A thought occurred to me that the early days of the internet had a lot of stuff like this. Illustration, music, animation, comics, etc.
Are there places like this these days that I’m not aware of?
Lots of musicians share their music for “Name your price” on Bandcamp and 0 Dollars is an option.
Check out Pixelfed. Just subscribe to hashtags that interest you and it will pull in art from across the Fediverse.
Pixelfed is one of the best things on the internet IMO.
I know of https://opengameart.org/
It might fit the bill.
Remember when the Internet was about collaborating instead of making money and getting famous. I think we will never see that again
I find Blue Sky gained a lot of the artists that left Twitter. Many post freely, post commissioned works, or have a donation or subscription based platform to share work on. Discovery is ass, but many repost or comment on other artists so you can find a lot of similarly interesting creators that way.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/ artists post all kinds of works and the ones that want donations typically have a fanbox or something similar in their bio.
Free music archive https://freemusicarchive.org/ has a lot of music licensef under the various creative commons licences
There used to be a huge art site called deviantart
It still exists but I wouldn’t recommend it. They’ve went all in on AI and got really annoying with their paid tiers. I deleted my gallery there. Not interested in training their AI.
As with all lemmy, the volume is low, but we do have c/artshare here with some frequent callers. Here on World, I think
Itch.oi is like the old flash games sites like Kongregate
Man, I forgot all about Kongregate. Flash games with achievements was a cool idea.
Oh yeah. Thanks!
