The Big List Of Paint Programs!

[Jack-Dark]

I can't believe no one mentioned Autodesk Animator Pro.  I mean, I'm 99.999% certain -this- is the prog LucasArts was using back in the Monkey Island days.  It's fantastic!

You can download it here (and learn more about the art of pixel crafting!):

http://tsugumo.swoo.net/tutorial/faq.htm

If you can find a copy of Autodesk Animator Pro '95, you're doing even finer.

[Jack-Dark]

If you can find a copy of Autodesk Animator Pro '95, you're doing even finer.

Woops! I meant to say Autodesk Animator "Studio". 

[Dreben ama Vreden]

Yesss! A good paint program after all. Until now, I've been using GraFX 2, which is also an awesome program, but a beta, and lacking some functions. I hope Autodesk will help me after all.

[Ozzie]

Hm, I think Photofiltre is a nice program, I use it sometimes und it's free.

www.photofiltre.com

[Crowley]

Thought I'd mention that ArtGem has been officially discontinued. There are some third-party sites which still host it, though all I've found from those are older versions (1.3 was the last).

[HeirOfNorton]

Don't know if anyone's seen this yet.
Allegro Sprite Editor

It's an open source program intended for pixel art. It runs in a console in fullscreen only, so the interface is a bit inconvenient.  Otherwise it appears a fairly powerful little program, with layers, masks, and animation support, as well as more advanced palette editing. It even supports AGS's palette format natively (with a filename change, but that's better than most of the other programs I've tried).

I haven't tried it too much yet, but here it is for anyone else who's interested.

HoN

[PsychicHeart]

a new free one is PhotoFiltre. pretty good.

[Ubel]

PhotoFiltre was mentioned three posts before. You should read the thread more carefully before replying.

[PsychicHeart]

whoops. my bad

[Theme]

OpenCanvas - http://www.portalgraphics.net/en/index.asp

If you like manga try this one, it is very easy to use. It is a small photoshop like program. you can make use of event files to see how the artist did the illustration
It is a good way to learn colouring CG http://www.portalgraphics.net/oc/index.asp?lang=en

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[Spiro]

SketchUp http://www.sketchup.com

Easy to use 3D tool. Great for exteriors. If you have problems with perspective or shadowing, this is great tool for you.

Good: fully functional 8 working hours trial
Bad: it cost 500$

[Ubel]

Anim8or

A very easy-to-use program for making 3d animations and pictures. Especially good for making cartoony 3d graphics.

And the best thing is that it's totally free!

[otter]

For those of you on a Mac (both of you):

http://www.opensword.org/Pixen/

(Get the latest beta version, though: vast improvement in terms of speed and functionality over version 2.)

[AlbinoPanther]

You can get ArtGem 1.3 here

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[Razor]

Hate to interrupt all of the suggestions and such but uh,  does Toon Boom allow you to make .SWFs and animate your characters? It's probably a dumb question, but it looks more like a cinema deal, kind of for making cutscenes. Thanks.

[Gilbert]

From their page:

Export
Macromedia Flash SWF
QuickTime with alpha channel and sound
AVI
DV Stream (NTSC/PAL/WideScreen/HDTV)
Image Sequences

[Razor]

Thanks. Also, I seem to be having trouble with Graphics Gale, how do I get it so that it has a Grid, in which I paint in the individual blocks, as shown on their page. Thanks.

[Proskrito]

Artweaver

A light freeware alternative to Corel Painter.

[cameronyo!]

i just down loaded neo paint its really good lots of tools and mediums to choose from even 3-d tools, 


TIP- before downloading change your computer calander to like 2012 then install and run first time  x it out change the clock back and you have a good 2000 days to use it

[SSH]

Also, SSH's Walkcycle Generator can be used as a Paint program and has extra support for walkcycles, obviously!

See: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=26501.0