![]() ![]() “If fantasy, industry folk lore, and the state of current affairs have taught me anything, it is that under the right conditions, at specific points of time and space, indeed, anything is possible.” “The plot has suddenly thickened,” he posted on LinkedIn earlier this week. The new firm is headed by CEO LeeAnn Manon and chief product officer Chris Cheung: both Autodesk veterans, although neither was working for the company at the time of the spin-off.Ĭheung was previously part of the SketchBook Pro product team at Autodesk, before going on to head up work on Mischief, Foundry’s now-discontinued digital sketching software. “After careful consideration and evaluation, we found the perfect home for SketchBook with a company formed by people who previously built and evangelized the SketchBook brand.” “While we value SketchBook and feel an obligation to the community … we also recognize that much has changed at Autodesk,” wrote Autodesk VP for automotive, concept design and XR Thomas Heermann. This week, Autodesk broke that radio silence to announce that development of Sketchbook has been taken over by a new independent company, Sketchbook Inc. Now developed by the people ‘who built and evangelized’ the brand The app’s social media accounts also went silent, with tweets from Sketchbook pausing in December 2020. The spin-off marks the latest change of ownership (and name: it has now lost the capital ‘B’) for Sketchbook, which was orignally developed by Alias and acquired by Autodesk along with Maya in the 2000s.Īt Autodesk, it went through a number of further changes in format and pricing, eventually ending up in 2018 as a free app for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, with a separate commercial Enterprise edition.Īfter that, things seemed to stagnate: the last update to the desktop version was in 2019, which was to remove the need to log in to use it, although the mobile editions were updated more recently. The apps will continue to be available from the Apple, Google and Microsoft app stores, where they can currently be downloaded for free, but delivered by their new owners.Īnother change of owner for the veteran digital sketching software ![]() Scroll down for news of the price changes.Īutodesk has spun off SketchBook, its digital sketching software, to a new company, Sketchbook Inc. Noce work on ruining a good thing.Originally posted on 25 June 2021. It's a way to garner more money from artists, professional or otherwise. You can get those features you just now have to pay a subscription for them, which is ridiculous. Everything I loved about the program? Gone. The options to change the layer qualities? Gone. They took away all of the things I loved. Their free option is the worst thing I've ever seen. That one time purchase was all for nothing, because they had changed it and made it a subscription. When i redownloaded it, the program was awful and I soon realized why. However, I took a break from artwork and when I came back to the app it told me to delete and reinstall. This was my favorite program I'd used and I loved working with this program and improving my art. In comic sans though.įirst of all, I bought this app I think over two years ago and it was a one time 60 dollar purchase. If you have any idea how this can be resolved, I have three more stars with your name on it. I’m running High Sierra on a mid-2012 i5 PC, 4gb of RAM and an SSD, and I’m using a Cintiq for drawing. ![]() I’m a bit of a luddite, but my other design suite and even video editing software run perfectly fine and I’d imagine they’d be more taxing on memory. I’ve even done a clean install of High Sierra and the problem persists. I’ve followed all the suggestions in the fora - resetting to factory default, turning off enable rotate, brush stamp, etc, restoring, reinstalling and trying old versions of the Cintiq software - no dice. The brushes lag, particularly the larger ones. This version (8.6.1) seems to have dropped the ball on responsiveness and the knock-on is a pretty frustrasting experience throughout. I’m a storyboard artist and the previous releases have all been perfect for what I do - fast and responsive. I’ve used them in studio and home environments and I’ve yet to find another program that matches Sketchbook’s usability, elegance and friendly feel. I’ve been a big fan of the previous releases since the beginning. ![]()
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