Free images?

[ampos]

For my next project, I need around 200 images. It is a kids game, "dots and lines", so I need some nice and simple draws  and cheaps 

Real Life sucks, and I have no money to pay (my shop is not generating enough money for an easy life thanks to the crisis), so I would like to know if some of you knows about some website where I can get or check.

Thank you.

[Slydog]

Here are some places to check out:

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/16650/game-asset-website-list-free-and-paid-textures-mod.html

http://www.clker.com/

Not free, but cheap:
http://www.frogames.net/content-packs.html

[Crivens]

Google Creative commons. And Attribution License. See Flickr and freedigitalphotos.net which both use these. There are a load of others for things like sound, music etc.

Cheers

[ampos]

Hey, I think CLKer wil do the job!

Thanks!

[okee]

Also
http://www.openclipart.org/
although it's having site problems at the moment

Also inkscape is a good vector editor

[ampos]

I am downloading ODG vector formats. How can I rasterize them? PhotoShop does not load them.

Notice I need a conversion tool, as I need to convert +200 images to 700x700 pixels.

[fuzzy70]

ODG format is from the OpenOffice Suite so you need that or LibreOffice & only thing I found was http://oooconv.free.fr/batchconv/batchconv_en.html. It relies on the office suite being installed to work, I cannot test it as I have no ODG format files, normally I get the SVG version of clipart

There are plenty of online converters but if they have a batch mode or only 1 at a time (prob 1 at a time) I don't know soz.

Lee

[ampos]

Ok, I will download OVG files instead. So you know about any batch converter?

[mentalthink]

I don´t stay sure but ACDSEE can be a good solution, I don´t know if meets these format, but I think it´s yes, for me it´s the better converter, resizer, and for little retouching, only a click, and a great amount of images are  converted...

[fuzzy70]

If you meant SVG not OVG then XnView http://www.xnview.com/ can batch convert files & it's free. Have been using it for years with no problems.

Lee

[okee]

This is a batch script for inkscape that would convert and resize svg images
I think inkscape supports odg files, worth a try, inkscape is free.


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[fuzzy70]

I must admit I only looked at inkscape to see if it could open them but ODG was not available in the list, I did not look however if there was a plugin to support ODG which might exist. Mainly because I never use the draw program that comes with LibreOffice as I use Illustrator or Inkscape so have no ODG files to play with.

Lee

[Zapp]

I'm not familar with any of he aforementioned sites, so I'm not sure if its worth mentioning to be be really careful about using free material available on the net. Often it comes with the stipulation that you either credit the author or need to pay if the resource is to be used in a commercial project.

At least that is what i have found with my research into what I am going to do about game music.

[fuzzy70]

Out of the clipart sites linked I only know the OpenClipart one & know that is free, & copyright free. Very useful for UI/icon type graphics like files & folders etc plus background type objects. None are animated as far as i recall but there is normally something there that can be useful. Main thing is they are vector so can resize to you project a lot better than a lot of the bitmap type (& normally dodgy ripped sprites) of sites.

Lee

[okee]

Yeah, I've used openclipart mostly, i found a nice svg deck of cards
that was ideal for a card game and could be easily customised in inkscape
i.e all the parts of a card can be ungrouped and edited, such as the suit, number
background.
I even wrote to the author just to clarify if they were free to use and he confirmed i
could use them for anything commercial or free.
The license on openclipart is

Unless noted, content on this site is waived of all copyright and related or neighboring rights under the CC0 PD Dedication. See Policies.

Unfortunately they're having trouble with their server at the moment.
When you have no artistic ability whatsoever like me, these type of sites
are a godsend