I think most of the elements came from www.clipart.com good stuff and a very cheap week, month or year subscription. The brushes are hard to track back, but I used some from vered http://veredgf.fredfarm.com/vbrush/main.html And some others might have been used. There are some free stock photo and texture sites around, I find them by using our friend Google. Like this one: http://www.freeimages.co.uk/galleries.htm Loads of links to them: http://www.3dtotal.com/home2/links/links.asp?cat=texture I do some 3D stuff with Carrara, so I also have the Total Textures CD's that I am using more and more with Photoshop. And I still make a lot of them by hand. Well, with the help of Photoshop ofcourse. I always use a lot of layers, blending modes and blurred version of layers on top of each other. When I am making something texture-rich that is. And manipulating alpha channels (with masks and stuff) to create selections that follow the textures. And the cracks are hand'painted'. I actually used the smear tool on a beveled, grey base, following the textures I stacked on top of it. Nice non-entry by the way!