Autodesk Maya Links to Artists Modeling Animation and Effects

Autodesk Maya Links

Autodesk Maya Links for Artists – Modeling, animation and effects 3D models, assets and resources for digital animators and high end animation studios.

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3D Ark
Excellent 3D resource site. Top rated.

3dgrafika
Large list of MAXScripts.

3D-IO
Great art, tutorials, tools, and links. The exceptional high end 3D work of Igor Posavec.

3D Render
Lot’s of 3D lighting information by Jeremy Birn.

3DS Models

Site contains free 3d models in 3ds format and textures.

3D Total
Excellent resource for 3D artists, animators and related subjects. Exceptional high resolution texture packages. Top rated. I highly recommend this site!

3DVF.com
Top notch French site. Online 3D magazine.

3DVision
SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Design, Stratasys 3D Printing Reseller in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana.

3DZ
The portfolio site of Thomas Bruno, you will find 3D modeling, 3D animation, graphic design, video and audio production here.

Aloe Design
A small animation studio in Washington DC. High-quality 3D animation and motion graphics for entertainment, corporate, and government needs. Our clients include NASA, GEICO, Moviefone, Honeywell, Time Warner, AIM, Friends, and Ellen, as well as Top 20 musicians such as Nelly, Avril Lavigne, Ashlee Simpson, and Linkin Park.

Animation Arena
A leading animation resource for 3D, 2D, Flash, concept artists & graphics enthusiasts. Find info about art programs, schools, jobs, tutorials,
character animation, kinks and mailing lists.

Animation Magazine
Reports on all aspects of animation worldwide and is the most comprehensive source about technology, film, television, gaming, commercials, conferences, events and trends.

Area
Autodesk’s Official 3D Community filled with over 500,00 3D artists and thousands of free tutorials. 3D tutorials, blogs, forums, and a 3D gallery of film, VFX, games, and design work.

Art of Gaming
Original images, movies and 3d models related to original games such as starcraft, tiberian sun, doom and more. You can also find other resources such as tutorials and free original games.

Autodesk/ Autodesk
Makers of: 3D Studio, 3D Studio MAX, AutoCAD, AutoSketch, Generic CADD, AutoSurf, WorkCenter, Animator Pro, and AutoVision.

AWN
The Animation World Network is the largest animation-related publishing group on the Internet, providing readers from over 145 countries with a wide range of interesting, and helpful information about animation.

Bay Raitt
Wild stuff and very well done! I highly recommend a visit to this site!

Blue Sky Studios
A first class computer animation studio dedicated to creating high end character animation and visual effects for the commercial and feature film industries.

Blur Studios
Some very cool stuff! I highly recommend a visit!

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CG Channel
Vortal dedicated to the world of Computer Graphics, art and technology.

CG Talk
High end digital visual effects professionals forum. I highly recommend this forum.

CGTrader
3D models for computer graphics, virtual reality and 3D Printing.

Christian Lorenz Scheurer
Conceptual designer and digital matte painter, has worked on some of the most innovative movies, games and commercials of the past decade. His range of projects reaches from architectural design for movies such as The Fifth Element to concept art for The Matrix and Titanic to the fantastic dreamscapes of Dark City, What Dreams May Come and Final Fantasy. This site provides a selection of his worlds and works. I highly recommend this site.

Computer Graphics World
If you want to know something, anything about computer graphics this is a great place to start.

Continuum Skies
Free 360 degree spherical maps of the sky. These images can be mapped onto a sphere for use in any 3D program. I add to them from time to time – so check back. This is a great resource, I highly recommend this site!

Creative Crash
Maya, Softimage, Studio, XSI, communities, galleries, links, news, jobs, tutorial, contests, tools, scripts, plugins, and much more.

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Daniel Robichaud
Extraordinary artwork, I highly recommend a visit to this site.

Escape Studios
“Europe’s premier visual effects academy with 12 years specialized experience in creating world-class, studio-ready talent. Between our accelerated classroom training at our London campus, and our online programs, we’ve graduated thousands of students worldwide and helped them to enter careers that span the entire VFX spectrum.”

Eevolver
EEVOLVER Inc. is a company comprised of experts in concept design, technology and computer generated animation, effects and motion graphics.

Exchange 3D
3D Online Community with galleries, models, forum and links.

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Film Roman
Film Roman is an operating unit and wholly-owned subsidiary of Starz. It is a leading animation studio in the United States producing animated TV/movie content for studios, networks, distributors and audiences worldwide. Based in Burbank, CA, Film Roman has a state-of-the-art animation facility and some of the industry’s leading animation talent.

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Gnomon, Inc
Digital training for computer animation and 3d visual effects using Autodesk|Wavefront Maya and other software packages. Also, check out: Gnomon Online and Gnomon Workshop.

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HDRI Library
Nice collection of HDRI images and tutorials.

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Industrial Light + Magic
The George Lucas site of special effects and fun! Works in progress, portrait series, Skywalker Sound and much more.

Jignesh Jariwala
Freelance 3D artist from India for modeling, texturing, animation, lighting, rendering, particle fx, visual fx for television and film.

Jeremy A. Engleman
Quality 3d computer generated imagery and traditional media artwork.

