Game Links

QA Tester Articles

• sloperama.com/advice (GREAT STUFF)
• Tester Chart
• Attributes of a good tester

A guy who is famous for helping people break in to the 3d indstustry

• http://www.comet-cartoons.com/3dhelp.html

3d-coat training

• Javis jones tutorials
• 3d-coat.com/forum
• voxel sculpting in depth
• 3d-coat.com free-tutorial
• 3d coat vimeo channel

After Effects

• magic-bullet-looks
• Newton 2d particle simulator

Maya 

• Advanced Skeleton (auto Rigging in maya) 

Blender

• cgcookie-blender
• Blender Guru
• Blender Artists -forum

Zbrush

• Sub-tools tutorial
• Projection brush (sculpt one mesh onto another)

Max

• Baking normals
• ambient occlusion1
• wire frame(use mental ray)

Animation

• Animation Reference

Modeling Tutorials:

• Realistic face modeling
• General Tutorials
• 3DBuzz.com
• 3Dtotal.com
• Polybend
• Good-Tutorials
• Digital Tutors
• Lynda.com Tutorials
• dworldmag.com (tutorials)
• 3D-Reference (3d.sk)
• CG-tutorials
• cgcookie(tutorials for max, blender, moto)
• cgdigg (tutorials, tons of 3d software)
•  3dmotive 

   
        normal maping:

• Making of varga _breakdown
• Normal Maps in Photoshop video
• Poly count NormalMap breakdown

        Topology:

1. Fundamentals_of_Subpatch_Modeling
2. cgsociety topology solutions

Texturing:

• You Suck at Photoshop (funny)
• 2D Tutorial compliation
• CgTextures
• Environmental-Textures (subscription required)
• Mental Ray Materials
• Freetextures.org
• hand Painted textures 
• hand-painted-weapon-texturing
• TexturingTutorials

texture resource sites: 

• CgTextures
• texturepilot.com

Rendering:

• Photographic Lighting
• p3d.in (allows you to show your 3d models in a 3d space threw a link)

UDK:

• Jorge Jimenez (Rendering Research, how To's) !!!!!!!!!
• UDK Wiki
• UDK Community Links (tuns of tutorials)
• chrisalbeluhn.com/3D_Tutorials
• UDK_Advanced_Vertex_Painting

Industry:

• CG-society
• Polycount
• Game Artisans

Inspirational Sites:

• Deviant Art

Z-Brush trouble-Shooting

• G0-z no shelf in maya

Favorite Softares

• 3D-Coat
• Z-Brush
• Photoshop
• NDo2 (normal mapping)
• Make Human (human model generator)
• Vue nature simulator
• Marmoset Toolkit

Reference

• Tons of Pro portfolio link refrences
• http://www.lincoln-hughes.com/
• http://www.jeremiahbigley.com/
• http://www.terrybuchan.co.uk/
• isaackarth.com
• Jeff (stylized game art)
• matthew heyman (hand Painted textures) 
• www.michaeldashow.com 
• Nick cj Brown

sell models at

• 3docean

Portfolio options

• wix.com (portfolio site)
• carbonmade.com

Professional training

• www.centrenad.com (pro 3d training and certifications) 
•  The Gnomen Workshop

Color Picking

• kuler.adobe.com

Contests

• 3D Gnomen Contest

 2D

• Dragon Art (how to draw)
• Adobe illustrator cartoon tutorials

Local Groups and Chapters:

• I.G.D.A.- DALLAS
• A Bunch of Short Guys (ABSOG)

T-Shirt Creator (flex)

• SpreadShirt

Jobs

• CG-society
• Polycount
• Game Artisans
• Creative Heads
• Linked-in