So. I am a senior in an animation major right now, which means I need to make a short film. So. Uh. I'm planning to make it in the style of a multi-animator project like I've made in the past on Youtube, only with like. all professionalish level people working, instead of like. the usual 13-20ish year olds that MAPs on youtube are made with. The problem being, people usually have the music inspire their piece of the animation, which means I need music before anything else. I know nothing of music. So if people know a good place to find open source music, that'd be great. If people her make music, heck, I'm down for that almost moreso!!! The project will be fantasy-based most likely? so preferably music that would fit that genre, but i'm willing to look at about anything many thanks!!
I mean, I make music, and you'd be free to use anything I've made. I'm sort of unsure that that I'd have anything that'd really fit, though, mostly because my stuff isn't usually of particularly professional quality and might not be up to the task of accompanying your film. But you're free to look through my soundcloud and bandcamp if you want.
Wait, much better idea. You could use music from incomptech (Kevin Macleod). There's a huge library - you've probably heard at least some of it, because it's the universal source of free music for like every youtuber or budget amateur film maker ever, including me when I haven't wanted to or been able to make my own stuff in the past. It's under a creative commons license I believe so all you'd have to do is give appropriate credits in your film credits or in a posted description.
!! many thanks for both links! :D I'll look through stuff later, i'm a weirdo and listening to new music takes a decent amount of spoons.
Oh, I just remembered that the reason I'm not selling a bunch of my own work is because some of the early stuff actually does contain copyrighted soundfonts. Also, a lot of it is Homestuck stuff, which obviously can't be used for intellectual property reasons. The soundfont stuff on the early tracks though... okay, in reality nobody is likely to be able to tell, or even notice, that a soundfont might be a copyrighted one from 1998 when it's buried in the middle of an original composition, but, I mean, technically it'd still be a copyright violation, and I have no access to more specific information about the origin on some of those old soundfonts than "if I made this track before I bought my own soundfont library it may or may not have a couple of copyrighted soundfonts from the old questionably legal free packs I used to use". I mean, I guess I could point out tracks which might have that issue. But, maybe using my stuff is more trouble than it's worth, even though I would be willing to let you use my original compositions if you wanted. I mean, heck, it's enough that I'm not selling any of it myself, so. Plus as I say I make low quality stuff, so yeah. My stuff is not the best option. The Kevin MacLeod stuff from incomptech is a lot more widespread and it's likely to be used in other projects beyond your own but it might be just a plan better option than using any of my stuff would be if this is like a proper professional-style thing you're doing. So yeah.
You can get loads of great stuff on freemusicarchive.org! The Music for Video collection in particular might be up your alley, or you can search by license, genre, and/or a bunch of other parameters.
