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Links of personal interest. Of course I am starting off with a little bit of shameless self-promotion.
• Fracture
http://www.fracture-fx.com
A cross-platform, procedural, event-driven destruction plugin for Maya
C'mon, did you really think I was not going to do this?
• TD College
http://www.td-college.com/
CG education with REAL production value!
I'm not a TD but I still do work for them.
• Blender
http://www.blender.org
When I am not chained to Maya I am normally compiling the latest revision of 2.5 and playing around with the new features. Would like to contribute some code but don't have the time. Of course I closely follow the Durian project with great interest.
• Meats Meier
http://www.3dartspace.com/
The organic mechanic himself, and about the nicest person you will ever have on your Facebook friends list.
• Graham Thomspon
http://www.gt3d.net/
Personal friend and all around coolest Aussie I know (OK, he's the only one I know). GT is also responsible for the artwork for my book. Oh sorry Kevin, OUR book...
• Jessica DeLacy
http://willrigforfood.blogspot.com/
A resource hub for all things involving rigging and technical direction.
Young woman with an insatiable love for rigging. Yeah there are women in CG, but how many women out there go as a character rig for Halloween? Oh and she bought my book so that gives her a few more cool points.
• Colin Levy
http://www.colinlevy.com/
Director of the Blender Open Movie Project, Sintel (Durian). Not only is Colin a talented young man but he doesn't appear to let his skill give him a huge ego which makes him worth keeping an eye on.
• Nathan Vegdahl (Cessen)
http://www.cessen.com/
He was a rigger and animator on Big Buck Bunny, and probably my personal favorite of the entire team. Nathan also seems to posses a unique sense of humor on top of his amazing skills with Blender. See his Blender Institute Tour; “This is the shut the f*** up room!”.
• Mike Fox
http://blenderlabrat.blogspot.com/
Michael is a known contributor to the Blender source code. He also records a lot of Blender 2.5 tours which are about the best you will find anywhere.
• David Schoneveld
http://agentfx.blogspot.com
David is extremely knowledgeable and experienced with Maya Fluids. He is also responsible for the Maya Fluids DVD's at the Gnomon Workshop and has been testing Fracture.
• Realistic face modeling by PhungDinhDzung
http://www.phungdinhdung.org/Realistic_face_modeling_by_PhungDinhDzung.htm
One of the most common questions/discussion I come across is how to model a human face. There are many tutorials out there, most of which are simply horrible. This is not one of them.
• The Freesound Project
http://www.freesound.org/
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.
