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Mark Tribe and Michael Naimark's WIKI on various international university programs (technically not at tool).

Digital Artists Handbook

The Digital Artists Handbook is an up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces you to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art.

Open Source Software

Image Manipulation & Drawing

Gimp is the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

GimpShop Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP

Inkscape An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Scribus Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.

3D Modeling & Animation

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.

Blender People is a suite of Python scripts for Blender that, in conjunction with a mySQL database, allow the generation of large scale crowd dynamics, including (but not limited to) combat scenarios.

Ogle the openGL(i.e. OpenGLExtractor) is an open source software package by the Eyebeam OpenLab that allows for the capture and re-use of 3D geometry data from 3D graphics applications running on Microsoft Windows.

Audio

Audacity Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

Video

CinePaint is a collection of free open source software tools for deep paint manipulation and image processing. It's been used on many feature films and it's also being used by pro photographers who need greater color fidelity than is available in other tools.

Cinelerra is a non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux.

Lives is a Free, Open Source video editor *and* a VJ tool.

Jahshaka aims to become a cross-platform, open source, free, video editing, effects, and compositing suite.

HandBrake is video compression software.

Programming

Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development.

Pygame Python Game Development is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. It can also be used for Art Making.

Pybluez (Python BlueTooth libraries) is an effort to create python wrappers around system Bluetooth resources to allow Python developers to easily and quickly create Bluetooth applications.

PureData (aka PD) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by Miller Puckette.

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.

Closed Source Software

Final Cut Pro /

Adobe /

Maya /

Maya Personal Learning Edition

Mel Scripting Forums

Rhino3D /

Second Life /

VVVV

APIs used in class (selected)

Google API & Developer stuff

Yahoo API & Developer stuff