Places to get images, sounds and more…

Sites that have royalty-free and Creative Commons images, sounds, 3D models and data collections for you go grab, modify and use. Note: Make sure you understand Creative Commons licenses, especially if creating a commercial product.

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Comics at the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has a section of


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Freepik

Great collection of Creative Commons images and vectors to download and use if you credit the creators.

Note: As ever, watch out for sponsored links at the top of the page for paid images. And use the Filters to find what you want.


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Free Vectors

Fabulous collection of SVG or .ai graphics files that you can edit with tools like Inkscape, Janvas or Gravit Designer. 


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PixelMob

Site that searches other resources

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Identify Nature

Find out what species of plant, insect, bird is etc

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Zero Dollar Movies

Free full length movies

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Collection of Posters

Fabulous collection of posters from the U.S. Department of Agriculture  in the 1930s


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Glogopedia

Lovely collection of multimedia info pages, projects and experiments etc for kids

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Livecode Stacks

Large collection of stacks for you to 


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Rijksmuseum Image Collection

Fbulous collection of downloadable images

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Royalty Free Video Clips

Another place to find free video clips to use.


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Noun Project

The Noun Project has millions of images available as both .png and .svg files (which you can edit). Maybe one of these might be the start of your logo or design.

* Remember to credit the original author.


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pngimg

Large collection of isolated PNGs, great for making montages.

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Retro Comics at ComicBookPlus

A wonderful collection of older strips, many of which are public domain.

For fun, you might, control(mac) or alt(click) to save them to your computer and edit them with Pixlr to add your own words.


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Classical Midi Files

Collection of classical midi files

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Better World Flux

Explore health data with compelling interactive visualisations

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Collection of Game Assets

A collection of assets to help you create a game


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Collection of Equirectangular Images

A Flickr collection of equirectangular images, many of which are Creative Commons licenced for use in your own VR creations.

Lots more here.


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A REVIEW OF NINE INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE SYSTEMS

An academic paper about interactive narrative systems.


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Product Hunt

Discover new apps and sites, discover apps you can use or use this as an inspiration list for the creation of your own app.

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Midi World

Collection of midi files

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Animation Frames

A collection of sprite sheets that you could use to help you with your animation.


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Royalty Free Soundtracks

Great list of Creative Commons audio files

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Voicy

Lots of short audio samples, or "soundboards" that you can download.


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BBC Empty Sets

Collection of unpopulated sets from the BBC.


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Quaternius Game Assets

Collection of assets to use when making (3D) games

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Scan The World

Brilliant collection of downloadable models for 3D printing

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Animated Images

Lots of animated gifs

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SketchFab

A place to find lots of 3D models.


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MIT App Inventor Extensions

Thunkable is based on a very similar free tool call MIT App Inventor. Because lots of people create Extensions for it, that also work with Thunkable, you can find extra code, called Extensions which do everything from rotation detection, to sound analysis, to QR code recognition and connecting to other devices.


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Record Nature

Record the species you have seen

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The Doodle Library

Large collection of doodles to use

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British Library Map Collection

A variety of maps to explore

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YouTube Audio Library

YouTube has bots that check your videos to make sure you haven't used a copyrighted music track in your video. All these tracks are free to use on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram & Twitch without copyright issues.

This guide shows you how to download tracks from the Audio Library.

There are also lots of sound effects to download too.

Pay special attention to attribution requirements, with any audio user ever.


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BBC Sound Effects

16,000 BBC sound effects for personal, educational or research purposes.


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List of Idioms

Wonderful collection of sayings and idioms that you might use for inspiration.


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Star Atlas

Discover the stars

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30 Days of Python

Brilliant collection of python examples.


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Royalty Free Video Clips

Lots of royalty-free videos to use. Can you tell a story with these sorts of videos?


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DBPedia

Structured data from the web

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Prelinger Movie Archive

Huge collection of movies.


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Mixamo

Download 3D characters and animations

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Generated Photos

A collection of people's faces automatically generated by artificial intelligence. None of the people actually exist.

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Public Domain Vectors

Large collection of downloadable .svg files 


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Generated Photos

A collection of generated face pictures

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Women's Generative Art

Brilliant collection of women generative artists.


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SVG Icons

Huge collection of SVG icons.

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Story Templates

Customisable PDF, Word templates for storyboards

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Photos for Class

Age appropriate creative commons image search engine. 


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Free Audio Books and Poetry

Huge List of Free Audio Poetry and Audio Books

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The Poster DB

Posters, and ALTERNATIVE versions and TEXTLESS versions.

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York Council Open Data

The City of York Council provides lots of data about all sorts of things in your area, such as spending or footfall numbers in the town in .csv format. 

There are even .kml files of listed trees, or where litter bins are, that can be imported into Google My Maps or Google Earth.


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Data.gov.uk

Find data published by central government, local authorities and public bodies to help you build products and services

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List of Tools To Build Bots

List of bot building tools

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List of Proverbs

Useful to help inspire you.


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Digital Comic Museum

A strange collection of retro comics from Captain Science to The H-Bomb and you.

The issues are downloadable in .cbr format for which you will need a free comic reader like YAC Reader.


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Public Domain Review

Curated sources of images, books and more

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Bit Midi

Large collection of midi files to use.


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Idiom Connection

A collection of categorised idioms.


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40 Best Free Google Fonts

Free to download and use, or add to your p5js project.

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Forgotify

This site finds you Spotify tracks that nobody has ever listened to.


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Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases

Brilliant explorable dataset, with downloadable data


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Kaggle

Data to download

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3D Texture Collection

Collection of A.I generated textures.


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List of Text Editors

Choosing a text editor for coding is a very personal choice. Some have "too many" features, others are too simple. You may need to try more than a few to find one that you like working in, but it's not until you start on an actual project, that you'll be really able to tell.


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Memes (as SVG)

Memes, but available as SVG (so you can edit them).


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SimplyScripts

Just a lot of scripts and screenplays in various formats (PDF, txt, even comic .cbz etc)

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Europeana Archives

Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for.


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Project Gutenberg

A collection of thousands of free to read and use texts, from Trump's inaugural speech to Alice in Wonderland.


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Newsreels from mid 20th Century

American news programmes.