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A Few Good Sites…

Links

Here are some sites I honestly think you will benefit from if you haven’t visited them yet.  Yes you do have to pay for a lot of the training in the “3rd party training” section, but those sites produce content worth saving your pennies for.  This post is checked on a regular basis so all of the links should be live. This isn’t one of this “hit it and quit it” link pages. I don’t roll that way.

Social Networking Sites

  • Twitter (http://www NULL.twitter NULL.com/terrymatthes)Catch news about upcoming tutorials and projects.
  • YouTube (http://www NULL.youtube NULL.com/delightningvfx) All video tutorials are hosted here.

Community Links

  • Games Industry Mentor (http://gim NULL.acanaday NULL.com/)Aaron hosts a pod cast with game industry professionals.
  • CG Society (http://www NULL.cgsociety NULL.org/) Thousands of threads to search for solutions to your 3D woes.
  • Concept Art.org (http://www NULL.conceptart NULL.org/)Inspiration by the boat load. Want to improve your drawing skills?
  • Gamer Artists.net (http://www NULL.game-artist NULL.net/forums/)The monthly challenges here will keep you sharp.
  • Polycount (http://www NULL.polycount NULL.com/forums) A great place to go for advice. Thin skinned be warned.
  • Unreal Developer Network (http://udn NULL.epicgames NULL.com/)Anything and everything to do with the Unreal engine.
  • Unreal Development Kit (http://www NULL.udk NULL.com/) A great site to introduce users to the UDK community.

Unreal Artists

  • Hourences (http://www NULL.hourences NULL.com/) Unreal tutorials covering a variety of topics. We all owe Hourences a “Thank you”.
  • Email me to get your site here. (theauthor null@null terrymatthes NULL.com)
  • Dave Prout (http://www NULL.daveprout NULL.com/) Lighting tutorials you can really use.
  • Arcadia Vincennes’ Level Design (http://www NULL.avld NULL.org) Konfused by Kismet? Also has some good level design tutorials.

3rd Party Educators

  • Gnomon Workshop (http://www NULL.thegnomonworkshop NULL.com/) On the Internet? Into 3D?  What are you waiting for? Amazing tutorials.
  • Eat3D (http://www NULL.eat3d NULL.com) Some really great Unreal related Lessons sets.
  • Digital Tutors (http://www NULL.digitaltutors NULL.com) Friendly, bright and upbeat 3D tutorials that are very easy to follow.
  • 3D Motive (http://www NULL.3dmotive NULL.com) A ton of beginner to intermediate 3D game tutorials.

Tools / Programs

  • nDo (http://quixel NULL.se)Create your normal maps in Photoshop with this free tool.