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Adobe Creative Cloud update adds 3D modelling tool Fuse – and waves goodbye to Flash

Adobe’s latest update to its Creative Cloud software suite introduces a new 3D modelling tool, Fuse – and renames Flash Professional CC as Adobe Animate CC in recognition of the fact that HTML5 has now become the dominant standard for web-based animated content. Steve would be pleased.

Creating realistic 3D faces and bodies has always been one of the toughest challenges for designers, a task Adobe aims to make very much easier with the addition of a new app in the Creative Cloud armory: Fuse CC. The app, which is currently a Preview version, is intended to allow anyone to easily create animated 3D human models … 

You don’t need 3D expertise or expensive 3D software. With Fuse CC you can easily assemble your own human characters using a wide selection of body parts, hair choices, clothing items and clothing textures like leather, cotton, metal and plastic […]

Save your characters directly to your Creative Cloud Libraries, and then drag them into Adobe Photoshop CC to pose and move them thousands of different ways using the enhanced Properties panel. Fine-tune your characters’ movements even after you’ve placed them in a scene.

You can mix-and-match faces and bodies, and then add everything from hair to shoes.

Adobe has made Fuse available as a free preview to all Creative Cloud members, but notes that the offer runs for “a limited time” so it’s worth grabbing now.

Adobe has also updated the entire Creative Cloud suite with a range of few features. Photoshop CC gets a UI with customizable toolbar and the addition of Design Space (Preview), intended to help UI and web designers generate results in fewer clicks.

Illustrator CC introduces a new Shaper Tool, which Adobe says “lets you draw with loose, natural gestures that magically transform into perfect geometric shapes” – together with faster ways to create and edit vector shapes.

The remaining apps see a range of new features.

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Comments

  1. transamken - 8 years ago

    This is far from new. Mixamo worked on Fuse for years and Adobe did nothing but buy them out shut it down and rebrand it. Yay now everyone can have the same bland looking characters for their multimedia projects!!

  2. ChristianGeek - 8 years ago

    The Adobe Animate CC name change was announced but won’t be released until early next year. It’s not included in this update.

    • ChristianGeek - 8 years ago

      Also, Adobe has not “updated the entire Creative Cloud suite with a range of few features.” Lightroom CC and a handful of other CC apps did not receive updates.

  3. IndecisiveModernist - 8 years ago

    These updates haven’t even come out yet. There isn’t any information on their site nor any updates through my CC app? Where are these updates?

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