#cc0 license

[grandadofrad]

RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS VOL 1

In the spirit of gratitude for the plethora of free resources out there for artists that I've been gleefully ransacking my entire life, I want to share some of them that I've compiled.

smithsonian open access: this is a HUGE one! lots of images that are absolutely free to use, as well as an incredible set of 3-D resources. Their collection spans the same breadth that their multiple museums do-- natural history, gems, fine art, aerospace/engineering stuff, etc. so do not sleep on this.

(screenshot is the 3-D digitization page, one of my fav sections)

2. The League of Moveable Type is a resource for free fonts, but not just any free fonts-- professionally designed free fonts. Some of the bigger sites can be a lot of wading through sub par stuff, but every single thing here was very carefully and lovingly designed, and is free.

3. Unsplash is full of great free to use images. Seriously, huge collection. Portraits, textures, 3-D renderings, you name it and it's probably here and free to use. ALSO cool because images will note whether their creator is for hire if you like their work. You can also submit your images to this platform. (I think it has a premium section but I haven't needed to engage with it yet)

(screenshot of unsplash.com with a search for 'y2k render')

4. rawpixel's Public Domain collection. They've been high quality scanning public domain images for a while. They're free to use under a CC0 license, which is basically without restriction. They've got lots of categories, I personally love the Graphic Design and the Vintage Illustration sections.

(screenshot of the 'patterns' section of the Public Domain collection on rawpixel)

5. Photopea is a free Photoshop alternative that runs in your browser. It's got a few quirks(especially if you run a non-chromium browser, but stay strong anyway) and is ad-supported, but really powerful and robust. It also opens PSD files, supports smart objects and basically all of the Photoshop asset filetypes(.abr .grad .pat etc), as well as has filters, even a couple that Photoshop itself has gotten rid of in their more recent versions. You can use the fonts on your machine, export transparent pngs, and do generally anything that the big guy does. You can also donate a small amount to remove ads and support the singe person(!) who created and maintains it.

(screenshot of a .psd file with smart objects/smart filters open on photopea. The 'file' dropdown menu shows exciting options such as 'export' and 'save as psd')

6. Brusheezy.com is a great place to get free brushes, vectors, and photoshop assets in general(which can all be used in Photopea, btw).

(screenshot of the 'categories' page of brusheezy.com)

7. dafont.com Last but not least, I will include this huge font site but assume most people already have it on their radar. Free fonts! No account needed to download! Tons of categories! Many are demo/limited versions, so pay attention especially if you plan to use numbers or special characters as those are often the things left out of the free to use demo versions. It's nice to have a lot of options but to the discerning eye a decent amount of the fully free fonts here will fall a bit short/feel unpolished. That's not to discourage you from it, as I have a huge collection of types from here and routinely check it when I need something specific.

(screenshot of dafonts.com with the 'sci-fi' section pulled up)

So that's what I've got right now for visual art resources, I hope you can find something useful in here. Feel free to share this list and keep an eye out for the next one! Thanks to everyone out their with a love for sharing in their hearts, it's really inspired me to make some things with no other intention than to put them into the world as tools for others!

#free resources #resource list #art resources #free stuff #free collections #royalty free #free to use #shareware #for the people #dafont #brusheezy #smithsonian #rawpixel #unsplash #league of moveable type #public domain #cc0 license #fonts #textures #patterns #brushes #vectors

[harkthorn]

Coyote sketch! Though the fluff makes it a bit ambiguous. I was going to colour it with Ecolines but it got waaaay too late.

So, I post it for anyone to use-this is posted under a CC0 license: https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/ do what you like, but you cannot prevent others from doing what they like either. Colour over it, ink it, use it as a base. Lighten the image and paint over it, traditionally or otherwise. Use a multiply layer and colour it that way! Anything.

