Friendly Shade is a website dedicated to providing high-end scanned textures carefully crafted for demanding 3d artists and designed to meet the highest standards. The world is big, and so are Friendly Shade textures! Our premiere bundle features scans from all over the world. From the mountains of Machu Picchu and the cities of Colombia, the beaches of Florida and the streets of Serbia, we don’t leave aside any awesome texture that will elevate your project to the next level.
Bundle 02 is Out Now!
We're changing the way artists are creating new worlds. Friendly Shade always strives for the best quality and, this time Bundle 02 raises the bar even higher!
We make Beautiful Textures
Although it is a fact that the CG industry is evolving day by day, it’s still difficult to find online textures that always maintain a standard of quality. That’s why Friendly Shade was born: A high quality texture library for CG artists.
1,500,000,000
Polygons
It takes a lot to be the best texture website on the market and we’ve reached more than 1 billion polygons in the raw mesh of just a single texture, giving you unprecedented quality.
Accurately Delighted Albedo Maps
Diffuse
Diffuse maps are still ok but sometimes they have unwanted shadows and reflections that makes the surface look unrealistic.
Albedo
Friendly Shade’s albedo maps provide you highly accurate and unbeatable color information.
Works with any render engine
We have it all
Full range of scanned texture maps
- Albedo
- Diffuse
- Gloss
- Ambient Occlusion
- Displacement
- Normal
- Subsurface Scattering
- Alpha
- Metalness
Textures to live by
Detail, Power, Beauty.
All in a single set.
Some of our delighted customers
Sebastian Zapata
Creator of textures and world traveler.
Founder of Friendly Shade, professional musician, composer and CG artist who has stood out for years in the product and architecture visualization fields with a huge background on texturing, animation and video production. Full-time Blender lover and lens addict.
Armed with high-tech equipment and a relentless passion for pursuing the highest quality CGI, Sebastian has dedicated the last 3 years of his life towards improving his capturing techniques.