Free Texture and Reference Images

Published by Eugene (etr9j) on April 21st, 2006 in Repositories, Toolbox

I thought we were due for a nice group of links to free texture and reference images. Of course there are too many to list here, but here are a few that I've visited on occasion. Some of these are standards for free images, but not everyone knows they're out there.

Textures

Noctua Graphics
Great straight-on 512×512 textures.
Tor Oera's Homepage
There are several sites out there with Earth, Moon, and Mars maps but Tor also throws in a beginner tutorial on how to use the Earth maps.
Planet Pixel Emporium
ALL THE PLANETS IN TEXTURE FORM
CG India
Free textures for personal use only. The texture maps are downloadable through the website in .RAR format at are at a medium resolution.

Reference Images

Art Morgue
A reference material site with a wide array of reference types with over 6,000 images. You can view the images, but if you want the higher res you'll need to join (which is free).
Morgue File
Here is what they say: "A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use."
Thomas Surland's Page
Lots of blueprints for cars, planes, and other vehicles.
Got3D
Last, but certainly not least. Got3D is very well known for textures and reference images, but if you haven't visited, take a look. They have a for money and a for free section. They for purchase section has a lot , but the free one has some nice ones too.

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1 Durden Apr 21st, 2006 at 7:34 am

Also u can watch through http://www.imageafter.com
2 well Apr 21st, 2006 at 8:06 am

Once again I miss the central role of the blender hq pages. The most links were spread on several pages,blogs,wikis :-(

well nevertheless a nice collection!
3 Chris Apr 21st, 2006 at 12:36 pm

Let's not not forget the Stock Xchange for excellent free stock photos.

http://www.sxc.hu/
4 etr9j Apr 21st, 2006 at 1:33 pm

Stock Xchange! Of course! I can't believe I forgot to add it.
5 MC Apr 21st, 2006 at 2:38 pm

Another great link that should be included is mayangs texture lib: http://www.mayang.com/textures/

He has awsome textures! They are huge, and detailed. Definetly should be on the list.
6 Mike Apr 21st, 2006 at 2:58 pm

I've used this:

http://www.imageafter.com/

It's very well organized, free, and has a MASSIVE amount of textures.
7 Matt Apr 21st, 2006 at 5:15 pm

There are also a lot of Creative Commons (attribution) licensed textures available, linked from this post on the Orange blog: http://orange.blender.org/blog/a-call-for-textures
8 roofoo Apr 21st, 2006 at 11:33 pm

Newtek (publisher of Lightwave) has a bunch of free texture collections to download! Registration is required, but it's free.

http://www.newtek.com/freestuff/
9 jaycun Apr 22nd, 2006 at 5:33 am

Also, if you want more celestial textures . . . you can get a few here

http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/

I has color, bump, spec, normal maps, etc.
10 Bmud Apr 22nd, 2006 at 5:09 pm

At times like this, I go hunting for a huge sticky thread like this one I just found on CGTalk: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=77484
11 krishna Reddy May 26th, 2007 at 3:20 pm

I want to become a 3d modeler& animator
12 Tom Oct 9th, 2007 at 2:23 pm

Please allow me to introduce to you a free texure site: http://www.texturez.com
13 Gordon Stewart Jan 24th, 2008 at 10:57 pm

Here's a good site with lots of royalty-free textures, all free: The Texture Barn
14 jack Aug 20th, 2008 at 12:20 am

More free textures here http://www.texturebits.blogspot.com