(And ideally show me what you did, that would be cool)

-2525

#art #sketch #daily sketch #traditional art #ballpointsketch #coyote #canine #canine art #coyote art #lineart #cc0 #cc0 license #free to colour #free to use

[salemoleander]

3rd Life SMP Webweave // sources under readmore

Pt. 1: thatsbelievable // Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming Territory / Thomas Moran // Caernarvon Castle / George Elbert Burr // Study for "Science Instructing Industry" / Kenyon Cox // mr_froodo // The Beheading of St. John Baptist / Fortunato Duranti // Wolf in White Van / John Darnielle // Slow Dance / Ron Hicks // Ancient Castle / Georgette Agutte // screenshotsofdespair

Pt 2: Brooding Silence / John Carlson // thatsbelievable // a-doctor-not-a-fangirl // Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead / Tom Stoppard // Tiktok comment by anothersomebodie // mountainqoats // stigmate // Suite Vénitienne / Sophie Calle & Jean Baudrillard 

Pt. 3: Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides / Anne Carson // Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead / Tom Stoppard // God's Idea / Da Loria Norman // Tangiers / Arnold William Brunner // molabuddy

#third life smp #third life series #life series #grian #desert duo #3lsmp #webweave #web weave #salem tag #my art #life smp #yall do not want to know how long it takes to source a bunch of random things you have saved to your phone #i didnt have to! half of them were from CC0 licensed things #anyways the 3rd panel is probs my fave #if anyone has opinions let me hear em bc i havent rly done this before #or if im violating some rule of webweave culture or something

[sumikatt]

ive talked about it before but i have wanted to put creative commons licenses on my art for ages now. it’s so common in software… like please do take my work and do something with it. that’s cool, and i love it. i want to share! i want to collaborate and connect. i want to give you this really neat crayon i found, i want to show you how to draw a crow.

and if you don’t like it you can make it into a youtube poop or cringe compilation. or cut it up and make paper stars or draw over it. isn’t the point of sharing art to invite others to engage in it

#i have not decided which license. i wanted to do cc0. and just let go #a little high rn. i will decide later. #.s

[titleknown]

WELL, SHIT.

So, Kosa is almost certainly going to pass the Senate, almost entirely just as bad and censorious as it ever was, but, that just means we need to take the fight to The House of Representatives, because that's where it's going now.

So, find your reps' numbers here and call them ASAP.

And this is bipartisan too, it's not just the Dems that might be swayed against this due to the well documented threats to LGBTQ people it presents, I'm sure even the right-wingers would not be happy to sign on a bill that's likely to lead to government-mandated facial scans for everyone using the net., along with the encroachment of actual big-government on our freedom of speech.

So, call now, call often, and if you want a further follow-through on this, there's a discord server organizing to fight this that you can join here.

And of course, as per usual, I make this poster available under a CC0 Public Domain License for anyone to use, complete with added QR-codes for use in actual physical prints. Now hop to it!

#us politics #internet #internet freedom #kosa #censorship #signal boost #important #scary

[hydralisk98]

Above are inspiration prompts for the Tileset

Servina, monospace tileset for textmode projects

Got a another draft entirely scrapped out of Ctrl-Z, so I am sorry for the brevity of this article when I get it first published.

It is a retro textmode set of tiles with that stylized bold PETSCII style over 12 by 12 pixels-sized tiles, oriented to be quite general purpose. Still has no lowercase letters nor vector source files but I got 480 quality tiles and very permissive licenses for their usage.

I submit this specific draft of the tileset under the CC-BY-4.0 license, which means that you must credit the authors to use it in your project. It is that simple, nothing else is required.

I hope to distribute such on 'itch.io' as a "Name Your Price" asset pack with the recommended donation set at 5$USD.

But yeah, I would love to hear from you over what you need in the tileset and how you would use it. (I already have a friend using a earlier version of such, but I haven't seen anything published just yet.)

Some history of the project

Original work made by realcgg of Fiverr, delivered on October 19th 2022.

Since then, I, hydralisk98, continuously did tweaks and expansions to it.

Current status, Version 0.6:

Credits to: realcgg & @hydralisk98

Mockups to inspire you further*

Remaining tasks left and feedback

Lowercase letters?

[AWAITING FEEDBACK INPUT]

#maskutchew #asset pack #game dev #indie game dev #Servina #if things go well I will update the license to CC0-1.0 #donations and feedback would also me help alot for pursuing my creative passions professionally*

[heaveninawildflower]

Hen Pheasant Tapestry (1917) designed by John Henry Dearle (d.1932).

