News, Information and Magazines
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| High End 3D |
XSI, Maya, shaders, scripts, forums, industry news |
| Visual
Magic Magazine |
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| SIGGRAPH news |
Not officially SIGGRAPH, from a media company |
| Animation
Magazine |
Warning! Animag is now porn! Marketing to digital Artists? |
| 3D
Artist Magazine |
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| 3D
Design Magazine |
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| CGchannel |
XSI, Maya, forums, industry news, Artists |
| Digital
Content Creation |
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| Computer
Arts |
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| Computer
Graphics World |
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| Digital
Media World |
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| DV
Magazine |
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| Digital Animators |
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| Flay.Com |
"News and Resources for 3D Content Providers" |
| IC3D |
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| Inside CG |
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| Renderosity |
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| Secretlevel |
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| Showbizdata |
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| TechTV |
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| THAI3D Forums |
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| TED |
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| Animation Artist |
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| Forum3D |
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| 3D Ark |
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| Animation World Magazine |
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| 3D Digital Animators |
News about 3D animation, 3D, animation, 3D models and 3D objects. |
| AnimationChronicles |
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Festivals and Contests, Awards
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Streaming Media
Sites
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Reference and
Resources
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| Atom
Films |
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| Odyssey
Productions |
In
the Minds Eye etc. |
| 3D computer graphics in Canada |
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| Prince
of Egypt |
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| US
Creative |
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Animation Links |
| Alvy Ray Smith |
One of the presenters at Delphi conference, Important in graphics - alpha etc. |
| 3D Cafe |
FREE Models, Tutorials, Textures, Software, Plugins, Web Tools |
general
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| 3D Prof |
perhaps the best Tutorials ever |
| turbosquid |
"The largest library of 3D assets in the world." XSI, Maya etc |
| 3dlinks |
"Ultimate 3D Links Free 3D Objects, Information, Plug-Ins, Free 3D Meshes, Modeling and Rendering Resource " |
| SIGGRAPH 2001 papers on the web |
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| 3D Society |
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| Vertex Vandal |
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| 3danimationschools |
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storyboarding, preproduction
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| Pre-visualization |
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| Film Directing Shot by Shot : Visualizing from Concept to Screen
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by Steven D. Katz |
modelling
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| SubD History |
Subdivision surface has been studied for about 20 years for representing complex surfaces |
| Subdivision modeling resource page |
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| VRML |
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| 3DGuide Magazine |
Chris Maraffi, XSI, Maya tutorials, Although the illustration drawing is not very good the author writes well and is informative abotu setting up a character in XSI. Buying the book for new XSIers is recommended |
| Anticz |
Good character drawing and model tutorials, good traditional illustrations |
| Teddy |
A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design (Silly) |
| Modeling the Figure |
Peter Ratner, Oriented mostly to Maya, Good body anatomy to 3D ref
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| Ordix |
good head tutorials |
| Art Zone/ MAXed Out/ "It's all in the Eyes" (part.1) |
the eye |
models
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build your own, but here are some references |
| DE ESPONA 3D ENCICLOPEDIA |
Very good static models |
| 3D Cafe |
FREE Models, some serious junk |
| Meta3D |
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anatomy
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| The
Visible Human Project |
human body sliced up and scanned, order the CD very useful |
| Naked Pictures of My Ex-Girlfriends |
Author Helfrich Mark |
| Renderotica |
xxx modeling |
| artnudes |
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| Creative Nude Photography Network |
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| michelle7 |
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| AMEA - World Museum of Erotic Art |
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| Association of Lifecasters International |
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| bungeesex |
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| Photovault |
Health, Medical, Pictures, Emergency, Paramedics, Trauma, First-Aid, MedVac Ambulances, Images, Photography, Photos, |
| PHOTOVAULT |
Anatomy-Skeletons, Bones, Skulls, Pictures by Photography, Pictures, Photos |
| Lifecast Art |
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| 2001photo |
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| Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes |
For those looking to model something other than plastic perfect women or D&D amazon woman |
| Horse Head Series |
Horse head sliced up |
photogrammetry
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| ISPRS |
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| 3D Modeling With Photogrammetry |
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| Resources for Canoma users |
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| Z-I Imaging |
Digital Photogrammetry and GIS Imaging Solutions |
| Realviz |
makers of ImageModeler, Stitcher |
| Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs |
Paul Debevec |
| A Short History of Photogrammetry |
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lighting/rendering
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| 3drender.com |
Jeremy Birn |
| H D R S h o p |
High Dynamic Range Image Processing and Manipulation, Debevec |
| Recovering High Dynamic Range Radiance Maps from Photographs |
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| Research at the Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory |
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Trinisica
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| Facial Reflectance Field Demo |
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| Introduction to Volume Rendering |
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animation
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| Facial Animation Expressing Emotion |
Peter Ratner
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MoCap/MoCon
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| History of Motion Capture |
A Brief History of Motion Capture for Computer Character Animation |
images, textures, shaders
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| Areté Image Software |
Digital NatureTools |
| Free-image.net |
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| Texture Library |
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| Adobe Xchange |
