Same company acquired two very similar apps.
One required a $14/year subscription, the other $90/year
So they “carefully considered this decision” by delisting the cheaper one for the more expensive one. Boom, 500% cost increase
Don’t want to pay? Well, your files are hostage. Stop paying and lose your data.
Ps: remember the lie “subscription for software assures constant updates”?
The announcement serves as the final nail in the coffin for one of the iPad’s oldest and most popular sculpting apps, which hasn’t received any major updates since 2023.
Same company acquired two very similar apps.
One required a $14/year subscription, the other $90/year
So, why are you using a subscription at all, and not a free and open source app?
You know what Blender is? It’s the industry standard. Why is it the industry standard? Because it’s free, open-source GPL, it can never be taken away from you, it can never be “acquired”, everybody’s using it, and everybody is contributing towards improving it. Nobody is bitching about how Blender is extracting millions of dollars from its users and reducing its feature set at the same time. (*cough cough* Photoshop *cough*)
Free and open source software. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. Fuck subscriptions.
Blender is great, but it’s definitely not industry standard.
I am starting to see professional people in professional companies using Blender, It’s not everyone, it’s not everywhere, But I’m definitely getting requests for Blender plugins in a professional environment.
I switched a few months ago, and I’ve honestly been so impressed with how far Blender has come since the last time I tried it (more than 10 years ago, probably).
I don’t work in creative industry anymore and I haven’t had a ton of time to noodle around and actually try out the tools I’ve seen demo’d, but it was mindblowing discovering how many different software suites I had used to do stuff that Blender has been incorporating into their one package.
Maya? Obviously does most of that. ZBrush? Yep, pretty comparable. Marvelous Designer? Holy shit, yep. ToonBoom? Also that.
By far the worst part has just been trying to retrain hotkey muscle memory and learn minor (but fundamental) differences, and that’s not as small a thing as a lot of people make it out to be - it does add a lot of cognitive noise and you really can’t just hop in and flow right from the get go (depending on what you’re doing).
Absolutely worth it to get away from Adobe though, and not having to bounce between programs while working on a model is very, very pleasant.
Can you use blender on an iPad?
Does mirroring a screen (or adding a screen) from a computer or connecting to a computer via remote desktop count?
No.
Any Software that I previously used that switched to a subscription model has been replaced by FOSS on my end, even if it’s not fully up to par yet I am usually much happier with the alternatives.
Plex > Jellyfin
Office > Libreoffice / Collabra
Photoshop > Gimp
…
Only GIMP can’t cover all usages of Photoshop well. For image editing, GIMP is a good replacement; for painting, Krita is better.
Shout out to the FOSS community here on Lemmy, who are extremely helpful in providing FOSS alternative references.
Gimp and inkscape for vector work, both nice. There is also PhotoGimp, kind of an overlay that changes the interface of Gimp to resemble Photoshop, nice for those transitioning. There is also Krita which has been getting a lot of development, cross between Photoshop and Illustrator, reminds me of the old Adobe Fireworks program. Who remembers that old line of software?
It’s weird to me how GIMP and Krita clearly share a large amount of code under the hood, and even some UI design, but at the same time it feels so much less painful to draw illustrations in Krita than in GIMP. I’m glad I gave it a try.
I can’t get into gimp, it’s just too unintuitive and clunky imho. I’ve switched from PS to Affinity which is a one time purchase, got it 50% off when they had the “fuck Adobe” sale last year
Check out PhotoGimp
I love affinity, wish they’d support Linux and android though. They have an iPad app but no android tablet app.
Yep, Linux support will become more of a problem for me when Win10 reaches end-of-life. No way I switch to 11
God i hate subscriptions. All it does is encourage them to charge more and do less.
Nomad is a one time price like procreate and is very good. Blender for everything else.
Except in the case of employees being the ‘subscription’, where companies are encouraged to demand more and pay less
In anicent China, the writer and statesman Su Xun (蘇洵，苏洵) wrote a article named “On the Six Fallen States” (六國論, 六国论) about why the six states (韓、趙、魏、楚、燕、齊) were conquered by Qin (秦) during the Warring States period (戰國時代，战国时期)? The following is an excerpt from the relevant paragraph.
今日割五城，明日割十城，然后得一夕安寝。
One day five cities could be ceded, and on the next day, another ten cities could be surrendered just so that a certain person would have a single night of good sleep.
起视四境，而秦兵又至矣。
But in waking up and looking around, Qin troops again were approaching.
然则诸侯之地有限，暴秦之欲无厌，奉之弥繁，侵之愈急。
However, there was a limit to the available land of the lords and callous Qin’s avarice could never be satiated. The more there were giveaways, the more earnest Qin’s aggression would become.
故不战而强弱胜负已判矣。
So, even before going into battle, the odds-on-favorite and the most likely victor had already been decided.
至于颠覆，理固宜然。
As to the ultimate toppling, that was a forgone conclusion.
古人云：“以地事秦，犹抱薪救火，薪不尽，火不灭。”
Ancient people said: “Using land to serve Qin State would be like carrying firewood to put out fire. As long as there’s firewood left, the fire would not be extinguished.”In ancient, the six states use land to serve Qin state; in modern, the people use money to serve the companies provide subscription. The more people who pay for a subscription, the more power they have over price increases and control over your data.
Pirate zbrush and try Nomad. I don’t have a tablet so I never gave it a go.
As for Zbrush, Maxon has done absolutely nothing of value to it since its acquisition. I purchased the perpetual license when it was still Pixologic and that’s what I keep using. I hear from industry professionals that I don’t miss out on absolutely anything new at all.
Auh, proprietary software and subscriptions combined (proceeds to put on a strap-on.)
any alternatives?
Blender is free and open source. I don’t think there’s a mobile version but I’m not sure how big the market for that actually is
Well, can’t be a market if it’s not on there 😉
I don’t think a mobile version would be practical, they don’t have enough processing power. Blender needs a high end PC.
Current generation iPad Pros and Airs have the same processing power as Apple Silicon Macs. That’s more than enough for Blender. Even the base iPad and the iPad Mini likely have enough processing power - though I don’t think the base iPad has enough RAM.
Nomad Sculpt. Great sculpting app, you buy it once and it’s yours.
It’s getting a desktop version too ! currently in beta
I’ve been pirating Adobe CC apps for at least 10 years now.
Thank you. Is there a way to do so on iPad and does it have a sculpting app there?
Buying things is so fucking stupid.
Subscriptions aren’t buying, thats the problem.
No, see, they are the same thing. ‘Owning’ is just an agreement, and the corporation or a government or whatever can and will go back on the deal. Only protections are violence or security by obscurity.
Just a language shift for corporations, definitely.
