Reality Factory

My university had a forum with loads of links, enjoy.
(copy and pasting, not my work and wasnt writen by me)

Programs and Program Resources:

3d/Modelling
Autodesk's 3D Studio Max - http://www.autodesk.com/

Cinema 4D - http://www.maxon.net/

Autodesk Maya - http://www.alias.com/

Softimage XSI - http://www.softimage.com

Blender - http://www.blender.org/

ZBrush - http://www.pixologic.com/

Modo - http://www.luxology.com

Rhino3D - http://www.rhino3d.com/

Milkshape 3D - http://www.milkshape3d.com/


2D/Texturing
Bodypaint 3D - http://www.maxon.net/

Photoshop - http://www.adobe.com/

Paint Shop Pro - http://www.corel.com/

Corel Painter - http://www.corel.com/

Deep Paint 3D - http://www.righthemisphere.com



UVW Mapping (Standalone products)

Ultimate Unwrap 3D - http://www.unwrap3d.com/

Deep UV - http://www.righthemisphere.com


Animation
Character FX - http://www.insanesoftware.de/index.php\

Natural Motion (Endorphin) - http://www.naturalmotion.com/


Landscape Generation
Bryce 6 - http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/software/bryce/-/

Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/

Vue 6 - http://www.e-onsoftware.com/


Modelling and General Tutorial Sites:
http://3dbuzz.com - You should all know this one.

http://3dtotal.com - Maya and 3DS Resource and tutorial site

http://www.3dlinks.com/index.cfm - More Resources

http://www.highend3d.com/ - And yet more resources.

http://www.cgsociety.org/ - CG Society.

http://www.3d-palace.com/ - 3D Palace.

http://www.polycount.com/ - Polycount.

http://www.psionic3d.co.uk - Modelling, UVmapping, Texturing resource site with tutorials.

http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials - Bursting at the seams with professional tutorials. Anything 'premium' will cost you 99p, anything not premium is FREE. Unless you're a subscriber to Computer Arts magazine, in which case they're all free.

http://webdesign.templatemonster.com/ - Massive 2D/3D/websdesign/Photoshop Tutorial website.

http://www.totaltutorials.com/ - Tutorials for various programs

http://well-of-souls.com/gallery/tutorials.htm - CG Art Tutorials

http://www.cdg.net/gunshop/help.php - Gold Source (CS/HL1) related tutorials.

http://www.polykarbon.com/ - Drawing/Manga related tutorials.

http://www.insidecg.com/ - High end GFX and tutorials .

http://www.gameartisans.org/ - Game Artisans.org is a new one on the scene.

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/ Also worth a look!

Reference Pictures:

http://www.world.guns.ru - Weapons Reference site in both English and Russian

http://www.fineart.sk/ - Large human anatomy site for modelling reference.

http://www.fineart.sk/ - Large human anatomy site for modelling reference.

http://www.suurland.com/blueprints_archive.php - Vehicle blueprints.

http://www.the-blueprints.com/ - Any blueprints you could ever want. From Humans to Star Trek.

http://www.google.com - You'd be a total muppet to miss that one.

http://www.bigstockphotos.com - Premium photograph site. Costs money, but has a massive database of photos

http://www.3d.sk - Subsite of Fineart listed above. Premium cost.

http://www.mayang.com/textures/ - Great site full of very high resolution photographs aimed specifically at designers.


Game Development:

http://www.devmaster.net/engines/ - List of almost any games engine. Ever. With Reviews and comments.

http://www.gametutorials.com/ - Games Programming-related tutorials.

http://www.blitzbasic.com/ - BLITZ 3D fast and powerful games dev language.

http://www.thegamecreators.com - 3D Game Engine

http://www.gamemaker.nl - 3D Game Engine

http://www.realmcrafter.com - 3D Game Engine

http://www.cipherengine.com - 3D Game Engine

http://www.garagegames.com/makegames/ - Home of the Torque Game Engine.


More Photoshop:

http://www.pslover.com/ - As of 5th Nov, 10,778 tutorials listed. Worth a look.

http://st.burst.cc/tutorials.htm - Weapons texturing for games tutorial site.

http://www.mattepainting.org/ - Resources on matte painting.

http://fxzone.eyeball-design.com/ - Some PS tutorials.

