First look at Lightworks beta for Linux

First look at Lightworks beta for Linux

If the story of making Lightworks a free application taught us anything, it's patience. After three years it's finally possible to download and run the awards-winning non-linear video editor on Linux, for free.

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Future design tools at Libre Graphics Meeting 2013

Future design tools at Libre Graphics Meeting 2013

Next week LGM2013 is starting in Madrid. Let's take a quick look at some of the most interesting talks you can expect.

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COLLADA becomes ISO standard, what does industry think?

COLLADA becomes ISO standard, what does industry think?

The 5 years old COLLADA™ 1.5.0 specification is now officially ISO/PAS 17506:2012 standard. What does the industry think of it, and what’s up with its support in free software?

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Introducing MOD, Linux-based hardware sound FX processor

Introducing MOD, Linux-based hardware sound FX processor

During Linux Audio Conference 2013 the MOD team presented their digital pedalboard that runs Linux and uses LV2 effects and instruments.

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Freestyle, Jot, and the future of non-photorealistic rendering

Freestyle, Jot, and the future of non-photorealistic rendering

Working in 3D to render stylized 2D line art — how crazy is that? Not too crazy and even pretty awesome. Stable version of Blender recently got a new tool for that, and there are some other interesting ongoing developments.

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Sorcer, polyphonic LV2 synth, to be crowdfunded

Sorcer, polyphonic LV2 synth, to be crowdfunded

Harry van Haaren is preparing to release Sorcer, a new polyphonic wavetable synth in LV2, and is attempting to crowdfund the development.

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Blender dives into 3D printing industry

Blender dives into 3D printing industry

Blender 2.67 was released last week with a 3D printing toolbox. LGW spoke to Dolf Veenvliet, Bart Veldhuizen (Shapeways, Blendernation), and Rich Borrett (Ponoko) about the new tools and the future of 3D printing.

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colord, color management framework for Linux, sees stable release

colord, color management framework for Linux, sees stable release

Richard Hughes has just announced the first stable release of colord, a system service for managing, installing and generating color profiles to accurately preserve color fidelity between input and output devices.

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MyPaint gets SAI brushes, Krita goes for Alchemy’s pull shapes

MyPaint gets SAI brushes, Krita goes for Alchemy’s pull shapes

Can you feel it in the air? There seems to be an urge to port useful features from less actively into more actively developed software projects.

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Synfig Studio gets faster rendering

Synfig Studio gets faster rendering

Synfig Studio has just been updated to feature performance improvements, simplified plug-ins execution, various keyframes improvements, and the switch to conventional terminology.

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Raving over Adobe Creative Cloud or using free software?

Raving over Adobe Creative Cloud or using free software?

The Internet is buzzing with news from Adobe MAX 2013. How is the switch to subscriptions going to affect the industry and free software? And how does free software stand against upcoming creative cloud apps?

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Blender 2.67 released with Freestyle, 3D printing toolbox, and more

Blender 2.67 released with Freestyle, 3D printing toolbox, and more

Blender Foundation finally announced new version of the most actively developed free 3D modeling and animation package. While we are preparing some extended coverage, here's a list of some interesting new features you can already lay your hands on.

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3D worlds and characters by Jonathan Ball

3D worlds and characters by Jonathan Ball

Jonathan Ball from pokedstudio recently posted his new work created with Blender and Cycles which served as an incentive to look into his earlier work.

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