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The Digital Production Pipeline, Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics Mobile Game Creation for Everyone, An Introduction to OpenGL Programming, Keynote Presentation : Marc Davis Lecture Series, “Giants’ First Steps”
Green Screen: How to make a green screen at home
ACTIONVFX: THE STOCK FOOTAGE SITE FOR VFX ARTISTS
ActionVFX is a stock footage site created specifically for Visual Effects artists. As we always say, if you need shots of girls touching tall grass, you’re out of luck with us. But if you’re looking for high quality VFX assets to cause mayhem, ActionVFX is the site for you. Our Collections currently include Explosions, Structure Fires, Smoke Plumes, Gun FX, and much more.
ADOBE STOCK IMAGES including photography collectives
ANIMATED SPIRIT Inspiring Discussions on Film, Art and Animation
ARTBEATS footage now available through POND5, ADOBE STOCK, GETTY IMAGES, SHUTTER STOCK, FIND IT NEWSCOM, DISSOLVE, OVERFLIGHT STOCK, AMANA resellers.
ART STATION is the showcase platform for games, film, media & entertainment artists. It enables artists to showcase their portfolios in a slick way, discover & stay inspired, and connect with new opportunities. The home for artists.
Atlas, The Next Generation Boston Dynamics’ mission is to imagine and create exceptional robots that enrich people’s lives. Building machines that can approximate the mobility, dexterity and agility of people and animals is a grand challenge. Curiosity and respect for the natural world are at the heart of our work on robots. We see products derived from this work as the next step in the human history of building machines to reduce the danger, repetition and physically difficult aspects of work.
AUDIO – SOCIAL AUDIO DESCRIPTION COLLECTIVE
Social Audio Description, SADC, is a collective that provides full audio description services including writing, narration, and production specialising in trailers and music videos but the collective describes many full length productions.
SADC specializes in independent productions but is open to all clients.
The collective has Disabled members and diverse members across many cultures.
AUSTRALIA’S PROP SPECIALISTS An Australian owned company established in 1983, with a focus on Event Theming, Styling, Prop Hire and Photographic Studios, Sydney Prop Specialists (also known as “Sydney Props”) have been a full service provider for 32 years extending an array of services to their clients. With the largest collection of props in Australia and an extensive collection of backdrops, furniture and staging equipment, Sydney Props can design, source and produce an event from the start until the finish.
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BELIGHT Here you can find some web resources for 3D objects (3ds, skp, Ogre XML formats supported) and textures, that can be used in Live Home 3D Standard or Pro Editions. Please note that we cannot guarantee that all 3D models and textures can be properly imported and used in Live Home 3D software. Check the model and texture copyrights on each particular website.
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Are you looking for clipart for a school project, marketing flyer, your website, or any other project? At ClipArtMasters you can search and browse through thousands of different clipart images, and download them all – absolutely free! With a variety of features, a huge selection to choose from, and Clipart images in just about every category you can think of, we are the perfect choice for all of your Clipart needs.
We’re a royalty free stock photography agency that believes professional stock images should be affordable and accessible to everyone. We add over 25,000 top quality images each day from the world’s best photographers and artists.
CARTOON is an international non-profit association based in Brussels. CARTOON’s remit is to support the animation industry by organising several types of events through the year dedicated to animation professionals.
CG FUTURES The Art of Entertainment
CGI BACKGROUNDS automotive backgrounds
CHAOS COSMOS What’s new in Chaos Cosmos. Create a perfect working environment with Lumina lamps and Haworth office furniture. Plus, there’s a new category in store, and additional assets from CGAxis.
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DEATH TO STOCK Death to Stock is an Artist Owned Co-op that provides you with the most authentic stock photos and videos; with unlimited downloads and new work added every month.
DIGIMATION The world’s largest collection of high quality 3D content; The Archive features 16,504 high-quality models across a wide range of subject matter.
