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| Name |
Website |
A Short Description |
| Video Game Design Schools |
Video Game Design Schools |
A website for students to find in-depth and unbiased information about a Video Game Design degree. |
| HighendCareers.com |
HighendCareers.com |
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| Animation World Network |
Jobs.awn.com |
The Animation World Network is the largest animation-related publishing group on the Internet, providing readers from over 151 countries. |
| Careershift.com |
Careershift.com |
Job hunting & career management solutions. |
| 3dmd.net |
www.3dmd.net |
Resources for 3D artists |
| VFX-Recruit |
VFX-Recruit |
The aim for the website is to have all job requirements in one place, to make the job application process easier and to bring the film, games and visual effects industry closer together. |
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| Name |
Website |
Some Games |
| Activision |
Activision |
Quake series, Battlezone, Call of Duty series, & more.. |
| Acclaim Games |
Acclaim Games |
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| Bio Ware |
Bio Ware |
Never Winter Night, Baldur's Gate, Jade Empire & more.. |
| Blizzard |
Blizzard |
Warcraft Series, Diablo III, StarCraft, Justice League, & lots more.. |
| Buka Entertainment |
Buka Entertainment |
Collapse, Man of Prey, Chronostorm |
| Big Fish Games |
Big Fish Games |
Mahjong Towers, Top Ten Solitaire, Word Wizard & more.. |
| Bluecastle Games |
http://www.bluecastlegames.com |
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| Capcom Entertainment |
Capcom Entertainment |
Resident Evil Series, Devil May Cry Series, Lost Planet & Lots more.. |
| Crystal Dynamics |
Crystal Dynamics |
Tomb Raider Series, Soul Reaver, Project Snowblind & more.. |
| Codemasters |
Codemasters |
Colin McRae Rally, I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike, Clive Barker's Jericho & more.. |
| Cryptic Studios |
Cryptic Studios |
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| Cyberlore |
Cyberlore |
Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, Playboy: The Mansion |
| Disney Interactive |
Disney Interactive |
Cars, The Lion King, Disney's Aladdin, Turok, The Chronicles of Narnia |
| Digital Illusion |
Digital Illusion [An EA Company] |
Mirror's Edge, Battlefield series, Shrek (Xbox) |
| Digital Extremes |
Digital Extremes |
Unreal series, BioShock, Dark Sector |
| DarkWorks |
DarkWorks |
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, Cold Fear |
| Digital Reality |
Digital Reality |
War on Terror, War Front: Turning Point, Reunion |
| Doublehelix Games |
http://www.doublehelixgames.com |
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| Digital Leisure |
Digital Leisure |
The Incredible Maze, Sudoku Challenge!, Texas Hold'em Tournament |
| Digital Spray |
Digital Spray |
You Are Empty, Instinct |
| DreamCatcher |
DreamCatcher |
Painkiller, Dungeon Lords, First Battalion, Cold War |
| EivaaGames |
EivaaGames |
Black Bone, Confronter The Tower of Time, SWAP The Matrix, Mugakapu |
| EA Games |
EA Games |
Need for Speed, Medal of Honor, The Sims & more.. |
| Eidos |
Eidos |
Tomb Raider, Hitman, Commandos, Deus Ex, Legacy of Kain |
| Ensemble Studios |
Ensemble Studios |
Age of Empires series, Halo Wars |
| Epic Megagames |
Epic Megagames |
Gears of War, Unreal series, One Must Fall: 2097 |
| Game Loft |
Game Loft |
Prince of Persia mobile, Brothers in Arms mobile, Assassin's Creed mobile |
| Gearbox Software |
www.gearboxsoftware.com |
Brothers in Arm, Counter Strike, Halo, 007 NightFire, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, Borderlands, Aliens |
| God Games |
God Games |
Serious Sam, Age of Wonders series, Stronghold |
| Gotham Games |
Gotham Games |
Conflict: Desert Storm II, The Great Escape, Piglet's Big Game |
| Heavy Iron |
Heavy Iron [A THQ company] |
Evil Dead: Hail to the King, The Incredibles, Ratatouille |
| Humanhead |
Humanhead |
Rune series, Prey, Dead Man's Hand |
| High Voltage |
High Voltage |
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, Starfleet Academy |
| id software |
id software |
Quake Series Developer, Doom Series, Rage |
| Jump Games |
Jump Games |
VanDam, BMX, Fido Space Bowling, Fidothone etc... |
| Pandemic Studios |
Pandemic Studios |
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| Playlogic Games |
Playlogic Games |
Infernal, Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales, Airborne Troops, Knights of the Temple II, Obscure 2, World Racing 2, Worldshift |
| Raven Software |