Manufactured by Morris & Co.

Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0.

#textiles #tapestry #Morris & Co #John Henry Dearle #design

[dduane]

PSA: Mapmaking / cartographic brushes for Photoshop

I just want to point people at these (which are beautifully made and organized!) from @kmalexander.

I'm working in a different idiom of mapmaking at the moment—more USGS-modeled than anything else, as my ultimate goal is constructing a whole alternate-Earth planet that'll look good viewed from space—but these would be fabulous for other things. And they're CC0-licensed, and free!

If you're at all into digital mapmaking, particularly for imagery meant to go with fantasy or historical works, you should have a look at these.

#K. M. Alexander #cartography #fantasy cartography #Photoshop brushes #Photoshop

[neil-gaiman]

I was wondering, if I put my fanfic under a CC-BY 4.0/CC0 license, would it be legally permissible for you to read it? I ask because I know the reason authors aren't allowed to read fanfic is for fear that they'd get sued if any later plot points in their books resemble said fanfic, and this might be an easy way to minimize/avoid liability on that.

Under the term of CC 4.0 you would need to get official permission to use anything from Good Omens before you are able to license it anywhere, even back to Good Omens, and Amazon wouldn't give you official permission to write licensed fanfiction and if they did you couldn't publish it with creative commons.

[devsgames]

HOT GAMEDEVS DON'T GATEKEEP

Inspired by this post by @midwinterhunt, here's a compilation of all the game dev resources I have come across, most of which I use fairly frequently. Most of these are free, some are paid but fairly cheap. Feel free to add your own resources. ✌️

Important reminder: When using basically any works or programs someone else created in your games, make sure you thoroughly understand the licenses and terms it has been shared with. If you don't know what the terms are, reach out to the resource and ask. Don't be lazy about this; it's not only dishonest but it can come back to bite you.

Engines

Unity - Best suited for mobile and multi-platform.

Unreal - Tailored for shooters and high-fidelity experiences.

PICO-8 - Virtual console for simple games

Godot - Open source and free!

GameMaker - Good for 2D games

Bitsy - Great little engine for making simple games and experiences

Construct - Never used but have heard nice things

Scratch - If you've never coded before, this is the best place to start. Great for young devs and those who want to get their feet wet.

Adventure Game Studio - Best suited for adventure games

RPG Maker - Best suited for top-down classic JRPG style games

Twine - Text-centric games like Interactive Fiction

Assets

OpenGameArt - Many assets, various licenses, and plenty of CC0 content.

Unity Store - For Unity only. Some free.

Unreal Store - For Unreal only. Some free.

Godot Asset Library

Jean Moreno's Toon Effects - Some of the best effects available on the Unity store. Unity only but I've used them in basically every project.

Steamworks.net C# Wrapper For Unity - Unity only C# wrapper for integrating Steam compatibility to your game

Itch.io - Plenty of free art assets and game dev resources

Kenney - Kenney makes tons of open-source assets for devs to use.

Art

Mixamo - Generates rigs for your humanoid models and lets you apply a library of free humanoid animations to them. Super helpful for prototyping. Adobe.

Blender - Free, open source and fully featured 3D program.

XNormal - Free offline normal map generator

Normal Map Online - Free online normal map generator

Crocotile - Cheap tool for building 3D models from sprite sheets

MagicaVoxel - Free voxel modelling tool

Piskel - Free online sprite drawing tool

Aesprite - Paid sprite drawing tool

TurboSquid - Not always great quality, but can be good source of free placeholders.

Textures.com - Limited texture downloads per day but free for personal use.

Pexels - Free stock photo resource. Most are free for commercial use. Check licenses.

Clipstudio - Good for illustration or graphic design. One time payment.

GIMP - Image editing program a-la Photoshop. Free.

Audio

Audacity - Free and fully-featured DAW/audio editor.

sfx.me - Free 8-bit synth-style sound effect generator for games.

CastingCallClub - Easy forum to find amateur voice talent for your project (p.s.: you should pay them).