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/

http://www.conceptart.org/



Half-Life 2:

http://www.hl2world.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page - HL2 Resource Site

http://halflife2.filefront.com/ - HL2 files over at Filefront.com.

http://collective.valve-erc.com - Valve's community Half-Life Site

http://www.valve-erc.com/srcsdk/ - Valve's HL2 SDK Documentation Site

http://www.half-life2.com - Official Half-Life 2 Site

http://www.steampowered.com - Official Steam Site

http://www.valve.com - Official Valve Site

http://www.planethalflife.com - Gamespy's Planet Half-Life.

http://www.moddb.com - Keep track of all the latest mods!

http://www.mangledpoly.com/hl2tools/ - 3DS Max Tools for HL2

http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=1 - Nem's tools!

http://www.wunderboy.org/ - wunderboy's tools!

http://chaosincarnate.net/cannonfodder/cftools.htm/ - Cannonfodder's tools!


Unreal:

http://udn.epicgames.com - Unreal Developer's Network.

http://planetunreal.gamespy.com/ - Gamespy's Planet Unreal.

http://unrealtournament2004.filefront.c ... /tutorials - Unreal Tournament file site.

http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/Unreal_Tournament - Beyond Unreal Wiki.

Textures, reference, photographs and materials for rendering

http://www.gameupdates.org/index.php?cat=11 Over 1GB of texture packs and collections. Mostly from quake / unreal artists and mappers. Some backups of dead sites


Large public libraries of textures. Mostly high res until e able photographs

http://www.freegraphics.org/ (not much variety)

http://www.pawas.com/

http://free3dstextures.com/ (Textures and photographs licensed under creative commons)

http://www.mega-tex.nl/ ( Accepts submissions)

http://www.accustudio.com/exchange/textures.php?dir= (Accepts submissions)

http://www.gamingtextures.com/ (Free low res textures. Paid users get high res textures)

http://textures.pedramk.com/index-html.php

http://www.turtletextures.com

http://www.3dimplant.com/images.php

http://textures.pedramk.com/index-html.php

http://www.afflict.net/option_1/option_1.htm

http://www.3d-resources.com/3d_textures.php

http://www.zbrush3.com/textures/index.html

http://www.archivetextures.net/

http://www.change-books.com/free-art-te ... metal.html

http://www.davegh.com/blade/davegh.htm

http://www.texturevault.com/cpg1410/index.php

http://www.lynnart.net/textures/wood/

http://texturez.com/

http://www.lapicesdecolores.com/neuras3d/texturas.html

http://www.texturearchive.com/

http://www.boogaholler.com/bjudy/finear ... tures.html

http://www.photoshoptextures.com/

http://www.cr-market.com/en/index.php

http://www.thegrimypolygon.com/

http://www.txpgone3d.com/portal.php (must register)

http://www.newtek.com/freestuff/ (must register)

http://www.3dmd.net/gallery/ (some tileable)

http://www.texturewarehouse.com/gallery/index.php

http://www.sharecg.com/b/6/Textures

http://www.amazingtextures.com/textures/index.php

http://www.bencloward.com/resources_textures.shtml

http://www.textureking.com/index.php/ca ... l-textures

http://www.ktn3d.com/textures.htm (some tileable)

http://www.textureworks.com/freestuff.html

http://www.allin3d.com/texures.html

http://www.noir.org/Textures.html (photos of bricks, stones, asphalt, etc)

http://megapoxy.net/free#anchor

http://www.in-texture.com/index.htm (was unreachable when I first saw it, don't know why)
http://www.animax.it/animax/Textures.htm (Highly recommended)
http://www.mayang.com/textures/ (Highly recommended)
http://www.imageafter.com/ (Highly recommended)
http://www.grsites.com/archive/textures/ (Mostly small tiles)
http://www.cgtextures.com/ (Highly recommended)
http://www.grungetextures.com/ (Metal, rust, oxidized, dirty, mud, dust, old, etc)
http://www.texturespy.com (Seems that they were a paid site sometime ago, but now everything is free to download)

(despite of the CD textures being paid, there are some high quality freebies)

http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/free ... hp/cat/506

http://tellim.com/texture_cd/html/menu1.html (blender texture CD)

http://textures.vertx.ca/ (Some high quality pho to graphed textures)

http://www.archibase.net/textures



Tileable / seamless

http://www.pixelpoke.com/FREE%20PIXELS_textures.html

http://www.3dvalley.com/textures.shtml

http://www.planit3d.com/source/texture_ ... tures.html (low res)

http://www.ender-design.com/rg/backidx.html (as above)

http://www.freetexturemaps.com/ (14 1024 x 1024 base textures. Have links to other sites)

http://www.openfootage.net/ (High resolution photographic textures)

http://www.yourdailytexture.com/ (as above)

http://www.texarch.eu/

http://www.oneodddude.net/index.php

http://www.spectralogue.com/textures/index.php?path=41 (both seamless and photo reference)

http://tirad.com/textures.htm (a few photoedited seamless)

http://www.fatstrawberry.com/ (many wallpapers and ornamental patterns)

http://repeatxy.com (Very good source of tileable background patterns)

http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/ (Same as above)

http://www.feedfinder.net/webground/main.shtml (tileable patterns in a wide range of colors)

http://www.citilink.com/~rmc/art/textures/textures.htm (Has some low res textures)

http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/texture_colour/ (all tiles are low res)


