Downloads
Adobe CC – UAL students can get heavy discounts for a year. offer expires on 13 August 2022. However, there are free alternatives below.
- Audacity – Audio recording and editing are faster and more convenient than Audition.
- Davinci Resolve – Video Editor little more advanced than Permire far better colour grading tool but a little slower I found.
- Gimp – Free photoshop.
- Paint.net – plugins can give it more utility
- Krita – painting photoshop like a tool.
- Paint tool sai – another painting option, after tweaking good with Wacom tablet
- Figma – Free illustrator haven’t used it much but has multiplayer
- Natron – Free After Effects haven’t used this much
- Blender
- Autodesk Maya
- Unity
- Unreal Engine
- Substance painter – 3D material maker
- iClone 7 – real time 3D animation / motioncapture
- FlowFrames – Double your renders FPS to half render times (can create visual weirdness)
- Quill VR – quickly sketch out a 3D reference in VR. (exsport out to your choise renderer)
- Streamlabs OBS – live streaming/recording
- Virtual audio cable – I use to Bodge audio output-input issues
- Shotcut – small and fast video editor
- Levelator – a drag and drop way for processing/levelling out the audio files
- Share x – Capture videos and GIFs quick and conveniently for Blog (Highly recommend)
- PureRef – Imageboard and reference software pay what you want €0 = Free (Highly recommend)
- Instant Eyedropper – get the hex/RGB code to any pixel on the screen
- Nividia canvas and EbSynth– machine learning toys that i didn’t need to include
- Snap Cam – little silly but applies Snapchat filters to your webcam…. use responsibly
- Anki – Flashcards
- VLC media player
- Pot player – VLC alternative I use for files with separate audio tracks.
- Notepad++ – Better notepad found to be good for editing java
- Process Hacker 2– Better task manager
- WinDirStat – You need to make space for those big files? well, this tool will make it easy to find files on your drive that are taking up your precious SSD space.
- BlueScreenView – When your rig hits the fan this is the quickest way to find out why.