useful links
The links below are some of my favourite links to graphics and web design sites. It's a purely personal mixture - there may or may not be sites of interest to you here.
| General sites | Comment |
|---|---|
| 3D Cafe | |
| 3D Lapidary | If you want to model gemstones and jewellery, you need this site |
| 3D Total | Excellent general 3D site |
| Adobe | Adobe's home page |
| Amazon UK | Home page of Amazon (UK) |
| CG Society | The home page of the CG Society, the main professional society for CG artists |
| Character photo references | Digital photos for texture makers |
| Dover Books | Dover are the publisher of a massive series of clip art on almost anything you care to name (note: the URL is of the UK shop) |
| Microsoft | Microsoft's home page |
| XBox365 | Tutorials on just about anything |
| Cinema 4D sites | Comment |
| 3D Attack | |
| 3D Graphics by Cactus Dan | Site for Cactus Dan's rigging and character plugins |
| 3D Links | Long list of links to C4D tutorials |
| Add-the-Sea | Home site for this excellent plugin |
| Anim 3D | Tutorials on animation, rigging, cloth, etc., etc. |
| aquarius | Lots of C4D plugins |
| Archizone | Various plugins |
| Astrofish | The only site I've seen looking at C++ plugin development for C4D |
| base 80 | Tips, tricks, tutorials, Xpresso |
| Biomekk | Several excellent plugins here, both free and commercial |
| BlackStar solutions | Home of Reference Shader and other plugins |
| bonkers.de | Lots of detail about Xpresso and Thinking Particles |
| buzhug | Varied resources including tutorials, models, and textures |
| C4D Cafe | Principally for C4D animators |
| C4D Exchange | Site for users to exchange models, textures, etc. |
| C4D Portal | C4D and only C4D... |
| Car body design | Several tutorials on car modelling in C4D |
| Cinema4D to Poser | Specific tutorial on exporting C4D clothing to Poser |
| Cinema4D User | No longer being updated but still available |
| Cineversity | Huge, official Maxon tutorial site |
| Circles of Delusion | Home page of the CS Tools suite of expressions |
| Creative Cow | Good list of C4D tutorials |
| Darkling Simulations | Home of DarkSim, the 3D shader/texture generator (unfortunately the plugin is not available for C4D R9 or higher) |
| deepshade | Scores of shaders for C4D ; the site now closed but the shaders are still available |
| defcon-x | C4D plugins, textures, and tips |
| DPIT Nature Spirit | The excellent Nature Spirit suite |
| Graphite 9 | Rigging demos |
| Greenworks | The producers of the XFrog plant generator |
| HYPA.tv | Tutorials and scene files for Mograph, animations |
| Jack's Secret Stash | Plugins, textures, and tutorials |
| Kuruyome's Development Zone | The wonderful Interposer and other plugins |
| Lots of Pixels | Home of fusionThing and other plugins |
| Maxon | The home of Maxon, the publishers of Cinema 4D |
| meltinglight tutorials | Range of tutorials for C4D R10 and R9 |
| Modelling cars with HyperNURBS | The famous Chevy Bel Air tutorial |
| mograph.net | If Mograph's your thing, you need this forum devoted entirely to it. |
| PaengPaeng | Tutorials including using Blender fluids in C4D |
| Pixel to Life | C4D tutorials |
| Planetary Pixel Emporium | Great site for planetary texture maps, also resources for C4D |
| Psionic 3D | Good list of C4D tutorials |
| Remotion | Home of Silver Bullet and other plugins |
| Renato Tarabella plugins | Including Spline Tools, Path Deformer, etc. |
| ScoobyCam Tools | The ScoobyCamTools website |
| Special FX tutorials | Effects tutorials for C4D and other apps |
| Spot4D | UK site devoted to C4D |
| studio-fabian | Source for C4D plugins |
| Tutorial find | Links to tutorials to C4D |
| vreel-3d | Plugins including Translucent Pro and Vreel Skin |
| Wallis Eck | Various downloads for XFrog, Cinema 4D, and Vue |
| XFrog public plants | Free plants for XFrog, the tree/plant generator |
| Xlent Plugs | Various plugins including Helix and Multiple Spline Attach |
| Xpresso 24 | Site devoted to Xpresso |
| xs yann | French site with many useful C4D plugins |
| Other software | |
| CrazyBump | The texture-to-bump converter |
| Moment of Inspiration | The MoI NURBS modeller |
| Genetica | The Genetica texture maker |
| Wondertouch | The home of particleIllusion |
| ZBrush | The home of Pixologic, makers of ZBrush |
| ZBrush Central | ZBrush official forum |
| Photoshop sites | Comment |
| Adobe Studio Exchange | Free downloads for Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. |
| Andromeda Software | Interesting plugins for Photoshop |
| AutoFX Software | Makers of some superb Photoshop plugins (not cheap, but ...) |
| Linkware graphics | Large number of presets for Super BladePro |
| Texture sites | Comment |
| Arroway Textures | Superb range of very high-end textures |
| CG Textures | Possibly the best general texture site for CG purposes on the net |
| Continuum 3D | Great collection of panoramic skies |
| 3D.SK | The best site for human body textures and references (commercial site) |
| Image*After | Large range of free textures |
| Mayang's textures | Site was off-line for while, but is back now. Huge range of free textures, complete set can be purchased on DVD |
| Texture library | Excellent source of textures |
| Texture Maker | This is a seamless texture generator |
| Vray for C4D | Comment |
| Aversis | Vray tutorials (intended for Max but applicable to C4D) |
| Spot3D | Official manual for Vray (Max version but still vey useful) |
| Vray for C4D | Home page of Vray for C4D |
| Vray for C4D forum | The official forum for Vray for C4D |
| Vray for C4D resources | Materials, scenes, etc. for Vray for C4D |
| Vray Online | Tutorials and other resources for Vray (Max version, but many are applicable to C4D) |