"you can download and share thousands of easy-to-install actions, extensions, modules, and more for Adobe® GoLive® and Adobe Photoshop® software" |
| NASA Multimedia Gallery |
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| textures.forrest.cz |
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sound
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| 3d cafe |
sound files |
Proportions, Math
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| Proportions: Theorie and Construction |
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| Le Corbusier, Le Modular |
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| ergonomic modules for the human body |
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3D Software and Relative Links, Software Tutorials
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XSI
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| Avid Softimage |
XSI, join the XSI discussion group, DS Digital Studio, DS discussion group |
| Kim Aldis |
Rendertree, script tutorials |
| JonCrow Entertainment |
Good tutorials for alternative looks and approaches rather than typical 'how to do the obvious' |
| Odyseja |
XSI scripts and SCOPs |
| Phoenix Tools |
plugins |
| Areté Image Software |
Digital NatureTools Plugins |
| Librairie Softimage|XSI - Renders |
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| XSI Scripting: Commands VS Object Model |
by misner Oct / 2001
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| Softimage - Mental Ray - 3D Animation |
"Welcome to the home of SOFTIMAGE and Mental Ray Information, Education, and Content. " |
| Modeling a Plant |
gee... |
| XSIfiles.com |
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| roger rosa |
tutorials, very good SubD dog tut |
| edharriss |
awsome rendering tuts but very expensive tapes but soon I hear some new cheaper and even better rendering DVDs |
| Grubsrof imagination studios |
XSI Mastering Rendering, Ligting and Materials Tapes by Ed Harris, very expensive, should be around 50-70 instead and material is delivered too slowly ,but the material is decent so students perhaps slipt the cost of the tapes between six people to make it reasonable. |
| Softimage Links |
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| Anders Thönell |
XSI downloads. Shaders, scripts and other tools for XSI |
| XSI/3DS |
This Plug-in for discreet 3dsmax provides support for the SOFTIMAGE/Avid dotXSI file format. |
| Motion Render Server |
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XSI lists and news groups
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| comp.graphics.apps.softimage |
if you like Porn, SPAM, and politically correct academic lectures, then this Softimage newsgroup is for you. |
| join the XSI discussion group |
Softimage Official Lists |
| Softimage Mailing List Archive |
Imaging Technology Group Archives, Searchable |
| Highend3D XSI Listserver Archive |
Searchable, from Highend3D |
Houdini
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| Sidefx |
Houdini, join the discussion group (very good, more responsive and sharing than the other software lists) |
| CADE Houdini tutorials |
Good variety of tutorials for various parts of Houdini |
| MARTIAN TOOLZ |
for Houdini v. beta |
| BORG |
BMRT Ordinary Rendering GUI |
| el kabong |
tracking live 3D visual events and music featuring Touch101 from Derivative and Houdini from Side Effects Software |
| Houdini Tutorial |
Setting up a Simple Control Panel: |
| Happy Rendering with VEX |
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| Houdini - 3D Society.com |
3D society keeps dumping thier forums so probably nothing here and don't bother submitting it will dissapear |
| Houdini Main Page |
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| Houdini Tips |
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| houdinivex |
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| RenderMan stuff |
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| Numerical Recipes in C |
Very useful for expressions and scripting, a little advanced for starting |
| od[force] |
"- serving the houdini community " |
| RenderMan Repository |
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| RManNotes |
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| Shrimp Shader Creator |
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| Side Effects Software Houdini List Mailing List |
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| Type Extrude in Houdini |
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| Using Houdinis particle system |
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| Visual Paradigms |
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| Lsystems and Lparser |
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Maya
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| Alias Wavefront |
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| Phoenix Tools |
plugins |
| MEL How-To |
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| PaintFX Brush Exchange |
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| Splotsh - turorial |
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| AW User Group Main Page |
Toronto |
LightWave
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I don' t use Lightwave but some of the tutorials are useful |
| LightWave |
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| menithings |
Ligthwave tutorials, artist animations |
Other
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| Electric Rain |
3D to Flash, XSI to Flash |
| Right Hemisphere |
Deep Paint 3D, Texture Weapons |
| Impulse Inc |
Imagine |
| Famous3D |
capture facial expressions |
| sci-d-vis |
3D Equalizer |
| Framethief |
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| Viewpoint |
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| TOOLFARM |
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general programming and script aids
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| Editplus |
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| EditPlus syntax coloring for XSI |
from XSInet |
| Other/XSI Scripting commands cliptext file for EditPlus v1.0 |
from XSInet |
| VB Script htmlgoodies |
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| Microsoft Windows Script 5.6 Documentation |
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| VBScript Tutorial |
VBScript Language Reference, same site Netpedia |
| A Tutorial in VBScript |
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| Adobe Acrobat VBscript |
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| Photoshop 6.0 SDK |
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| Automating Adobe Photoshop |
just the same code taken out of the the Pshop SDK above. Sadly there aren't any examples online of Using the Photoshop SDK that provide anything not already in the SDK. |
| Adobe Xchange |
"you can download and share thousands of easy-to-install actions, extensions, modules, and more for Adobe® GoLive® and Adobe Photoshop® software" |
| JavaScript FAQ |
Danny Goodman's JavaScript Mini-FAQ |
| JavaScript vs JScript |
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| Fatbrain |
Books |
| Numerical Recipes in C |
Very useful for expressions and scripting, a little advanced for starting |
| 15seconds |
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| aardvarko |
Anti-VBscript |
utilities
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| 3DTop |
3D desktop |
| Madonion |
benchmarks (seems a bit BS though for 3d apps) |
| NameWiz |
Like Renamer |
| Portrait Displays |
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fonts
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| freewarefonts.com |
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| macfonts |
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Employment
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Production Houses
with 3D Modelling and Animation in house
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Decent Sites and Artists, Artist Lists, Some Artist tutorials
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