Models and concept ideas
Reference images
Maybe some of this images make good textures as well.
Blueprints
Textures
Stock photos
- Morguefile Not quite as big and huge as DeviantArt, but a lot less restrictive
- Stock Exchange - Even better than DeviantArt
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 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 taking a look at how different styles hold together within the game's recognizable style.
- Behance. Everything from advertisement concepts to photo of performance art to game design to weird fonts to samples of Mandelburber output. Need a fresh idea or prototype? Choose a theme and dig in.
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