Short forced break

Posted by Vincent on Sep 30, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

I just wanted to make a quick announcement that I will not be around for 1,5 weeks and therefore will not be able to post any new content. I bought a house together with my girlfriend and the next 2 weeks we will renovate our new home. In the meantime, you can have a look at the newly installed Flickr pool, where the first members already posted some great...

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Announcement of the contest winner!

Posted by Vincent on Sep 30, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

Alright, the moment of truth has arrived. In total, 55 people posted a comment and every one of them was valid and contained one or more improvement suggestions. I fired up a random number generator and asked it to return a random number between 1 and 55 and it came up with number 9. That means Qbessi is the winner of the book! Congratulations! The winner has...

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Contest: Win a book & DVD including loads of hi-res textures

Posted by Vincent on Sep 22, 2008 in Textures | 57 comments

Contest: Win a book & DVD including loads of hi-res textures

Let’s start the new week with a big bang, shall we! I am giving away a free copy of the texture book Crumble, Crackle, Burn by R. von Glitschka. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and suggest an improvement, which you would like to see on this blog in the future. A random number generator will determine the winner amongst all valid...

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Feature: Lost and Taken – another great texture resource!

Posted by Vincent on Sep 15, 2008 in News | 5 comments

Feature: Lost and Taken – another great texture resource!

Shortly after I started this blog, I was approached by Caleb, who informed me that he was doing a similar thing over at lostandtaken.com. And indeed, he also offers high resolution textures and gives them away for free. We decided to join forces instead of trying to compete against each other and as a consequence he send me over a nice little texture pack,...

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11 hi-res slate textures

Posted by Vincent on Sep 8, 2008 in Textures | 3 comments

11 hi-res slate textures

After his first contribution, my friend Martin hooked me up with another great texture pack. This time it is a nice collection of slate textures, which contains 11 high resolution images. A big thank you goes out to Martin for these beautiful photos! Make sure to visit his photoblog, where he showcases some brilliant pictures (other than...

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