Andrew Kramer on April 2nd, 2009 12:45 am
One of the things I did in New York was walked around the city shooting pictures of various textures and surfaces. Every block is different and I was able to capture some very cool stuff. I haven’t gone through them all but here are a few choice selections for everyone. You can use them commercially but our standard license applies.
New tutorials will be coming next week; right now, there is a lot to catch up on after being gone for a week. Please be patient as cool things are in the works.
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Always handy to have!
Thanks very much.
AK you are great =]
thanx man
Thanks Mr.Kramer
Great. Thanks for the Textures.
Ever considered coming to Europe for teachings?
I heard even filmschools in holland are using your tutorials in class.
true! Lazy teachers they have.
greetz.
Thanks a lot. This gonna be useful
hey andrew.
thanks a lot.
greets from dortmund/germany.
Gotta love the free stuff on this site.
Great textures. Thanks!
nice!!!
It seems as if there’s a lot of chewing gum in NY;)
Thx for the free textures
thank you for sharing. good stuff
Thanks
greets from Sofia/Bulgaria.
thx AK,u da best
Thank you!!
Gracias por compartir tus conocimientos, materiales y hasta canciones! (the mamas and the papas!)
Saludos Chile!
Thanks heaps Andrew
really Great Help ! Big Fan! have all your producta !Thanks for the usefull textures !!
Thanks, very useful!
Thanks, Andrew )
don’t see any spidey or webbing textures…
Great pictures >D Thanks a lot Andrew! I couldn’t wait for the next week, so this textures relax me a little bit
From Argentina.
Great Greeting for thank u of sharing so much thing to everybody.
that`s very kind of u,AK
cool, thanks for the textures
tanx
Very cool, thanks very much
Alright! Some goodies from NYC. Thanks Andrew!
Thanks Andrew!
thank you sir
thanks Andrew
This post reminded me of a site I found a couple of years ago.
I don’t know if Andrew has mentioned this site before but here is a site that offers hundreds of FREE high resolution textures to use!
http://www.cgtextures.com
I like the 5th.
AK, you da man! Super sweet stuff. Thank you, kind sir. Blessings!
Thanks Andrew,
Its always helpful to have someone, who has fun of walking around and taking pictures of dirt and walls.
The 5 are great thank you
Nice! Thanks for sharing your textures. That’s what I try to do as well when I’m traveling….go out and acquire textures of the city I’m visiting!!
thx bro, their are very cool
I’m your fan
you’ve teached me more than the academy where I studied after effects
thank you very much
(sorry for my english, I’m from Uruguay)
Hey, thanks for the textures… also, I see I broke the rules a little yesterday. Sorry.
Andrew you are the man. Tnx for the textures
Thanks
You are too much my brova! Thanks in a million!!!
Yup, that’s New York alright. Once again, and I can’t stop saying this, It was an honor meeting you and thanks for your autograph! Nice textures, definitely will come in handy!
Andrew, I have been watching your videos for a long time now and really appreciate everything you are doing here. Its really amazing how you can do all the things you do and even more awesome that your helping the masses. We really need more people like you. I was wondering what type of computer you regularly edit and do graphics on. I would really like to know the specs. Thank You for all the amazing tutorials and keep up the work.
Hi Videocopilots, Hi Andrew,
saw your new textures…downloaded them and now they are a great background in a new project of mine…
Thanxx from Berlin
Thanks so much, Andrew! Always handy to have another texture! I think I’ll try to adapt these to ZBrush alphas. I’ll post em in the forum if I do.
Your like my favorite uncle who goes on trips and returns with gifts. Thanks Uncle Andrew
WOW!!!
thanks
I love textures XD
really nice shots!! i was wondering what kind of camera are you using to take pictures for those texture?? I guess NY is a great source for grunge textures and any other kind as well!!
thanks!!
@ The Great Andrew Kramer –
In your opinion, what is important when taking pictures for textures…
-Megapixels?
-Distance from subject?
What is your approach? And thanks again for the free textures….
wow!
These will definitely be useful.
Sounds like you were pretty busy in new york, taking pictures of walls.
Kai
Thank you Andrew i appreciate it.I cant wait to see your next tutorials.
I like the little “No Alien” sticker on the metal texture! lol
Thanks Andrew!
thanks… cant wait for your tutorial. and thanks for mobile website, i visit everyday from my psp
cant wait
Nice to hear that!, thank you for the textures McKramer!