FreeSound.org - Free sounds, searchable by license. A go-to for my audio needs.

Incompetech - Royalty-free music by Kevin McLeod.

Scott Buckley Music - Royalty free with conditions. Generally more on the cinematic side of things but very good stuff!

SoundCloud - 'Search -> By Track -> Filter: Use Commercially' leads to songs posted with allowance of commercial use. Always reach out to the artist to understand their terms and confirm that it's okay to use with your project.

Project Planning

Keymailer - Handy for mailing keys to influencers (don't expect a lot of traction unless you're paying for some of the features though).

Trello - Kanban board. Great for organizing tasks, managing bugs, etc. Free.

Notion - Private text and wiki page editor. Good for project organization, note taking, and fleshing out ideas. Free.

Obsidian - Alternative to Notion, with similar features.

Miro - Free whiteboard for organizing thoughts, images, brainstorming, etc.

Wave - Free Bookkeeping site. Great for keeping finances organized.

#gamedev #game development #game dev #indie games #indie game #gamedevelopment #indiegames #indiedev #indie dev #game developer #resources #blog

[jodjuya]

This flag is a celebration of Men's Liberation and its core values of intersectionality, the subversion of norms, and a dismantling of the patriarchy.

The dark-colored Mars symbol represents intersectional masculinity. The oppression faced by members of marginalized communities, such as men of color and mentally ill men, is often compounded and exacerbated by their gender in unique ways, and this symbol represents the inclusion of these men and our community's goal of examining men's issues through an intersectional lens.

The pink Mars symbol represents gender non-conformity and the redefining of what it means to be male in contrast with the restrictive traditional masculinity of the past, representing LGBTQ+ and gender-nonconforming men and masculine people. This symbol faces "backwards" because there is no wrong way to be a man.

The white Mars symbol represents privilege and the active dismantlement of the patriarchy. Men, especially straight white men, are socialized into a position of power within an oppressive hegemony. This symbol faces downwards to represent how the power that comes with privilege must be consciously relinquished in order for prejudice to be unlearned and equality to be created.

The arrows from the three symbols all converge at one point to represent true strength coming from diversity, inclusion, and unity.

The periwinkle background represents hope for future generations. Blue is traditionally the color used in Western countries to denote that a new baby is male. It is our hope that we can ensure the baby boys and young men of the future are brought into a world that teaches them compassion and positive masculinity.

**********

Created by /u/sudo999 and refined by /u/erdijentila, this work is licensed under CC0 1.0 "No rights reserved" and you may use it for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, with or without attribution.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/cwar6i/i_have_a_thing_for_flags_after_seeing_a_couple/ey9gml6/

#international men's day #men's lib #men's liberation #masculine #masculinity #man #men #blogging

[yourbelovedissy]

CODENAME: BLOODROSE A young woman with pale blue eyes, vitiligo, and deep red hair with bright red and magenta highlights. Her right arm and right leg are cybernetic prostheses. She wears a black and gold necklace, along with a cybernetic brace above her waistline.

A character I designed as an adoptable, but nobody bought her So I'm releasing her into the wild! (Oh and keep your eyes peeled bc I'll be posting more soonly <3)

I waive all rights to this character and design, and release them under the CC0 license. No rights reserved.

#issy art #vitiligo #cyborg girl #cyborg woman #public domain #public domain art #public domain character #cc0 #sci fi #character design

[dorymweek]

Dorym Week 2024 Official Playlist

Listen: Spotify | YouTube

We will be releasing the prompts for this year’s Dorym Week soon, but in the meantime we have put together a playlist for your listening pleasure! Each song on the list is inspired by one of the prompts, so you can use them as prompts in their own right… or try to guess what the prompts are before we announce them!

Either way, we hope that you will enjoy this playlist.

