Adobe is celebrating five years of its digital painting and drawing app, Adobe Fresco, with the announcement of powerful updates ahead of Lightbox Expo, which kicks off today in Pasadena, California. The event brings together artists in animation, gaming, illustration, and live-action and runs October 25-27 at the Pasadena Convention Center. Get more LBX information here.Here are some Fresco highlights:Over the past five years Fresco has transformed digital art through innovations which streamline artist workflows and enhance creativity with analog techniques reimagined for touch and stylus devices, offering creatives the following:Live oil and watercolor brushes, vector brushes, and thousands of pixel brushesThe latest advancements in touch and stylus technology with haptic feedback, tilt, barrel-roll, and squeeze support for Apple PencilCutting-edge motion features that make it easy to add eye-catching movement to artwork in secondsThe user-friendly symmetry tool, which ensures precision and faster creation of complex compositions.A vector trimmer to quickly remove intersecting vector strokes and clean up line art.The paint inside tool option to fill an enclosed area without going outside the lines. Frescos latest innovations deliver more power and precision for creators:Motion Presets including bob, breathe, bounce and more help creators quickly add lightweight eye-catching movement and animations to artwork in seconds.Reflective and Rotational Symmetry helps creators achieve faster and more seamless creation of complex compositions.Ability to take full advantage of ecosystem tools like the Apple Pencil Pro capabilities across workflows including:Shortcuts with squeezeNew haptic feedback for key user actionsBarrel roll for more realistic brush strokes when pencil is rotatedAdobe has also announced that to further the companys mission of empowering creativity for all, it is making Fresco completely free to all users, so now anyone can discover drawing and painting with the support of Adobe Fresco and all its premium capabilities.Visit Adobes blog Celebrating five years of Fresco with powerful new updates that unlock digital drawing and painting for everyone for more information and see how artists are harnessing the power of Fresco in their creations.Source: Adobe Debbie Diamond Sarto is news editor at Animation World Network.