Student Resources for Art and Animation
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