Creativity Through Data
Krita
Create beautiful, professional paintings, illustrations, & spritesheets. (FOSS)
Leonardo
An infinite canvas ideal for ideation, character creation, & concept art. (FOSS)
Inkscape
A classic free and open source software (FOSS) for creating vector graphics.
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.
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)
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
Material Maker
Lospec Palettes
Amazing limited palettes to create beautiful art & designs easily, whether creating 1 bit, 8 bit, or 16 bit graphics.
Bit Font Maker
Audacity
The classic FOSS digital audio & recording software that perfect for creating short audioscapes, sound effects, etc.
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.
LMMS
Free & open source music production suite.