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The original list has been taken from a BlenderNations article. Free Texture and Reference Images, some of the comments have been added to aid you in finding the best possible textures.
[edit] Materials
- Blender Materials - Open repository for Blender materials.
[edit] Textures
- 3dRender Pro-Viz Textures
- Very high quality Pro-Viz texture libraries.
- There is also a free download section which can be used for commercial purposes.
- 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.
- http://www.imageafter.com/
- http://www.mayang.com/textures/
- http://orange.blender.org/blog/a-call-for-textures
- http://www.newtek.com/freestuff/
- http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/
- http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=77484
- http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Textures
[edit] 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
- 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. The for-purchase section has a lot, but the free one has some nice ones too.
- http://www.sxc.hu/
- stock.xchng
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