Xoio – Free 2D people
You’ll remember the last free people pack from Xoio, well here is the next one. Yay! Link through here to their post or from this direct link.
Free 2D people
Thanks to Immediate Entourage for the free people. These images are supplied as PNGs and there are quite a few of them! Please be sure to read the disclaimer but they can be used commercially. Click through here.
Texture Pilot
After seeing this link on CGArchitect yesterday, I visited Texture Pilot. Not the usual textures, so worth having a look at. Hopefully they will keep adding to the existing collect they have. Sign up for the free account where you can download 20MB a day.
Free Cutout People for your Illustrations
XOIO has released a free pack of fantastic 2D people. I’m not sure how long they will be available so get them quick!
You can grab them from here: http://xoio.de/blog/
The direct link (250Megs) is here: http://www.xoio.de/public/cutout_people_V1_xoio.zip
3DWorld’s 8 great free texture sites
A primary resource for 3D artists – commercial or not, we need those textures. Recommended by 3DWorld, here are 8 free texture sites. I hope they come in handy; if you take the time to go through them you’ll find the unique gems.
CGTextures (don’t we all know and LOVE CGtextures?)
Mayang’s Free Texture Library
Marlin Studios
Michael Kotek
Arroway [...]
10 Free Ground Textures
Thanks to Chandan Kumar for the free textures, as posted on cgtuts. Click through here to download the free textures available. Hope you find them useful!
Book textures
Putting together a render like Bertrand Benoit’s or like ours below?
You might be able to use these links to book cover textures:
http://lostandtaken.com/gallery/tag/book-covers
http://www.bittbox.com/freebies/free-high-res-texture-pack-the-anatomy-of-a-really-old-book
Wooden floor textures
A great resource site for textures is Render Textures.
They have a few wooden plank textures – different colour and grain variations. Really useful for wooden flooring or table/counter tops.
Click through here to have a look.
Free Textures and Models
Thanks to 3D Visionary on Evermotion, download a pack of 5 free wood textures in high res and Vray material library.
LINK HERE
Also in Evermotion’s freebie section, download these pillow models from user, d.i.pac. Look very comfy and it will save time trying to puff them out manually.
LINK HERE
FREE: 11 Crack & Rust Decals
A favourite of mine, that always has useful (and sometimes random) freebies – head over to CGtuts for 11 free crack and rust decals. Transparent backgrounds – which is quite handy when making custom textures.
LINK
Garage Door Textures
Head over to CGtuts to download your free 14 hi-res garage door textures. Thanks Stefan Surmabojov
LINK TO DOWNLOAD
Making your own textures
I’m sure many 3D artists and graphic designers, after paging and scrolling through a 100 possible images, are tempted to pull out their hair. Finding the texture that’s just right, isn’t always easy.
Considered making your own? Sometimes it’s the best way to build your library.
Digital Photography School posted a few tips on their site – [...]
Free cutout trees for download
Thanks again to Vyonyx for their latest offering for cutout trees for download here!
Be sure to read their disclaimer, but it’s free for personal or commercial use.
If you haven’t kept up with their previous tree freebies, be sure to search back through previous posts.
Freebie – Yellow Berry Tree for your 3Ds
Here is another freebie for you to use in your post production.
Click here to download (.tif – 10 meg cut out and ready to go!)
Be sure to check out our other free stuff here: http://www.burnstudio.co.za/blog/tag/free/
As always, you can use it as you wish, but you may not resell it or redistribute it.
Commercial usage is encouraged [...]
Photoshop Brushes – Fluffy Clouds
Dreamy…
If you can’t always find the perfect stock photos that show just the right amount of clouds – the not so gloomy kind – download these 25 high res Photoshop brushes from Colorburned.com here. Short video tutorial also included.
Friday’s Freebie
This Friday, download a free font. I love fonts and I don’t think I couldn’t ever download enough. Sharing is caring, so here, download it here : Link to download
Free Textures
I’ve found a fantastic free texture resource called Mayang’s Free Texture Library.
http://mayang.com/textures/index.htm
South African License Plates
This is useless to anybody outside of SA, but I’ve made a batch of plates for your car models.
Free: Sky (Very High Res)
Get 8000px sky here: DOWNLOAD SKY
Use commercially as you wish.
Please don’t redistribute or hotlink.