TriumphantArtists Classic Collection

Over the  half decade     from the end of   2012 to summer    2018, I  was steadily building a vast personal collection of unique stock textures and video elements. The result, as once seen on one of my websites (TriumphantArtists.com) is an impressive assortment of materials useful to indie vfx and game artists, including:

- over 1100 total texture image files, including diffuse, normal, bump, and opacity maps, which could prove very useful for 3d artists and game developers. All textures here are seamlessly tiling.

-A batch of decals   to make surfaces look more messy, grungy, and realistically detailed, plus a few overlays like dust, lens flares, water, etc, that can be layered over images or video with an 'add' or 'screen' filter. 

-Well over a hundred video clips, some lower-end SD, many in HD, often shot at 60 or 120fps high-speed and most of them at least in theory both useful and easy for VFX artists to composite due to black or blue backing. This is stuff that is now pretty much all accessible for free given the increasing uselessness of SD and 720p video in modern editing. 

The types of video elements include debris bursts, water effects, smoke, fire, and a bunch of explosions. Nearly all of this is actual physical effects work, shot for real. Only a few of the video elements included are old school 3d simulation, and they're separated in different subfolders than the real-world photographed effects. 

[Other notes - the files are all in folders, that have been zipped together into one massive .ZIP file in an attempt to make downloading simpler.]

There is a ton of material here you may find useful. But also a lot of it is aging badly and some is dated, there's SD video material in this mix from as far back as 2009-2013, which is why that video has gone freeware but all the texture content has been heavily reworked. 

SUMMER 2024 - phasing in major overhauls to the 1100 textures. Many are enlarged with the best AI tools available to have a 'factors of two' resolution' more convenient for memory use in most game engines. So a 900x900 texture might be expanded to 1024x1024 or things like that. Some textures had variation in seamlessness. That is, the hand painting of seams with clone stamp, etc, wasn't 100% consistent between diffuse, bump and other maps in every case. Now the boundaries have consistent seamlessness on every map. A handful of new materials are added too, and in cases where depth maps were primarily hand painted those are often cleaned up and blended with an AI depth solver. This makes fine details look way better in bump and normal maps. Basically a lot of work put in material by material, for 1100+ image files (!) and that update is now largely live [FINALLY!] and a bundle of ALL you see on my profile is available for under $2. 

All 3000+ existing  asset files across all asset packs plus all  future updates to those, and indie  games when they release,  bundled for about $2.

PLEASE RATE OR REVIEW IF YOU LIKE THIS:

Also, as usual, if you buy this, or anything else I'm offering here, I and everybody else browsing these pages, would appreciate it if you would please post an honest review, criticisms, suggestions and all, after buying. Reviews and star ratings and other forms of feedback like comments, are super helpful. I've sold over 30 items on Itch.IO so far but have yet to see a single complete star rating or review, just a brief happy comment on one of my first asset packs. Look, I do get that many of you would only be likely to post a response to a product that either provoked a strong negative reaction, or seemed like an 'important' or major purchase. A tiny - even forgettable - impulse-buy price, combined with a good but not outright incredible set of contents, might not seem to be worth posting a review about. But I encourage you to post one nonetheless. Positive or not, honest reviews do help others assess the value, the strengths and shortcomings of a product. So for the customers' sake, and mine, I'd really like more response to what I have here. The more this material takes off, the more I can continue to improve on it. Any review or comment will be useful to me, so I know what I'm doing well and what still needs improvement. 

If you're logged into Itch.IO you can rate this asset pack or add it to a collection for later, i.e. wishlisting, on the top right edge of the browser window. Or you can comment, at the bottom of this page. 

COMMENTS & REQUESTS WELCOMED:

So, yes, I hope to hear some responses from all of you. Those responses have an impact! If, for example, I'm seeing a number of people all requesting a certain type of texture, 3d object, or video VFX element I may make that a priority in later updates. So I WILL respond to your feedback as much as I reasonably can. I welcome your replies. 

A BIG THANK YOU to the people who have already purchased, some of you even tipped! THANK YOU!