Dante Platt STEC Blog

AudioNodes Great software that allows easy editing of audio. Completely free alongside it. AudioMass Free website that it easy to use and requires barely any effort to edit. TwistedWave Similar to Audacity but very little options but very effective at what its intended purpose is. Editor.audio Easy to use and free, with very little distracting options to use making it effective. Wavacity A web clone of audacity with the same features and all.

artlist Requires sign up, but grants many sounds. zapsplat Hundreds of sounds to choose from with lots of variety. Pixabay Over 4,000 to choose from, some may not be free, but many of them are. Freesfx Many to choose from and easy to use. Freesound Easy to navigate with many people contributing to the site. All is free, hence to name. noiiz Although not many, has good quality with some being nice and smooth. audiomicro Easy to navigate with many free sounds to choose from. 99Sounds Good, free, easy to use and good quality.

Just a few samples i found within the internet. This is for future reference in which i may use. mixkit Full of sounds ranging from achievements to jumps and punches. zapsplat They have very nice retro sounds available from their web. wowsound Many cool sounds to choose from ranging from different categories. OpenGameArt Many different sounds to use and easy to use from their website. Pixabay Many different and free sounds with much variety. 99sounds Lots to choose from and many different varieties. soundsnap There is many of them, high quality and they're free. uppbeat.io easy to use and many to choose from. There's always YouTube if necessary but that might be very risky to use.

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 I started off the week by going into some character design bits and bobs. I started by going on about how my character would be part of the mafia as a teen boy. I used a website then to incorporate this idea. Using CharacterCreator.org Then on Tuesday, I started to then go off on about concept art and how to use some websites to help finalize the idea. first one where I took screenshots was HeroForge.com. The last bit I did was an analysis of existing concept art, this one took a lot of time to make. We also took note of popular concept artists, I took note of Ryan Church.

 When trying to use concept, you must be open to use different ways in which to get the outcome you may desire. Know the aspects of the idea you are working with and try to stay within those boundaries. First thing you will need to do is have a clear overall concept through many discussions with the employer. The artists need to understand the vision at which is trying to be described. You could always use AI generated images as a sort of crutch but it would not be as thorough as if artists took their time to draw out the wanted image. But it would ruin the process of gathering reference material in order to get the desired type. More that you could potentially use is some websites that can either help you give some prompts or does some of the work for you by making it do some art by giving it some prompts and it generates some work for you following under the AI influence. Here are some websites: conceptstart.net RanGen.com These two are simple yet effective prompt givers that ran...

 I made a moodboard to show images of 3 subjects, muscles, teens, mafia. I then went onto CharacterCreator.org to then make a simple yet effective character concept design of a character.

I will be listing 5 free to use font websites that I could potentially use in the future. Fell free to look at them yourself. 1001freefonts.com Lots of fonts to use DaFonts.com Nice to look at. FontSpace.com Many variety of fonts. Fontesk.com Not a lot but nice looks. FontSquirrel.com Not many fonts but many nice different types.

This will be a list of free image websites for college work: Unsplash : A resourceful website with hundreds of images that can be used freely, you're able to upload your own photos and but them under many categories. Unfortunately, some pictures have a watermark but the most of them do not. Would use fairly often if not for the watermark. Pixabay : A free to use website with no watermark. Easy to use and photos under many categories, so you can search for an image easily. Really easy to use and nice visual photos with much variety to choose from. Pexels : Free stock photos for use without a watermark. Very high quality photos with adjustable resolution with multiple categories to choose from. Very nice to use with high ratings and much detail in each image shown. Burst : Free stock photos with a search bar to get specific photos with high quality resolution. Very fun and easy to use. Lots of nice visual photos to capture an image of choice with lots of detail in each photo on the s...