Raven Software |
Soldier of Fortune, Quake 4, Wolfenstein |
| Shadows in Darkness |
Shadows in darkness |
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| UBI Soft |
UBI Soft |
Prince of Persia series, Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell series & more.. |
| Valve Software |
Valve Software |
The Source™ engine, the SDK, and Steam, Left 4 Dead, Half-Life® 2: Episode Two, Portal, Half-Life® 2: Episode One, Half-Life® 2, Counter-Strike™: Source™, Half-Life: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Day of Defeat™: Source, & more. |
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| Name |
Website |
Description & Work / Animations. |
| Animal Logic |
Animal Logic |
Animal Logic is an Australian digital visual effects company based at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia and Venice, California.
Happy Feet, 300, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Matrix, World Trade Center and lots more. |
| Blur Studio |
Blur |
Warhammer Online, Tomb Raider Underworld, Tabula Rasa, Transformers: The Game, Hellgate: London, Gopher Broke Teaser & Lots more.. |
| Blue Sky Studios |
Blue Sky Studios |
Ice Age, Robots, Horton Hears a Who! |
| Catastrophic FX |
Catastrophic FX |
Movies: Superman Returns, Blade Trinitym, Scooby Doo 2, Hellboy The Big Empty, Paycheck, Dark Age of Light, Operation Wolverine,
Game cinematic: Halo Wars, Bioshock, Temple of Elemental Evil, Warhammer 40k |
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| Digital Domain |
http://www.digitaldomain.com |
Titanic, Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow, Robot, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Transformers, The Golden Compass, Speed Racer, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and lots more... |
| Dream Works |
Dream Works |
Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, Antz, Shrek, Shark Tale, Over the Hedge |
| Escape Studios |
Escape Studios |
Escape Studios is your route to success in computer graphics.
We provide world class expertise to everyone involved with computer graphics; through industry proven training, the perfect technology solutions and finding people their ideal jobs. |
| Framestore CFC |
Framestore CFC |
Framestore is the largest digital visual effects company in Europe. Based in London, it was formed in 2001 by a merger between the Computer Film Company and Framestore.
Resident Evil, Sahara, Sea, Sexy Beast, Sleepy Hollow, Superman Returns, Thunderbirds, Troy, Underworld, V for Vendetta, X-Men: The Last Stand, Mission: Impossible 2, The Mummy Returns, The Golden Compass, The Good Thief & Dirty Pretty Things, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Enemy at the Gates, Blade 2,Cast Away, |
| Glassworks |
Glassworks |
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| Hydraulx |
Hydraulx |
Gulliver's Travels, Avatar, 2012, Fast & Furious, Wolverine, Bedtime Stories, The Day the Eatrh Stood Still, WAnted, The incredible hulk, Jumper, Alien Vs Predator, Xmen 3, Aeon Flux, The Fog, Fantastic Four, Constantine, The Day After Tomorrow, Torque, Looney Toons, Terminator 3, Venom |
| Image Movers Digital |
Image Movers Digital |
The Polar Express, Monster House, Beowulf, Jim Carrey: A Christmas Carol |
| Industrial Light & Magic |
http://www.ilm.com |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Evan Almighty, Transformers, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Upcoming films: Jurassic Park IV (2010), Star Trek (2009), Star Wars (TV) (2009), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince(2009) |
| Mill |
Mill |
The Mill is a post-production and visual effects company launched in 1990 with offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. [Gladiator, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures] |
| Pixar |
Pixar |
Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, A Bug's Life |
| Paprikaas |
Paprikaas |
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| Panzar |
Panzar |
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| Photon VFX |
Photon VFX |
[Australia] Voopa the Goolash, Acri, Moby Dick, Paradise Road, Who Am I, The Lost World (Series 3), Curse of the Talisman, Ghost Ship, Anacondas, House of Wax, Superman Returns, Animalia |
| PostLogic |
PostLogic |
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| Plasticwax |
Plasticwax |
Plastic Wax is a leading digital design, 3D art, animation and production studio [Silverwater Australia] specialising in the creation of premium digital entertainment, 3D art and animation for the global videogames industry.
