Post #4481711

2026-08-08 17:20 UTC

👆 for those saying they don't know how or can't afford to collaborate... Please turn to the Commons Learn about public domain and creative commons licensing Start with a video image or sound in the Commons and manipulate it to make it your own. Or don't bother manipulating if the license doesn't allow or you don't have the skill. Either way it'll be better and appreciated more

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@limebar@mastodon.social 2026-08-08 19:39

👆 here are a bunch of resources for finding public domain and creative commons licenses materials you can use, just check the license first: https://search.creativecommons.org/ https://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?fq=data_source%3A%22National+Portrait+Gallery%22&q=&media.CC0=true https://doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html https://openverse.org/ https://morguefile.com/ https://www.pexels.com/ https://pixabay.com/ https://guides.nyu.edu/video/PD-CC https://pdimagearchive.org/ https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive https://unsplash.com/ https://archive.org/details/publicmovies212 https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/source/internet-archive/ https://search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01NAL_INST:MAIN&inst=01NAL_INST

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@londondreamtime@mastodonapp.uk 2026-08-08 19:04

@limebar@mastodon.social what you said

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@csepp@merveilles.town 2026-08-08 23:53

@limebar@mastodon.social Or you can just do it badly tbh. I will appreciate a stick figure drawing 1000x more than whatever slop a diffusion model spits out.

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@trekkie1701c@oldbytes.space 2026-08-09 00:56

@limebar@mastodon.social You can do a lot of cross-disciplinary stuff without much hardware, too. I do most of my work from a smartphone. I write books. I make artwork for my books, using a Linux container on my phone that has Blender/GIMP/Kdenlive on it. Is it a little janky? Sure. Is it still satisfying as fuck to see come together? Definitely. And all of this helps me write. A lot of related media was me going "what would this look like" or "I need a chart for this" and once I worked out the visual particulars... well, now I can just look at that for the prose and just describe a thing I can see. And *then* I can use it for videos. Or cover art. Or whatever I can dream up. I honestly just lack money to get a 3D printed model of the ships I've imagined. Not 'I lack money to have a guy design it'. Nah. I have the digital model. It's done. It can be printed. I've had to make do with a poster on my wall. And that's... honestly pretty cool, isn't it? I have no formal training. I have a retail job that barely pays housing. And I can bring my ideas to reality. And I *don't* need AI.

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