My personal list of graphics applications made or ported to linux (Incomplete)
Open source vector graphics editor supporting SVG with features like custom brushes, pressure sensitivity, and layer management across multiple platforms.
InstaMAT offers a comprehensive solution for procedural material and asset creation, scalable texturing, and data-driven asset pipelines where instead of texturing a specific asset, you're now texturing an entire class of assets using a previously established workflow.
Clarisse is a fully interactive CG toolset for rendering, lighting, look development and pre-compositing
Jahshaka is a complete solution for the creation, distribution and monetization of virtual assets, scenes and worlds. It gives you tools you need including powerful project management, immersive 3d content creation, online and offline playback as well as the ability to publish...
K-3D is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It features a plugin-oriented procedural engine for all of its content, making K-3D a very versatile and powerful package.
Katana is an asset-based approach to VFX look development and lighting for 3D computer generated scenes, providing scalability to your pipeline.
Intuitive multi-track video editor with robust hardware-accelerated support; offers chroma key, color grading, and extensive audio/video format compatibility.
KiCad is an open source software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) - designing schematics of electronic circuits and printed circuit boards (PCB). KiCad is developed by Jean-Pierre Charras. And features an integrated environment between schematic capture, bill of...
Kiri:Moto is a browser-based Slicer for 3D printers, CNC mills, Laser cutters, waterjet and more
A free, open-source painting program for professional artists offering customizable UI, 9 brush engines, layer support, and color management.
This tool lets you generate normal maps for 2D textures, with little effort. Specially designed for Sprites in 2D games.
Maxon Autograph is a digital compositing and motion graphics software used in the post-production industry of movie-making or motion-graphics design video making. It covers a wide range of functionnalities such as 2D animation, Keying, Tracking, 2D and 3D compositing, Audio...
LibreCAD is an open source 2D CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. It is based on Qt, which is a leading cross-platform application and UI development framework.
Lightworks is an editing powerhouse, delivering unparalleled speed and flexibility, fully integrated with the other members of the Complete Collaboration family.
Interactive open source tool for creating fully customizable 3D human characters, supporting real-time editing, advanced posing, and export to major animation platforms.
MARI is a creative texture-painting tool that can handle extreme projects. MARI was developed at Weta Digital to handle the massively complex, highly detailed look development work demanded of the texture department by projects such as District 9, The Lovely Bones, and Avatar.
Material Maker is a free and open-source, procedural texture authoring tool based on 
Godot Engine. Its user interface is based on Godot's GraphEditor: textures are described as interconnected texture generators and operators.
Physically based 3D rendering engine with unbiased photorealistic image generation, advanced light simulation, global illumination, and simple setup for architectural and product visualization.
System for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes, provides a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering, texturing and converting meshes.
Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision Photogrammetric Computer Vision framework.
Mightybake is fast hybrid GPU / CPU accelerated baker maximizes your hardware to bake textures ultra fast.
OpenGL-based 3D model editor that works with triangle-based models. It supports multi-level undo, skeletal animations, simple texturing, scripting, command-line batch processing, and a plugin system for adding new model and image filters. Complete online help is included.
Moonlight|3D is a free modern, flexible and extensible modelling and animation tool developed by a small but dedicated team.
Leveraging more than 8 years of engineering research and development, mocha Pro offers digital media artists a powerful, intuitive and innovative planar tracking-based solution with a streamlined interface, accelerated workflow and the power to easily track and manipulate shots...
MODO is a fully featured 3D content creation application, famous primarily for it's modelling capabilities, MODO also offers a fast renderer, sculpting, painting, dynamics and animation tools.
Professional 3D character animation tool for motion capture and keyframe animation, supporting complex editing, real-time feedback, and data exchange with other creation tools.
MyPaint is a fast, distraction-free, and easy painting tool for digital artists. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices.
Natron is an open source, cross platform nodal compositing application. It is built around industry standard open source tech such as OpenFX, OpenEXR, OpenColorIO and OpenImageIO. The feature set includes realtime playback/RAM cache, multi-threaded rendering, 2d tracking...
Clavicula is a free 3D modeling software aimed at artists and users of all levels. It allows you to quickly give shape to your artistic, design, or engineering ideas, to create highly complex objects using a relatively simple toolkit.
NUKE is a powerful compositing application that delivers unparalleled speed, an efficient multi-channel scanline rendering engine, and a first-class feature set that is unrivalled in the desktop market.
Octane Render is the world's first GPU based, un-biased, physically based renderer. What does that mean? It uses the video card in your computer to render photorealistic results fast...really fast. This allows the user to create stunning works in a fraction of the time of...
OmaPhoto is a layered image editor for Linux, made first for Omarchy. It follows your Omarchy theme and switches with it.
OpenBuilds CONTROL is an application for connecting to, and controlling, your CNC, Laser, Plasma or Dragknife machine.
Open CAD Studio: a modern, Open Source 2D + 3D CAD application that reads and writes DWG and DXF natively built in Rust, with GPU-accelerated rendering.
OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It is free software and available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and MacOS.
Free, open-source video editor featuring cross-platform support, unlimited tracks, trim and slice tools, 3D animated titles, and video effects for editing projects.
Open-source 2D animation software offering raster and vector support, advanced node-based effects, and plug-in extendibility, free for all uses.
OpenToonz is based on software "Toonz" which was developed by Digital Video S.p.A. in Italy,
Paintstorm Studio is created for professional digital painting. And a major role in this program play the brushes. We did our best so that you can easily and quickly adjust the brushes suitable for your painting style.
Virtual tour software Panotour enables you to create in an intuitive way 360° virtual tours of profesionnal quality, that are displayable on a computer, an iPhone® or an iPad®. For Windows, Mac, Linux.
Patchy is a free, open-source image editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux, built for accurate PSD and PSB editing and round trips with Adobe Photoshop. It supports editable text and vectors, masks, layer styles, Smart Objects and Smart Filters, legacy 8BF plug-ins, JavaScript...
Photon Studio is a free desktop photo editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Edit photos, create layered designs, and open or save PSD files. Your work stays on your computer.
Pinta is a image editing, drawing and painting application with a simple yet powerful interface. Pinta has a wide range of drawing tools, including: freehand, rectangles, circles and lines. It also has over 35 effects to apply to your images, and also has the ability to create...
Piranha 8 is a high performance end to end editing and finishing solution for film and video professionals. Edit, composite, retouch, color grade and output using Piranha's lightning fast GPU architecture.
Free and open-source 2D editor supporting pixel, raster, and vector artwork with a node-based non-destructive workflow and seamless animation tools.
Plasticity is a 3d modelling software for concept artists. Modelling in Plasticity is quick and efficient due to the unique gizmos, shortcuts, and thoughtful workflow.
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Amazing list, i have not even heard some of those applications
Nice.. Would like to try those apps