A lot of links and resources into 3D stuff on the web… check em out!
3D/Art Resources
- Human Anatomy Pictures for Artists Online
- 3d furniture
- Morguefile.com — free stock photos archive
- Planet Portal – image maps for the planets
- Free Game Textures – free for use textures from a game and game company that died
- Texture Bin 342
- Imageafter — Free Images and Textures Database
- Helixir – easy to create 3d Helix objects
- Anders Lejczak – www.colacola.se – some cool models
3D Industry sites of note:
- CGCHAT – a place to talk
- CGTalk – a similar type of thing
- CG Channel – a great online VFX magazine
- Highend3d.com
- The Digital Art Community – GFXartist.com – Over 28,000 pages of digital expression
- Animation World Magazine
- 3DFilmMaker.com
3D animation links – machinima and so on
Some animations worth looking into…
- Simeon Rex – the odyssey begins….
- Kaena – la Prophétie, le film, le jeu – the Prophecy, the movie, the game…
- machine phase
- D7 Peacemaker© – Nightfall [official site]
3DS Max Resources
- Highend 3D – 3dsMax
- 3dsmax Tutorials, Tips, Tricks & Tutorials
- rethinkfx – texturing tutorial
- ..–xenomorphic.co.uk–.. – 50 ways to work faster in Max
- 3DSMax Tutorials – Reactor Car Simulation
- Jim Jagger – Animator – 3DS Max scripts
- Virtual Republic Boboland – more Max scripts
Scripts/Stuff you want
- VolumePreview
- TMG – TreeMatoGraph (Max 5 only for now, Max6 soon)
- Download_Simbiont2 – a great set of shader add ons, remember to grab the Mental Ray module
- DarkTree Repository
- Blur Studio – GREAT 3DS Max free plug ins
Particle Flow stuff…
- Particlefx.com – effects animation resource – Particle Flow tutorials