Resources / Tools

Here is a stock site just for silhouettes.  Quality, free, focused stock sites are hard to find.

SFXR is small app for quickly making old-school video game sound effects.  The joy here is that they have predefined parameters for types of effects, such as “jump”, and you can choose a randomly generated sound within those parameters, then randomly mutate or manually tweak it.  Much faster than creating sounds from scratch.

When dealing with 256 pixels, pixel-art becomes a much more useful skill.  Hence this nifty tool for creating favicons.

You may have seen Flickr’s tool for searching by color.  It is amazingly fun, but the real reason to toss it in the toolbox is because so many of Flickr’s images are Creative Commons licensed nowadays, oftentimes making them valid as stock or blog dressing.

Art

Concept Ships is a blog dedicated solely to concept art of space ships.  I love this stuff.

Along those lines, here is a site with lots more concept art.  It’s easy to get lost wandering around this site.  They really need an RSS feed with featured artists though, or something along those lines at least.

Random

Per usual.