Links

The net is home to many great sites - great pictures, interesting information, useful tools and generous and talented people. Here are just some of my favourites...

  Fine Art...

Julian Calverley photographer
Jeremy A. Engleman A classic approach to a modern art
Kevin Hulsey Illustration Beautiful 2D technical illustration.
3D Artists 3D work from artists around the world
Eni Oken Games environments and other 3D based images
Terry Miura artist
Craig Mullins matte painter
Carles Piles Spanish 3D artist

  Find out more...

Cornell University - Program of Computer Graphics Home of the Cornell box.
Doc Ozone The Doc offers some nicely presented Photoshop tips in his 'hands on' section (including a downloadable archive). And that's not all. Great for beginners and intermediate users.
The Ground Cero guide to C a introduction to C
Nthd.org COFFEE plugin tutorial
Object-Oriented Programming Concepts an introduction to OOP
Texturing and modelling - a procedural approach One of the key books on developing procedural textures for 3D modelling. Edited by David Ebert, with contributions by Ken Musgrave, Darwyn Peachey, Ken Perlin, and Steve Worley. Includes code for the programmers amongst us.
SIGGRAPH Online Lots of interesting information, links and more on the latest in computer graphics.
Jeremy Suttons' Educational Resources some Painter resources to look into
An After Effects Portal A great site if you are new to this powerful programme - tutorials and links to other resources.
University of California - Santa Cruz; Perceptual Science Lab hosting some useful lists and information on computer graphics and facial animation.
Paul Bourke's pages  There's maths (but don't let that put you off), limericks, software, all sorts of things you never knew about curves, fun, and lots of interesting stuff about 3D geometry, modelling... and more. No exciting visual interface - but so what - it's fast to navigate and full of great stuff!
Grafica Obscura  Paul Haeberli's collection of, erm, well... interesting stuff. (If you can think of a better description, feel free to mail me.) Paul is a computer graphics researcher at Silicon Graphics.
DigitalDog useful info on ColorSync colour management from Andrew Rodney
Quantel high end kit - and publishers of the digital fact book (yours free for the asking)

  Toolbox...

Electric Image Animation System World class Mac based animation...
Auto*Des*Sys Authors of FormZ, the modelling programme the others aim to beat...
Maxon Authors of the animation and 3D modelling programme C4DXL
Bare Bones Software Authors of the wonderful BBEdit and it's freeware brother BBEdit Lite. The Mac's plain text editor of choice.
The Radiance home pages UNIX based lighting simulation programme.
Plugincafe - plugins, expressions and the SDK for Maxon's 3D software, C4DXL
AE Freemart - tools and information for Abobe After Effects

  E-zines and Meeting places...

MacIntouch News for those at the front line...
DV.Com An excellent source of tutorial articles on DV, motion graphics and 3D.
Computer Graphics World 3D product reviews, gallery...
3D Render.Com forum and useful information hosted by Jeremy Birn
Communication Arts design, photography, illustration and others.
Computer Graphics on the Net CGI links by Dortmund University
World Wide Arts Resources 'The largest gateway to arts information'
Creative C.O.W. forums digital creatives hosted by Kathlyn Lindeboom
VFXPro industry news and information
StudioMatchbox home of EFX Art & Design magazine

  Other sites just too good to miss...

BookBrain.co.uk 'the smartest way to buy books on the web' - if you live in the UK.
Walter S. Arnold - Sculptor Real 3D. If you appreciate the beauty of craftsmanship you'll want to linger at this site. Stone carving of a wonderful quality.
Le Louvre, Paris Painting 'BP' - 'before pixel'...
Museum of Modern Art, New York A nice compliment to Le Louvre, and anyway, it's fun to go from Paris to NewYork in 5 seconds ;)
Bathseba Grossman digital sculpture made real
Stokke Save your back - get a decent chair.