Off the shelf Tools.
1.1 3DS Max
Autodesk - 3DS MAX
MaxUnderground - Industry news and views
Script Spot - 3ds Max scripts
3D Luvr - 3ds Max news and plug-ins
3d Total - Tutorials, forums, and news
Max3D Stuff - 3ds Max plug-ins and tutorials
CG Chat - Industry news and discussion
CG Channel - Industry news
RedPixel - Brazil - forums and training materials
CG Talk - Industry news and discussion
Amazon.com - 3ds Max books
3D Infográfica - Spain - 3D industry news
3DA - Spain - 3D industry news, tutorials, and resources
3DS Max Online - Your source to 3DS Max
Highend3D - Hosting and downloads of plug-ins, scripts, tools, shaders, tutorials, and more
1.2 Maya.
Autodesk - Maya
The AREA - Community
Learning Maya - currently 1130 free Maya Tutorials
David Gould Home Page (Inc. Complete Maya Programming Book Details Mel/C++)
dv Garage
Simply Maya
The Gnomon Workshop
1.3 Softimage.
Autodesk Softimage
Softimage Wiki
Softimage news archive
XSIBase
XSIBlog
XSI Database
Ed Harriss Home Page
Community
Autodesk AREA - Softimage
Autodesk Certified Animation Plug-ins
1.4 Mentalray.
Los Angeles Mental Ray User Group
Mental Ray - Mental Images
Nanomation Mental Ray/XSI shader setup.
My Mental Ray - Mental Ray Community
1.5 Renderman.
Aqsis (OpenSource REYES renderer)
Pixie (Open Source Renderman Renderer)
Renderman Products - Pixar
Render Mania
Renderman Notes
Renderman Repository
Graphic Primitives - XSIMan (beta)
1.6 Houdini.
Houdini - Sidefx
3D Buzz (Training Tutorial)
OD Force
Visual Paradigms
1.7 Lightwave.
FPrime - Worley
Lightwave3D - Newtek
Messiah plugin
1.8 Gelato.
NVIDIA Digital Film Group (Inc. Gelato Renderer)
1.9 Other 3D tools/plugins.
Blender (open source)
Endorphin - Natural Motion
Eva shader - Algorithmic Arts
Chnl1 Tv - 3D Links
Darktree shaders - Darkling
Shave and a Hair Cut - Joe Alter(hair plugin)
Right Hemisphere
Massive (Lord of the Rings crowd controller)
NatShaders - Rebel Think (natual surface shaders)
Realflow - Next Limit
Okino (Inc. Polytrans 3D file converter)
Particle Illusion - Wondertouch
Syflex (cloth simulation)
Wings3d
ZBrush - Pixologic
Binary Alchemy Shader collection
Orbaz Technologies - Particle Flow, Particle Studio, and Sand Blaster
1.9.1 Other Renderers.
VRay
FuzzyPhoton
Brazil
Raycer
Arnold
Aqsis Renderer
WinOSi
Accurender
Advanced Rendering Toolkit
AGI32
AIR
jrMan
ART Renderdrive
Final Render
Helios
Inspirer
Renderpark
Lightflow
Lightwave
Lightworks
Lumen Micro 2000
Moonlight 3D
Now 3D
Persistence Of Vision
Radiance
Radiator
RadiosGL
Realsoft 3D
Strata3DPro
KRAY
1.10 Other 3D Resources.
3D Artists
3D Cafe
Animation World News
CG Channel
CG Networks
CG Talk
Fx Guide
Highend3D
Vfx Pro
Vfx Talk
Vfx World
1.11 Magazines
3D World Magazine
Animation Magazine
CG World
Cinefex
Film Force
HDRI 3D.
Highend Magazine
ifilm
Inside CG
Keyframe Magazine
Millimeter
Post Magazine
Screen Magazine
Variety
1.12 3D Scanning
Headus
Cyberware
1.13 Renderfarm Managers
Rush Network Render Queue ( * )
Royal Render ( * )
Qube! - Pipelinefx ( * )
smedge - Uberware ( * )
Virtual Vertex - Muster ( * )
Deadline Render Farm Management System - Frantic Films ( * )
Splish - Opensource using postgresql and Qt
Alfred(Renderman) - Pixar ( * )
RenderPal - Shoran Software
EnFuzion - Axceleon ( * )
DrQueue ( * )
SXSpider - Spider Network Rendering ( * )
fuRender (no longer available for public consumption)
BatchServe - Softimage (no longer supported)
* Supports any other application with command-line rendering
1.14 3D Services
Digital Film Labs
REBUSfarm
RenderCore
Render-it
Render Rocket
Pixel Masters
2.1 Tracking.
3d Equalizer
Boujou - 2d3
SynthEyes - Andersson Technologies LLC
The Pixel Farm - PFTrack
Tracksperanto - Opensource Tracker
2.2 Compositing.
Adobe Products (Inc. Photoshop/After Effects/Premiere)
Apple Products (Inc. Shake/Final Cut Pro/QuickTime Pro)
Interactive Effects (Inc. Amazon and Piranha)
Avid 2D tools
CinePaint (OpenSource, formally known as FilmGimp)
Autodesk Media & Entertainment (Inc. Back Draft/Combustion/Flame/Flint/Inferno & 3dMax)
Digital Fusion - Eyeon Line
The Foundry (2d plugins)
Genarts (Inc. Sapphire plugin's)
Greystone Fx
HDRShop - Debevec
Linux Movies
Mokey - Imagineer Systems
Nuke - Digital Domain
Photo Genics HDR - Idruna
Revision Effects
Trap Code
2.3 Editing.
Pinnacle Systems
Quantel(inc eQ/iQ/sQ/gQ/QColor/Paintbox/PictureboxsQ/Newsbox)
Speed Razor - In-Sync
2.4 Preview Image Viewers. (Still & Moving)
ACDSee - ACD Systems
Beam TV
FrameCycler 3D - Iridas (Stereoscopic Playback)
Frame Thrower - Digital Ordnance (2k/HDTV player)
M Player
Quicktime - Apple
XnView
XMovie
Tweak Software RV
Asynthetic Pdplayer
3.1 Trade shows
IBC.
Eurographics
NAB.
Siggraph
BROADCAST VIDEO EXPO
3.2 Agency's
Bubble & Squeak (PR and marketing communications agency)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - writing services and public relations
Production Base (Job agency)
Soho Editors (Freelance agency)
Tovs (Freelance agency)
3.3 Company Directories
Aidb(Animation Industry DataBase)
Kemps(Film & Television Production services DataBase)
For Regional Film & TV - Post Production Facilities
For Regional Film & TV - Animation
The Showreel - Animation companies
Mandy's Film and Television International Production Company
3.4 Film Trailers
Cine Movies(France)
Movie Trailers - Apple
Movie Trailers - Apple (Japan)
3.5 Other
Game Industry Map
Broadcast Engineering
Pluginz
Soho Digital
Toonhound(British cartoon, animation, comic strip and puppet creations )
Alien Brain (Asset management production tool)
3.6 Webmaster's
reddit
boing boing
explodingdog
flickr
BluesNews
SlashDot
4. Link Exchange
Games Industry Biz(misc resource)
Fotosearch - Stock Photography and Stock Footage
Komtoo.net - A computer & web resource
Stock Images at Can Stock Photo
Sound Dogs (Sound Sample Archive)
wow accounts
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