Scene Background Pictures - Where?

[Alessio]

Hi fellow gamemakers,

Does anyone have a proposal where to get good (and freely usable) picture material from? To be used as backgrounds, or then as reference for drawing.

I'm quite impressed with http://www.morguefile.com/, but I'm still missing typical Ren'ai scenes like School buildings, libraries, cozy side streets etc. I'd appreciate any suggestion!

Cheers!
Al

[Sai]

I think Lemma might have some here: http://www.lemmasoft.net/renai/Ren%27ai ... loads.html

[Alessio]

Thanks, those were actually the first ones I downloaded. Quite good, especially the stores, but I'd still need some more.

[Blue Lemma]

I have some more I can share with you. Any more specific info?

[Alessio]

As far as my script goes at the moment:

School building:
- Outside view of the building
- Corridor
- Classroom
- Nurse's room
- and maybe Gym/sports area

Library outside (front of building)/inside (bookshelves)
Player's room (kind of a boy's room, simple, not crammed with stuff)

City:
- Pedestrian street
- Main street
- Dodgy side street (trash etc.)
- General shop (e.g. clothing) outside/inside

The rest I seem to have pretty much figured out at the moment, either by shooting the pics myself or by finding them from free services such as morguefile. The game is not set in any specific country, so I'm looking for pictures that don't look too obviously European/American/Japanese - then again, when in doubt I'd rather go for the Japanese ones.

I'll be processing the pictures somewhat to make them fit together, but it depends on their quality and on how consistent they all are in the end (to avoid giving the impression they were taken in different places or with dífferent lighting, different angles etc.).

If you have something to share, I'd be very obliged, but by all means don't feel pushed to do anything, it's just a list of what I'm looking for. :)

Cheers!

[rioka]

Your other best bet is to Image Search. I found this site just by searching for "classroom". Pretty big images too.

Buildings
Library

[Alessio]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll have to ask Danville Highschool about their policy though - not sure if they'll allow the use of their images. But in any case a very good source of inspiration! Cheers!

[Alessio]

I can add stock.xchng (http://www.sxc.hu/) to the list of sites with free pictures. Feel free to add more sites in this thread. :)