{"id":160,"date":"2010-12-18T03:03:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T03:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elegantwordpressthemes.com\/preview\/eGallery\/?p=68"},"modified":"2024-03-06T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T20:10:17","slug":"links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/2010\/12\/18\/links\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Good Sites&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some sites I honestly think you will benefit from if you haven&#8217;t visited them yet.\u00a0 Yes you do have to pay for a lot of the training in the &#8220;3rd party training&#8221; section, but those sites produce content\u00a0worth saving your pennies for.\u00a0 This post is checked on a regular basis so all of the\u00a0links should be live. This isn&#8217;t one of this &#8220;<em>hit it and quit it<\/em>&#8221; link pages. I don&#8217;t roll that way.<\/p>\n<h4>Social Networking Sites<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/terrymatthes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter <\/a>Catch news about upcoming tutorials and projects.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/delightningvfx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> All video tutorials are hosted here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Community Links<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gim.acanaday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Games Industry Mentor <\/a>Aaron hosts a pod cast with game industry professionals.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgsociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CG Society<\/a> Thousands of threads to search for solutions to your 3D woes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptart.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Concept Art.org <\/a>Inspiration by the boat load. Want to improve your drawing skills?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.game-artist.net\/forums\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gamer Artists.net <\/a>The monthly challenges here will keep you sharp.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polycount.com\/forums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Polycount<\/a> A great place to go for advice. Thin skinned be warned.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/udn.epicgames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unreal Developer Network <\/a>Anything and everything to do with the Unreal engine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.udk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unreal Development Kit<\/a> A great site to introduce users to the UDK community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Unreal Artists<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hourences.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hourences<\/a> Unreal tutorials covering a variety of topics. We all owe Hourences a &#8220;Thank you&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:theauthor@terrymatthes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Email me to get your site here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveprout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Prout<\/a> Lighting tutorials you can really use.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avld.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arcadia Vincennes&#8217; Level Design<\/a> Konfused by Kismet? Also has some good level design tutorials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>3rd Party Educators<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegnomonworkshop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gnomon Workshop<\/a> On the Internet? Into 3D?\u00a0 What are you waiting for? Amazing tutorials.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eat3d.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eat3D<\/a> Some really great Unreal related Lessons sets.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltutors.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Tutors<\/a> Friendly, bright and upbeat 3D tutorials that are very easy to follow.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"3D Motive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.3dmotive.com\">3D Motive<\/a> A ton of beginner to intermediate 3D game tutorials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tools \/ Programs<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quixel.se\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nDo <\/a>Create your normal maps in Photoshop with this <strong>free<\/strong> tool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few good sites I frequently stalk to help you in your Unreal endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[341,1],"tags":[25,62,87,171],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized","tag-artists-2","tag-community-2","tag-educators","tag-links"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Links.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}