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Adobe Creative Cloud, Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining?
Adobe MAX, the Adobe conference in LOS, ANGELES has announced its next generation of software, not Creative Suite 7 but Creative Cloud.
Since the release of Adobe CS6, the company has invested it’s energy into the cloud server system which other leading software giants, (Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Steam) see as the future. However, Whilst CS6 bridged the gap, offering much of the same in the physical disc bundles and continuing the CS line (with obvious major updates to its software). It would seem as of June 25th, Adobe plans to push its Creative Cloud Service from an option, to a must have. Creative Cloud will be updated to Creative Cloud (2) and Creative Suite will finish at 6. Some of Adobes language suggests the continuation of disc bundles; however, Adobe has not released information regarding physical copies of the next generation; CS7 will be replaced with Creative Cloud.
Creative Cloud will operate much like it does currently, a monthly subscription plan catering to your needs as well connecting the subscriber to the online community (which Adobe has bolstered), automatic updates and 100GB CC storage for your files. Creative cloud will still have desktop applications, however this next generation will rely more on networking, making it easier to back up your work, update and share online, with the added bonus which strengthens Adobes security.
Some of the desktop applications
The Adobe range is growing, however what does this specifically means for animators? Adobe has promised the next generation will enable online collaborations of projects, which must appeal to animators and freelancers providing whom you work with also has subscriptions to the Creative Cloud. New advanced ways to publish work, creating online portfolios (Behance ProSite), codeless integrated Websites (Adobe Edge) and even digital magazines for iPad using Digital Publishing Suite (DPS).
Flash. A-aaaaa!
The updated Adobe Premiere Pro CC includes new editing features, customizations and improvements to workflow; Powerful colour systems, with the addition of the Lumetri™ Deep Color Engine, to easily apply rich colour grading looks to your sequences.
After Effects light
Adobe After Effects CC features a faster render time and some exciting new features for motion graphics and visual effects artists. With an added 3D Pipeline collaboration with Maxon Cinema4D! This new AE CC will be bundled with Cinema 4D light, and working much like the current ‘Mocha’ in the effects panel you can open the Cinema 4D light application to create simple 3D objects, which you can then import into AE. Your imported Cinema 4Dlite objects can be edited in AE after importing, by changing its settings in the effects bar once the Cinema 4Dlite effects has been mounted. If you are have a full copy of Cinema 4D, AE will open that instead of the light version.
As for the flagship Photoshop CC, the current announcements cater to photographers with new sharpening technologies and designer workflow upgrades. The updated Illustrator CC feels more appealing to the needs of digital artists with a new way of editing ‘type and vector’ designed for mouse, stylis and multi-touch hardware. A new feature also allows painting with a brush made from a photo! Art and Scatter brushes can contain imported raster images, so Designer can create complex organic designs quickly, with simple brush strokes.
It’s still early days for the MAX conference and the new Adobe Creative Cloud. However the details are shaping up to be very exciting, opening a new wave of possibilities on the platform for Visual Artists and Animators. This could even open the doors, to online Animation studios. Animators will soon find out if every cloud has a silver lining