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Models and concept ideas

• 3D Model Sites@povworld - Various models and blueprints links.
• 3d total - "...offering a variety of training products, an inspirational gallery, a free texture library and hundreds of free tutorials on a variety of subjects". Take a look at "sci fi" section of gallery.
• Evelio's Babylon 5 3D Model Index - Babylon5 models
• Buda5 - Babylon5 models
• Sebastian Hyde's Portfolio Page - Star-Trek 3d-Models + textures + scenes + UI-art and more (Copyright Hasbro Interactive)
• Sci-Fi 3D: The Ultimate 3D Sci-Fi Resource - Models Babylon5, Star-Trek, Star-Wars and more
• Star Trek Mesh Collection
• Lightwave Group v3 - various lightwave models
• Battle Tech Movie Battletech low poly models
• SciFi Meshes
• The Free 3d Models
• TurboSquid - a big stock model shop, "3D Models, Plugins, Textures, and more", including free. Just check the licenses. And formats.
• 3DK.org (3DKingdom) - "Free 3ds max tutorials, 3D Models, Art Gallery, Textures, Materials and Forums".
• 3D Cafe - "Buy 3D Models, Sell 3D Models, Free 3D Models Download". Link and custom license are on the front page. Requires to submit 3 free models for access to free models database.
• Akebulan.com - "Free Low Poly Models (512k or less)".
• Models Bank - "Free 3D models".
• Free 3D Models & Petr Sinta Portfolio - "offering FREE CG resources...".
• NOCTUA Graphics - Resources (models, textures, materials (C4D, SLA), tutorials), including free.
• Blendswap.com - Blender-specific, obviously. A lot of models, many CC-zero licensed.
• The 3D Archive - "3D Model and Object Collection".
• See also: Kay's list "60 Excellent Free 3D Model Websites"

Reference images

Maybe some of this images make good textures as well.

• StarTrek Miranda - Big list of Star-Trek ships under "Database"->"Starship Database"
• Starship Modeler
• Tom's Spaceship Miniature/Game Lists
• Sector 001 databank - Star-Trek
• Star-Wars Startship gallery - Star-Wars
• Ships And Stations - Star-Trek
• http://www.merzo.net/ - Starship Dimensions General
• Star Trek Ship Comparison pic
• http://www.shiporama.org/ - A page to find reference pictures of studio models from Star-Trek.
• Flight Deck Simulations - Cockpits
• BabTech on the net - Babylon5 cockpits and more
• Hyperspace - Babylon5 - "A Guide To The Ships Of Babylon5 And Crusade"

Blueprints

• www.onnovanbraam.com - blueprints - Star-Wars, Star-Trek
• http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/5407/ - Star-Trek
• www.sloan3d.com - ships - Star-Wars, Star-Trek , Babylon5

Textures

• NASA Image Gallery
• NIX (NASA Image eXchange)
  • Hubble Images
• Texture Library at astronomy.swin.edu.au
• Golgotha LINK DEAD - All stuff from the Golgotha game has been released for free. Textures, music, models, code, ...
• http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/index.html
• Warning Signs - pretty cool huh?
• Massive Stars Research Group - More star pics.
• Nvidia hi res texture pack.
• Some links to texture-resources in the elysiun.com forum.
• CGTextures - "strives to be the worlds best texture site". Free, but download is limited (see About)..
• TextureX
• Texture Mate - "Welcome to my Repository of Free Textures, Brushes, Patterns and Design Articles." (they be CC licensed)
• Plaintextures - "free high resolution textures for professionals".

Stock photos

• Morguefile Not quite as big and huge as DeviantArt, but a lot less restrictive
• Stock Exchange - Even better than DeviantArt

Fonts

• 1001 free fonts - as the name suggests, lots of free fonts
• MyFonts - Shop with many commercial and many free fonts. Specific license may vary. Note several hundreds of free fonts by Ray Larabie
• The League of Moveable Type - Fonts released under the Open Font License.
• unifont.org - Information about free Unicode fonts for FLOSS developers, with guides and everything.
• Freedesktop.org fonts - a lot of links to free fonts.

Miscelanneous

• Brusheezy - Brushes.
• deviantArt - lots of free resources of various types. Don't forget to check the specific conditions (it may or may not be copyrighted), but there's a lot of resources, and even more potential reference and inspirational images.
  • Category Resources - 3D models, fonts, brushes, tutorials...
    • Category Stock Images - A massive collection of stock photography that is free for non-commercial use, meaning it's perfect for Vega Strike. Make sure you only snag stuff in the stock photos section.
  • Category Fractal Art, with subcategories.
  • Groups Epic Starships, The Final Frontier, Inner Space, Space Club, Star Dock - space-themed art, sky backgrounds, spaceships, relevant resources (e.g. planet and hull plate textures) and tutorials, etc.
  • Groups The 3D Artist Club, 3D-Artists, 3D Modeling Club, AlphaMoonbase,Evolution Dsg (SP), FantasyAndSci-Fic, Game Development Art, Sci-Fi Archives, Sci-Fi Fans, Sci-Fi-Me, Sci-Fi Stock, Sci-Fi Tech, Transportation Design - lots of less closely related art and concepts, as well as tutorials, etc.
  • Groups best textures, Just Textures, Kings and Queens of textures, Seamless Textures, Texture Central, Textured Insanity, Texturize, Totally Textures - textures.
  • Groups Awesome Fonts, Temple of Typefaces, Type Design, Typography Love - fonts.
  • Groups Best Resources, DarkStockers, Distant Fantasies, The Inspirations , one-stop stock- from artworks to tutorials to stock photo to fonts.
  • Groups AllThingsFractal, FabulousFractals, FractalDreams, FractalEmporium, Fractal-Forms, Fractal Manipulations, Mandelbulbs, mandelbulb3d, Mandelbulbers, The-Fractal-Sphere, XtremeFractals - fractals and fractal-like art. Some make good reference images for living, pseudo-living or overcomplicated stuff (as just one example - "Mandelbulb Invasion Force"). Some include tips for making your own (e.g.: Parameter Pack For Mandelbulb 3d).
  • CB-Stock, Stock Unrestricted - stock photo, renders, textures, models.
  • Everything Is In Stock, The Stock Directory, Stock Supplies - stock photo, textures, brushes, tutorials.
  • D.Maland - models, tutorials, renders.
  • Enchantedgal-Stock - textures and photo.
  • I. L. Jackson - lots of spaceship renders, including rather "gritty" ones.
  • Hafunui - some resources and tutorials.
  • Nobiax - a lot of free textures and models.
  • savitch - models, stock images.
  • sed - lots of art looking abstract and/or high-tech-y due to abundance of shiny metal and glass materials (see e.g. "Tesla Room").
  • smashmethod - some resources and tutorials.
  • J.Dugan - sample ships from a pro designer, most for "Starmada: Fleet Ops". Worth a good long look as an example of how different styles can fit together within the more general recognizable style of the game.
  • Raphael Lacoste - great landscapes and cityscapes. Good examples of how to arrange the view of a large place.

• Behance. Everything from advertisement concepts to photo of performance art to game design to weird fonts to samples of Mandelbulber output. Need a fresh idea or prototype? Choose a theme and dig in.
  • Fields of interest: Engineering, Industrial Design, UI/UX.
  • Tags of interest: container, drone, engine, Engineering, futuristic, Gun, guns, heavy machinery, hitech, HUD, industrial, machinery, Military, Mining, modular, robot, robots, rocket, satellite, Scifi, sci-fi, science fiction, Space, spaceship, spaceships, ui design, Weapon, etc.

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