Here are some sites I honestly think you will benefit from if you haven’t visited them yet. Yes you do have to pay for a lot of the training in the “3rd party training” section, but those sites produce content worth saving your pennies for. This post is checked on a regular basis so all of the links should be live. This isn’t one of this “hit it and quit it” link pages. I don’t roll that way.
Social Networking Sites
- Twitter Catch news about upcoming tutorials and projects.
- YouTube All video tutorials are hosted here.
Community Links
- Games Industry Mentor Aaron hosts a pod cast with game industry professionals.
- CG Society Thousands of threads to search for solutions to your 3D woes.
- Concept Art.org Inspiration by the boat load. Want to improve your drawing skills?
- Gamer Artists.net The monthly challenges here will keep you sharp.
- Polycount A great place to go for advice. Thin skinned be warned.
- Unreal Developer Network Anything and everything to do with the Unreal engine.
- Unreal Development Kit A great site to introduce users to the UDK community.
Unreal Artists
- Hourences Unreal tutorials covering a variety of topics. We all owe Hourences a “Thank you”.
- Email me to get your site here.
- Dave Prout Lighting tutorials you can really use.
- Arcadia Vincennes’ Level Design Konfused by Kismet? Also has some good level design tutorials.
3rd Party Educators
- Gnomon Workshop On the Internet? Into 3D? What are you waiting for? Amazing tutorials.
- Eat3D Some really great Unreal related Lessons sets.
- Digital Tutors Friendly, bright and upbeat 3D tutorials that are very easy to follow.
- 3D Motive A ton of beginner to intermediate 3D game tutorials.
Tools / Programs
- nDo Create your normal maps in Photoshop with this free tool.