Game Cinematics: Edge Of Twilight, Borderlands, Ultimate Band, Mafia II, Bioshock, Tomb Raider: Anniversary
TV & FILM: The Darkness, Juiced, Sanyo |
| Pendulum |
Pendulum |
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| Rhythm & Hues |
http://www.rhythm.com |
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Incredible Hulk, The Golden Compass, Happy Feet, Night at the Museum, Superman Returns, The Chronicles of Narnia, Elektra, Garfield, Lord of the Rings III, X-Men 2, Men In Black II, Behind Enemy Lines, Harry Potter & lots more... |
| Steambot |
Steambot |
Steambot Studio is a next generation visual development & outsourcing studio, gathering talated and experienced artists under a label of quality & visonary spirit. Our international (s)team has worked with an impressive group of clients for more than a decade: Disney Channel, Walt Disney Imagineering, EA, King isle Studio, Canal+, Blue Sky, Hasbro, abc family, Activision, Massive Black... etc |
| Tippett Studio |
Tippett Studio |
Tippett Studio is an Academy Award-winning visual effects company specializing in computer-generated imagery (CGI) for movies and television commercials. [Berkeley, California]
Constantine, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Cloverfield, Enchanted, Son of the Mask, Catwoman, Hellboy, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, The Matrix Revolutions, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Men in Black II, The Ring, Blade 2, Evolution, Hollow Man, Mission to Mars, 1999 The Haunting, Virus, Armageddon, Starship Troopers, Dragonheart, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, RoboCop 3, Jurassic Park, RoboCop 2, Ghostbusters 2, Robocop, The Golden Child, Howard The Duck, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Dinosaur!, Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure,Prehistoric Beast, |
| Weta Digital |
Weta Digital |
Avatar, Van Helsing, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Eragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, King Kong, The Lord of the Rings: Series, Heavenly Creatures and lots more... |
| 3d-io |
3d-io |
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| 3e-oeil |
3e-oeil |
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| Name |
Website |
A Short Description |
| Aaron Sims |
http://www.aaron-sims.com |
Artist |
| Alex Velazquez |
http://www.brutikong.com |
Artist |
| Alessandro Baldasseroni |
http://lnx.eklettica.com |
Modeler/Texture artist at Blur Studio |
| Chester Ocampo |
http://www.chesterocampo.net |
Digital Illustrator |
| Daniel P. Ferreira |
http://www.wonderslime.com |
Fx Artist. He shows us his work in the website as well as some useful tutorials. Born to be a fx artists, check out his demoreels, you won’t regret it! |
| Dylan Cole |
http://www.dylancolestudio.com |
Matte painting artist |
| Fabian Loing |
Fabian Loing |
Character Artist Pandemic Studios Los Angeles, CA |
| Hyoung jun Kim (k.jun) |
http://www.kjun.org/ |
NCsoft online. Art director |
| Ian Joyner |
http://www.ianjoyner.com |
Artist |
| Julianna Kolakis |
http://www.kolakisart.com |
3D Modeler/ Concept Artist/ Illustrator. Character designer: modeler - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Concept artist, creature modeler: Frantic Films - Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| Jonas Thörnqvist |
http://www.subdivme.com |
3D artist |
| Jason Thielen |
http://www.jasonthielen.com |
3dCharacterAnimator |
| Karthikeyan G.M |
http://www.vfxjunkie.com |
Team Lead VFX at PIXION.chn |
| Marek Denko |
http://marekdenko.net |
Sole Survivor, Company owner of "NoEmotion". |
| Neil Blevins |
http://www.neilblevins.com |
Technical Director at Pixar & previously worked for Blur Studio. |
| Peter Boehme |
www.peterboehme.com |
Freelance Illustrator/Production Artist based in Cologne, Germany. |
| Soa Lee |
http://soanala.cgsociety.org |
Independent Design Professional |
| Shiyong Wang |
http://www.wangshiyong.com |
Art Director and Manager in 2:10 Pictures |
| Sze Jones |
http://www.szejones.com |
Character Modeling Supervisor, Blur Studio |
| Sebastien Chort |
http://zeb.3dvf.com |
CG Lighter at DreamWorks Animation [Glendale / California], Previous at Blur Studio |
| Willi Hammes |
http://willihammes.com |
No presentations needed. |
| Won Gyo-LEE |
http://daytripper3d.com |
Ncsoft, Webzen, SK-imedia |
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| Name |
Website |
Description |
| CG Society |
CG Society |
The CGSociety is the most respected and accessible global organization for creative digital artists. The CGS supports artists at every level by offering a range of services to connect, inform, educate and promote, by celebrating achievement, excellence and innovation in all aspects of digital art. |
