Links

Links

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Animation-Specific Sites

Note: please see 3ds Max links at bottom of page

11 Second Club - How well can you animate to a classic movie dialogue 11 seconds long?

Pixar - Home page Pixar; check out the trailers for upcoming 3D films as well as classics from the past.

Comet Cartoons - A wealth of resources for animating and using Max and Maya

Keith Lango - Great tutorials on animating

FlashFilmmaker - Great tutorial on animating - look for the section titled How To Animate

Animation Physics - Alejandro Garcia's excellent site on the physics of animation.

Pepeland - Lots of good animation info including a tutorial on converting a biped rig to a bones rig

Game Engines

Garage Games - Home of the Torque Game Engine - engines starting at $295

Unity3D - Home of the Unity 3D Game Engine - engines starting at $Free

DevMaster - Game Engine review site

Extreme Tech - Game Engines 101 - Great article on game engines

Unity game engine Tutorials

Unity Tutorials - Unity video tutorials and other game dev resources

Learn Me Silly - Unity video tutorials, as well as tutorials for other apps

Learn Unity 3D - Unity video tutorials and game dev news items

3d Platform Game Tutorial - An excellent tutorial resource, get the Zip and the PDF

Modeling, Animation Tutorials

CG Society - A great site for sharing work and learning from other artists

3d Total - Great tutorial site

3d Luvr - Another great tutorial site

Running Cat - Nice walkthrough on how to keyframe a running cat

StormTheCastle.com - Video Game Making Tutorials

Tutorialized.com - Nothing but tutorials on this site

CG Arena - CGArena - Get Attention in the Computer Graphics Community

Raph - Tutorials and News

Highend3d.com - Tutorials and news

Tutorial Outpost - Tutorials

3ds Max Resources - Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, and other resources

Ludology, Learning Games, and Serious Games

Ludology - Interesting site with lots to say about the science of games

Serious Games - Games to improve leadership, etc.

UpToTen Kids - Space, the final...

Games and Psychology

Game Psychology - Great article on the Psychology Behind Games at GamaSutra.com

Mirror Mind - Interesting article on effects of gaming on players

Game and Interface Design

Interface Design Heuristics - Good things to keep in mind when you build your GUI

Resources

3DS Max OnlineResources, Tutorials, Products

Turbo Squid - Rigged 3d models, stock photos, textures, modeled and textured cities, Turbo Squid has it all

Codeweaver - a Free (as of this writing) editor for Torque script

Rent a Coder- Submit your game dev needs and accept bids from rated programmers

3dLinks - 3dLinks.com offers a wide array of links to resources for the 3d artist

TextureHound - Huge texture resource

Mega-Tex Studios - Textures and other 3d resources

Make-Video-Games.com - The website devoted to helping you make your video game making dreams come true

3ds Max Links

Main 3ds Max page at Autodesk.com - Product Description and Links

Support Discrete - 3ds Max support site

Trial copy of 3ds Max - 3ds Max product page

System Requirements - Requirements for 3ds Max

3ds Max Tutorials - Tutorials for 3ds Max at 3dcogntion.com - check this link or the Links page for more tutorial resources

3ds Max FBX Converters - Converters to export 3ds R10 characters to your game engine

3ds Max FBX Converter Archives - Converters to export 3ds R9 and older characters to your game engine