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| | People |
| | | Graham Brown | This is the guy that taught me all about Special Effects when I was at the NFTS. I can honestly say that I've never had so much fun in my life! With Graham I've done all sorts of practical pyrotechnical effects, including blowing up a vehicle for the 2008 series of Waking The Dead.
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| | | Mario Ucci | The online portfolio of character artist Mario Ucci. Amazing stuff, especially when you consider that some of the heads are modelled and textured in only a couple of days.
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| | | Warped Space | Amaan Akram's CG website. Fantastic use of color and light.
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| | | Amaan Akram | Amaan's photographic website (jees... I hate this guy ;-) ) |
| | | Marco Carpagnano | Very versatile animator and modeller. |
| | | Paul Debevec | Amazing guy. He's done a huge amount of seminal work developing lighting and surfacing theory and practice within the 3D industry. |
| | | Paul Bourke | Lots of interesting maths, 3D, and rendering information here. |
| | Rendering Methods and Techniques |
| | | SIGGRAPH | The home page for SIGGRAPH. |
| | | CiteSeer | A great site for locating online papers from SIGGRAPH, finding citations etc. |
| | | SIGGRAPH 2000-2004 papers online | Includes links to other papers as well. Indexed by Tim Rowley. |
| | | PBRT | The site for the Physically Based Ray Tracer by Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys. |
| | | Pixie | A free open source REYES renderer. |
| | | 3Delight | A free Renderman compliant renderer. |
| | Programming |
| | | Experts Exchange | An extremely useful source of information for all disciplines. |
| | | Source Forge | Open Source software development repository |
| | | Code Guru | Plenty of articles and examples for Windows programming. |
| | | The Code Project | Another great Windows programming resource. |
| | | Flipcode.com | A great programming resource mainly aimed towards the gaming community. |
| | | Gamasutra.com | The only place to go for games artists, programmers, and industry professionals. |
| | 3D |
| | | XSI Base | The number one site for all things XSI. |
| | | XSI Blog | Technical blogs on using XSI. |
| | | EdHarris.com | Loads of XSI resources. |
| | | Flay.com | The best resource posting for Lightwave |
| | | DV Garage.com | Covers professional techniques in texturing, conpositing and many other areas. |
| | Film |
| | | IMDB | The Internet Movie Database. Great for film trivia and research. |
| | | Exposure.co.uk | "The internet resource for low budget film makers" |
| | Games |
| | | Lionhead Studios Ltd. | My current employer, based in Guildford. |
| | | CGEmpire | A great website for supporting games industry developers. |
| | Design |
| | | Jumpola | A portal for graphic designers. |
| | | 1001 Free Fonts.com | Still one of the best for finding free fonts. |
| | | Acid Fonts.com | Another good site for free fonts. |
| | Fun |
| | | Mirror Sytes.org | A clever trick. |