useful links

GENERAL


VFXY
alot alot of informations abt vfx~ u can find info of companies, schools, tutorials, etc etc~
founded by groups of vfx professionals who wants to keep n share useful informations online
http://links.vfxy.com/index.php

CG education
full of Pics n description, detail on explaining the concepts
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/cg_education.htm


CGVisual (chinese)
full of tutorial, in chinese~ ezier for friends who r chinese background
http://www.cgvisual.com/





Blender

many things u can find, including nice free texture link

http://www.blender.org/





TEXTURES DOWNLOAD

http://www.tellim.com/texture_cd/html/menu1.html
http://www.imageafter.com/
http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/downloads_textures/textures_list/
http://cg-india.com/free_textures.html
http://free3dstextures.com/
http://www.m3corp.com/a/download/index.htm




RENDERING & COMPOSITING

Rendering in passes and composite AE (chinese)
http://www.cg-forum.com/main/viewtopic.php?t=2049

Rendering several maya scenes and camerasTutorial
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/rendering_lighting/general/261.html

compositing 101 - if you dont know this it will change your life- The Black edge
(settle the black edge problem, say bye to magic wand!)
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/rendering_lighting/general/302.html

some example of composite CG together wf real life footage
http://www.juztn.com/compTut10.html





SCRIPTS

Organising your downloaded scripts
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/using_tools_scripts/320.html

Modeling scripts--- screws, nuts~
(why spend time on the "little detail" that ppl will hardly notice? work smart)
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/using_tools_scripts/316.html





MATTE PAINTING

Matte Painting tutorials frm Matte Painting.org
http://www.mattepainting.org/vb/showthread.php?t=4245


SHARING FRM WEI JIAN

http://www.animationmeat.com/
http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.craftanimation.com/index.cfm?objectid=27B47796-AC74-49F2-5BCB089111A3FC5E