Have you ever been so frustrated trying to find a software of your liking, but cannot afford it? This list has been generated to provide the most convenient and productive software’s without any extra cost.
Verve Painter
Verve is a small painting application that uses fluid dynamics and brushes to push the paint around, with great results. Verve is still in early development, but from the demonstration, it seems incredibly fun and tactile to work with.
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Dogwaffle
The program, written by Dan Ritchie, runs on the Windows platform and has both freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version, PD Pro Digital Painter, is updated frequently while the most recent freeware version is Project Dogwaffle 1.2, released in 2004. The free version is fully functional, lacking only the advanced layer and scripting tools in version 2 of the commercial product.
Project Dogwaffle features include realistic paint effects similar to Corel Painter, a frame-based animation tool, the standard paint tools common to most modern bitmap paint programs, and an alpha channel for transparency effects.
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Mypaint
MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it.
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Krita
Krita is a KDE program for sketching and painting, offering an end-to-end solution for creating digital painting files from scratch by masters, is available for Linux and Windows
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Gimp
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
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Inkscape
Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It is used by design professionals and hobbyists worldwide, for creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape uses the W3C open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as its native format, and is free and open-source software.
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DAZ 3D
Choose from thousands of 3D people, creatures, buildings and props to place into your scene or “photo shoot”. Then dress them, pose them, and give them expressions. Once the stage is set, adjust lighting and camera angles and start snapping your amazing images.
Best of all! Ownership of these images belongs to you. Use them as book covers, posters, or banners. Whatever you want. They’re all yours to do with and sell as you like. You can now be the artist producing jaw-dropping scenes.
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Sculptris Alpha 6
Sculptris Alpha is the software made for artists who have taken sculpting to the digital level. It has been improved over the years and through many versions, and now you can even make creations there that are compatible with ZBrush.
For beginners at Sculptris Alpha, just imagine that you have a virtual piece of clay and that you can use tools for pinching, twisting, pushing and pulling in order to create a shape that you have imagined. It also offers you the option of painting and making checkered patterns. Plus, you can make mosaics. It is very user friendly, so it is perfect for beginner virtual sculptors.
What you learn with it can also be applied with ZBrush. It is really innovative and you can create in 3D.
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Sketchup
SketchUp (Formerly: Google Sketchup) is a 3D modeling program for applications such as architectural, interior design, civil and mechanical engineering, film, and video game design. A freeware version, SketchUp Make, and a paid version with additional functionality, SketchUp Pro, are available.
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Blender
Blender is a free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process.
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