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BrushBeatByte is a directory and newsletter of AI tools, plugins and workflows that plug into traditional craft: your DAW, your paint app, your Blender scene, your engine. Every showcase shows what the hand did and what the AI did.

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Art

25 listings · tools, workflows, showcases
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Music

23 listings · tools, workflows, showcases
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Games

19 listings · tools, workflows, showcases

Hybrid of the week

PROTO (Holly Herndon)

Holly Herndon's 2019 album made with a human vocal ensemble and Spawn, an AI she built with Mat Dryhurst and Jules LaPlace and trained on their own community's voices.

Hand vs. AI breakdown inside · unverified until the creator confirms

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♪ Music — Vocal synthesis

ACE Studio

An AI singing voice workstation that turns MIDI and lyrics into vocal performances.

Tool
✎ Art — Image generation

Adobe Firefly

Adobe's family of generative models for images, vectors and more, available on the web and built into Creative Cloud apps.

Tool freemium licensed data
▲ Games · ✎ Art — Materials

Adobe Substance 3D Sampler

Material authoring software that turns photos into tileable PBR materials, with AI-assisted features like Image to Material.

Tool subscription
▲ Games — Environment generation

Blockade Labs Skybox AI

A tool for generating 360-degree skybox environments from prompts and sketches.

Tool freemium
✎ Art — Image generation

Bria

A visual generative AI platform and API that says its models are trained only on licensed data with attribution to contributors.

Tool licensed data
▲ Games — Animation

Cascadeur

A 3D keyframe animation tool with AI-assisted posing and physics tools for characters.

Tool freemium
✎ Art — Painting app

Clip Studio Paint

A drawing and painting app for comics and illustration that includes AI-assisted features such as auto-colorizing line art and pose detection from photos.

Tool paid
✎ Art — Node-based pipeline

ComfyUI

A node-graph interface for building image (and other media) generation pipelines with diffusion models, run locally or in the cloud.

Tool open-source

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