Josiah Flachman

Creativity Through Data

Creative Tools

Digital Art – 2D

Painting & Illustration

Krita

Create beautiful, professional paintings, illustrations, & spritesheets. (FOSS)

Leonardo

An infinite canvas ideal for ideation, character creation, & concept art. (FOSS)

Vector Graphics

Inkscape

A classic free and open source software (FOSS) for creating vector graphics.

Pixel Art

Aseprite

The industry standard for creating high quality pixel art, animations & spritesheets.

Pixelorama

An up and coming free & open source alternative that incorporates a great many quality life features like auto dithering & outlining.

Node Based

Graphite

An unique new tool that allows you to use vector, painting, photo editing, & motion graphics in one tool (FOSS)

Pixieditor

An unique new tool that allows you to use pixel art, vector, painting, photo editing, animation & procedural generation all in the same image. (FOSS)


Digital Art – 3D

Modeling

Blender

Create ASCII Art Text like it’s 2001 and you just got home and logged onto AIM (or just spice up some code).

Sprytile

Create ASCII Art Text like it’s 2001 and you just got home and logged onto AIM (or just spice up some code).

Textures+Materials

Material Maker

Create ASCII Art Text like it’s 2001 and you just got home and logged onto AIM (or just spice up some code).


Digital Art – Graphic Design

Palettes

Lospec Palettes

Amazing limited palettes to create beautiful art & designs easily, whether creating 1 bit, 8 bit, or 16 bit graphics.

Fonts & UI

Bit Font Maker

Create ASCII Art Text like it’s 2001 and you just got home and logged onto AIM (or just spice up some code).


Audio

Audio Editor

Audacity

The classic FOSS digital audio & recording software that perfect for creating short audioscapes, sound effects, etc.

Synthesizers

Beepbox

An amazing web app that allows creation of 8 bit bit-tune music with built in key management & other tools to help lower the barrier to entry.

Strudel

A procedural music synthesizer and creation platform that works through a cls to streamline certain aspects of the creation process.

DAWs (digital audio workstation)

LMMS

Free & open source music production suite.