i'm quite impressed how many completely free software tools there are for making stuff, and how people have actually adopted them

like, on newgrounds and other parts of the web, krita and opentoonz are the defacto art and animation programs and have almost entirely replaced photoshop and animate/flash

then there's godot, which is ludicrously popular for making webgames and is slowly catching on in the commercial games industry

then we have kdenlive, which has been used to make large professional looking projects

and of course, FUCKING BLENDER, which is basically the industry standard for 3d modelling and animation at this point