Monday, November 30th, 2015 Posted by Jim Thacker

Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2015 CG discounts

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Is it just us, or do the Black Friday sales get bigger every year? When we ran our round-up of seasonal deals last year, we found 15. This year, there are 50, some spilling into Cyber Monday, or even into December.

In the list below, we’ve rounded up the best deals on CG software, plugins and resource collections, like models and HDRIs. (We had to draw the line somewhere, so we haven’t included training.)

We’ve covered hardware if it’s specifically graphics related: for example, professional workstations. Nvidia has a round-up of deals on its GeForce gaming GPUs, and Polygon has a list of deals on general-purpose hardware.

Where possible, we’ve listed deals provided directly by the developers, but at the foot of the story, you can find a few unique deals provided only through resellers. (Note that some are only availble in specific territories.)

The offers are in date order, so if you’re reading this after 27 November itself, scroll down to see deals that are still valid. And obviously, the exact cut-off times may vary according to which time zone you’re in.

In addition, some deals require you to enter coupon codes. Below, we’ve listed codes we could only find in emails and newsletters: the rest you can find by clicking through the links below.

Updated 27 November: We’ve added in a few more deals, including 3D-Coat, Allegorithmic, e-on software, Next Limit and The Pixel Farm. Chocofur has also updated the coupon code required to claim its 60% discount.

Until 26 November

Who: Xfrog
What: Any Xfrog product
When: 26 November
Discount: 50%
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Until 27 November

Who: 3D Scan Store
What: Any content (3D facial and full-body scans)
When: 27 November
Discount: 50%
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Who: Adobe
What: Creative Cloud subscriptions
When: 27 November
Discount: Up to 20%
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Who: Allegorithmic
What: Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Substance Live
When: 27 November
Discount: 25%
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Who: Corel
What: Painter 2016
When: 27 November
Discount: Up to $130 – also includes free copy of WinZip 19.5
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Corel is also offering discounts on other products, including CorelDRAW, PaintShop Pro and Pinnacle Studio.

Who: DAZ 3D
What: Selected stock DAZ 3D content
When: ‘Early Black Friday’ sale (presumably 27 November)
Discount: 30-60%
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Who: Exlevel
What: GrowFX
When: 27 November
Discount: TBC (details to be confirmed on the day)
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Who: Luxion
What: KeyShot 6 (all versions)
When: 27 November
Discount: 20%
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Luxion is also running a separate Cyber Monday deal on KeyShot add-ons, which runs until 4 December.

Who: PanoCapture
What: HDRIs and backplate images
When: ‘Black Friday’ sale (presumably 27 November)
Discount: 50% (via coupon code from link below)
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Who: Shoran Software
What: RenderPal
When: 27 November
Discount: 40%
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Who: Viz-People
What: All collections (3D models, 2D cutout people, HDRIs)
When: 27 November
Discount: 50%
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Until 28 November

Who: Pilgway
What: 3D-Coat
When: 28 November
Discount: 26%
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Until 29 November

Who: Richard Rosenman Advertising & Design
What: Any product (Photoshop plugins)
When: 29 November
Discount: 40% – use coupon code BLK40
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Until 30 November

