#Adobe #EpicGames #Substance

Read more about new free Quixel here: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-games-and-quixel-join-forces-to-empower-creators

#FOSS and one-time purchase #Adobe alternatives – share with friends!

#Adobe (that we all hate, I know) explained their new AI upscaler, that makes a huge difference against traditional bicubic upscale and even existing AI-competitors:

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/03/10/from-the-acr-team-super-resolution.html

#Adobe is launching #Substance materials addon for #Blender, so, you can use Substance assets directly:

https://twitter.com/Substance3D/statuses/1417538587076276228

😊 You can buy #Substance Painter and Designer on Steam with both Black Friday offer and additional discount for users of previous releases: the purchase is permanent and will not require #Adobe CC subscription!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1775390/Substance_3D_Painter_2022/

Photoshop’s new terms of service require users to grant Adobe access to their active projects for “content moderation” and other purposes including #AI training!

#Adobe #Legal #NeuralNetworks

Finally: after years of scammy practices, #Adobe is under investigation for applying "fines" for cancelling the subscription.

To make it clear: it was illegal already and you could push on them and not pay that crap. But the majority of people were scared and paid.

Imagine that to cancel the subscription you need to give them $200 more — this is what they asked from famous #GameAssets creator KenneyNL (and only gave up on that fine when he made the story public).

No doubts #Adobe — they are now openly antagonizes anti-AI artists, with the company's exec Alexandru Costin claiming you have no chance to succeed without embracing #AI.

Prior to that they applied all users to share their works with their AI training by default.

Remember how Adobe was silently adding all your content from Creative Cloud to train their Firefly AI? Well, they are apparently launching the notoriously bad final vision of it:

You need a separate subscription on top of your existing Creative Cloud one, it's very limited in length and features, and yes, it uses everything they stole from their users before.

Funny enough, their most expensive CC subscription is still promoted with "all the AI features included" while Firefly isn't available for those dumbasses who paid all that.

#Adobe@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

Kind reminder:

https://t.iss.one/GameDEV/4227

Mixamo, the free animation platform went down today and the funniest part: Adobe support team was unable to help, since they were unaware they own Mixamo.

#Adobe@GameDEV
#Bugs@GameDEV

Affinity? More like Affi-no-ty! But by October 30 they are promising some sort of creative freedom?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi1IySnNC8M
#2DArt@GameDEV
#Adobe@GameDEV
#Affinity@GameDEV

Affinity, that went down from stores a few weeks ago, resurfaced as a freemium app.

The company, purchased by Canva AI last year, was the biggest competitor of Adobe in 2D graphics editing. And the main advantage was one-time payment.

But now the payment is gone and Affinity is “free, forever”. And also now vector and pixel tools are merged into one universal app, which is very impressive.

#2DArt@GameDEV
#Adobe@GameDEV
#Affinity@GameDEV

Maximum size of a PDF page, is 381km x 381km just incase anyone was wondering, here's it compared to Europe

#WTF@GameDEV
#Adobe@GameDEV

Imagine you have literally a monopoly on the market and you're like: whatever, we leave it behind, what a legacy, ahaha...

#Adobe@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV

Adobe figured out that turning every client to the path of piracy is indeed fucking stupid, so they will no longer discontinue Adobe Animate (and steal all your projects, as they initially promised).

Instead the app will go into active maintenance mode: no new features, full access for users, some security updates and serious bugs will be fixed from time to time.

#Adobe@GameDEV

Adobe stocks are in decline by 23% since the beginning of the year, over 18% in one month.

Their AI tools are not bringing more paid users to the ecosystem, then a lot of people left when they tried to discontinue Adobe Animate a week ago (and then placed it into low maintenance mode instead).

And if investors' panic over game companies and Ginie3 is foolish, the Adobe one may be reasonable: except for poorly executed AI plugins in Photoshop, the overall stack of tools stagnating for years.

DaVinci Resolve allows better video editing for free and even more impressive in paid tier. All in one app.

Blender advanced significantly in 2D animation and 3D compositing, Affinity now has free tier too, GIMP 3 is finally usable, and we can continue: https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives

#Adobe@GameDEV
#Finance@GameDEV

No one can stop Adobe from digging itself even deeper...

#Adobe@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

Nature is healing 🙏

#Adobe@GameDEV