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 People
  Graham BrownThis 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.
  Mario UcciThe 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.
  Warped SpaceAmaan Akram's CG website. Fantastic use of color and light.
  Amaan AkramAmaan's photographic website (jees... I hate this guy ;-) )
  Marco CarpagnanoVery versatile animator and modeller.
  Paul DebevecAmazing guy. He's done a huge amount of seminal work developing lighting and surfacing theory and practice within the 3D industry.
  Paul BourkeLots of interesting maths, 3D, and rendering information here.
 
Rendering Methods and Techniques
  SIGGRAPHThe home page for SIGGRAPH.
  CiteSeerA great site for locating online papers from SIGGRAPH, finding citations etc.
  SIGGRAPH 2000-2004 papers onlineIncludes links to other papers as well. Indexed by Tim Rowley.
  PBRTThe site for the Physically Based Ray Tracer by Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys.
  PixieA free open source REYES renderer.
  3DelightA free Renderman compliant renderer.
 
Programming
  Experts ExchangeAn extremely useful source of information for all disciplines.
  Source ForgeOpen Source software development repository
  Code GuruPlenty of articles and examples for Windows programming.
  The Code ProjectAnother great Windows programming resource.
  Flipcode.comA great programming resource mainly aimed towards the gaming community.
  Gamasutra.comThe only place to go for games artists, programmers, and industry professionals.
 
3D
  XSI BaseThe number one site for all things XSI.
  XSI BlogTechnical blogs on using XSI.
  EdHarris.comLoads of XSI resources.
  Flay.comThe best resource posting for Lightwave
  DV Garage.comCovers professional techniques in texturing, conpositing and many other areas.
 
Film
  IMDBThe 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.
  CGEmpireA great website for supporting games industry developers.
 
Design
  JumpolaA portal for graphic designers.
  1001 Free Fonts.comStill one of the best for finding free fonts.
  Acid Fonts.comAnother good site for free fonts.
 
Fun
  Mirror Sytes.orgA clever trick.