be interesting to see if it includes AIs, and if they can make the software less fiddly and annoying to use.

Release: Affinity suite 2.0

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Serif’s Adobe-killer Affinity 2.0 suite has released. A one-time payment for all the desktop software + mobile apps, and the price is currently discounted. It’s a pretty good no-subscription deal for the equivalent of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, if that’s what you need and you have the required OS (2.0 now appears to require Windows 8 or higher). Personally I’d stick with Photoshop for the extensibility and automation, I have no use for an Illustrator clone, and thus the only one wanted would be the Publisher DTP software. Note that each can be had on its own, at a lower price than the bundle.

Try before you buy, as the UI cannot be scaled up and is too small and poky for many.

DAP dipped

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Better late than never, the worthy Dynamic Auto-Painter (DAP) is currently 20% off. So basically, your local sales tax is likely being covered. It’s very rare that the main DAP ever has a discount, though the older Photoshop plugin version (which works a bit differently) is always on a perpetual discount.

Update: Ah, I think I see why they’ve done a discount at last. They are touting several positive reviews.

Note also their new budget-priced software, both rather interesting and unique, Style Animator and CQuill Writer for writing stories and novels. Both are currently at the 1.0 stage, but look very promising.

Giving Tuesday

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I hope readers picked up some nice software and 3D content bargains over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend, perhaps with the aid of my numerous posts here. If you have any PayPal left-over after bagging the best savings, please do consider becoming my Patron on Patreon. Even a few dollars each month will be very welcome, and will really encourage and help me out in the present hard times. Many thanks.

‘Cyber Monday’: Octane, Lazy Nezumi, Turbosquid, Wacom

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A quick look at what’s been added to the discounts, for ‘Cyber Monday’…

* Otoy has a small discount on its Octane renderer, both the annual Studio and Enterprise subscriptions.

* Lazy Nezumi Pro (a well-established brush-stabilizer plugin for Photoshop and others), 50% off. Mostly not needed now, but you may have a much-loved older version and want to upgrade.

* The expensive Turbosquid 3D models have 35-50% off, if you were hankering for something unique there.

* Wacom have good savings on their Intuos Pro drawing tablets, if you prefer a tablet rather than a pen-monitor.

No change at Flaming Pear, for their Flood 2 and Suns and Moon-generator Photoshop plugins. No discounts on the affordable comics production software Comic Life, or at the comics fonts stores. And JitBit Macro Recorder never moves in price.

Black Friday’s final dribbles: BVH to Cartoon Animator, painterly shader packs for Blender, Expressi, Udemy

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* BVH to CrazyTalk Animator (now Cartoon Animator), a healthy discount and down to $10. Convert .BVH figure motion capture to animations for the G2 figures (not G3). Such things still work fine with G2 figures in Cartoon Animator.

* The Blender Market sale includes Painterly shader, Inkwood 2.0 – Ink Drawing Shader, and Pastelini 2.0 – Pastel Painting Eevee Shader.

* Expresii, Japanese-style brush-painting software. 30% off until 2nd December. Only at the Microsoft Store, seemingly.

* Udemy’s “Make Motion Comics” with Photoshop and After Effects (2 hours), and Poser Pro Game Dev Fundamentals (4 hours) which may still interest some. Both £10 each.

That’s it for now. I’ll be taking another look on ‘Cyber Monday’.