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DIGITAL MEDIA NET Your Gateway To Digital Media Creation
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DOSCH DESIGN offers computer graphics products for 3D design, advertising, print publishing, architectural visualizations, animation, film, game development, app development, webdesign, motion design and multimedia presentations.
DREAMSTIME IMAGE LIBRARY 101 Million amazing images and counting
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This site is intended to be a hub of resources for Creative Professionals & enthusiast. We offer FREE stock images, footage, information, & resource, along w/ links to other sites & services catering to the production of Film, Media, VFX, Music, Sound, & Software. We also offer links to related commercial services & resource. Much of the content offered is created by E.M.G. Pacific. Other content contains credits & links to the original creators.
EVER MOTION is your daily source of the latest tutorials and articles from 3d graphics world. You will find here a lot of free tutorials about rendering in V-Ray and Corona Renderer, modeling and textring in 3ds Max or Zbrush. We also cover software news, animations, showreels and cg trailers. Every week we post „Tip of the Week” – 3d tutorial that covers some aspects of making rendered 3d scenes. We encourage our users to post their latest cg works in Visualizations Gallery and 3D Gallery, so they can be noticed by 3D computer graphics community and architectural visualizers.
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GIPHY is your top source for the best & newest GIFs & Animated Stickers online. Find everything from funny GIFs, reaction GIFs, unique GIFs and more.
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GUMROAD helps creators take control of their creative careers, over $97,000,000 has been made by over 28,999 bloggers, writers, and artists.
MR HDRI For me, HDRIs are about the artistic aspect first. In addition to capture the full dynamic range of each scenes, I make sure that my HDRIs are shot in locations which gives unique reflections, lighting and colors to your 3D scenes.
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IFCC is short for “Independent Festival of Creative Communication”, a festival with the primary goal to promote authorship and creativity through education and rewarding, especially in the field of art and design within the entertainment industry, publishing and advertising. IFCC arose from the perceived need to expand and increase educational content involved with the Judgment Day Awards which will conclude the festival. Lectures, demos, parties, workshops, recruiting sessions and exhibitions are standard ingredients of IFCC program.
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Premium 3D assets for movies and video games.
LIGHT LEAKS from PROJECTOR LEAKS
What are these? These are short clips at 4K resolution (UltraHD if you want to be technically accurate) for use by editors and compositors. They work with any editing package – however I am delivering them as MP4s, to keep the file size reasonable. By layering them over your images, using a compositing style such as ‘screen’ you add colour and interest – reminiscent of old style film effects.
What’s different about these? I use these kinds of clips a lot in my work. There are a lot of them online already so I’ve tried to do something different. Firstly, I’ve tried to have a slower, more elegant style to these. Secondly, I’ve made them natively in 4K with a Blackmagic camera.
Free 4K bokeh effect – golden hues
IMAGE LIGHT LEAKS Richard Rosenman releases Image Light Leaks Vol. 3
Tools developer Richard Rosenman has released Image Light Leaks Vol. 3, a commercial collection of texture overlays designed to mimic the effect of real-world light bleeding in composited imagery. The set is available from Rosenman’s website, along with the previous two collections in the series, and a set of 20 free downloadable light leak images.
LIGHT MAP The HDR Light Studio interface is 100% focused on lighting your shot.
MASSIVE has become the leading software for crowd related visual effects and autonomous character animation.
MATTE PAINT a library of hi-res, hdr imagery suitable for matte painters. Many of the images are 20k-60k wide.
MAXTEXTURES.comWelcome to the home of free tiled and seamless textures….
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MOOF high quality backplates and HDR domes
MY OWN MEETING Quite simply, we provide a ROCK SOLID and reliable conferencing solution at 1/10th the price of our competition! MyOwnMeeting is a dynamic and powerful conferencing provider. Our unbeatable Price point has made it affordable for any country in the world with an Internet connection. Unlike many other web conferencing providers, Myownmeeting requires Absolutely No Download! Stream live to Facebook
NASA Images
Nasa Releases CGI Moon Kit
NASA Goddard Creates CGI Moon Kit as a Form of Visual Storytelling. A new NASA out-of-this-world animation allows humanity to experience their closest galactic neighbor as never before through an online “CGI Moon kit.”
