Where Can I Get More Grunge?

[Erik Pontius]

Common thing is to use hi-rez photographs of interesting textures. AK used a lot of them in Riot Gear.
You could spend a day with a good digital SLR camera shooting any texture you come across….rust, dirt, peeling paint, dirty old windows, old fish tanks, you name it…. amazing what you can find just walking around your neighborhood.
Also, there are several royalty free image banks that have textures
Morguefile.com and https://www.sxc.hu/ (Stock Xchang) to name a few.

Erik

[Jordan Orberg]

Thank you for the suggestion! I’ll probably go out and do that pretty soon for sure! I was also wondering about the paint splatters/ink effects/spay paint/ink drops and stuff like that – where can I get stock video of this stuff?

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Also if you take those textures and live trace them in Illustrator to your desires detail, it can create all sorts of fun (and, somehow, clean) dirt textures.

[Erik Pontius]

I think I remember AK saying that he spent a couple of days splattering paint.
I doubt you’ll find many other collections for the price that AK sold his for. Stock video houses like Artbeats have ink tanks and paint splatters, but it can run $$$ for just one clip of several seconds.
I think there have been discussions in the past on the forum on how to create your own ink tanks and ink splatter. Basically, involved using high contrast paint and artboard… white paint on black board and vice versa…splatter paint and then do it all over again. Old aquariums filled with water and than various colored water pour into it…filmed from the side or below.
Just experiment with it…you might come up with some cool stuff that you’ll guarantee no one else will have (which is always a problem with stock collections…).
Apparently, before the wonders of AE, this kind of stuff was done quite often for films. I watched some behind the scenes stuff for “The Thing” a while back…the famous opening titles was a fish tank with a light behind it and a garbage bag being ripped away…

Erik

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Tell you what, starting today I’ll begin snapping pics of some of the the grungy crap here in NYC that I see on my way to/from work everyday, and at the end of the week, I’ll post a message titled “Grunge for Grabbing” on this board (probably on Saturday Night) with a link to a couple different themed zips of the plain-jane pictures of “crap”. Hey free crap is always fun to find. I can’t guarantee anything, but free is free.

[Jordan Orberg]

Thanks for all the suggestions!! I would really appreciate you posting that stuff, and I think I might give that paint splatter stuff a shot!! I really appreciate your help!

[Majorasshole]

Grunge is all around you and you probably didn’t even notice it.
Any collection even large ones, run out of useable combinations eventually. And usually sooner rather than later. Making your own stuff is the key. A good digital SLR is a great way to get textures. Shoot in your basement or parking lot or a downtown alley. Shoot everything everywhere and amass a collection of stuff that could be useable.

for footage, alot of the riot gear stuff is shot with a nice HVX200 or something, but you can shoot your own splatter with just a video camera, some paint and some paper. For droplet stuff you can try dropping paint into a fishtank and videotaping it.

I know old school editors who used to keep books and books of photos they used for their library of textures.

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Well, I shot a whole load of crap on the way home yesterday and as soon as I get a chance to upload the zip I will. My internet’s been spotty as of late. ( a pox upon ye, Time Warner) Actually the zip is 140mb. Anyone have a good hosting site that doesn’t time out easily?

[Mike Procunier]

I’ve share stuff on rapidshare.com & megaupload.com before.

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the link has been put up… I’m hosting it on my own site…

https://www.xonikz.com/Downloads/Grunge4Grabs.zip