Creative Commons (or free-to-use) Art and Media
This is just a big list of creative commons art and media for use in projects. Since my main weak poitn is music, this list will be a lot of albums and artist producing music.
Copyrights will be noted for each item, unless it is a collection or archive, in which case you will need to check yourself.
If you create free and open assets or have things you'd like to suggest for the list, feel free to email me at and.chitchat@sheeeeeeeep.art. And, I'll add them when I add them.
Collections
This is a list of miscellaneous hubs of art and media you can use for free under various conditions and license.
- Wikimedia Commons
- The library of alexandria of creative commons media. This is my go to for when I want to photobash something together or work with mix media. Easy to spend ours exploring around. Also has an audio section in case you didn't know that
- Smithsonian Open Access
- An archive of images by the Smithsonian. Full of all sort of historic stuff.
- Freesound
- This has been my life blood for sound effects basically my whole life as a game developer.
- Kenney
- Kenney is a powerhouse in free and open assets for game development.
- Itch.io's Game Asset Section
- Itch.io has a whole section dedicated to game assets lot so free-to-use and open source assets to use there.
- Open Game Art
- A large archive of art designed for games
Music
- Sewersivt
- Musician from Australia that puts out lots of CC BY music
- WangleLine
- All her work is CC BY 4.0 (except for one ablum)
- Kyou System
- Kyou System puts out CC BY 4.0 ablums
- Jeremy
- His work is work is CC BY-NC, but he defines NC as followed: While you may use this music in your projects, and those projects can be monetized, you cannot sell this music directly or use it in a way that is primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation derived from the music.
- Plokta
- Plokta release all of xyr work under creative commons licenses. Also, a friend of ours.
- dusted fragments
- Album by Skye Ash licensed under CC BY-ND
- Rrrrrose
- She creates music under free licences using CC0
SFX
- OpenNSFW Sound Pack
- A wonderful collection of sexual sound effects for all your lewd and erotic needs. I make regular use of their wonderful work. It even include VA packs, but I tend to avoid voice acting.
- FilmCow Royalty Free Sound Effect Library
- Thousands of sound effect record by FilmCow.