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.

Art Station

The leading showcase platform for games, film, media & entertainment artists.

80 level

Valuable information about the gaming industry and its recent trends.

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 World

Industry news and articles 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

ART of VFX

Industry news, articles, and tutorials for visual effects

Polycount

news and forum for game design

Textures and Photographic resources

• Morgue File
• Pixabay
• Unsplash
• Free Stock Textures
• Flickr: Creative Commons
• Mayang's Free Textures
• Texturify
• Texture Ninja
• freeimages.com
• CG textures
• Texture King
• luGher Texture
• Lost & Taken
• Creative Commons
• Wikipedia: Public domain image resources
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sound and Music resources

• incompetech.com
• zapsplat.com
• 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

DJV Imaging

DJV Imaging provides open source movie playback QuickTime alternative

Keyframe MP

Keyframe MP is a QuickTime alternative video player

CamStudio

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