Summary

• Blender Market offers a variety of affordable textures, add-ons, and tools for Blender users.
• GitHub repository "Awesome Blender" provides curated links to free and premium 3D textures.
• Websites like AmbientCG, Free PBR, Poly Haven, Poliigon, and CG Bookcase offer free or premium 3D textures for Blender.

Blender is an open-source 3D design and motion tool. There are tons of great add-ons available for Blenderto increase how you can use the software. You can also use Blender to design 3D models for 3D printing, but the 3D textures work best for digital 3D design. They can be used for texture on static models, including visualizations of interior or exterior engineering plans, or you can use them within 3D animation in Blender.

7 Blender Market

3D marketplace from various creators

Blender Market is a marketplace collection of various Blender tools, add-ons, textures, and other features. All textures and other Blender features here can be bought directly from Blender Market.

The library lists thumbnail images, prices, descriptions, and the seller or developer of each item. After selecting a texture, you’ll see a detailed description with further images of the texture and a purchase button. You need a Blender Market account to make a purchase.

You can toggle by price, starting from $0 to over $100, allowing you to find 3D textures within your budget. You can also toggle by license, which ensures you access correctly licensed materials for your purposes.

There are over 1800 textures available on Blender Market, some of which are packs with multiple textures within them. Each is rated on the marketplace to ensure you know the quality before purchasing.

6 Awesome Blender on GitHub

Curated list of Blender resources

This GitHub repository from Agmmnn is a near-unending list of resources for use with Blender. It contains links to a variety of Blender add-ons, tools, and tutorials. The list includes a section of over 25 3D texture resources, with direct links to download them.

While the GitHub page itself isn’t where to get the textures, it is a fantastically curated resource for finding more 3D Blender textures.

Each link has the texture name followed by a short description of what its downloadable package contains. The list itself doesn’t include prices, but it features a variety of free or premium links, with the premium options ranging vastly in price. The quality of the curated textures is high.

5 AmbientCG

Public domain 3D textures and materials

While many of the textures, materials, HDRIs, and models from AmbientCG are built with or for Substance 3D — an Adobe alternative to Blender for 3D design— many of them can equally be used for Blender, too.

All assets downloadable from AmbientCG are free to download and use under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal License, and while they don’t require credit or payment, there are options for both when you use the assets if you desire.

There are over 2000 total assets available from AmbientCG, with over 1900 of them being materials and textures for a variety of 3D uses.

4 Free PBR

3D texture assets for free

This library has over 500 3D assets available for multiple 3D design platforms, including Blender. This one-man show is a project by a man named Brian. Although Free PBR offers free textures and assets, the site does have a small premium option for commercial use, if desired, for $16.

Brian also has a request box on the website if you have any specific desires for 3D textures you’d like to see (no guarantee he’ll create them, though).

3 Poly Haven

Commercial and redistribution licenses for 3D textures

Poly Haven is a public 3D asset library that includes many 3D textures, especially for use in Blender. Poly Haven also offers HDRIs (High Dynamic Range Image) and 3D models within its public libraries.

There are over 550 3D textures available, and they’re held in ten categories for easy navigation.

The license for Poly Haven allows you to download all assets for free, including commercial use and redistribution, including selling, with no restrictions. It’s funded via Patreon and a few select supporters.

2 Poliigon

Free and premium 3D textures

Poliigon offers free and premium PBR — Physically Based Rendering — textures. They’re available for several 3D editing tools, including Blender. Poliigon’s texture assets can be used for various purposes within your 3D design, such as VFX, game design, animation, and product visualization.

The Poliigon asset library contains thousands of options with a variety of prices. You can categorize them by price, recently added, and type of texture, including both internal and external texture types.

1 CG Bookcase

Free 3D textures

CG Bookcase is a project by Dorian Zgraggen which he completes in his spare time as he’s determined to help make 3D rendering accessible to more people, including beginner 3D designers. The project is supported by Patreon backing.

There are over 500 free textures, including manhole covers, brickwork, and fabrics. Zgraggen also offers a free tool to help Blender users make textures seamless upon application. The link to that can be found at the bottom of the CG Bookcase website.

CG Bookcase offers textures in many resolutions, including 4K and 8K, for incredible quality 3D rendering. You can search by category — with over 20 categories — or by color or resolution.

Find a myriad of 3D textures for Blender

The internet is a difficult place to find 3D assets of high quality, but with a range of website offerings between public use, free, and premium options, you have a large choice of textures. Using freely publicly available asset libraries goes hand-in-hand with Blender’s community-driven, open-source nature. With the 3D textures you download and install into Blender, your 3D design results are only limited by your imagination.