If you live by the quote ‘the devil is into the details’ and yet still believe in shops like ‘forests and trees’ (goto their site or a blog about them to get an idea); if you like grunge textures, earthy or industrial; if you are in love with iron oxide, peeling paint, or unperturbed weathering of any kind; if you look for beauty in the details and in the proportions; CGTextures is something you can not do w1thout.

It requires you become a member (I just registered 15 minutes ago) and it’ll give access to hordes and hordes of textures of all imaginable sorts. Some of the major categories are Animals, Bones, Brick, Buildings, Concrete, Doors, Fabric, Food, Ground, Grunge, Ink, Landscapes, Manmade, Metal, Nature, Ornaments, Paper, Plaster, Plastic, Roads, Roofing, Rust, Scrap, Signs, Skies 360, Skies Partial, Splatter, Stone, Tiles, Various, Water, Windows, Wood, Wrinkles, X-Rays.

As a CGartist, dealing with budding not-yet-professional artists still-learning-the-ropes-and-whats-good-and-whats-not, I’m sick to the bones of fake procedurally produced textures. Making CGTextures is such an awesome find. And the textures could be used for anything, royalty-free, so long as you don’t sell the textures and you don’t redistribute them (especially not as your own).

I made sure I did not reproduce them, that’s the reason I only posted a screen shot of some of textures from the plaster section, I think. Check it out!