ONYX COMPUTING Onyx Computing, Inc., located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, is a software development studio specializing in the design and development of knowledge based systems for procedural modeling of vegetation. The company was founded and incorporated in 1992 by Dr. Bojana Bosanac and Pjer Zanchi.
We make Megascans, Bridge and Mixer — a unique 3D asset library and two companion applications for 3D art creation. With these products, our community of users creates amazing 3D art for videogames, movies, architecture visualisation and more.
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PLURALSIGHT As your industry and business model evolve, you need a learning solution that helps you deliver key innovations on time and on budget. With our platform, you can evaluate the technical abilities of your teams, align learning to key business objectives and close skills gaps in critical areas like cloud, design, security, mobile and data.
PODCAST – What is Masters of Motion? Creative Direction : Learn from a top industry expert!
Masters of Motion is a non-for-profit website, social media channel, and podcast that provides the world with a insight into the Australian and New Zealand animation industry. Comprising of an online gallery featuring outstanding motion design, animation and visual effects work. Our mission is to celebrate Australia’s motion artists and to inspire the next generation of motion designers, animators, visual effects and 3-D artists. www.mastersofmotion.com.au/podcast/
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We discuss topics that are important to know for mid-level motion designer’s and animators, as well as, take a detailed look at Gareth’s career. Gareth talks about the growth of the New York office and how it evolved over his time there. We also discuss two of Buck Sydney’s projects in detail, examining the process and the creative challenges. Gareth explains how Buck became so successful and how they improved their skills and showreel by developing multiple passion projects. Gareth reflects on some of his favourite projects and discusses his experiences with working with puppets.
EP 11 – Grant Freckelton : Animal Logic
Grant has been working in the Visual Effects and Animation industry since 1998, as an Illustrator, Art Director, VFX Supervisor and Production Designer. Most recently, Grant was Production Designer on The LEGO Batman Movie and The LEGO Movie. Prior to this, Grant served as Art Director on Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, Directed by Zack Snyder, for which he won an AFI ACTAA award for Best Visual Effects. This followed his previous collaboration as Visual Effects Art Director on Snyder’s 300, for which he won a Satellite award for VFX. www.animallogic.com
PREMIUM BEAT Get 15 free explosion elements and 25 explosive sound effects for your next video. Whether you are shooting an action scene or promoting a company’s big fire sale, these free fiery explosions and SFX are perfect for video editors and motion designers. These free explosion sound effects and video elements work in nearly every NLE, including Premiere Pro, FCPX, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, and more!
Detonate: 40 FREE Explosion SFX and VFX Elements
PRUFFME Platform for webinars, online courses, polls, and tests. Diverse features for online communication, teaching, and sales worldwide
REDDIT Reddit bridges communities and individuals with ideas, the latest digital trends, and breaking news (…okay, and maybe cats). Our mission is to help people discover places where they can be their true selves, and empower our community to flourish.
SHUTTERSTOCK Discover oveer 161 million royalty-free images, video clips and music tracks.
SKETCHFAB Launches Public Domain Dedication for 3D Cultural Heritage
We are pleased to announce that cultural organisations using Sketchfab can now dedicate their 3D scans and models to the Public Domain using the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0). This newly supported dedication allows museums and similar organisations to share their 3D data more openly, adding amazing 3D models to the Public Domain, many for the first time. This update also makes it even easier for 3D creators to download and reuse, re-imagine, and remix incredible ancient and modern artifacts, objects, and scenes.
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The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository
Storyblocks helps you create more professional video faster than ever, while paying less for unlimited downloads from an unlimited library.
