While no official dates are announced, it seems a few software companies have some updates happening most likely in August.
Affinity Suite:
Designer was just demonstrated with some pretty powerful speed updates, all software based so every computer should benefit. In the demo, 600 000 (!) layer objects were panned and zoomed with no redrawing to be seen. I don't anyone who uses that many objects but the point is to get the suite ready for some new features. Affinity is reasoning, rightly, that it's better to get the bugs out and really have sold base before introducing some calculation heavy features. Photo and Publisher will benefit form this speed enhancement and I have my fingers crossed that there will be an update in August that includes Publisher for iPad.Krita:
Krita is about to go to version 5 and there are a ton of updates planned. For me the new animations features will be really helpful. I liked drawing in Krita but the animation functions were buggy, slow and lacking. They seem to be addressing all that and updating the interface. I would love to be able to use it for drawing and animating since the drawing the tools are so amazing.Procreate:
Blender:
Blender is close to a 3.O release and the new Cycles render engine loose amazing and makes me feel the need to switch much more acutely as I don't think I'll be updating my computer anytime soon and really could use a boost in render speed!
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I'm keen for the AD and Procreate updates though I really don't want Procreate to get TOO complicated. So far, I can ignore all the things I don't need, but I'd hate for them to change a bunch of stuff. All I want from AD is warping tools and an actual vector eraser tool. That's it. Hope your updates are good ones!
We will see soon enough! Apparently the speed update was needed for warping tools to work reasonably as well as other things. Who knows they might even add a bitmap vectorizer!
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