Image ID and full song list under readmore:

Image ID:

Left side, dark forest silhouetted against the northern lights. Right side, rusty dunes under similar northern lights. A red moon is centered above with a red beam splitting the image in half. The center is blurred under a box containing text. Text reads:

Dorym Week Playlist 2024

When the Sun Loves the Moon - Reinaeiry Wish You Were Here - Blackmore’s Night May I - Trading Yesterday Clarity - Kurt Hugo Schneider Don’t Wake Me Up - The Hush Sound Francesca - Hozier If You’re the Coffee - The Arcadian Wild 4 Ever 4 Me - Demi Lovato Can I Shower at Yours? - Amy Shark Saviour II - Black Veil Brides Set The Fire to the Third bar - Snow Patrol Wish That You Were Here - Florence + The Machine The Other Side - Tonight Alive Only Place I Call Home - Every Avenue Rewrite the Stars - The Greatest Showman (Soundtrack) The Horror and the Wild - The Amazing Devil Fools - Lauren Aquilina A Starlit Sky - The Workday Release Home to me - Jason Graves Light of a Clear Blue Morning - The Wailin’ Jennys

/end image id

Image Credit: Images in the photomanipulation created by @3hobbitsinatrenchcoat obtained under a CC0 public domain license from rawpixel

#dorymweek #critical role #dorym #dorian x orym #dorian storm #orym of the air ashari #fan playlist

[titleknown]

So, while I've talked about this in other posts, I figured I may as well compile it in one post with this nifty propaganda poster (more on that later)

Long story short, they're bringing back KOSA/the Kids Online Safety Act in the US Senate, and they're going to mark it up next Thursday as of the time of this post (4/23/2023).

If you don’t know, long story short KOSA is a bill that’s ostensibly one of those “Protect the Children” bills, but what it’s actually going to do is more or less require you to scan your fucking face every time you want to go on a website; or give away similarly privacy-violating information like your drivers’ license or credit card info. 

Either that or force them to censor anything that could even remotely be considered not “kid friendly.” Not to mention fundies are openly saying they’re gonna use this to hurt trans kids. Which is, uh, real fucking bad. 

As per usual, I urge you to contact your congresscritters, and especially those on the Commerce Committee, who'll likely be the ones marking it up.

Those senators are:

Maria Cantwell, Washington, Chair

Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota

Brian Schatz, Hawaii

Ed Markey, Massachusetts

Gary Peters, Michigan

Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin

Tammy Duckworth, Illinois

Jon Tester, Montana

Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona

Jacky Rosen, Nevada

Ben Ray Luján, New Mexico

John Hickenlooper, Colorado

Raphael Warnock, Georgia

Peter Welch, Vermont

Ted Cruz, Texas, Ranking Member

John Thune, South Dakota

Roger Wicker, Mississippi

Deb Fischer, Nebraska

Jerry Moran, Kansas

Dan Sullivan, Alaska

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee

Todd Young, Indiana

Ted Budd, North Carolina

Eric Schmitt, Missouri

J.D. Vance, Ohio

Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia

Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming

Again, it doesn't work unless you do it en-masse, so make sure to call ASAP and tell them to kill this bill, and if they actually want a bill to allow/get sites to protect kids, the Federal Fair Access To Banking Act would be far better.

Also, this poster is officially, for the sake of spreading it, under a CC0 license. Feel free to spread it, remix it, add links to the bottom, edit it to be about the other bad internet bills they're pushing, use it as a meme format, do what you will but for gods' sake get the word out!

Also, shoutout to @o-hybridity for coming up with the slogan for the poster, couldn't have done it without 'em!

#poster #cc0 #creative commons #internet censorship #internet freedom #us politics #american politics #KOSA #kids online safety act #censorship #scary

[heaveninawildflower]

'Wey' (1882-83) by William Morris.

Watercolour for a printed fabric design.

Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0

#William Morris #fabric design #arts and crafts #pattern #19th century

[dduane]

Just to back you up. I have been working to put my grandmother's books into the public domain, only to learn "[m]any legal systems effectively prohibit any attempt by these owners to surrender rights automatically conferred by law." (See CC0 license.) I suspect CC licenses MIGHT potentially work for this question, but IANAL & civil law is EXPENSIVE & most authors live too close to the margin for the risk to be worth it. Plus, I mean, famous ppl get to have boundaries too! No means no.

That’s it exactly! Thanks. 😄