Resources
Want to keep working on creative tech at home? Check out these creative tech resources and tools!
Want to keep working on creative tech at home? Check out these creative tech resources and tools!
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Digital Art & Animation
Cloud Stop Motion – Make stop motion animation in your browser
Animaker – Animaker is an online do-it-yourself (#DIY) animation video maker that brings studio quality presentations within everyone’s reach.
Animated Drawings – Bring children’s drawings to life, by animating characters to move around!
Picsart – Enhance your photos with AI technology. Change or remove backgrounds with ease.
Brush Ninja – Free creative tools for everyone. Including the world famous Brush Ninja animated gif maker.
Piskel – Create pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs.
Pixilart – This drawing tool allows you to make pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs online for free.
Pixynth – Simple editor for pixel-art and animation.
Photopea – Browser-based free online photo editor lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, make vectors, add text, crop or resize pictures.
Jitter – Easily design stunning animated content and interfaces. Explore ideas faster with animation presets.
Kleki – Paint online with natural brushes, layers, and edit your drawings.
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Photo & Video
Adobe Express – All-in-one design, photo, and video content creation tool. Includes AI features.
Kapwing – Collaborative, online content creation platform that you can use to edit video and create content.
Mixkit – Download free stock video footage and music for your next video editing project.
Picsart – Enhance your photos with AI technology. Change or remove backgrounds with ease.
Photopea – Photoshop-like program that lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop or resize pictures. Browser-based.
Pixlr – Photo editing & design tools including AI image generator, batch editor, animation design, enhancer & more.
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Coding
Flexbox Froggy – A game for learning CSS flexbox
CSS Diner – A fun game to help you learn and practice CSS selectors.
Scratch – Free programming language where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
CodePen – Online code editor for front-end web development using HTML, CSS, and Javascript code snippets.
Wick Editor – Create games, animations, and everything in-between!
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3D Modeling
Tinkercad – Free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.
Mixamo – Animate 3D characters for games, film, and more.
Thingiverse – Free online platform and community for sharing, creating, and making 3D printable objects
Rooms.xyz – Create & browse interactive rooms on web and iOS.
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Music
Songmaker – A simple way for anyone to make and share a song using Chrome Music Lab.
Musicify – AI voice song generator to create covers with AI in any voice. Choose from 100,000+ voices or make a clone of yours.
Radiooooo – Musical time machine. Explore a collection of songs collected over decades and now searchable, with filters by genre, speed, country, and time period.
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Game Design
Flowlab – Flowlab is an online game creator. Make your own games to share with friends.
Microsoft MakeCode Arcade – Cuickly create and modify retro arcade games with Blocks and JavaScript in the MakeCode editor
Bitsy – Bitsy is a little editor for little games or worlds. Make games where you can walk around and talk to people and be somewhere.
Roblox Studio – Create anything you can imagine with a comprehensive set of free, powerful 3D creation tools.
Scratch – Free programming language where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
Pocket Platformer – A code free tool for creating small platformer games. Design levels, playtest them, redraw sprites, export standalone games.
Room Escape Maker – Free game editor to create escape rooms online. Build point-and-click games and challenge players to escape from your virtual rooms.
Twine – An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
2 Bit Characters Generator – A 16×16 character generator
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AI
Scribble Diffusion – Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI
Craiyon – AI model than can draw images from any text prompt!
DALL-E Mini – AI model generating images from any prompt!
Night Cafe – Create amazing artworks in seconds using the power of AI, participate in AI Art Challenges, chat with AI Art enthusiasts, and more.
Perchance – Platform for creating and sharing random generators
Animated Drawings – Bring children’s drawings to life, by animating characters to move around!
Say What You See – Learn the art of image prompting with the help of Google AI.
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User Experience (UX) Design
Awesome Bad UI – Play around with purposefully bad UI
Gallery Web Design Museum – Discover old websites and see the evolution of their design!
Can’t Unsee – A game where you need to pick the UI design that is most correct. Test your attention to details!
User Inyerface – A challenging exploration of bad user interactions and design patterns.
UX Misconceptions & Laws Game – An advanced 10 question quiz debunking UX misconceptions.
Laws of UX – Collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces.
Google Ads Mockup Generator – Quickly mockup Google Ads with this free ad preview tool. Visualize up to 3 ad copy versions at the same time.
Ad Mockup Generators – Design realistic ad mockups for social media platforms.