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http://drawpile.net/

It's a pretty good stand alone program-- but you can also use it for network drawing. It's less broken and new like O.C 1, DREADED Hamachi and PaintChat. It lags for some people in the network drawing-- but other than that I can't really fault it.

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Forgot to explain why it's good.
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When I'm colouring my work I tend to pass it around multiple programs, usually SAI and Photoshop

But my initial concepts, sketching, and lineart is all done in ArtRage

It just has such a nice feel to it, very geared towards people who enjoy that traditional aesthetic, very simple interface, and just very pretty to look at in general

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http://drawpile.net/

It's a pretty good stand alone program-- but you can also use it for network drawing. It's less broken and new like O.C 1, DREADED Hamachi and PaintChat. It lags for some people in the network drawing-- but other than that I can't really fault it.

The lagginess of network drawing should be mostly fixed by now, and especially if you are connected to a dedicated server (I'm hosting one, PM me for details), but I love this program because it's fully opensource and therefore something I can actually support.

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The lagginess of network drawing should be mostly fixed by now, and especially if you are connected to a dedicated server (I'm hosting one, PM me for details), but I love this program because it's fully opensource and therefore something I can actually support.

It lags for me still. x: No clue why. I don't think my laptop is THAT bad to be whats causing it.
I go on (what I think are) dedicated servers and theirs still not really a difference. 

I'll note ya.

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I used MangaStudio5 / Clipstudio 5 for a majority of my work, its like SAI and the important parts of photoshop that artists use fused together. It's blows SAI out of the water and is updated more then once every 5 years 'cough' 'cough' .

I still use photoshop for post processing and detail painting.

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Nope. It's free for everyone. They disabled their activation servers for that so it's a free download - https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs2-product-downloads.html

You didn't read what i said it's only for those customers that legitimately purchased it. Plus it's outdated software so it won't work on more modern machines. plus there are far better alternatives to photoshop now these days.

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MyPaint is a great software that is free and works great on Windows and Linux. MacOSX is supported but I am not sure about the pressure sensitivity; at one point it didn't have it...

This was one of my favorite programs when I was on Linux and I think it works great for sketching. Most of my CG stuff was made in MyPaint (like my icon) so it's definitely useable as a full-fledged art software.

http://mypaint.org/about/

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23 minutes ago, 6tails said:

As of March 26th, you will have access to what Studio Ghibli has used, open-sourced with equivalents to Ghibli's plugins, and with plug-in writing capability.

http://www.awn.com/news/open-source-animation-production-software-opentoonz-available-march-26

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Ever wanted to try 3D Sculpting but didn't want to spend a ton of money on ZBrush to find out if you were any good?! Well don't you worry!

Check out Sculptris!

Sculptris is a free 3D sculpting program that works like a slimmed down, bare-bones ZBrush. It's less like 3D modelling and more like Digital Clay!

 

Want to try your hand at more traditional 3D modelling instead? Check out the free and feature rich Blender!

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I found this to be quite useful for a time, now I have sorted the issues with my lineart to a degree and don't need it any longer.

http://lazynezumi.com/

This is a brush stabilizing program that was basic and free when I used it. Now having used the current version's 30 day trail I have to say it it is a great deal better but now isn't free. It does work wonders though when set up right.

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