Who: A&G Tool Co.
What: Any purchase over $50 (3ds Max add-ons, textures, HDRIs)
When: Only on 30 November
Discount: 40% (via coupon code from link below)
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Who: AXYZ design
What: Any purchase (Stock 3D characters, an(i)ma crowd animation software)
When: 30 November
Discount: 25%
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Who: Blender Market
What: Various (Blender assets, shaders, add-ons)
When: 30 November
Discount: 25%
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Who: BOXX Technologies
What: Any overclocked workstation
When: 30 November
Discount: 10% (via coupon code from link below)
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Who: CGAxis
What: 3D model collections
When: 30 November
Discount: 50% – use coupon code BFCM50
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Who: Chocofur
What: Various (Blender assets, shaders, add-ons)
When: 30 November
Discount: 60% – use coupon code xmas
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Who: Cornucopia3D
What: Stock models and 3D assets
When: 30 November
Discount: 50%
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Who: Cyber Radiance
What: Hair Farm 2 Professional
When: 30 November
Discount: $300 off (via coupon code from link below)
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Who: e-on software
What: Vue, PlantFactory, CloudFactory, LumenRT, Carbon Scatter
When: 30 November
Discount: 50%
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Who: Evermotion
What: Stock architectural models and HDRIs
When: 30 November
Discount: 50%
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Who: ftrack
What: ftrack
When: 30 November
Discount: 25% (one-year subscription), 50% (two-year subscription)
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Who: FxFactory
What: Effects and transitions for editing and compositing software
When: 30 November
Discount: 20%
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Who: Illuminated Tools
What: ‘Everything bundle’ of light probes
When: 30 November
Discount: 40% – use coupon code thanksies
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Who: Laubwerk
What: Plant collections, SurfaceSpread
When: 30 November
Discount: 30% (via coupon code from link below)
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Who: Lightmap
What: HDR Light Studio
When: 30 November
Discount: 25%
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Who: Made With Mischief/The Foundry
What: Mischief
When: 30 November
Discount: 30% – use coupon code GOBBLE
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Who: Marmoset
What: Toolbag, Hexels, Skyshot, HDRI packs
When: 30 November
Discount: 40%
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Who: NewTek
What: LightWave Production Suite (LightWave, NevronMotion, ChronoSculpt)
When: 30 November
Discount: 59% (Over normal cost of buying tools individually)
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Who: Next Limit
What: Maxwell Render Suite
When: 30 November
Discount: 35%
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Who: Project Dogwaffle Team
What: Howler 10 (pre-order, get latest stable beta now)
When: 30 November
Discount: Over 50%
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Who: Rampant Design
What: Various (effects, transitions and stock footage for editing and compositing tools)
When: 30 November
Discount: 60%
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Who: Reallusion
What: ‘3-in-1 Creative Suite’ (CrazyTalk, CrazyTalk Animator, FaceFilter)
When: 30 November
Discount: Around 40% (varies between Standard and Pro bundles)
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Reallusion is also offering discounts on ‘iClone plugins’ – including Substance Designer and Indigo Render.

Who: Render Legion
What: Corona Renderer (Yearly Fair SaaS licence)
When: 30 November
Discount: 27% (via coupon code from link below)
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Who: Smith Micro
What: Poser Pro 11, Manga Studio 5
When: 30 November
Discount: 30% (Poser Pro 11), 65% (Manga Studio 5)
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Who: The Foundry
What: Modo, Modo Extended Bundle, Mari
When: 30 November
Discount: 40%
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Who: The Pixel Farm
What: PF Track 2015
When: 30 November
Discount: 50%
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Who: VIShopper
What: Site credits (to purchase stock images for visualisation work)
When: 30 November
Discount: 30-50%
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Until December

Who: 3DTotal
What: Various (texture collections, anatomy figures, books and training)
When: 1 December
Discount: 15%
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Who: Boris FX/Imagineer Systems
What: Boris Box Set (BCC, Final Effects Complete, RED, mocha Pro) or mocha Pro 4
When: 1 December
Discount: 50%
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Who: CoreMelt
What: Effects and transitions for editing and compositing software
When: 1 December
Discount: 30%
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Who: Mettle
What: ShapeShifter and FreeForm Pro for After Effects; SkyBox Studio for After Effects
When: 1 December
Discount: 50% (ShapeShifter and FreeForm Pro – use code FREE50), 25% (SkyBox Studio – use code SKY25)
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Who: Next Limit
What: RealFlow
When: 15 December (‘Spanish winter’ sale)
Discount: 35% (Available to users of other 3D software, via resellers only, maximum five licences per customer)
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Who: Red Giant Software
What: Effects and transitions for editing and compositing software
When: Only on 8 December (End of year, rather than Cyber Monday)
Discount: 40%
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Who: Vizpark
What: VP Complete product bundle (3ds Max plugins, models, textures, HDRIs)
When: 1 December
Discount: 31.5%
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Resellers

Who: Motion Media
What: Various (Includes 3ds Max, 3D-Coat, Cinema 4D, Maxwell Render, RealFlow, V-Ray for Maya, ZBrush)
When: 27 November
Discount: Varies
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Who: Toolfarm
What: Various (Includes Cinema 4D, Silhouette, Video Copilot plugins, other editing and compositing plugins)
When: 30 November
Discount: Varies
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