Okay, now just about everybody out there making an RMVX/RMXP game is interested in free graphics. Here are some sites I check when I need free tilesets and sprite sheets:

First Seed Material: The content on First Seed is all royalty-free, which means it can be used even in commercial projects. The only rule about usage is that you can’t post content from the site on your own or try to re-sell the graphics on your own site or something.

Mack’s Blog: Mack is a Japanese pixel artist who makes free graphics for RMVX (and he made a lot of stuff for RMXP a while back) that you can use under the same terms as First Seed Material resources (at least as far as the blog translation of the license on his site goes).

Charas Project: This site allows you to create custom “overworld” and “battler” sprites for RMK 2003. If you’re making your own sprites, it’s also not a bad quick reference for various animation poses.

Famitsu RMVX Sprite Maker: This Japanese site has a great tool that allows you to mix and match parts (ala Charas Project) for sprites. The sprites are designed for use in RMVX.

Famitsu “Tsukuru” Blog: This is the blog for Enterbrain’s RPG Maker and Action Game Maker products. From time to time they have great tileset and sprite art (go through the archives; use Google’s language tools to translate the site if you’re having trouble navigating) that you can download. Recently, they’ve had a series of “modern Japanese” furniture and other tiles (both school and “domestic/house” tiles) that are pretty cool.

Anyway, I’ll post some links to these sites in my blogroll, but definitely check them out when you get a chance. I found some great robot sprites in the Famitsu “Tsukuru” Blog’s post archives.

For those of us who do plan to create our own sprites, tilesets and backgrounds, these resources are great for prototyping purposes and also allow you to start working on your design or demo right away rather than spend months creating graphics and nothing else.