{"id":15362,"date":"2020-11-25T18:06:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T18:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=15362"},"modified":"2020-11-25T18:06:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T18:06:56","slug":"black-friday-clip-studio-artstation-prints-keyshot-advance-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2020\/11\/25\/black-friday-clip-studio-artstation-prints-keyshot-advance-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday: Clip Studio, ArtStation prints, KeyShot advance notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Fiddly comics production software <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clipstudio.net\/en\/\">Clip Studio<\/a> has gone to its usual 50% off Black Friday deal, a little early this year. The front-page blurb rather misleadingly pitches clueless newbies with the idea that the expensive EX version is the one needed to make comics. Not really, unless you want multi-page. The expensive version basically offers, as wrote here back in June&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>batch import; multipage comics with Kindle and ePub output; and rather basic-looking vector lineart can be made from imported 3D architectural and similar models.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kind of useful if you aim to be a comics pro and do lots of hand-inking and printed comics, but it&#8217;s still a steep $84 cost to move up to EX. The upgrade page for that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clipstudio.net\/en\/promotion\/upgrade\/\">here<\/a>. Note that the very latest version adds .SVG import\/export.<\/p>\n<p>Poser users thinking of getting the $25 version should know that in June I found a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=13576\">Poser to Clip Studio solution<\/a> in the form of a lost Smith Micro import script long-ago harvested by Archive.org. This freebie was meant for Anime Studio but I figured, and found out, that it worked just the same in importing posed Poser figures to their sister-software Clip Studio. You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n<p>But for 90% of people, asking about Clip Studio&#8217;s features and scripts is simply asking the wrong questions. To make comics they should just be using Comic Life 3 instead.<\/p>\n<p>* Artstation currently has 30% off the prints sold there. Might be useful if you want to give a few as Christmas presents this year, or get some mini-prints to be glued to quality Xmas cards.<\/p>\n<p>* There&#8217;s also advance news that Luxion will be having discounts on various KeyShot licences, though only on Cyber Monday it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Fiddly comics production software Clip Studio has gone to its usual 50% off Black Friday deal, a little early this year. The front-page blurb rather misleadingly pitches clueless newbies with the idea that the expensive EX version is the one needed to make comics. Not really, unless you want multi-page. The expensive version basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-companion-software","category-special-offers-and-discounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}