Free 3D models

Assembly of free 3D model fro CGTalk, most of them are characters (each part contain about 10 models or more)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Cel Shading in Maya with Christophe Desse

CgChannel posted what look like a really interesting tutorial for maya 2011 by Christophe Desse

Lot's of tutorials - AFX, Blender, Cinama4D, max

so here goes a bunch of tutorials from all over the net, most of them are AFX but some of them are about VFX, so they are combining different applications.

http://www.bluefx.net/blog/category/tutorials/






http://visualfxtuts.com/176-mograph-vfx-tutorials-omgwtf

http://visualfxtuts.com/thanksgiving-82-tuts

http://visualfxtuts.com/vfx-tut-roundup-for-the-last-2-months-271-tutorials

http://visualfxtuts.com/255-new-tutorials-and-thats-not-even-all-of-them






http://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/roundup/51-after-effects-tutorials-from-elsewhere/

http://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/roundup/28-tracking-and-matchmoving-tutorials/#comments

Azureus Rising - Proof of Concept

For best viewing - Please watch in 720 HD, Full Screen, on High Volume.

Azureus Rising is the proof-of-concept for an all new feature film trilogy.

Azureus is the story of a young man who after escaping death and enduring a life changing journey - matures into a heroic freedom fighter. Azureus Rising is an epic tale of self discovery, obligation and love against all odds.

For more information please visit the Azureus website at www.azureusrising.com or e-mail us at info@thesunsetsblack.com

designer and conceptual artist - Thang Le

Thang Le portfolio

3ds Max 2009 Tutorials Special Effects

very cool E-book....the title says it all....

Happy Pony

"It is with great pleasure that we are finally in our online animated short film "Happy Pony" movie graduation achieved in late 2009.

This film directed by Alexandre Louvenaz Yannick Moulin Alexis Artaud, Romain Musso and Olivier Moulin, tells the story of a brother and sister, Martin and Camilla, lost in a world strange to say the least." http://happyponylefilm.wordpress.com/

Sintel - Durian Open Movie project

Trailer for the short animation film "Sintel", the Durian Open Movie project by the Blender Foundation. More information http://durian.blender.org

Animated Shorts pages

two pages containing animated shorts
very cute and cool
Page 1
Page 2

How To Use Curves in Photoshop By Owen James

"If I were forced to give up all but one image adjustment tool, I would keep curves. Hands down. The curves adjustment tool is an integral part of every professional’s knowledge base and image editing package." - Owen James

Link

Create Cityscape with 3ds max 2010 (timelapse version)

"In this speedup video, we use some tricks to create cityscape with 3ds max 2010. You need: 1. PolyRndExtrude (maxscript) 2. Advanced Painter (maxscript) 3. a lowpoly car to run this tutorial. Special thanks to Sai" - hammerbchen

It's taken from a Very nice Max video tutorials chennel, there are more video tutorials that are worth watching....

unfolding text tutorial - After effects

Step By Type - After Effects Tutorial from Mattias Peresini on Vimeo.

and a link to the tutorial

and a link to a bunch of tutorials by Mattias Peresini

50 Rendering Tutorials

it’s collection of most usefull cg tutorials by 3d rendering around cg sites. Hope you find this collection informative. worth checking..... I think most of them are for MAX

100 Impressive Artworks of Robots

3Dexport - worth wathcing.....

Create A Realistic Glass Reflection - Ran Ben Avraham

Transparency is an important element to reflect in one’s relationships and if we can help you in that area it’d be our pleasure! In this tutorial you’ll find out how to create a realistic glass reflection on a 3D object, created within After Effects. We’ll then simulate a normal pass and have it reflect the environment with the “normality” free plug-in - Ran Ben Avraham
Link to download the tutorial

AE+ tut - source