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CG Directory |
All Information about CG Industry. |
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Highend3d |
Highend3d is Community for Maya, 3dsmax, XSI, Zbrush, Motion Builder, Softimage, Alias, Studio, Renderman, and Free 3d resource tips, tricks, tutorials, Mel Scripts, plugins, shaders, tools, jobs, contests, artist gallery and listservs. |
| CGChannel |
CGChannel |
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| 3d total |
3d total |
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| ZBrushCentral |
ZBrushCentral |
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| CG-Academy |
CG-Academy |
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| 3dm3 |
3dm3 |
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| 3DValley |
3DValley |
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| Ballistic Publishing |
Ballistic Publishing |
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| CGArena |
CGArena |
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| CGWorld |
CGWorld |
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| ConceptArt.org |
ConceptArt.org |
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| Character Designs |
Character Designs |
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| Evermotion |
Evermotion |
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| CG Focus |
CG Focus |
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| CG Textures |
CG Textures |
Lots of Free Textures for CG Artists. |
| All CG Textures |
All CG Textures |
Thousands of free to use textures and reference images. |
| 2textured |
2textured |
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| 3d Export |
3d Export |
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| 3d02.com |
3d02.com |
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| Name |
Website |
Description |
| Maya |
Maya |
Maya is a high-end 3D computer graphics and 3D modeling software package originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation, but now owned by Autodesk as part of the Media and Entertainment division. Autodesk acquired the software in October 2005 upon purchasing Alias. Maya is used in the film and TV industry, as well as for computer and video games, architectural vizualisation and design. |
| 3ds Max |
3ds Max |
3ds Max is the second most widely-used off the shelf 3D animation program by content creation professionals according to the Roncarelli report. It has strong modeling capabilities, a flexible plugin architecture and a long heritage on the Microsoft Windows platform. It is mostly used by video game developers, TV commercial studios and architectural visualization studios. It is also used for movie effects and movie pre-visualization. |
| V ray |
V ray |
Vray rendering engine, that uses advanced techniques, for example global illumination algorithms such as path tracing, photon mapping, irradiance maps and directly computed global illumination. The use of these techniques often makes it preferable to conventional renderers which are provided as standard with 3d software, and generally renders using these technique can appear more photo-realistic to the human eye, as actual lighting effects are more realistically emulated. V-Ray is used in the development of film productions and multi-million dollar game productions. |
| Render Man |
Render Man |
Pixar’s RenderMan® has highest quality renderer available anywhere and has been production tested through successful use in feature films for over ten years. Pixar’s RenderMan is stable, fast, and efficient for handling complex surface appearances and images. |
| ZBrush |
ZBrush |
ZBrush is a digital sculpting tool that combines 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing and painting. It is used as a digital sculpting tool to create high-resolution models (up to millions of polygons, and theoretically unlimited) for use in movies, games, and animations. |
| Photoshop |
Photoshop |
Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. |
| Brazil R/S |
Brazil R/S |
Brazil r/s (Brazil Rendering System) is a high-quality photorealistic rendering system, created by SplutterFish, capable of fast ray tracing and global illumination. |
| Mental Ray |
Mental Ray |
Mental ray is a production-quality rendering application developed by mental images (Berlin, Germany). Mental Images was bought in December 2007 by Nvidia. As the name implies, it supports ray tracing to generate images. Its feature set is comparable to that of PhotoRealistic RenderMan. |
| Combustion |
