Art resources (3d based, but not limited to)

General artist resources and links

These resources are for digital artists leaning to the 3d side side of things.

(I am a blender user and only use free software, there will be no links for paid software such as Maya. That being said, this read should benefit most artists in the digital world. There will be resources that are both free for people like me, and $$$ for people that have money. . .)

Blender specific resources located on this resources page.

Links

Architecture

Get inspired, books you need and average room sizes.

Architectural Digest: Top notch architecture feed.
Architect Magazine: Same idea as architectural digest.
Ted: Ted talk on architecture, bound to teach you something new.
Younge Architect: This link provied nice documentation on what books architects should take a look at.
Room Sizes: This pdf is a great reference to have especially for people just entering the field.

Post your work

My top five for posting and looking at art work and portfolios.

Art Station: This is the place, If you don't have an art station profile, your a nub.
CG Society: Pretty similar to art station, another great place.
SketchFab: For 3d Models, neat 3d turntable viewing.
Deviant Art: Typically 2d and also well known.
Carbon Made: Set up your own online portfolio!

General

General Links for help, news,

Flipped Normals: The place for 3d, Free and paid content, all outstanding content.
Tuts+: Covers everything you need, free and paid.
LearnSquared: Paid, but quality.
The Gnomon Workshop: Professinal courses, Paid
Poly Count: Fourms, contests and more! Great place to be.
Plural Sight: Great Paid Content, 10 free trial.
Concept Art Empire: Tips, lighting, 2d, 3d, insperation and resources!
Anatomy For artists: Self explanitory.
Typology Guilds: Tips and guild for great 3d topology.
Unreal Engine 4: Documentation on how to use this great engine.

References and images

Your reference and inspiration needs.

Color Wheel: Outstanding free tool for theme and color picking.
500px: High quality images, nice for insperation and how pros use color and compsition.
PixaBay: Nice Stock photos.
Pexels: Nice Stock photos.

Freelance Jobs

Honestly Fiverr is the only one really worth looking into out of this list.

Fiverr: Outstanding and well known freelance service, buy or sell services.
UpWork: Another great place to go if Fiverrs just not your thing.
Freelancer: Last resort, decent, but seems iffy.
Blender Network: Blender based freelancing in the early stages, currently you can't become a seller.

Textures, 3d models, Fonts and HDRI downloads.

My top resources for that shit you don't want to custom make.

Poliigon: Amazing palce for textures and more! Run by the Man from Blender Guru
Textures: Best place for free textures.
Mega Scans: High quality textures, some free, mostly paid. They also offer other great software.
Game Textures: High quality textures, some free, mostly paid.

DaFont: My Font Spot.

GameDev Market: Great spot for game assets.
CG Trader: Buy, sell models and freelance projects, belive theres plenty of free options too.
VizPeople: Blog, free models and more
Three D Scans: Very nice 3d scans of statues! Free
Free 3D: 3d Models, free and paid.

HDRI Labs: Quality free hdri's
HDRI Haven: Quality free hdri's

Organize and Plan

Keep yourself and your team organized!

Trello: The all around fo to place for planning. Great from buisness to game dev.
Hack N Plan: A more niche planner designed specifically for game development.

You tubers

Game Dev:

Dean AshFord:
Ben Ormstad:
Game Dev Under Ground: Hes like Blender Guru for gsme development, outstanding YouTuber.
Extra Credits: I used this for game design though they also have plenty of history lessons for you nerds.
Speed Tutor:

Fashion:

Marvelous Designer: The best software for fashion design, this is there offical YouTube account.
Zoe Hong: Shes a good designer and good teacher. Check her out.

Drawing/PhotoShop:

Jazza: My personal go to for 2d art.
PSD Box Official:

Discords

Each of these are worth looking into, as most have there own resources pages and help feeds.

Blender: Ultimate Blender discord
Flipped Normals: Outstanding art discord for most anything, though it recolves around 3d.
3d Modeling: Top notch 3d discord
Architecture: The only architecture based discord I know about, and its darn good.
The Dump: Run by a professional Zbrush Sculptor, its a nice discord to hand around.
Game dev under ground: An outstanding game dec discord run by that same game dev YouTuber.

Follow up,

These are just the resources I have and use, if you have any to add please comment and help everyone out! Or contact me via email and I can update the list (email on contact page).

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