I used to work with Freehand, then I tried Illustrator and while its true that the interface is similar to the one in all Adobe products (a plus for Photoshop users) I have to give my vote to CorelDRAW. Ever since I began working in my current workplace, where the main application we use is Corel I've become quite used to it's interface and to me it has the easiest to use keyboard shortcuts and everything is quite intuitive, didn't take long to learn and now, well, what can I say, I'm a Corel advocate.

For raster work, Photoshop is still king anyway, but I find Illustrator unnecesarily complex and counterintuitive.

This is just my opinion heh, as some people have pointed I suggest you try them all and find which one suits you better.

Just don't use sodipodi (Just kidding). Anyone ever tried any open source vector illustration apps? I believe there is one called Inkscape or something like that, never tried it though.

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Most definitely it needs us

God, that was awful, I can't believe I sat through it all. I'm open for contributions if anyone wants help with the rewrite.

However, it seems that the templates/tags aren't showing up, I wonder if they where removed by someone who felt they were out of place? I checked the page's history tab but it doesn't say anything about that.

At any rate, I'll probably come back later with some suggestions, I may not be the best spriter but I certainly can't do worse that that piece of crap :|

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wha..! omg this challenge thread is chock full of awesome entries I should do all of these!

gawd looks that by lurking (and bad lurking at that) I missed so many fun things : s

I guess it's never too late so I will do these just for kicks (and practice)

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Hello guys (and girls).

I made this piece a short while ago and I thought it'd be good to share with you all. It's not for any particular purpose, I just made the line art and then tried various color palettes. At first I was looking for a soft, washed out, almost glowing look, but then I upped the contrast and I think I found a more interesting palette. What do you think? I'm not too sure I'm going to further work on this, but as always, any comments or crits are appreciated! Enjoy and be sure to let me know what you think.



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Hey this is pretty impressive! I can't say I have tried 1-bit animations ever but this looks kind of fun. Also, this is the first time I've heard of this Oric computer. And you say there's a pretty small scene for it. I know Google, Wikipedia and the whole 'net is our friend for these kind of topics, but some links would be appreciated heh.

Nice work ptoing!