Gallery community full of amazing artwork. Unlike some gallery communities out there, this one does an excellent job of maintaining a high level of quality. Categories include 3d, illustration, photography and more. After spending quite some time poking around, I couldn’t find one artist on there that didn’t make me at least a little jealous. 
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This simple material makes a great car paint or could also be used for doing web 2.0 style designs. Every object in this test scene uses it, including the ground plane. This render was done with the Default Scanline renderer, and the only render setting I changed was enabling Raytracing Antialiasing, which I’ll briefly detail at the end of this tutorial. I used 3ds Max 9.
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As my first giveaway, I figured I’d offer some free grunge textures… because as we all know, there just aren’t enough of these on the internet already, haha.
vm_surfaces.zip
31 images, 1932 x 2576 (or 2576 x 1932 
)
38.3mb zipped
1. These images may be used however you want, for personal or commercial use.
2. Credit is appreciated, but not required.
3. YOU DO NOT HAVE MY PERMISSION TO SELL THESE IMAGES IN ANY WAY.
Simple enough?
If you do use these in artwork, I’d love to see it.
I didn’t do anything to these images as far as color correction or levels adjustment, except for the two that end in “e” (edited) on the filename. It was an overcast day, so they have a touch of a blue overtone, but clean up pretty easy.
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