when I suddenly realized that I have neglected to share one of the best resources in the Dave Stiles Bag O' Tricks. It's a website that has nothing but hi-res textures for motion graphics and 3D artists. It's called CGtextures.com and like so many good things on the Internet, it's free! It's definitely a no-frills website with just basic search and browsing ability but I can't tell you how handy of a resource it is when you need that certain wood texture, or metal as in my case, or chipping paint, rocks, dirt and on and on and on. Here's just a small sampling from their homepage.
It has been equally helpful for grungy designs as well as the clean and pretty ones. After a few minutes of searching, I'm sure you'll fall in love, as I have, with CGtextures.com. Now they may not always have exactly what you need, but they rarely disappoint me. And best of all, it's all royalty and litigation free, which is nice in our modern world of complicated copyright laws and those ever-so-eager lawyers. Hi lawyers! Nice lawyers. So, now you have a choice gang, keep rolling the dice on those Google images you've been stealing or get some legit images from CGtextures.com.
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