Animation Factory

Over 8,500 original 3D animated GIF files here.
These graphics are available for free for use on noncommercial Web pages. An excellent collection. Categories include bullets, buttons, alphabets, characters, office, flags, holiday, music, sports, transportation and more.

Digital Blasphemy

If you're getting tired of looking at Windows' lame default wallpaper, then click over to artist Ryan Bliss' site for an awesome selection of free wallpaper art. There's all kinds of eye-popping, original images here, including surreal images, lovely outer space scenes and abstract stuff.

This is a nice collection of "real-world-derived" images. Categories include food & drink, math, medicine & health, natural science, flowers, textures & surfaces, office motes, pasta, people, places, cactus, toilets, greenery and much more. Thumbnail images are provided for all images for rapid searching. Free for personal and commercial use, but check the conditions.

Motivational, humorous, thought-provoking & some even disturbing. Beautiful scenery, cats, dogs, BIG cats and more! And new ones added weekly.

This site offers various free studio IPAS (Ixps, Axps, Pxps and Sxps), including tools such as "3D Studio," filters for animated special effects and "Grad, ripple, bub and pat."

Andy Evans' 300-plus page site offers resources for free and original GIF
animations, buttons and backgrounds, as well as HTML tips.
A mind-blowing site, with some of the most creative art,
also serves up tips for using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Also be sure to check out the "Daily Download"
which serves up a different button, animation or counter digit each day.

This site offers children's Web page graphics.
There's a selection of animated words (signs and banners),
animated people and animals and more.

POV-Ray (the Persistence of Vision Raytracer) is a high-quality,
free program for creating amazing 3-D graphics.
Has a steep learning curve, but is worth the time you invest in it,
if you're serious about learning about ray-traced graphics.
Available for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux.