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lazerus
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Posted: 11th Nov 2009 22:39
errm Mister BiggAdd?

When can we have our model database?



BiggAdd
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Posted: 12th Nov 2009 01:57
I was thinkin about the model database just today, I might whip something up this weekend.

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Posted: 12th Nov 2009 08:18
Aye, me and Laz we're discussing this. This needs put together. If you need any help I can lend a hand.


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Posted: 8th Dec 2009 20:55
Add 3drt to the list of 3d model sites.

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Posted: 5th Jan 2010 03:21
Quote: "Add 3drt to the list of 3d model sites."


Agreed, top notch models there: www.3drt.com/

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Posted: 31st Jan 2010 19:49
A great tutorial site:
http://www.cgarena.com/
And an amazing tutorial on that site:
http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/misc/headmodeling/index12.html

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lazerus
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2010 21:51
http://weapondesigners.deviantart.com/

An epic collection of weapons and pure destructive prowess. Check the licenses on each picture since some have rights reserved, and dont forget to ask!

-Con

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Posted: 7th Feb 2010 21:39
You could also use Photoshop Elements and get Nvida mods on it for making 3d models. Its a lot cheaper and easier than photoshop.

Right now I'm using my moms.

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Posted: 13th Feb 2010 10:27 Edited at: 13th Feb 2010 10:29
BiggAdd could you please remove the Archive 3D as it looks like they have identical models to ones that Evermotion are selling,

http://archive3d.net/?category=1380 is the same as http://www.evermotion.org/modelshop/show_product/archmodels-vol-44/109/0/0/
and im pretty sure ive seen others on there too.

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Posted: 19th Apr 2010 21:41
http://www.pixagogo.com/DeicideNBF

Simply the best weapon reference site.

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Posted: 3rd May 2010 06:23 Edited at: 3rd May 2010 06:26
http://cg.tutsplus.com/

this site is amazing they have a decent amount of tutorials all video. they also pay people that submit video tutorials to their site.

they have tutorials for programs such as autodesk(maya and 3ds max), cinema 4D, blender, zbrush, mudbox. and they have very good quality tutorials. i followed a cinema 4D tutorial on there that covered Modeling Uv mapping and Textureing a Grenade. and am AMAZED! that it was free. the tutorial was 2 hrs 30 mins total the grenade was a Type 97 hand grenade, the standard fragmentation grenade that was used by the Imperial Japanese Army in WWII.

they also have a remarkable Zbrush tutorial 3 part that covers the modeling of a Demon-like ‘Lok Warrior’ that i intend to follow as soon as possible.

i also noticed that they have some tutorials that cover next gen modeling.

over all this site is a must for ANY one looking into tutorials.

lol well i just noticed that it had already been posted about*tear*(there i thought i had an amazing discovery)

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Posted: 8th May 2010 09:44
http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.php

best tutorial ever, nuff said.


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Posted: 9th May 2010 21:24
Filter Forge. Great program for making textures, There are presets (Wood and stuff) With sliders you move about to create a unique texture. Has a seamless option and can make normal maps. Comes as a program and a plugin for photoshop.

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Posted: 10th May 2010 00:58 Edited at: 10th May 2010 07:31
quick that definitely is one of the best. just wish some one made a video tutorial for it.

http://morguefile.com/archive/

here's a great reference image site. they have a large collection of all sorts of things

http://www.infinitee-designs.com/Tutorials-Maya-1.htm

this site has a good collection of maya, max and photoshop tutorials

https://www.creativecrash.com/tutorials

this site has a decent collection of tutorials for both 2D and 3D(not all listed software has tutorials, cinema 4D is an example of that)

http://www.learning-maya.com/23-0-modeling-tutorials.html

as the link says a good site for learning maya

http://www.3dexport.com/blog/2010/03/60-car-modeling-tutorials/

if you ever wanted to learn to model a car here is all you will ever need.

http://www.3dexport.com/

3DExport is a store where you can buy and sell 3D models, textures, plugins, and digital prints for using in CG projects. they also have tutorials not many and most aren't free.

http://www.tutorials3d.com/eng/tut_index.asp

this site has some interesting priced tutorials and a small collection of free tutorials. along with reference images(free) and 3D models(not free)

http://www.subdivisionmodeling.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59

this site links out to other sites with tutorials although it has a large collection of tutorials for anything from 2D/3D to video editing.

http://mayamodeling.com/index.html
this site has a decent collection of maya and zbrush tutorials.(links to other sites)

this site has a small collection of tutorials and a large collection of 3D models(site is not easy to navigate)

http://www.tutorialsphere.com/

sub division modeling for various programs

http://montagestudio.org/tutorials/

small collection of blender tutorials

http://www.katsbits.com/tutorials/

an interesting collection of tutorials for various programs

http://tutorials20.com/
an interesting collection of tutorials for various programs. only cinema 4D modeling tutorials.

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Azunaki
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Posted: 10th May 2010 01:01 Edited at: 10th May 2010 01:42
oops sorry thought i was in edit.

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lazerus
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Posted: 10th May 2010 01:47
Ahh thanks Quik ^___^

I always aspired to that tutorial, i pretty much based my learning curve on knowing everything id need to do it. Yet i still never followed it to this day. Ill defiantly read it one day.

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Posted: 24th May 2010 00:42
I just found another 3d reference site with 13,352 blueprints of Airplanes, cars, ships and trains... also 1340 tutorials.
http://www.3dreference.org

Don't follow in my footsteps... I often walk into walls
Azunaki
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Posted: 26th May 2010 05:12
http://www.c4dexchange.com/en/default.aspx

is a good site for all things cinema 4D both priced and free stuff.(textures, models, scenes ect.)

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Posted: 4th Jun 2010 21:35 Edited at: 25th Feb 2011 08:18
Sculptris a brilliant (FREE) sculpting app.
http://www.sculptris.com/[href]null[/href]

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Quik
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Posted: 8th Jun 2010 11:08
thanks Jim B, i will check that out, ive been looking for free options to Zbrush and alike, thanks a lot^^


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Posted: 9th Jun 2010 08:24
Quote: "thanks Jim B, i will check that out, ive been looking for free options to Zbrush and alike, thanks a lot^^"


You're welcome mate,you wont regret trying Sculptris.
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Posted: 9th Jun 2010 15:28
no i certanly wont, ive tried it,, its only flaw in my opinion is that it uses tris, which can cause flaws when poly reducing... but other than that it works great! i absolutly LOVE IT... definitly the best introduction to sculpting out there


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Posted: 9th Jun 2010 19:44
I reduce models with Atangeo Balancer it works with tri's and problem free.Sculptris models I intend to retopolise in either Silo or 3DCoat Pro anyway.
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Posted: 9th Jun 2010 20:03
this thread is probably one of the best threads in this forums^^ very informative^^


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Posted: 21st Jun 2010 00:55 Edited at: 21st Jun 2010 08:05
http://www.mapzoneeditor.com/?PAGE=HOME MaPZone: Not sure if anyone posted this one yet, but this one is pretty good. Uses nodes and all that to make textures, check out the gallery and see some pretty awesome stuff there. Downloaded it, and I have to say it looks impressive (the pictures contain example files from the program once you download it). BTW I just discovered it today, I haven't used it much, but it looks promising.

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Posted: 13th Jul 2010 03:50
this is a great place to find reference pictures, dunno if it has been posted yet:

http://free-textures.got3d.com/natural/free-character-references/free-character-texture-references-man-2/index.html


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lazerus
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Posted: 26th Jul 2010 15:46
Well I always forget to post this up lol,

http://kuler.adobe.com/

This is a web palette that allows you to create a pretty decent colour set for characters and whatever else your texturing. I always use this when im lost or stuck in a blue/grey rut.

Its good to steal some other peoples palletes aswell. I just knick the top guys one now and then

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Posted: 26th Jul 2010 21:48 Edited at: 26th Jul 2010 21:51
seems like the guys who owns Zbrush now owns Sculptris aswell, i do hope that it will stay free however =P
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=090617

and an edit:

here, you can see just how awesome sculptris really are!
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=90652


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Posted: 22nd Aug 2010 00:59
http://www.sumopaint.com/home/?r=50&p=1

this is a browser based painting program. its rather good. especially for being free.

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Posted: 13th Sep 2010 01:11
CB Model pro is a decent free modelling program, can be fun to use even if the tools are slightly limited. It's a bit like playing with digital clay. The project producing it is no longer active but it's a useful little resource I've found:

http://www.cbmodelpro.com/

Normal? Where's the fun in -that-?!
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Posted: 24th Sep 2010 01:28
http://www.cineversity.com/

it a great collection of cinema 4D tutorials.

i thought this was already on here oh well.

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Posted: 24th Sep 2010 02:38
@Azunaki

THERES A GREAT GRAPHIC RESOURCE SECTION FOR A REASON... o waIt...

lol jk.

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Posted: 18th Oct 2010 22:46 Edited at: 1st Nov 2010 10:29
FACEWORX - just what I need. Unfortunately, it now appears to a service, not software.

Anyone any ideas for an alternative?

EDIT: I found it! (the original link was to a non existant page - in German). It is here;

http://www.looxis.com/download/LOOXIS_Faceworx_v1.exe

And it is great!
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2010 22:38
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3ds-max/model-a-high-poly-rpg-rocket-launcher-in-3ds-max-day-1/

must say that this tutorial is..
wow.
he explains it excellently, godlikley! I have learned SO much from this, so much about highpoly modelling, just simply wow.
I recomment everyone with basic-intermediate skills in 3ds max to check this one out!


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My website http://gamedesignplanet.com has a small but growing free archive of high quality textures.

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looks good^^ some really nice textures on that site


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Posted: 20th Dec 2010 07:08 Edited at: 20th Dec 2010 07:11
Quote: "ACCUTRANS 3D - Good FREE file converter"


BiggAdd Accutrans is not Freeware.
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Posted: 27th Feb 2011 13:31 Edited at: 27th Feb 2011 13:37
There is a good free renderer called Kerkythea, it is available for Windows, MacOSX and Linux and has loads of free extras available such as trees, plants, surfaces, skies etc..

kerkythea.net

Here is a model of an old book I made in wings3d and rendered in kerkythea:


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Google Sketchup has a plugin for Kerkythea export.
NOT MY VIDEO!!


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Posted: 2nd Mar 2011 06:22
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2071/uv_mapping_tips_and_tricks.php

so i ran across this wonderful UV mapping article on gamasutra. and thought you guys would love to take a look at it. wasn't sure on were to post this though.

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still dunno how to embed youtube vids.. anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac4qV2uIF3Q&feature=fvwrel

pretty cool video of someoen creating a japanese animeish style 3d character, very impressive


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http://www.startextures.com/

Great texture resource, but they require an entry in your credits

There's nothing like mowing down a horde of goblins with a mini gun!
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I didn't see Curvy 3D on the list. Kinda similar to Zbrush but MUCH quicker and WAY easier to learn!
priced at about $100
http://curvy3d.com/
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Posted: 19th Jun 2011 11:55 Edited at: 19th Jun 2011 18:29
Nice forum page. Really found some good information from here. Thanks.

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I use 3D Coat, its very Similar to Zbrush and Mudbox, You can sculpt a high poly mesh out of voxils and retopologize it to a low poly mesh using the repo tool and bake your ambient occlusion map and normal map and paint in displacement and color, texture, its nice because it uses layers just like photo shop, when your done you can export out your low poly mesh all textured ready for your game or rigging and animation in Max.

http://www.3d-coat.com/




High Poly Voxil Mesh



Low Poly Retopo Mesh, you can UV map your model at the same time as you retopologizing it



Low poly Mesh, textured, with ambient occlusion map, normal map,specular map, using Direct X9 Shader in viewport
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2012 22:20
http://www.sycra.net/

if you go to resources on that webbsite you can find brushes for paint programs (not sure which), reference resources, online tutors (youtube tutors i think), art webbsites and a lot more. I newly found this and it seems very promising!


The result of origin.. Oh and ponies
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hey all thanks for posting about the resources
not that i do not find enough on a daily basses
well at least when it comes to DBP examples

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I found a nice place, which isn't on list, to sell or buy 3d models. CGTrader 3D models offers a lot models, also there you can find free models. And easy filters to find what you need.
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Posted: 24th Mar 2012 02:08
I wanted to mention that there is a Photoshop CS6 beta out right now that's free for people to use.

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/photoshopcs6.html

I've downloaded, but haven't used it yet. From some videos I watched of it, it seems they have changed to UI to resemble 3ds Max's. It's got a couple nice new features such as Perspective Cropping and Tiltshift blurring.

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Just wanted to add our site to your list: www.the3dmodelstore.com

Plenty of free model packs as well as paid ones. We also run a constant competition where you can win any of the paid model packs.

www.the3dmodelstore.com

Buy any 2 model packs, Save $5 at the3dmodelstore.com

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