Libre Graphics World

Highlights: darktable 3.0.0 release and beta release of MyPaint 2.0, major updates of Kdenlive and FlowBlade, OpenToonz is approaching v1.4, Blender entered bug tracker curfew, quite a lot of excitement in the BIM department.

One of my common mistakes is sticking around a new interesting project for a long time without telling more people about it. So without further ado, I’m giving you enve, a free/libre 2D animation tool by Maurycy Liebner.

Highlights: development updates from IfcOpenShell and Apertus projects, Mantaflow and USD support to undergo review for Blender 2.82 inclusion, Ardour is getting built-in MP3 support (for realzies!).

Week highlights: lots of new releases all around, including Krita, AzPainter, Godot, LibrePCB, Audacity, and MuseScore, Canon CR3 support coming to RawTherapee, new ArmorPaint release shaping up nicely, and more.

Things easily get messy when I skip whole weeks, so this is going to be one of the weird recaps where events are both recent and, ugh, not so much.

Philipp Urlich made a bit of a splash recently in the Krita community with immersive landscapes and experimental use of NVIDIA’s GauGAN-generated images as the basis for new artworks. He was kind enough to agree having his works featured on LGW and answer a few questions.

Week highlights: Inkscape 1.0 beta released, GIMP is getting built-in Normal Map filter, Krita team brings more improvements and bugfixes, darktable team is wrapping up v3.0 development, new versions of OBS Studio and Shotcut.

Week highlights: out-of-canvas pixels now possible in GIMP, Krita team goes on a bugfixing spree, lots of changes in upcoming Blender 2.81 and FreeCAD 0.19, GSoC project for OpenGL rendering in LibreCAD v3 now completed, more work-in-progress goodness in Olive.

Week highlights: Krita team begins working on SAI files support, new releases of StereoPhotoView, Blender Power Sequencer, and Flowblade, even more sculpting awesomeness in Blender and changes in Ardour.

Week highlights: lots of under-the-hood work in GIMP, new features in Krita and Blender, new release of Kdenlive, CUPS changes the license, a variety of projects are wrapping up their GSoC participation for this year and post updates.