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My Freebies #7 – Image Textures – Misc.

admin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:00:44 +0000

Here is group #7 of seamless / tile-able image textures for your own use, from myself.

#1, stone tile floor, 2K
#2, aged painted metal, 2K
#3, concrete chess board, 1K
#4 billiard table felt, 1K
#5, human skin sample, 1K

Feel free to use these for your personal or commercial projects, whatever you want.
Enjoy!

My Freebies #6 – Image Textures – Pavement

admin — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Here is group #6 of seamless / tile-able image textures for your own use, from myself (concrete, asphalt). All image textures here are 2K in size.

Feel free to use these for your personal or commercial projects, whatever you want.
Enjoy!

Offsite Resources – Free Vectors – Site List

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:00:46 +0000

What is a Vector? The short-ish answer is, it is an image that doesn’t have pixels like pretty much every other image but uses basic shapes such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygons, to represent images.

It’s kinda the same thing when you are reading text in a text editor (ms word, notepad, etc), those letters are not made out of pixels but shapes and those “shapes” can be very small or massively huge depending on what font size you choose, yet whether your letters are tiny or huge, the edges of the fonts look consistently good. It’s the same thing with image vectors, they are not (usually) as complex as a photograph, yet the vector image can be printed out small on a business card or gigantic on a roadside billboard and its quality will be the same.

Vector – Wikipedia definition

Vectors are widely used in almost all types of print work that you see but they are also used a great deal in 2D art and even to a small extent in 3D as some 3D programs can import a vector and translate that into a outline mesh object. The artistic use of vectors can be simple or complex no matter whether they are for a postcard, a poster print or a t-shirt.

Programs for Vector work:

There are a few out there but imo, what it mainly comes down to is this;

The retail route – which would be Adobe Illustrator. It is the industry standard for Vector creation and editing. Yet, since anything Adobe costs quite a bit…

The freeware route – Imo, would be Inkscape, a great piece of free software for Vector work.

Below, I will list out some sites in which you can also download some free Vector files in which to load up and play around with;

Go Media : Arsenal – These guys have the cool factor down pat. They are an agency that creates vector art for companies, they also publicly sell inexpensive (and cool) vector packs and as the link I give you there will show you, they also give away various free items. Also, check out Go Media Tutorial Videos over at Vimeo, the link will lead to a handful of videos on vectors, but be sure to check out all of Go Media’s video’s, as they have nearly 70 video’s on various subjects.

Go Media : Zine – An even better, larger selection of free vectors from Go Media.

123vectors - Free Vectors

Vector 4 Free – Free Vectors

Free Vector - Free Vectors

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Specky Boy – Links to 20 sites that have free vectors.

Hongkiat- Links to 50 sites that have free vectors.

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Smashing Magazine – 20 Vector Editing programs reviewed. They review both free and retail programs, but there are more than a few freeware’s listed, along with versions for various operating systems. (Mac, Linux, Web Based, etc.)

When I find anymore applicable sites, I’ll link them in here. If you have any link suggestions, feel free to email them to me at kirkdunne@yahoo.com

My Freebies #5 – Image Textures – Ground

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:00:28 +0000

Here is group #5 of seamless / tile-able image textures for your own use, from myself. Image texture #4 is 1k and all the rest are 2k in size.

Feel free to use these for your personal or commercial projects, whatever you want.
Enjoy!

Offsite Resources – 3D Programs – Site List

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 04:00:57 +0000

This will be my repository for all my links to the various 3D software that is out there.
I’ll list as much freeware as possible but I’ll also list the retail software you should check out.

There are actually a ton of 3D freeware out there and a lot of it is pretty dated, I will try and list only the more modern, useful and/or unique programs.

Freeware:

Blender – Probably the most known and used of 3D freeware. It is a “full package” 3D program, meaning it can model, rig, shade, uv unwrap, texture, render and animate. Basically, everything, for free.

Studio – By Daz3D, it is the free posing program for their extensive library of various 3D models. Daz3D Freebie models available Right Here.

Wings – Popular subdivision polygonal modeling program.

Plant Studio – An older retail program that now has been made free to the public. Use it to create 3D models of grass, flowers, weeds, and herb plants.

Bryce 7 PLE (Personal Learning Edition) – Eternal Bryce, now in its seventh version!

I will be adding more links as I find them.
If you have any suggestions, feel free to email them to me at kirkdunne@yahoo.com

My Freebies #4 – Image Textures – Tree Bark

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:00:03 +0000

Here is group #4 of seamless / tile-able image textures for your own use, from myself. All image textures here are 2K in size.

Feel free to use these for your personal or commercial projects, whatever you want.
Enjoy!

Offsite Resources – Image Textures – Site List

admin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:00:03 +0000

Image textures! Sooner or later, almost no matter what you do in either 2D or 3D CGI, you will want to gather some image textures to use in your creations.
These are some of the sites I go to to grab textures, some are huge sites, others are small but just keep looking until you find what you need.

I have NO doubt that I have way more links backed up elsewhere. As I sift through them and find more, I’ll add them into this post.

Now, in no particular order (Order? Who needs order?), are my links, copied right out of my Firefox faves;

*Those entries in bold are must-see collections.

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Google Image Search – Man, have I ever embraced this as a starting point to find image textures. Especially after visiting all the other sites, this is a great way
to find new textures you’ve never seen before or when you are looking for something obscure that most sites don’t have (cracked glass, circuit board, etc).

3D Total – Very worthwhile and large collection.
Mayang’s Free Texture Library – When looking for a texture, I always check here.
CG Textures – They now require registration and only allow 15mb of downloads a day but still worth it, they have great quality textures.
High Resolution Textures – blog format site with unique textures.
Textures Forrest CZ : Textures Library – Don’t let the url fool you, they have many types of textures, not just “forests”.
Texture Online
Texture King
My Photoshop Textures
Design Mag : 2,000 Absolutely Free Textures
Browsing Textures on deviantART

Текстуры / фактуры – Russian site with some cool textures and a lot more links to more texture sites at the bottom of the page.
Zen Textures
Texture Lovers
Trójmiasto- Scans of older maps.
luGher Texture
Photoshop Textures
Lune Rouge
Smashing Apps : 21 Collections Of Free Textures
Psdtuts+ : Free Textures
Best Design Options
PSD Graphics
Design Shard : Freebies
Texture Warehouse
Amazing Textures – Download medium resolution immediately or grab hi-res versions after a free registration.
Davegh - Artist that created textures for a video game and after he never got paid, he is offering them all online (these are not photo textures, but hand-painted ones)
Texture Bin 342
Mega-Tex
Smashing Magazine : 100 Free Textures
Lost and Taken

More to come as I find them in my piles of favorites!

If you have any link suggestions, feel free to email them to me at kirkdunne@yahoo.com