#and please consider Not Pirating software made by small dev groups who are trying to keep perpetual license models

[aceofintuition]

well uhhh rip to the CSP folks I guess lol? Figure I’ll throw my two cents out here. Even though some people are claiming V3 will be a perpetual license (which also I do not see anywhere in their article) I’ve never seen a piece of software that starts a subscription model maintain their perpetual licenses. I’ve watched that happen to both the Substance suite (acquired by good old Adobe) and ZBrush (after being acquired by Maxon).

A couple shoutouts: Krita is free and open source, and currently my software of choice. It has oodles of different brushes and features, multiple different brush engines including compatibilty with MyPaint, and although 2D animation is the bane of my existence, it’s more friendly to starting animators IMO than actual animation programs.

Paint Tool SAI still operates under the most forgiving license I have ever seen. There is a version 2 in development that you can download builds for if you have a license, and by and large I find that they are pretty stable / not prone to crashing. While somewhat lacking in features compared to other programs, V2 has some good basics, and the brush engine itself is one of the best I’ve ever seen for color mixing.

If you’re interested in vector art at all, Affinity Designer tends to be what I use for work. The Affinity Suite by Serif is designed to be an alternative to the Adobe triad of Photoshop-Illustrator-InDesign with a perpetual license. Designer is essentially the Illustrator equivalent and I feel the most robust competitor of the three, although all three I would say are more user-friendly than Adobe’s.

Finally, I just want to add that while I know a lot of y’all that follow me are just hobbyists, which is perfectly fine, but if you can afford to throw money at programs like these I encourage you do so. SAI in particular (to my knowledge) is still being developed by just one person, and unfortunately, even software devs are still bound by capitalism as much as the rest of us. Free, donation-driven models are totally viable. I mean god, Blender’s been doing it for 20 years now! But the people behind it are real folks in need of support, and I hope those of y’all looking for a CSP alt will keep that in mind.

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