Western art style gets a bad rap due to the poor quality put out there. So lets fix that by embracing that Git Gud attitude and encourage our fellow supporters where they need it. Post any tutorial regarding styles relatable to the animated shows we know. You may also post tutorials on animation and comics as well to help broaden the thread. Let us hope we can bake better cake eventually. Tools of the Trade >Digital Painting Krita (Free and has plenty of features for comics and animation) - https://krita.org/en/ Mypaint (Free and very simplistic UI) - http://mypaint.org AzPainter (Free and extremely light) - https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/releases Inkscape (Free vector design program) - https://inkscape.org/en/ PaintTool SAI (Cheap and focus oriented) - http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/ Clip Studio Paint (or Manga Studio) - http://my.smithmicro.com/manga-studio-ex-5.html Gimp (The alternative to Photoshop) - https://www.gimp.org/ Waifu2x (Image Resizer that can Up-res and Removes JPEG Artifacts) ├ Win/GUI - https://github.com/lltcggie/waifu2x-caffe/releases └ Source - https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x Swatch Booker (Manage your swatches across apps) - http://www.selapa.net/swatchbooker/ PureRef (Display program to store references) - https://www.pureref.com/index.php >Animation Pencil2D (Free and Simple) - https://www.pencil2d.org/ Easytoon (Free and Easy app to create monochrome animated gifs) - https://easytoon.software.informer.com/download/ Tahoma2D (Fork of OpenToonz w/ Stop-motion support) - https://tahoma2d.org/ OpenToonz (Free animation app made by Studio Gibli) ├ Win/OSX - https://opentoonz.github.io/e/index.html └ Linux - https://morevnaproject.org/opentoonz/ Tupi - 2D Magic (Free beginners friendly app for animation) - https://www.maefloresta.com/ Synfig (Free vector animation app, but hard to use) - https://synfig.org/ Plastic Animation (Affordable and focus driven/Free old version) - https://animationpaper.com/ TVPaint (Pricey but damn good) - https://tvpaint.com/ ToonBoom (Industry standard app for vector animation) - https://www.toonboom.com/ Blender 3D (Free, powerful, yet complicated 3D app) - https://www.blender.org/