Autodesk is now in the process of selling off, consolidating, or otherwise severely cutting back the consumer division. The SketchBook team was a forerunner inside Autodesk, paving the way for the company’s vast - and expensive - detour into consumer products. What do we think?Īutodesk created SketchBook by taking advantage of its popular professional sketching software for industrial design (commonly known as the Alias line after the company Autodesk acquired).

Updates are available from the Apple App Store. UI updates including clean canvas with two-hand mode a new marking menu a quick-access toolbar sliders for quick brush size opacity adjustment on the brush menu and customizable color swatches stored on the layer editor.Flip canvas, lock layer and an improved time lapse screen recording workflow.

Color adjustments for hue, saturation, and luminance with real-time preview.

Algorithmic predictive stroke to create precise shapes, lines and curves.

Enhanced symmetry tools with 16-sector radial symmetry.

A redesigned brush engine with brush texture and more than 60 new brushes.

Other improvements in SketchBook 4 include: The new rendering engine also takes advantage of GPU acceleration available in newer iPads.

Autodesk says SketchBook 4 is a “faster and more responsive drawing experience on all 64-bit iOS devices (especially iPad Pro and Apple Pencil)” but will be available to all users on any iOS device. The new rendering ending in SketchBook 4 enables canvas sizes up to 100 megapixels, a “huge” undo stack, and nearly infinite layers - depending on available memory. Autodesk SketchBook 4.0 features a new rendering and drawing engine that takes full advantage of advanced GPU technology in newer Apple mobile devices. A new rendering engine has been designed for power users on iPad Pro, but the technology ships to all users.Īn update to Autodesk Sketchbook for iOS provides a new rendering and drawing engine that takes full advantage of the high-end iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, as well as providing benefits to users of all other iPhones and iPads.

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