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According to a random Reddit comment it was down for maintenance, but that comment was made 20+ days ago. Odd there is no mention of it being down on the main page or anything especially because all of the links on the main page point to forum posts.
It sounds like it’s kind of a combination different synthesis.
Not specific to digital art but the “draw a box” series of videos are helpful and as far as I am aware these are all free on their site or YouTube.
Proko has some good content as well I believe they even offer some series that are around digital art. A lot of their content is free on their site but they also offer paid content. I have paid for some of the content but honestly I feel they have plenty of free content that maybe I shouldn’t have paid for it as it’s a bit advanced for my skill set.
These both offer some good information aimed at the foundations of drawing. Such as form and perspective that you need to understand no matter what media/tools you end up using.
Hopefully that’s helpful I am interested in seeing some other people’s suggestions as well.
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The team at Re-Logic has been watching the recent events surrounding Unity with both interest and sadness. The loss of a formerly-leading and user-friendly game engine to the darker forces that negatively impact so much of the gaming industry has left us dismayed to put it mildly. While we do not personally use Unity outside of a few elements on our console/mobile platforms), we feel like we cannot sit idly by as these predatory moves are made against studios everywhere.
We unequivocally condemn and reject the recent TOS/fee changes proposed by Unity and the underhanded way they were rolled out. The flippant manner with which years of trust cultivated by Unity were cast aside for yet another way to squeeze publishers, studios, and gamers is the saddest part. That this move was wholly unnecessary pushes things into the tragedy category - a cautionary tale the industry will not soon forget.
We do not feel that a simple public statement is sufficient. Even if Unity were to recant their policies and statements, the destruction of trust is not so easily repaired. We strongly feel that it is now equally important to get behind some of the other up-and-coming open source game engines. Lighting some candles in an otherwise dark moment. To that end, we are donating $100,000 to each of the open source engines listed below.
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Re-Logic has always been supportive of game developers and indie studios that do things the right way. We feel that our actions in this moment are the best way to carry that mission forward - by accelerating and strengthening competing open source game engines, we hope to empower and assist studios that are struggling with how best to proceed given these recent events.
They just trained their employees using other people’s copyrighted works. What’s the problem?