Kat Llewellyn
Writer and animation director working in the entertainment and advertising industries in New York City.

Lost Pencil Animation Studios
Excellent animation and training site. Home of the “Just Animate Training Series” of CD’s I highly recommend this site.

Lugher 3D
Autodesk Maya 3D tutorials, modeling & Mental Ray rendering tutorials, tips & tricks, models tutorial, meshes tutorial, cartoon and photo realistic textureing & UV mapping, animation, Paint Effects tutorial – hair tutorial, special effects training, maya global illumination tutorial and others.

Marlin Studio’s
Publisher of seamless and tileable texture map CD-Roms for 2D and 3D computer graphics applications.

Martin Murphy
Martin Murphy’s award winning online gallery, illustrations, paintings and links. Creator of the famed Queen tutorial . Great digital art but, don’t forget to check out his oil paintings as well. Martin is now working for Industrial Light & Magic as a creature modeler.

Maxon
MAXON Computer, Inc. – The makers of CINEMA 4D GO, SE, XL & NET for 3D Modeling, Texturing, Animation, and Raytracing. See how easy it is to create photorealistic 3D images for broadcast, special effects, science & medical illustration, architecture & engineering, web & multimedia graphics, and character animation.

Michael McKinley
Online gallery and learning center by 3D Production Artist Michael McKinley. Tutorials for beginners and professionals.

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Newtek
Makers of: Lightwave, Vidio Toaster, Aura, and Inspire 3D.

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Okino Graphics
Okino develops and markets a broad range of 3d rendering, visualization, 3d data translation/conversion and toolkit software: the NuGraf Rendering System, the PolyTrans 3D Data Translator/Converter, and the NuGraf Developer’s 3D Toolkit/Library.

OLM Digital, Inc.
OLM Group is an animation studio with the technical, creative and production capabilities to create Animated Feature Films, TV Animation Shows as well as Computer Graphics (CG) and Special Effects in Films.

Pascal Blanché
High end top quality sci-fi fantasy artwork. I highly recommend a visit to this site!

Pixar
News and developments about feature animated films, shorts and products from Pixar Animation Stuidos.

Pixel2Life
Pixel2life is the largest tutorial search engine on the internet catering to graphic designers and programmers. From Photoshop to Poser to C++, we have it all in the fastest and friendliest search tool around.

Pixologic
Pixologic develops, markets, and supports innovative software that is opening new doors for creative expression. Founded in 1997, Pixologic recently announced its first product, ZBrush. A really cool 3D graphics painter.

Pluginz.com
Pluginz.com is the ultimate source of plugins and digital tools for digital artists. We have everything you need to make your projects stand out and blow your competition away. Come and see the latest products, news, reviews and hot digital downloads!

RenderMan
Pixar’s RenderMan® is the core rendering technology behind the RenderMan® Artist ToolsT. It’s a high performance renderer built to tackle the most demanding productions, with production-hardened technology that is stable, reliable, and flexible, delivering breathtaking results better, faster, and more cost-effectively.

Rhinoceros
Rhino can create, edit, analyze, and translate NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids in Windows. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size. Rhino also supports polygon meshes.

SGI
Also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., is the world’s leader in high-performance computing, visualization, and the management of complex data.

SIGGRAPH
Their mission is to promote the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Simply Maya
Great source of information through forums, tutorials, video training and much more. List of Free Maya tutorials…

Meats Meier
Meats Meier is a high end 3D graphics artist and game industry illustrator of extraordinary talent. His professional artwork and original style sets him apart from the pack.

Softimage
The Softimage 3D software is one of the industry-leaders for 3-D character animation and special effects in the film, commercial and games development markets. XSI Gallery .

Soanala
Very nice site design as well as some excellent character work, downloads, links and much more. I highly recommend a visit to this site!

Steve Cox’ UV Mapper
Steve Cox UV Mapper is a texture map template creation utility. Windows 95 (or better) and PowerMac versions available. It will import/export Wavefront (obj) 3D files and output 2D texture map templates. A must have utility!

Steven Hagg Stahlberg
Excellent 3D artist, painter, muli-media wizard. Some of the best human character realization on the planet and a real nice guy.

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Taron
The exquisite work of Timur Baysal.

The Hobbit Guy
Excellent Maya artist and modeling tutorials. I highly recommend a visit to this site!!

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Visual Environments
An architectural illustration service using 3d computer graphics to create photo-real renderings and photosimulations.

Warped Space
The excellent 3D artwork and online gallery of Amaan Akram, displaying 3D and 2D renderings, tutorials, links and nice site designs too. I highly recommend this site

Web 3D Consortium
Provides a forum for the creation of open standards for Web3D specifications, and to accelerate the worldwide demand for products based on these standards through the sponsorship of market and user education programs.

ZBrush
Pixologic develops, markets, and supports innovative software that is opening new doors for creative expression. Founded in 1997, Pixologic recently announced its first product, ZBrush. A really cool 3D graphics painter.

Zoic Studios
“Zoic Studios is a Visual Effects Company based in Culver City, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. Our team has a proven track record of success, crafting innovative visual experiences for film, television, advertising, video game and interactive projects.”