Every once in a while I check how much making art would cost me if free software evaporated, and piracy stopped being possible. If I had to use only proprietary, paid software. Right now the running total is $1863. I would have to drop everything, spend this much (assuming I even could), then spend the rest of the year trying to earn this huge amount of money again - because most of this is yearly subscriptions! wild wild πΈ
Tiny breakdown table:
| Software | Cost |
|---|---|
| Affinity | $214 |
| Substance | $237 (yearly) |
| Clip Studio Paint | $46 (theoretically not yearly, but not getting any updates ever) |
| Zbrush | $484 (yearly) |
| Modo (something like 3ds Max would cost three times more) | $723 (yearly) |
| Windows (bonus) | $159 |
