Who doesn't love free textures?

Topher Welsh collected "42 Sensational Texture Packages and Tutorials" in his latest for AETuts (h/t to Danner for the headline). Note that some of the references maybe sandboxed by Google Chrome with warning about viagra malware.

See also the Bittbox series Free Texture Tuesdays, Scientific American's "surface of reality", and other resources like CGtextures and planet textures found in previous posts on textures. [update: Lester Banks notes Texturelib, which has 3000 free textures + counting]

The Grunge Tutorial, recently resurrected by Harry Frank, shows one way to use textures in AE:

The Grunge Tutorial from graymachine on Vimeo.