Well since i am an art and multimedia student (well i try to be, what have you been doing lately?), i much combine them to my profit! And to do that i much have the right software, but first i much decide wish path i will travel, the ways of official, famous, safe, that we know what to expect from them like the adobe collection, usually Photoshop or any cousin of his. that well could became so so so expensive.but the main companies dont know better and they feel better if we use this one, its more assuring that way.
Like here for example:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/26/100-photoshop-illustrations-by-artists-around-the-world/
But then there are the brave pioneers that go trough that dark and dusty road that only few dears to walk, yes i am talking about free software, the one ine beta, with bugs, some not in there best , but dear god they are great!! check some exemples below
http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/gallery/art-gallery/
so in that spirit here is a list of free software that my teacher so kindly gave me:
IMAGE 3D
Blender – http://www.blender.org/
MakeHuman – http://www.makehuman.org/
LuxRender – http://www.luxrender.net/
Renderfarm.fi – http://www.renderfarm.fi/
IMAGE 2D (vectorial & raster)
Inkscape – http://inkscape.org/
GIMP – http://www.gimp.org/
MyPaint – http://mypaint.intilinux.com/
Alchemy – http://al.chemy.org/
oh and the path that i have chose? well why not both?
triplod 