SUBSTANCE SOURCE material library
An online library of over 2,000 varied PBR materials. Since its launch in 2016, Substance Source has grown to a library of over 2,000 PBR-ready procedural materials in Allegorithmic’s Substance format. The collection, which includes fabric and organic materials as well as more conventional categories like wood, metal and stone, can be used in any application that supports the .sbsar format.
SURFACE MIMIC sells 3D surface scans for digital artists in the Visual Effects and Video Game industries. Our surface scans are high resolution displacement, normal, and color diffuse .psd images.
TEXTURIFY is a new source of free selection of high resolution LDR 360 spherical environment’s panoramas, textures and backgrounds, that convince you that touching the photograph feels like a real material.
TEXTURES.COM is a website that offers digital pictures of all sorts of materials. We have pictures of fabrics, wood, metal, bricks, plastic, and many more. These images are called textures and can be used for graphic design, visual effects, in computer games and any other situation where you need a nice pattern or background image.
3D Objects and Textures Web Resources Here you can find some web resources for 3D objects (3ds, skp, Ogre XML formats supported) and textures, that can be used in Live Home 3D Standard or Pro Editions. Please note that we cannot guarantee that all 3D models and textures can be properly imported and used in Live Home 3D software. Check the model and texture copyrights on each particular website.
3D WORLD
3D TOTAL
3DTotal was founded in 1999 as a simple 3D resource website. Over the last decade the site has evolved into one of the premier CG art websites in the world, offering a variety of training products, an inspirational gallery, a free texture library and hundreds of free tutorials on a variety of subjects
TEN 24 This blend of skill and experience makes Ten24 much more than just a technical scanning company; we understand the industry and more importantly the pipelines that we cater for.
THINKSTOCK has moved to iStock
TOOLFARM stock footage, tutorials and has free stock video of the week.
TURBO SQUID 3D models for professionals. Unsure of a model? We offer pre-purchase checks of all our models, giving you additional information about the model and seeing how it will work in a game engine. We also offer free conversions to suit your desired application. Bought a model that doesn’t work for you? Let us make it right!
UPSPLASH The internet’s source of freely useable images. Powered by creators everywhere.
The standard for vegetation modelling and middleware.
VERTEX BOOKS is one of the most comprehensive free resources that belongs in every game-artists’ library.
VES HANDBOOK of VISUAL EFFECT: Industry Standard VFX Practices and Procedures ISBN-13: 978-0240812427 ISBN-10: 0240812425
VHS ARCHIVE A wide collection of trailers, shows, recordings, and other captures on VHS tape. Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
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VISUAL COLLABORATION
- Cospective Pty Ltd is an Australian software firm. Originally born as Rising Sun Research, a technology spin-off from the boutique visual effects company Rising Sun Pictures. Cospective has customers worldwide in film, advertising, television, games and design, the products developed by Cospective include cineSpace, a film color management solution, cineSync, a tool for remote visual collaboration, and Frankie, a real-time video review platform for short form content production.
- Frame.io Video review and collaboration, solved. Privately upload, review, and share video with your entire team, anywhere in the world
Discover 1029045 Stock Footage, Video Effects and After Effects Templates on VideoHive. Buy Stock Footage and Video Effects from $2.
VIRTUAL REALITY The Technology Behind Virtual Reality: Coding and Design
This link is a special inclusion requested by Girl Scout, Katie Miller who contacted me after finding some of the information on this web page helpful for her Junior Digital Game Design Badge. The VR Coding Design web site is part of the resources they found and used by her Girl Scout troop’s work towards their badge. It covers the most popular programming languages for VR and everything you need to get started for developing virtual reality games. Virtual Reality has also been incorporated into Katie’s school curriculum. I was a Guild Guide myself in my youth, not admitting my age here and thought this was wonderful and very excited to include as part of these resources. I went looking for information and found this: Girl Scouts at Home: Juniors – Digital Game Design Badge
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