Non english resources

http://www.gallerie1.de/html/texturen.shtml

http://alice-grafixx.de/textures

http://www.texturenwelt.de/

http://www.pur3d.de/index.php?id=29

http://www.texturenland.de/texturen

http://www.3dxtra.cygad.net/de/page/46.htm

http://www.joes3dfantasyworlds.com/down/downpreview.htm

http://stilgar.st.funpic.de/

http://www.c4d-jack.de/php/textures/index.php

http://www.kollermedia.at/index.php/pattern4u

http://www.3d-ressource.de/

http://colorfilter.net/largetextures

http://www.mediacastle.de/texturen/rost ... index.html

http://lemog.fr/lemog_v6/index.php

http://www.ulf-theis.de/tutorials/texturen/industriell/

http://www.texturator.de/texturator_d.htm

http://www.on-design.de/goodies/texture/index.htm

http://www.ffranceschi.com/midima/ffita008.html

http://www.france-textures.fr.st/

http://www.bryceart.de/


Misc & Reference

http://www.e-interiors.net/ (Architecture and interior design reference)

http://www.linedstudio.com/ (as above)
http://jeenybeen.typepad.com/gingko_lea ... index.html
http://australiasevereweather.com/photo ... index.html (amazing collection of reference pictures of skies in different weather conditions)

http://www.morguefile.com/

http://urbandirty.com/

http://www.2textured.com/main.php

http://www.diwiesign.com/index.php?page=stockphotos (Ever watched Saw horror movies? This is a lot like Saw I)

http://www.abandoned-places.com/
http://www.greatbuildings.com/
http://www.oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm (Modern Ruins)
http://www.ohiotrespassers.com/ (abandoned, decayed buildings)
http://www.filipstadsbergslag.com/ (Dedicated to mines and miners)
http://bunkersite.com/ (Bunkers around the world)
http://www.dubtown.de/ (German. Pictures of decayed buildings and structures)
http://www.new-eden.com/ (Has a database of panoramic images)
http://www.abandoned.ru/index.php (Russian. Another source of abandoned st ructures)
http://www.urbanized.net/index.php?r=30 (Pictures of decayed structures)
http://www.uer.ca/ (More decayed...)
http://www.panoramio.com/ (Pictures of geological formations around the world. Integrated with google Earth)
http://vyonyx.com/ (Both textures and professional quality pictures of various places, and concept art)

www.freemediagoo.com (As above)

http://jeenybeen.typepad.com/gingko_lea ... index.html

http://www.locationworks.com/library/index.html (Excellent reference for interiors and exteriors, all categorized in sections such as bathrooms, living rooms, castles, rivers, etc.)

http://virtualworlds.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page (A wiki dedicated to archive game content that the author's has released under GPL)

http://gplr.bcsims.com/ (Similar to the above)

http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/freebies/index.html


Photos

http://www.sxc.hu/

http://cgusite.ning.com/photo

http://www.webshots.com/

http://www.pbase.com/ (super reference, highly recommended)

http://www.stockvault.net/index.php

http://www.adigitaldreamer.com/gallery/index.php

http://www.freefoto.com/

http://www.bigfoto.com/

http://aarinfreephoto.com/

http://www.farmphoto.com/

http://openphoto.net/

http://tofz.org/

http://www.photocase.de/en/

http://visipix.dynalias.com/index_hidden.htm

http://www.flickr.com/ (Must register)

http://www.photosharingforum.com/ (Some very high res textures and many photographs)

http://www.recsa.com/webroot/photogalle ... 4/real.htm (many real marble references)

http://www.boralbricks.com/ (as above, but for bricks)

http://www.freephotosweb.com/

http://www.freephotosbank.com/

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/

http://www.dreamstime.com/freephotos

http://www.photoforum.ru/

http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/

http://www.freephotostation.com/

http://www.freephotop.com/

http://www.freepixels.com/

http://www.everystockphoto.com/

http://www.allfreephoto.com/

http://yotophoto.com/

http://www.barrysfreephotos.com/

http://www.free-photographs.net/

http://www.freerangestock.com/

http://www.freephotos.se/

http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm

http://www.netfreephotos.com/

http://www.free-stockphotos.com/

http://www.free-pictures-photos.com/index.htm





Planets, stars and galaxies
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/mars.php
http://www.galaxyphoto.com/galaxies.htm
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/
http://www.gemini.edu/index.php?option=com_gallery



