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General 3D & Visual Effect |
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Highend3d.com
- The most popular directory of Alias/Maya resources, including
tutorials, links, downloadable files, and news. |
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CG Channel
- Frequently updated with 3D news and features. |
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3D Artists
- The largest gallery of 3d artwork on the web - a must-see. |
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3d Ark
- Includes a collection of 3D-related articles. |
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3d Links
- As the name implies, lots of catagorized links. |
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3DSite
- An extensive site for 3D artists, with featured newsletter,
employment board... |
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Animation World
Network - Animation site by AW magazine. |
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VFXPro
- A must-see effects site, updated daily with news &
jobs. |
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Design
In Motion - A sister-site to VFXPro, 2D multi-media
news. |
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Digital Video
- DV Magazine covers video hardware, 3D, compositing, etc. |
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Visual Effects
Headquarters - A valuable reference archive
on feature film effects work. |
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Visual Magic
- Features news and reviews of the digital tools |
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Visual
Effects Society
- Organization of visual effects professionals |
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Alt.movies.visual-effects
FAQ - An invaluable tool
for resources about visual effects. |
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IMDb The
Internet Movie Database, search for information about current
and historic films. |
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Television Production
- Free book covers a lot production topics |
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Maya Links |
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Aliaswavefront.com |
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pixho.com
- A site dedicated to lighting & rendering techniques
in Maya, includes useful MEL scripts, tutorials, and other
downloads. |
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Blackorb
- A collection of Maya tutorials. |
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Jackals
Forge - Includes some Maya Tutorials, the maya
Bible, and other behind-the-scenes info. |
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Lighting Research Links |
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Global
Illumination Research - Henrik Wann Jensen's
research on Global Illumination. |
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Paul Debevec
- His art and research includes light-probe imagery and
experiments sampling lighting from the real world. |
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3d Light
- Andrew Weidenhammer's web site shows his own work including
radiosity tests and tutorials in lighting. |
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Radiosity
- A slightly quirky but useful explaination of global illumination. |
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Television
Production - a full on-line textbook includes
the basics of real-world lighting. |
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Texture Map |
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Free Texture Map Download Sites |
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A|W Texture Farm - Navigate from Aliaswavefront.com to Maya\Download.
A must-see for anyone wanting free textures.All high-quality,
no compression TIFF files. |
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Forrest.cz
Texture Library - Wood, stone, marble, cloud,
nature, water, organic, skin and fur, metal, technical,
maps (geography), paint, misc, and bump texture maps.
All free, not processed for tiling, but most have 600+ pixel
res. |
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Animax
1000 Free textures - A nice library of catagorized
textures, most are not tiling, but could easily be made
into tiling maps if needed. This site also sells textures
on CD-ROM. |
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CGSD
RealTexture Library samples - A small set of
.tiff files for architectural rendering (grass, arial views,
etc.) |
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Public
Textures (from Jeremy
Engleman) - As if you didn't have enough reasons already
to visit his wonderful web site, Jeremy Engleman has made
available about 700 free photographic images for you to
process into texture maps. Most are unprocessed, approx.
600 - 1200 res. including good ground, dirt, walls, metals,
cement, etc. |
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Blade's
Textures - Hand-made (created in paint programs)
tiling textures, variety of catagories all 512x512 jpeg. |
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Texturator.com
- A variety of images, only 128x128 and procedurally generated,
seems better suited for web/multimedia than 3D projects,
but you never know when you'll need a pattern. |
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Absolutecross
Textures - A variety of images, only 256x256
and procedurally generated, again, better suited for web/multimedia
than 3D projects. |
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Special-Purpose Texture Map Downloads |
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The
Ultimate Guts Site - The actual title is "Organ
System Pathology Images," but 3D artists doing creatures,
sci-fi, etc. will love all these high-res medical close-ups!. |
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XGLOBE
& XPLANET Maps - High-resolution (up to
2400x1200) downloadable maps of the earth. |
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Maps
of The Solar System - NASA Star maps make great
backdrops for space scenes. Very high-res. |
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Anatomy Web Sites |
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Richard
Suchy - A very useful step-by-step tutorial
modeling a woman, plus free download of his final woman
model. |
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Jeremy A. Engleman
- A talented artist whose work includes mature, well-executed
3D figure studies. |
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Drawing
a human body - Teemu Mäkinen demonstrates steps
in drawing a woman from primitive forms up to final. |
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Steven Stahlberg
- His Virtual Model Gallery includes popular virtual women. |
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Figure2Productions
- "The Figure on CD, " a CD of multi-angle photo reference
of the human figure, made with the 3D artist in mind. Scroll
down to read a full review at
the bottom of this page. |
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Magazines |
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Here is a list of magazines which devote all or part of
their publication to effects. |
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SIGGRAPH
Newsletter |
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Cinefex
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Cinefex is a quarterly magazine that features the season's
top effects films and major effects companies. The magazine
covers effects on a project basis, in the sense that the
reporters follow a particular movie and details the strategy
and production of on-set effects, creature creations,
digital post-production, and computer generated imagery.
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American
Cinematographer |
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The International Journal of Film
and Electronic Production Techniques.
Each month, it highlights two or three major productions
currently in release and reports on new image gathering
technology. |
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Animation
Magazine |
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Animation site by Animation Magazine, with interviews,
articles, and events. |
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Cinefantastique |
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SPFX:Special
Effects Magazine |
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Make-up Artist
Magazine |
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Published six times a year and covers all aspects of Make-up,
including make-up effects in movies and television. |
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Computer Graphics
World |
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Computer
Arts (UK) |
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