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FOSS Artist workflow Guide

My Name is Simon Heggie, and have documented the workflow freedom that came when I decided to permanently ditch big hollywood and corporate waste known known as the proprietary standard.

This is a guide for acquiring recommended open source & well priced software for artists for Industry ready productivity, cost efficiency, Data privacy, hardware performance and freedom.

At the moment it's still in progress, but I opened it anyway due to Github's policies.

I am a Linux user, so if you're a powder Windows or Mac User, not ALL these solutions are going to be optimal for you. However, stick around, It's predominantly cross platform solutions.

Operating System Distribution

Nobara 40

https://nobaraproject.org/download-nobara/

Art software

Tool	Uses	This with addons vs paid	Extensions
Blender	Non destructive 3D, Animation, Post-Comp, Baking, Story-boarding, Simulation,	10	10 free, 10 paid
Blender Launcher	Blender version manager and downloader	9
Krita	Concept, Mock-up, Photo-manipulation, texturing	6	2 free
ComfyUI	Image process Automation with AI integration	6	10 free
Inkscape	Vector art	4	1 Free
Meshroom	3D scanning	4	1 Free
FontForge	Vector art	4
Material Maker	Real-time Shader authoring	4
Godot	Game projects	9

Paid software (Recommended)

Core Paid Applications:

Davinity Resolve

Affinity Suite

Other Paid Applications:

Janga FX: Elemental Suite