Might as well do it on these new boards hmm? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I'll start off with this cool site with many up close squirrel references.

http://www.dlc.fi/~marianna/flor_fau/squirrel.htm

http://www.fineart.sk/
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Human anatomy references, also the online home of Andrew Loomis' figure drawing books.

http://www.suurland.com/
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Thomas Suurland's homepage, with a metric assload of various blueprints of all kinds of vehicles.

http://www.bartleby.com/107/
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Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body. Plenty of in-depth stuff on muscles and internal organs.

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings.html
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Buildings, all sorts.

http://www.mayang.com/textures/
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Mayang's online collection of free textures. If you have the spare cash, I recommend buying the collection on CD. Exceptionally good value.

http://www.imageafter.com/
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ImageAfter, a good archive of assorted textures and reference photos.

I'll make this thread sticky for the time being, if you post a reply in it, please include a link to a site that hasn't already been linked in your post, to avoid cluttering the thread.

MoP

No point reinventing the wheel. Here's the original bunch, minus about 4 links I hadn't added before the old boards went down (bah)

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount...ef_links.shtml

Also, could we get those who post links to put whether or not you have to pay $$$ for the resources. I'll post my links once i get home from work.

I love beating a dead horse.

I've been called wierd for this in the past, but for human model references, I use mannequins. In the gameing world, the typical character has ideal proportions. Mannequins display that hero image quite well with flawless sculpted form. I got a full body male and female set for under 100$ on ebay. Great for studying muscles and proportions.

Some Automotive Refs:

Hi Res photos of exotic and concept type dealies
http://www.highresautoimages.com/
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As above, but less of them
http://www.motorpix.com/
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Photo Albums of New Cars
http://www.3dfinlay.net/gallery/carphotos
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Photo Albums of Classic Cars
http://www.3dfinlay.net/gallery/classics
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Photo Albums of Motorcycles
http://www.3dfinlay.net/gallery/bikephotos
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Photo Albums of Rims/Tires Etc
http://www.3dfinlay.net/gallery/kits
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Blueprint Albums by manufacturer
http://www.3dfinlay.net/gallery/blueprints
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Model Kit Site, look around for blueprints
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/plamo/inde...amp;Typ1_c=102
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Some Riced Tuned and Blinged Car Galleries
http://www.fastandfuriouseast.com/ga...ault_sub01.php
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Hi Res Car Wallpapers
http://www.dieselstation.com/archives.html
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hi-res galleries of almost every car you can imagine - really
http://www.allsportauto.com/english/
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Just some general photos in thei thread. Short but sweet.
http://www.jongerensite.nl/forum/sho...p?topicid=1018
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Some interesting photos of smashed up cars.
http://www.barriesauto.com/index.html
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Wheel rims and spinners a-go-go
http://www.aaarims.com/specials/ford.shtml
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Lots of car wallpapers and images - watch out for the shitty popups though.
http://www.speedycars.net/wallpaper/index.html
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Classic cars, and more trashed cars, oh yeah.
http://www.dealsonwheels.com/category/index.cfm/cat/1
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Yet more hi-res car galleries
http://www.carphotoalbums.com/photos/index.php
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Slow site, but with yet more hi-res car galleries. Plenty to choose from.
http://www.galeriasamochodow.friko.pl/index.html
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Rare and unusual cars
http://www.petersen.org/
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More rims and accessories
http://www.carxpressions.com/car_wheels.htm
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Nice searchable car site of enthusiasts cars.
http://www.cardomain.com/member_pages
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handy for animation: a high speed movie archive:

http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/high_speed_video/

anybody got any good tileable texture sites? Im looking for a number of really good concrete/construction type textures.

Look through the sites on my first post in this thread Ghost, I'm pretty sure there's a couple of texture sites in the list already.

Lemog
http://perso.club-internet.fr/lemog/...xtures01.html#
Tons of textures, well-organized, mostly 512's, all tiled (though often an ugly tiling job).

I like the Flesh ones... not easy to find decent pathology textures on the web., and this is a nice large collection.

They're free, mostly...
"All images in this site are free of rights. These images are created with personal works, images of the web or send by friend. I can&#146t control all images precisely used, thanks to said me if some images are not free."
... the ceramic tile ones are probably ©'d.

Our trusy leader has references up on his site:
http://www.rogue13.com/texture_refer...ete/index.html

I know this because a lot of the new ones going up will be mine [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

http://www.smugmug.com

Just type in a search word. I'm sure you'll find something.

http://www.spiritofbaraka.com

If you click on the links for one of the movies, they have 100's of stills of various landscapes and people.

http://thnom.tehunlose.com/model_resource/

Hasn't been updated since I first put it up but should still help some peeps

does any 1 no a good ref site for artillery>?... i havent been able to find good pics... wonder how those war games modellers make them..

There is a section in here: http://www.planetquake.com/polycount...ef_links.shtml marked Artillery and Weaponry. I am sure you can find something useful in there.

thnx bearkub..

Elaborate drainage system under Tokyo.
http://www.g-cans.jp/photo/
Great inspiration, and apparently is open to the public, for the next time you're in town.

wow, I didn't even know about that drainage thing. There's some pics on that site that would make some really nice "massive structure" lighting reference...something that I've always found alittle difficult.

I was searching for shots of Cambodian temples and cave interiors, found some nice large pictures.

Angkor temples
http://www.tropicalisland.de/travel_cambodia.html


A cave in Kuala Lumpur.
http://www.tropicalisland.de/travel_malaysia.html


Tons of good jungle reference in there too.

BTW, a nice way to download all the pictures from a site...
http://www.quadsucker.com/quadweb/
Can anyone recommend other utils like this one?

I use HTTrack website copier to download images. It's free and very customizable. I've got it set up to just copy all the image files from a site to one directory so that it's easy to use ACDSee to browse the images. That's opposed to downloading all the html files and having to navigate a copy of the site offline.

Cool temple images by the way.

The BEST weapon site ever [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] high res pics from all views and clos-ups AND VIDEOS! Eventough they are modelguns they look damn the same to me [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
http://www.modelguns.co.uk
example



[img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Thanx for those japan pics, though anyone has a link with pics from a tempel form multiple sides?

two quick links for slate and wood grain. I've found these both to be very useful.

Found a free program to make wood tiles, up to 3000x3000
http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm

http://www.got3d.com/index.html

some useful sprites and textures, mostly for pay, but also free samples.