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High End 3D
One of the top sites for 3D Designers and Developers where you can download free 3d models and textures and read a wide variety of tutorials and industry articles.
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Use Maya to Design a 3D Animated Text Logo
This easy to understand tutorial covers the modeling technique of extruding and beveling text and animating it into a tubling or spinning logo in Maya. This is one of the best tutorials out there for getting started with this common task and a great way to start learning Maya. Also a good explanation of keyframaing. It gives you some good tips for getting your text/logo curves out of illustrator and into Maya too.
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TutorialPod.com 2D and 3D Graphics Tutorials
Tutorials for 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, Bryce, Maxon Cinema 4D and more. Covers all sorts of topics from modeling and texturing to rendering and animation.
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Creating Gold, Silver and Copper Materials in 3D Studio Max
You will learn how to create these commonly sought materials using some key comcepts of reflection, specular, index of refraction, fresnel, and fall-off. This tutorial can be applied to other programs besides 3dsm.
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High End 3D Library of Downloadable Maya Shaders
Hundreds of materials or textures (Shaders) free to be downloaded and added to your models. Every surface you can think of from bizarre alien skins to standard metal, dirt or grass, all submitted by users and free for your use.
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Pixel2Life's Outstanding Collection of Maya 3D Tutorials
(pixel2life.com) Probably the best and one of the largest collection of high quality Maya Tutorials.
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Video Introduction to Maya Basics with Keyboard Shortcuts
This is a nice little video intro to Maya that will get you going quickly and teach you some handy ekyboard shortcuts.
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How to Use Maya's Hypershade Tabs
Speed up your use of shaders/materials in Maya by learning to use this key feature.
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Gnomon's Amazing Advanced Maya 3D Tutorials
These are awesome, albeit advanced Maya tutorials; things like particles and gravity, transparency texture shadows, multi-pass rendering, candle flame, collisions with particle emission, fogs and fog density, 3d painting, inverse-kinematics, surface parameterization, organic modeling and animation, fur and more.
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Turbo Squid Professional 3D Resource Site
Professional 3D models, textures, materials, shaders and software for sale. Game Development tools. Forums for jobs as well as application help like: 3ds Max, Maya, CInema 4D, Lightwave 3D, SOfImage XSI, Poser, Blender, Hash Animation Master, Luxology Modo, Kaydara FBX, Combustion, Apple Shake, Flint, Flame Inferno and more. The models and materials for sale are very high quality.
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CG Society - Society of Digital Artists
Another great resource site for 3D artists and animators. Models, forums, articles, galleries and more. Premium content requires paid membership but it looks like a very professional community and for serious CG folks it might fit the bill.
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Infinity Maya Tutorials
A large list of excellent Maya tutorials.
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Spoono 3D Studio Max Tutorials
Good little collection of 3dsm tutorials on things like how to connect and animate bones, make an exploding box, animate fire, and get started with the render menu.
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