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Updated 27/1/2003
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Visual Effects Web Links
Industry News & Resources
- VFXPro.com - industry news, interviews and articles
- CGChannel.com - industry news, interviews, articles, tutorials
- Cinefex - the superb film visual effects journal.
- SIGGRAPH - the computer graphics world's most central body and annual conference
- 3D Festival - excellent news and resources site. 3D Festival is an annual european 3D community event
- Turbo Squid - online market of 3D models and other assets
- Flay.com - 3D resources, tutorials, etc. Lightwave flavoured, but lots of good stuff there
VFX Industry People
Various people I know, or sites I stumble across online
- Andrew Daffy - CGI Supervisor at Framestore CFC
- Colin Doncaster - Ex-Weta TD and author of the Liquid RenderMan translator
- Oskar Wahlberg - Swedish TD who I have worked with at Framestore CFC
- Steven Stahlberg - amazing photoreal women and some great tips/tutorials
- Olivier Renouard - French TD/programmer with some great tools and techniques on his site
- ...more to come
Maya
- Highend3D.com/maya/ - The source for free Maya scripts/plugins and excellent user mailing lists
- Bryan Ewert's MEL FAQ - for people wanting to get into Maya's MEL scripting, or for old hacks to check before asking someone and looking stupid ;)
- Maya Features Site - vote on things to add or fix in Maya
RenderMan
- RenderMan Repository - RenderMan shaders and other resources
- RenderMania - Simon Bunker's site for RenderMan/HDRI resources and news
- Matt Phar's Website - RenderMan stuff, graphics papers
- Highend3D.com/renderman/ - HighEnd also has RenderMan resources, but not as good as their Maya section
Interesting Articles and Tutorials
- Ligting flat sprite panels - interesting technique using normal maps to render sprites with real (non-baked) lighting
- Nice advanced lighting techniques tutorial by Amaan Akram
- Steven Stahlberg's Maya Character Rigging Tutorial - using wrap deformers and blendshapes. Also some good subdiv modelling tips in there
- Greg's Sandbox - lots of film and video info, FOV tables, film formats, footage calculator, shooting bluescreens, etc
- ...lots more to come
VFX Studios
- Animal Logic - where I worked for 3 years
- Cinesite
- Digital Domain
- Double Negative
- ESC Visual Effects
- Framestore CFC - where I'm currently working
- ILM
- Moving Picture Company
- PDI/Dreamworks
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Rising Sun Pictures
- Sony Pictures Imageworks
- Weta Digital
VFX Software
- Alias|Wavefront - Maya
- Pixar - Photorealistic RenderMan (PRMan)
- Mental Images - Mental Ray
- SideFX - Houdini
- Softimage - XSI
- Newtek - Lightwave
- Apple - Shake
- RealiViz - MatchMover, ReTimer, Stitcher and ImageModeller
- 2D3 - Boujou
- Adobe - Photoshop, After Effects, buy fonts online
- Sitex Graphics - makers of Air, a promising RenderMan compliant 3D renderer
- SplutterFish - makers of Brazil, another promising 3D renderer
- Final Render - upcoming 3D renderer with potential, including excellent 'toon' rendering
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