Libre Graphics World

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.