Free textures: where to get 3D textures for your artwork

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Using textures can add important detail to your 3D art as well as help you save time -designing 3D textures can be laborious if you’re doing it from scratch, especially if you’d rather be working on other later stages. Luckily, there are plenty of free resources available to download online, and we’ll be detailing some of the best places to find them below.

Whatever you need your free textures for, you should be able to find onechere, and then some more to help you build up your media library, from metallic surfaces to wood, fabric and grass. If you’re looking for inspiration for your 3D work, see our roundup of the best 3D portraits, or if you need to upgrade your kit, see our selection of the best laptops for 3D modelling.

German artist Lennart Demes’s AmbientCG is not only one of the largest texture libraries online, it’s also one of the best for quality with more than 1,300 seamless PBR materials in JPG or PNG format. Most of the textures here can be downloaded at 8K (even higher in some cases). They’re all free via the CC0 Creative Commons licence, so they can be redistributed and used for any project, personal or commercial. Many materials come with SBSAR files allowing users to be able to tweak them in Adobe Substance 3D.

Co-founded by designer Rob Tuytel, Poly Haven is another top-quality library made possible by Patreon supporters. Again, its textures are all available under CC0 for both personal and commercial use. It has a relatively small number of textures compared to the first site on our list, with just over 200, but they’re all available to download at 8K and 16-bit resolution in PNG format. You can also download each texture’s AO, Diffuse, Displacement, Normal and Roughness Maps for more control. The site offers libraries of HDRIs and models too.

With a very respectable 623 free textures available for download, 3DXO’s collection stands out for its ease of navigation. It’s quick and easy to scan through the collection to find exactly what you’re looking for, whether that be a simple wall or floor surface or something a little more exotic. The site also has a small library of 3D models and stock photos for you to rifle through, so stock up while you’re there.

3D Total is a brilliant resource for CG artists, with training, an inspiration gallery, 3D assets and a free textures library. It hasn’t been updated of late, but how much do textures change, really? The site has a whopping 16,631 free high-res royalty-free images, which you can search through by category or using the search tool provided on the site. Note: images offered here are subject to the site’s Licence Agreement.