No list begs to be incomplete like one entitled “Essential Blender Resources,” and the one posted here earlier was no exception. Here are a few more essentials that were not mentioned in the earlier post. Gentlemen, get your bookmarkers ready!
Models
- The Katorlegaz Blender 3D Model Repository – free, high quality Blender models ranging from animals to kitchen appliances to weapons.
Materials
- Sonix’ Car Materials Library – 54 hot-roddin’ blender materials that include chromes, auto paints, and more.
- Blender Materials Library – A collection various blender materials, a must-have for every Blender user.
- BrianH’s Fur Library Vol 1 – A library of furs and fibers that takes advantage of the improved hair settings in the Blender 2.4 series.
Textures
- Imageafter – Free, high resolution (1600×1200) textures and reference images.
- Texture Bin 342 – Free high resolution photographic texture maps.
- Free Game Textures – Free JPG textures designed for realtime 3D.
- Fixing Lighting Irregulaties in Self-Tiling Maps – A tutorial on creating seamless repeating texture maps from photos.
- Mayang’s Free Textures – Over 850 free, high resolution textures.
- Planetary image maps – High quality texture maps of planets in our solar system.
- Free Textures @ 3D-Rekonstruktionen.de – Download free textures in high resolution quality.
- Mega-Tex – Free Digital downloadable textures for 3d builders and skinners for every 3d building application.
Special Effects
- Centralsource.com Effects Library – Flame, liquid, explosions, flares, and smoke effects. Some files and techniques are outdated but are still valuable learning resources.
Reference
You may also want to bookmark the following:
http://www.blender.org/cms/Resources.181.0.html
Almost all of the links posted here were pulled from this page of the official Blender website.
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