Whatever platform/engine(s) you end up trying, you both might enjoy looking through the game assets that Kenney shares with the world for free: * https://kenney.nl/assets * https://kenney.nl/starter-kits The asset range includes 2D & 3D and in a variety of graphical fidelity/style from 1-bit to low-poly--including sets which are designed to work together. The "Starter Kits" are a more recent development which aim... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

These look fabulous. Another great resource for free 2D game assets: https://kenney.nl/assets. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Look at kenney.nl/assets, hundreds of sounds and other assets, all free. Source: 12 months ago

Most of the assets came from Kenney, but there are way too many combined sources to list them all here. If you want to know where anything came from, feel free to ask. Source: about 1 year ago

Not quite an answer to the question, but there's a bunch of free asset libraries out there! Assets · Kenney. Source: about 1 year ago

Also, I didn't see it mentioned, but if it's environments that you are mostly after, one possible solution is to use HDRIs for the background. Obviously those are more limiting than a proper 3D environment but might be good if you are just doing static, one-off shots. You can get free ones of those from https://polyhaven.com and https://hdri-haven.com. Source: about 1 year ago

Https://polyhaven.com Polyhaven has free textures, models, and HDRIs. Source: about 1 year ago

As for rule 2 compliance, you may recall from the last post, I textured the duck with an image from unsplash. I used a terrain texture from polyhaven.com (was texturehaven.com back when I downloaded it.) I honestly cannot remember which tool I got the heightmap from, it was so long ago. But google terrain height map generator or some variant on that, I think there's like openGIS is one of them, and like,... Source: about 1 year ago

Huge shoutout to polyhaven.com their Material/Model Collection was a huge timesaver. Source: about 1 year ago

As per rule 2: I used a picture from unsplash to texture the duck. I used wood textures from polyhaven.com for the boat. All the modeling done in blender. Source: about 1 year ago