Materials for 3D modelling softwares

http://www.blender-materials.org/
http://www.vray-materials.de/

http://mxmgallery.maxwellrender.com/

http://www.tresd1.com.br/texturas.php?t=12921
http://www.lwg3d.com/v3/presets.php


Texture maps
http://www.zarria.net/nrmphoto/nrmphoto.html (how to "take pictures" of normal maps)

http://www.crazybump.com/ (this tool is capable of generating normal maps out of photographs)

http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=46

http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=589

http://cgexpanse.com/phpBB2/viewforum.p ... 980961f4ed


G imp & Others

http://www.inkscape.org/ (Free vector drawing software)

http://www.zoggles.co.uk/asp/news.asp (pixel art)

http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials.php

http://www.ratemydrawings.com/tutorials (Drawing art)

http://pwrinfo.com/cartoon-drawing-cour ... orials.htm (what the URL says)

http://www.drawingnow.com/ (more drawings)

http://www.psplinks.com/content/Digital_Paint (Paint Shop Pro)

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060 ... n_01.shtml (Texture theory)

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/forum/GIM ... s-8-1.html

http://www.gimpdome.com/forum/index . php?PHPSESSID=7642a62048818ee0e42f7adbc670100b&board=53.0

http://gug.sunsite.dk/?page=tutorials&. ... 931cdd5b6e







Photoshop

http://www.pixeldigest.com/tutorials.html (Mostly dedicated to photograph editing)

http://photoshop-indepth.com/lessons/ (Index page is offline or forbidden, uh??)

http://www.showandtell-graphics.com/photoshop.html

http://www.graphicreporter.com/tutorial ... rials.html

http://www.tutorialquest.com/tutorials/ ... -painting/

http://www.mapcore.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5318 (Some tutorials about texturing for games)

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial ... ction_id=6 (Mostly dedicated to digital artists in general)

http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials ... p/textures

http://www.photoshopcstutorial.com/

http://www.pixel2life.com/

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/P ... Patterns/1

http://www.spoono.com/photoshop/

http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/two_d/1/

http://www.teamphotoshop.com/The%20Tech ... 5,8,3.html

http://pslover.com/tutorials/Textures/1

http://www.photoshop101.com/tutorials/t ... -patterns/

http://www.tutorialforums.com/

http://www.techtutorials.info/draw.html

http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials ... ult_page=1 http://psworkshop.net/psworkshop/Category....e=Textures&

http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/browse/4/added/desc/1/

http://www.toxiclab.org/default.asp?ID=3

http://www.fstutorials.com/photoshop/texture/

http://www.radiantvista.com/tutorials?page=1 (Some video tutorials)

http://www.espressographics.com/

http://www.candeekis.com/alltutorials.html

http://www.cbtcafe.com/photoshop/

http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/

http://www.photoshopmosaic.com/Photoshop-tutorials/1

http://www.photoshopgurus.com/tutorials/tutorials.html

http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutor ... ials.shtml

http://www.wikivid.com/index.php/Main_page (Free video tutorials of pretty much any subject)

http://www.photoshopdersleri.net/ (Swendish)

http://www.shanzcan.com/photoshopahol.html

http://totaltutorials.com/

http://www.wikihow.com (a wiki dedicated to tutorials of pretty much any subject)

http://www.webdesign.org/web/photoshop/tutorials/

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com

http://www.celoxdesign.net/free-photoshop-tutorials

Drawing & Painting
http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp

http://www.allcrafts.net/drawpaint.htm (Real painting, not digital art)

http://www.creativity-portal.com/howto/ (mostly dedicated to Design & Creativity process)

Nice list but nothing on music, and music is part of a game

so it is, and so is programming, i forgot about these, the course is to do with the graphical side of games, possibly need to edit the title, but anyhow theres alot, havnt been through them all my self yet.
If i find any audio links to do with games will add them

Wow now that's what I call a nice link list! I wonder why it is you don't see a whole lot around about game music... Now that I think of it I'm going to have to go look for some

very nice links