Cool Free Stuff to use Online

3D modeling

• https://www.blender.org/
• /u/M4nusky says: www.tinkercad.com for very easy 3D modeling.
• /u/JCthulhuM says: http://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-make
• /u/BlenderGuy shares Free Online CAD Place: OnShape https://www.onshape.com/
• /u/danbo1221 says: For 3D CAD, you may want to consider AutoDesk Fusion 360 .
• For 2D, I recommend Dassault DraftSight
• For 2D Animation /u/DarkLinkXXXX says : Don't forget OpenToonz and Synfig for 2d animation.

Digital Painting:

• https://krita.org/
• /u/MudkipOverlord says CtrlPaint: http://www.ctrlpaint.com
• /u/Fiishbait says : Terragen has a free version of its amazing software, with only some restrictions on image render size, quality levels, but can still create stunning images.

Vector Drawing:

• https://inkscape.org/

Digital Music Production:

• https://lmms.io/
• /u/HP40 says: https://www.audiotool.com/
• /u/jackled says: http://ardour.org/

Music MIxing:

• http://mixxx.org/
• From /u/TaTayou :For digital music production there is also reaper, you can use the demo (which is like the full version) as long as you want(and not only during 60days as advertised). : www.reaper.fm

-/u/just_not_ready says: Audacity Photo/Image Editing:

• http://www.gimp.org/

-/u/TunaLobster adds: Paint.Net Go to school and take courses:

• https://www.edx.org/
• https://www.khanacademy.org/
• /u/Kong_Dong and /u/zzgoogleplexzz say: http://www.coursera.org/ - I knew I was forgetting one!

Learn programming:

• https://www.udacity.com/
• https://www.codecademy.com/
• /u/TricksterofU says: http://cscircles.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/
• /u/GSRoTu says: http://scratch.mit.edu/
• /u/PaulJP says : Visual Studio Community is free, and is basically pro without enterprise-level stuff: /. The MSDN (documentation) is free online ( https://msdn.microsoft.com ), as well as Stack Overflow for questions.
• /u/CounterSeal says: http://www.theodinproject.com/
• /u/Stiino0 says: http://www.freecodecamp.com/
• /u/PM_ME_YOUR_IPv6 says: LearnCPP is a great source for learning C++ and some C

Make a game:

• http://unity3d.com/get-unity
• https://www.unrealengine.com/
• /u/HeavyHDx says: http://www.godotengine.org/
• /u/zxj4k3xz says: http://www.yoyogames.com/get
• /u/thug-gamer says : https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/
• https://play0ad.com/ - free, open-source, historical RTS game, being built, and could use more help

-/u/ViKomprenas says: http://superpowers-html5.com/index.en.html Learn a language:

• https://www.duolingo.com/ (App is free for iOS and Android)
• http://readlang.com/ - I just remembered this one, it's Chrome extension which translates to teach.
• /u/Ihmed says: https://www.memrise.com/
• /u/jjanpi says : https://lingvist.io/
• /u/wakawakafoobar says : https://www.clozemaster.com/

Play old arcade games:

• https://archive.org/details/internetarcade
• Play old PC Games: https://archive.org/details/classicpcgames

Learn how to fly a flight sim:

• /u/FlightGearLego says: http://www.flightgear.org/ - Free Flight Sim

Nothing Needed

• Write a book or short story. No Internet needed. Just word and your imagination.

/u/bumbletowne shares this huge list of art stuff. :MORE ART! (shameless plug for /r/drawing and /r/learnart ) Also for digital painting:

• http://www.ctrlpaint.com/

And for regular painting/figure drawing:

• http://www.proko.com/
• https://www.drawspace.com/
• http://www.drawmixpaint.com/

(New Masters Academy-they have gesture practice there too) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCliUF1c8m7MUspaCykJljSg To practice gesture:

• http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/
• http://www.quickposes.com/

Reference libraries for people:

• http://characterdesigns.com/index.php?sitepage=photosets
• http://senshistock.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0

Palette selector (A THING THAT HELPS YOU PICK COLORS THAT GO GOOD TOGETHER)

• http://paletton.com/#uid=1000u0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF

Can't think of what to draw? Here's an image randomizer of things to draw

• http://something-to-draw.com/

More

• http://khanacademy.com - video lessons about every subject
• http://socratic.org - learn chemistry and physics
• http://codecademy.com - learn to code
• http://fuckinghomepage.com - daily advice, facts, and links delivered with a lot of profanity
• http://artofmanliness.com - a blog on what it means to be a man
• http://documentaryheaven.com - watch hundreds of free documentaries
• http://findtheinvisiblecow.com - a game where you find a mooing cow
• http://roughguides.com - find somewhere to travel
• http://nerdydaytrips.com - find something nerdy to do in your area
• http://sporcle.com - every type of trivia quiz
• http://stumbleupon.com - stumble across interesting stuff on the internet
• http://favoriteandforget.com - useful internet tools and tutorials
• http://simplesciencefitness.com - get into shape
• http://wikinvest.com - learn how to invest
• http://mint.com - track your spending
• http://ctrlpaint.com - learn photoshop
• http://justinguitar.com - learn guitar
• http://dailyzenlist.com - daily self improvement lists
• http://drawspace.com - learn to draw
• http://youtube.com/minutephysics - learn about physics
• http://youtube.com/crashcourse - learn about science, literatue, and history
• http://newsmap.jp - all of your news in one place
• http://ninite.com - free software bundles for your PC