Krita– Krita offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other great features
GIMP – GIMP is a well known free alternative to Photoshop with similar features
Mischief Free Version – With six essential brushes, a basic palette of colors and an infinite vector canvas, Mischief-Free is perfect for hashing out ideas, life drawing, and endless doodles
MyPaint – MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters, and comes with 39 different brushes
Verve Painter– Verve is a small painting application that uses fluid dynamics and brushes to push the paint around, though it is still in development.
Inkscape– Inkscape is an open-source professional quality vector graphics software with sophisticated drawing tools with capabilities comparable to Adobe Illustrator.
FireAlpaca – A similar program to Paint Tool Sai that offers features such as a snap feature which creates a variety of perspective overlays.
MediBang Paint – A free lightweight painting program for Windows, Mac Os and Android with cloud saving to allow users to easily switch between platforms.
SpeedyPainter – Basic painting program with a simple layout and features such as perspective grids and reference view mode
3D Modelling
Google Sketchup – Drawing-based tool for architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers who design for the physical world. SketchUp Make is a free version and SketchUp Pro is a paid version with additional functionality.
Sculptris– A free, introductory digital sculpting tool, a great stepping stone for digital sculptors, created by the makers of Zbrush.
Blender – A powerful application with full-fledged professional tools, Blender has a wide community and resources to help you learn.
SculptGL– This handy modelling program works online in your browser and is compatible with wacom tablets
Animation
Synfig – Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.
EmoFuri – EmoFuri is a new animation software that helps artists easily animate photoshop illustrations in a 2D-3D style.It uses PSD files of character illustrations to animate them.
Pencil2D– Pencil2D is an open-source animation/drawing software that lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation using both bitmap and vector graphics.
Live2D– This increasingly popular 2D-3D animation software is similar to Emofuri with sample models available to experiment with, and is also available in english.
Pixel Art
Piskel– An online pixel art app that lets you animate pixel art with a live preview of your work.
Piq – While it doesn’t have the best looking layout, this online tool has lots of interesting features including a colour-drift tool that’s great for making colour palettes.
Etc
Thisissand – An online fun and unique playground for creating colourful sandscapes, also comes in an app version
Flame Painter – A free demo of the full program, it allows you to try out the flame generator and change different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings
Silk – An online interactive generative art program that creates bright silk-like patterns, with options to change colours and rotational symmetry.
Bomomo – This interesting program has a group of dots that move around the screen in the pattern you choose, then paint the canvas according to when you click the screen.
It’s called Krita. Maybe you’ve heard of it, but in case you haven’t, seriously, check it out! It’s really nice!
The best way I can describe this program is that it’s a combination of Easy Paint Tool SAI and Photoshop. And the best part is the program is completely free to download from their website. I think what I like most about it is that not only does it have a Stablizer like SAI does, but it has practically all the tools I ever use from Photoshop. Not saying it’s going to replace SAI or PS for me (at least not yet; I’m still learning my way around Krita lol), but it’s probably the only thing I’ve ever found that is coming close to doing it.
IT DOES WORK ON MAC IM USING IT RIGHT NOW AND ITS ACTUALLY PRETTY NEAT I DONT USUALLY ADD ONTO POSTS LIKE THIS BUT I FELT THIS WAS IMPORTANT BC 999999% OF EVERYTHING FUCKS UP ON A MAC BUT THIS WORKS AND ITS FREE AND ITS SUPER NEAAAAATOOOO
.. as u can see im not even an artist. but. yknow. A+
Now that Tumblr’s video player finally works, I wanted to upload this here. (This HD player’s surprisingly good quality) This was my short film that I spent forever on. Please don’t remove my credits, thanks~!
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