Where do you guys get art for games?

I'm a decent programmer but a terrible artist. Where should I go to get textures and models to use in a game? Do I have to hire someone to make them, or is there an easier/cheaper way?

[192 byte] By [Jetset_Willy] at [2007-9-27 16:25:00]

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# 1

Get (steal) them off the Internet - there are literally millions of pieces of artwork out there!Did I say that? Nah!

TimRyanNZ at 2007-7-6 0:43:12 >

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# 2

There's plenty of places you could use images for free use, stealing somebody else's art... that's not right but you could try :P I create my own art using photoshop. It's very powerful, but if you aren't artistic just search for some. http://images.google.com/ can find some interesting stuff :)

Ceranith at 2007-7-6 0:43:12 >

# 3

What kind of graphics you are searching for?

hanttila at 2007-7-6 0:43:12 >

# 4

> Where do you guys get art for games?artists :P

Abuse at 2007-7-6 0:43:12 >

# 5

A great place to get images for games is using the character and background maps for rpg2k. These are usually pics from snes and some playstation characters and setting. There are a lot of anime characters and other misc stuff you could use. Heres one place to try, it should be pretty easy to find more by searching there links. I am not sure if this is stealing, but these are made by game fans for use so... http://rpgmaker.gamesweb.com/faq01.html most of this stuff looks like it is for an rpg, but there lots of different stuff so, hope it helps:)

cookiemobster8 at 2007-7-6 0:43:12 >

# 6

There is a site uGameDev that if for mac games. They have lots of free* assets for starting out. You just have to download stuffit expander ( yuk, makes me want to kill someone ) to read the .sit archives.

* Some assets are GPL some are uGameDev license. uGameDev basicly states it's free for Mac games so you might wnat to ask before you assume that's and a-ok for java development too.

I have no quams about stealing assets for development, asking and creditinging for a demo, but I would never use a stolen asset in a commercial/shareware game.

ericew at 2007-7-6 0:43:12 >

# 7

> I'm a decent programmer but a terrible artist. Where

> should I go to get textures and models to use in a

> game? Do I have to hire someone to make them, or is

> there an easier/cheaper way?

you can go check out http://eye.box.sk

they got all about stuff like that

mihalyB at 2007-7-6 0:43:12 >

# 8

missed to writes this...on http://eye.box.sk to the left if you scroll down a bit you a link called textures... and they are free to use...

mihalyB at 2007-7-6 0:43:12 >

# 9

I find that any program with vector graphic drawing

tools (such as Flash 5) allow even the crappiest artist

to make pretty cool looking images, due to stuff like

auto smoothening.

Photoshop and paintshop pro type programs can help you

create cool textures pretty painlessly, using filters

and whatnot.

carmichaelbaby at 2007-7-6 0:43:12 >

# 10

Pov-Ray is a free 3d program.

JTeen at 2007-7-6 0:43:12 >

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