Off the shelf Tools.
1.1 XSI.
XSI - Softimage
Softimage Wiki
Softimage NET
Softimage news archive
XSIBase
XSIBlog
XSI Database
Ed Harriss Home Page
Biofacts - SoftImage Behavior and more Life Modelling
Discussion forums
http://www.softimage.com/Community/Xsi/Discuss/
Community
Softimage NET
SOFTIMAGE|XSI
http://www.softimage.com/products/xsi/
SOFTIMAGE|Face Robot
http://www.softimage.com/products/facerobot/
The Softimage Store
http://store.softimage.com/store
1.2 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
Highend3D - Hosting and downloads of plug-ins, scripts, tools, shaders, tutorials, and more
Autodesk Certified Animation Plug-ins
1.2.1 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 Mentalray.
Los Angeles Mental Ray User Group
Mental Ray - Mental Images
Nanomation Mental Ray/XSI shader setup.
My Mental Ray - Mental Ray Community
1.4 Renderman.
Aqsis (OpenSource REYES renderer)
Pixie (Open Source Renderman Renderer)
Renderman Products - Pixar
Render Mania
Renderman Notes
Renderman Repository
Graphic Primitives - XSIMan (beta)
1.5 Houdini.
3D Buzz (Training Tutorial)
OD Force
Houdini - Sidefx
Visual Paradigms
1.6 Lightwave.
FPrime - Worley
Lightwave3D - Newtek
Messiah plugin
1.7 Gelato.
NVIDIA Digital Film Group (Inc. Gelato Renderer)
1.8 Other 3D tools/plugins.
Areté Entertainment
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)
Kaydara Products (Inc. Motionbuilder / MOCAP)
Deep paint 3D - Right Hemisphere
Massive (Lord of the Rings crowd controller)
NatShaders - Rebel Think (natual surface shaders)
Realflow - Next Limit
Render Engines (Links to)
Okino (Inc. Polytrans 3D file converter)
Particle Illusion - Wondertouch
Phoenix Tools
Syflex (cloth simulation)
Wings3d
ZBrush - Pixologic
Binary Alchemy Shader collection
Orbaz Technologies - developers behind Particle Flow, Particle Studio, and Sand Blaster
1.9 Other 3D Resources.
3D Artists
3D Cafe
3D Gate
3D Festival
3D Links page
3D Links
3D Models-Creation
Animation World News
CG Channel
CG Chat
CG Networks
CG Talk
Deathfall
Fx Guide
Highend3D
Vfx Pro
Vfx Talk
Vfx World
1.10 Magazines
3D World Magazine
Animation Magazine
CG World
Cinefex
Creative Review
Film Force
HDRI 3D.
Highend Magazine
ifilm
Inside CG
Keyframe Magazine
Millimeter
Post Magazine
Screen Magazine
Render Node Magazine
Variety
1.11 3D Scanning
Headus
Cyberware
Lidar VFX(large scale enviroments)
1.12 Renderfarm Managers
Rush Network Render Queue ( * )
Qube! - Pipelinefx ( * )
Royal Render ( * )
smedge2 - Überware ( * )
Virtual Vertex - Muster ( * )
Deadline Render Farm Management System - Frantic Films ( * )
Splish - Opensource using postgresql and Qt
Alfred(Renderman) - Pixar ( * )
Borg (supports BMRT, RenderDotC, 3Delight)
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
1.13 3D Services
Digital Film Labs
The Render Factory
Render-it
RenderCore
2.1 Tracking.
3d Equalizer
Boujou - 2d3
Match Mover - RealViz
Matchmoving Resource
SynthEyes - Andersson Technologies LLC
The Pixel Farm - PFTrack
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
Bauhaus ( Inc. Mirage )
CinePaint (OpenSource, formally known as FilmGimp)
Commotion - Pinnacle Systems
Autodesk Media & Entertainment (Inc. Back Draft/Combustion/Flame/Flint/Inferno & 3dMax)
Digital Fusion - Eyeon Line
DS - Softimage
The Foundry (2d plugins)
Genarts (Inc. Sapphire plugin's)
Greystone Fx
HDRShop - Debevec
Jahshaka.com (OpenSource, Realtime Editing and Effects System)
Jahshaka.org
Linux Movies
Mokey - Imagineer Systems
Nuke - Digital Domain
Pixel Dust - 2d3
Photo Genics HDR - Idruna
Realviz Products ( inc. ImageModeler/MatchMover/ReTimer/Stitcher)
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
Nucoda Products (Inc. Data Conform/Film Master/Data Play)
Quicktime - Apple
Xine
XnView
XMovie
3.1 Trade shows
IBC.
Eurographics
NAB.
Production Show
Siggraph
Video Forum
3.2 Agency's
Bubble & Squeak (PR and marketing communications agency)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - writing services and public relations
NP Digital Media (Job agency)
Production Base (Job agency)
Promo Promo (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
Broadcast Engineering
Pluginz
Soho Digital
Sound Dogs (Sound Sample Archive)
Toonhound(British cartoon, animation, comic strip and puppet creations )
Alien Brain (Asset management production tool)
Games Industry Biz(misc resource)
Pro Max ( Organisation of Internation conferences and the PROMAX&BDA awards)
Fotosearch - Stock Photography and Stock Footage
Komtoo.net - A computer & web resource
3.6 Webmaster's
boing biong
YouSendIt
the rasterbator
explodingdog
deathfall
flickr
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