![]() ![]() That led first to the weekly free HDRIs, and then to his current plan: to make all of the content available for free, and to ask for donations on Patreon to support future work. ![]() It worked well, but Zaal felt that the work became more about making money than making resources available to the community: that he was “slowly becoming the soulless businessman I’ve always hated”. ![]() In a blog post explaining the decision, Zaal says that his dream was always to release everything for free, but that he initially opted to sell hi-res versions of the HDRIs commercially to cover server costs. Then, earlier this year, Zaal began to release a free 16,000px HDRI a week – and now he has put all of the content currently on the site in the public domain, via a Creative Commons CC0 licence.Ī brave experiment in crowdfunded content We first covered HDRI Haven when it launched last year: as well as offering a limited number of free HDRIs, the site was noteworthy because of the quality and presentation of its commercial resources. High-quality, high-resolution HDRIs for the CG community There are currently 31 free 8,000px HDRIs, and it looks as though the 16,000px versions will follow shortly. Scroll down for updates.ĬG artist Greg Zaal has made all of the HDRIs on HDRI Haven, his popular resource site, available to download for free for use in commercial projects. ![]()
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