Freebie Fridays! Top 5 Best Free WordPress Plugins!

Continuing a trend of Top 5 lists, here are my recommendations for the top 5 best free WordPress plugins. These plugins will help optimize your WordPress site for search engine results, and by extension, profit! 5. Smush: Image Compression and Optimization (https://WordPress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/) According to best-selling author Nell Patel, “a 1 second delay in page response

Freebie Fridays! Make Gimp Look Like Photoshop? Don’t. Get Krita.

I’ve spent several days trying to make Gimp look like Photoshop. I followed the instructions here, here, and here, with the latter two bringing me closest to success. I had the least success with Gimpshop. For one, the top-level folder in the sourceforge download is misnamed which means that the readme install instructions will fail.

Freebie Fridays! 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image!

The title says it all; 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image! A whole lot of #gamedev is reconstructing characters and worlds that can’t be found IRL. That’s the whole point of an art medium whose biggest draw is escapism. Fantasy art assets will still need to be created by “hand.” But, for the times

Freebie Fridays! 3Ds Max Rigging Resources.

Equally at home in a Tutorial Tuesday (check back next Tuesday for a more thorough write-up), these resources aren’t of my creation. But they are great! As mentioned Wednesday in a microblog entry, I’m “…working on rigging. It’s not going great.” Now things are going much, m̶u̶c̶h̶  better (again, I’ll elaborate Tuesday). Until then, check

Freebie and Financial Fridays! Where to Sell Indie Games: itch.io

Previously, in a Tutorial Tuesdays post entitled “Marketing for Indies – PR, Social Media, and Game Trailers“, I mentioned indie game selling site itch.io. In the post I described itch.io as “an indie distribution site where the developers get to keep 100% of their proceeds. It also facilitates the creation and exhibition of game jams.”

Freebie Fridays! Sort of – they’re just websites/youtube channels, but they’re free and they are useful.

I’ve spent countless hours researching PC Tablets in the hopes of finding something comparable to a Cintiq Companion, or, at the very least, comparable to my late ASUS EEE b121 Slate (or whatever its official name was, I simply knew it as the greatest piece of technology I’ve ever owned). Research has been hampered by

Freebie Fridays! Ryan Kingslien’s youtube channel

Previously I’ve noted that youtube is sometimes a better source of misinformation than information: for example, here and here and here (which I correct here). A big exception to that sometimes rule is Ryan Kingslien’s youtube channel. Of course, you get what you pay for; it’s nowhere nearly as informative (knowledge is free, information costs)

Freebie Fridays! RadialMenu for ZBrush, Substance Painter, et al.

In yesterday’s post I promised promising free software. Here it is, RadialMenu! Created by Incrediclint, RadialMenu augments your Tablet PC and makes it fully portable for the purpose of digital art creation! It does this by providing you with on-screen buttons such as Alt, Ctrl, Shift, Undo, and Redo. No need to pack a keyboard