NASA has just put online a huge number of sound clips for free download and use. Ideal for mixing into music, or for sound effects in films, the clips include sounds taken from different kinds of rockets taking off (turn the volume down before playing these); eerie blips, hisses and squawks from our solar system…
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The Folger Shakespeare Library is sharing tens of thousands of high resolution images on their site covering book covers, inside pages from original volumes, manuscripts, engravings, and costumes. The detailed and high quality photos and scans are free for use for any purpose, as long as you attribute the Library. [Show slideshow] The only problem…
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Always on the look out for new resources, we came upon the Internet Archive’s Book Images account on Flickr. The account contains well over 2 million images in the public domain, that is, pictures with copyrights that have elapsed or were deliberately placed in the public domain to start with. Some are weird, obscure and…
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Using nearly exclusively the free Blender 3D and compositing software and a lot of talent, the Karma Pirates crew have created DYNAMO – a Sci-Fi web series that defies explanation and that has to be seen to be believed. Be warned that in Dynamo conventional story structures are thrown to the wind, and the action…
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Admittedly, to write a novel all you need is a pen and paper, and to paint a picture all you need is a canvas, brushes and oil-paints. But works of art that belong to the realm of “new media” are much more complex, requiring all sorts off pre-built assets. For a film, for example, you…
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