a bunch of links from the ole "favorites" folder

3D & Multimedia Software

Discreet

Home of 3ds Max, Character Studio & Combustion

Newtek

Home of Lightwave

Macromedia

Home of Director, Flash, Dreamweaver etc.

Turbosquid

Home of 3ds Max Plugins

Right Hemisphere

Home of Deep Paint / Deep UV

SplutterFish

Home of the Brazil Rendering System

Ideate

Resellers and Trainers for 3ds Max in the Bay Area


Artists

Pascal Blanché

3d Artist with a unique style...

John Burnett

Author of the sadly demised footools maxscripts

Neil Blevins

A 3d artist of the mind blowing variety

Doug Chiang

Home of the Robota project

Perre Coffin

Home of "The Pings"

Martin Coven

Artist and maxscript creator

Brandon Davis

Particle effects guru extraordinaire

Kent Matheson

Digital matte painter extraordinaire

Ralph McQuarrie

The granddaddy of the Star Wars Universe

Craig Mullins

Sensational matte artist

Jose Perrez

Another inspirational 3d artist

Ben Procter

Great online portfolio

Dmitry Savinoff

Inspirational work created with Lightwave


3D CGI and Art Resource sites

Max Underground

The best news site for 3ds Max - bar none

CG Talk

A very lively online graphics community!

3d LuVr

Awesome 3d Site

3d Total

Much 3d wonderfulness...

3d Links

Just what it says - this site's essential!

Digital Animators

Kinda like an online 3d magazine

Flay

All that's new in the Lightwave community

Max Forums

Some good tutorials here

Anatomy for Artists

Anatomy Online - superb site!

Raph / 3d Artists

Probably my favorite 3d art website of all-time...

Trinity 3d

source of free plugins for max and more

How To Draw Manga

Source of inspiration for a current personal project

SF 3DS Max Group

The 3ds Max Users group in San Francisco


Magazines & Comics

CGW

Computer Graphics World Online

3d Artist

The "How To" magazine...

3d Gate

3d Gate Online magazine

2000 AD

While the US has Marvel Comics, the UK has...