About Us.
iSourceTextures.com is owned by Elizabeth Gallagher the CEO of TRU Textures Ltd and and Martin Hawkes who works as a freelance texture artist.
During a conversation in 2009, we compared our experiences of stock sourcing on the internet and discovered we both faced similar problems and hit the same "brick walls"
We found after spending hours searching for a specific texture on typical stock sites, the images we did find were very often taken from artistic angles making them impossible for many types of digital artwork were the final image required seamless capabilities.
Then, quite often we were faced with the "Extended License" fees required if you wish to distribute/sell your end product.
You can find out more about Extended Licensing here:
http://wiki.envato.com/buying/licenses-buying/videohive-regular-and-extended-license-usage-examples/
The required license for “Electronic Distribution" on most stock sites can cost in excess of $100 - $500 per texture.
It was not cost effective for us to pay $100, we simply do not get a big enough return in profit to justify those types of license fees.
It was fairly obvious most stock sites aim their stock at publication houses and advertising companies with corporate budgets and not self employed, freelance digital artists.
We were both excited to find a wonderful free texture site that misleadingly advertised "FREE Textures - commercial use” but upon reading the small print in the User License, distribution of any type of texture creation which used the stock as a derivative source was strictly prohibited, commercial or not.
Quite often licenses on websites would appear to contradict themselves or were written in lengthy legal "mumbo jumbo" that was hard to make sense of.
In short, we found there were almost no texture resources on the internet that allowed a CG artist to share or sell his or her artwork created using texture stock as a derivative source.
A good texture resource is vital to any digital artist who requires the ability to sell or share his end product with others and the types of distribution can vary.
It was this frustration that pushed us into growing our own texture stock for iSourceTextures.
In April 2009 we decided to develop the iSourceTextures website you see today. The site went live in July 2009 and we are now able to offer our texture stock for sale to other artists who work in similar CG areas as we do.
We have tried to keep things affordable and simple.
Our free textures would be perfect for tutorial and blog sites, game developers, graphic design courses in colleges and for props and scenes in 3D applications, commercial or not.
But more importantly, we offer the ability to purchase our textures for around $1.00 to $2.00 each and they can be used as derivatives for “Commercial Distribution” of your created textures.
These would be perfect for commercial 2D or 3D artists who wish to include their art as part of their end product or for texture artists who make and sell texture collections.
We do not charge anything for "extended licenses" because we don't sell them!
The ability to sell or share your artwork having used our textures as derivatives is included in the price of the texture so you won't see $99.00 extended license fees on our website.
We believe most CG artists would much rather pay a few dollars for the speed and convenience of finding legal, good quality texture stock they can use as a derivative within their own artwork than waste precious hours of "creation time" taking photographs.
Our aim is simple, we want to bring CG artists and low price, high quality texture stock together under one roof.
Whilst we are still fairly new in our venture, we hope in the months and years that follow isourcetextures.com will become a well known brand within the online community of digital artists and perhaps the first port of call when you're looking for a texture resource for your next art project.
More Questions? Please visit the User License tab or contact us directly from the Contact page.
