Industry Resources on the Web

Sites that will supply you with industry news, interviews with working professionals, tutorials, tips and tricks, articles on industry trends and innovations, professional and amateur galleries, forums for discussion and critique, challenges and competition, and much much more. Visit them often as their content changes daily.

3D Total

Industry news, tutorials, user gallery, and more.

CG Society

Industry news, interviews, tutorials, and user gallery

CG Channel

Industry news, tutorials, and user gallery

Spline Doctors

A blog for Pixar animators who teach at AAU: character animation tips, industry news and ramblings

AWN: Animation World Network

Industry news, articles, and school directory

Concept Art

Forums dedicated to drawing, painting, and sculpting concept art

ZBrush Central

User Forum dedicated to ZBrush: a digital sculpting application

fxguide

Podcasts, industry news, articles, and tutorials for visual effects

VFX Talk

Industry news, articles, and tutorials for visual effects

Game Artisans

an art competition gallery website held under GCCore.org

Polycount

news and forum for game design

CGHub

The social network for professionals in entertainment

Textures and Photographic resources

• Morgue File
• Mayang's Free Textures
• Stock.XCHNG
• Texture Warehouse
• Spectralogue
• CG textures
• Texture King
• Lost & Taken
• Got3d

Sound and Music resources

• flashkit.com
• soundbible.com
• partnersinrhyme.com
• freesound.iua.upf.edu
• sounddogs.com
• therecordist.com
• sound-effects-library.com
• reelwavs.com
• new.wavlist.com
• freesound.org

FLV Player

FLV Player is a free program to play Adobe Flash Video

SWF & FLV Player

SWF & FLV Player is a powerful but tiny free Flash movie player From Eltima Software

CamStudio

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer - used to create tutorials