Andrew I really hope your rich man. You give away so much free stuff during these tough times. Your really a blessing. Enough of the MUSHY STUFF lemme check out these textures !!
Thx man,
Greetings from France.
Thanks Andrew. I can never have enough textures…and yes, I agree with you, NYC has tons of different textures just in one block alone. NYC is packed full of a lot of great things.
Cool and very useful.
But there is some kind of sign or sticker that says:’ NO ALIENS ALLOWED’ on one of them. It must be one of your funny jokes
.
Thanks alot…
Of course great textures Andrew, Hope enjoy you use it in next tutorial on the webside…
those were cool textures, thanks.
What will the tut be about? I forgot…
Thanks! Adding these to the others!
Next week? Awesome! Now I’ll have time to get used to CS4 and download EVERY CS3 project file from here (since I’m using AE 7 as I type).
Thanks for the textures! I always need to add some grunge
-David
why thank you!
another thing I found interesting was this list of the best texture packs of 2008 http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/29-most-useful-texture-packs-of-2008
I’m a very big fan of your work, from far, far away. Just from Spain, Europe. Thanks for you hughe work and sorry for my english. A good idea could be a tutorial about creating that stunning panoramas like in your aeny demo, i wonder how it’s made… Thanks a lot, i think you’re “MITHICAL” Andrew, and god bless America!
you are the best?
your site is number one in the world.
i am from macedonia.
and thx for tutorials
gracias adrew!!!!!!!
thanks man.
Thanks for the textures!
- Derrick
Love it. Thanks dude.
Thanks Man!
Aharon Rabinowitz say something about
Windows Paint And AE.
Thanks for the new textures, Andrew. Looking forward to the super cool stuff ya got cookin’ in the background.
Cheers!
so slow when open this website…>
T.T
so slow when download this file…>
T.T
Asri I dont get your comment. How is it slow? it works very fast for me, maybe its your computer.
BTW. andrew nice tutorial
k andrew i cant watch any of your tuts.
it all gives like a red error
And for free! Thanks Andrew! This is something I keep meaning to do, walk around the city and take photos off cool textures like this.
thanks mr. andrew….
cant wait for ur next tutorial…
and how bout ur movie “angry monster 2″??
it is done already…
hope sam doin “fun” part there..
hehehe
… One more great Free stuff…
U R really good man, Andrew.
Many thanks Andrew
Thanks Andrew! You’re the best!
Thank you!
Thank you Andrew!
Thanks
Thanks!
I prefer the third one
Nice one!
BTW. Check out my newest Filmtrailer – The Receptionist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYkiAL1QrUs
I’d be too scared to take photos of textures, people would think “why is that lunatic taking a photo of a blank wall?” and point at me and ask “hey, why are you taking pictures of a WALL, wtf is wrong with you?” and I’d have to explain it’s a “texture” and no matter what I said they’d still think I’m crazy and perhaps beat me up.
great & thanks.
wow…..
g8t work Andrew…
thanks you
Way kool tx
thanks a lot man…
you’re the best!
AE Superhero = Andrew Kramer
Thank you sir….
This site is really rocking……….
Thanx a lot…
Thanks
AWESOME!!! THANKS!!!
what is the standard license?
Andrew how did u get the Text layers like (newtown)?
if someone know plz say me ^^
lepiz
Mr. Andrew Kramer dis ma first time leaving a comment wat i can asy is keep on keeping on sir.
Andrew, did you ever thought I can’t do those effects and that I am extremely frustrated and cry here alone?
Thank you.
Peter
Thank you so much!
great page!
where is the project file ?
yes i am grateful to andrew now i have an optical flares preset installed in my after effects thank you
thanks andrew and videocopilot…this is very useful for my project thanks guys long live videocopilot…!!!
Hi, Andrew I love your work and your stuff. Thanks for your
Tutorials and Products.
ERES MUY GRANDE!
Thanks for all your work. You are amazing
I wish you all the best!!!
Saludos desde Spain!!!!!!
U are the MAN!! Always doing and teaching great stuff. Thanks!!!!
Also thanks for all the FREE stuff u give to us little people
cooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tnx.. For your Tutorial Disintegration and your New York….
mmmm…textures. Thanks!