Combustion |
Autodesk Combustion is a compositing and visual effects software. |
| Final Render |
Final Render |
FinalRender is a raytracing graphics rendering engine developed by Cebas Computer GmbH for Autodesk Media and Entertainment's 3D Studio Max and Maya software. |
| Softimage|XSI |
Softimage|XSI |
Softimage|XSI is a high-end 3D graphics application formerly developed by Softimage, Co., a subsidiary of Avid Technology, Inc., that was acquired by Autodesk, Inc in 2008. It is predominantly used in the film, gaming and advertising industries for the production of 3D environments and scenes. |
| Houdini |
Houdini |
Houdini is a high-end 3D animation package developed by Side Effects Software which headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Its main distinction from other packages is that it has been designed as a purely procedural environment. A free version of the product, called Houdini Apprentice, is available. Houdini is an open-environment and uses the popular Tcl/Tk scripting language and toolkit. Houdini also has its own CShell-like scripting language, Hscript. However, any major scripting languages which support socket communication can interface with Houdini. As of version 9, Houdini also offers Python as a substitute to hscript and the original expression language. |
| Modo |
Modo |
Modo is an advanced polygon, subdivision surface, modeling, sculpting, 3D painting, animation and rendering package developed by Luxology, LLC. The program incorporates advanced features such as n-gons, 3D painting and edge weighting, and runs on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows platforms. |
| Next Limit |
Next Limit |
Next Limit Technologies is to provide cutting edge simulation technologies for a broad range of applications in Computer Graphics, Science and Engineering.
Products: RealFlow, Maxwell Render, XFlow. |
| Dreamweaver |
Dreamweaver |
Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development application originally created by Allaire Systems, which was acquired in, approximately, 1998 by Macromedia and is now owned by Adobe Systems. |
| Mudbox |
Mudbox |
Mudbox is a 3D sculpting tool, akin to Zbrush. Currently developed by Autodesk Limited, Mudbox was originated by Skymatter, founded by former artists of Weta Digital, where it was first used to produce the 2005 Peter Jackson remake of King Kong. |
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| Name |
Website |
A Short Description |
| Blur Beta |
Blur Beta |
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| Bret Kroll |
Bret Kroll |
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| Borislav 'Bobo' Petrov |
Borislav 'Bobo' Petrov |
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| Script Spot |
http://www.scriptspot.com |
ScriptSpot is a diverse online community of artists and developers coming together to share and discover scripts for 3ds max and SketchUp. |
| Anthony Delen |
Anthony Delen |
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| Andre Hotz |
Andre Hotz |
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| Diego Garcia |
Diego Garcia |
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| David Lanier |
David Lanier |
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| Guillermo M Leal Llaguno |
Guillermo M Leal Llaguno |
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| Jon Seagull |
Jon Seagull |
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| James Haywood |
James Haywood |
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| Jim Jagger |
Jim Jagger |
JJ Tools |
| Lukas Lepicovsky |
Lukas Lepicovsky |
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| Neil Blevins |
Neil Blevins |
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| Martin Breidt |
Martin Breidt |
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| Marc Lorenz |
Marc Lorenz |
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| Matt Rapelje |
Matt Rapelje |
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| Maxplugins.de |
http://www.maxplugins.de |
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| Michael Comet |
Michael Comet |
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| Nik Clark |
Nik Clark |
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| Paul Hormis |
Paul Hormis |
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| Paul Neale |
Paul Neale |
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| Roger Hyde |
Roger Hyde |
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| Rodney Olmos |
Rodney Olmos |
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| Sam O'Hare |
Sam O'Hare |
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| Simo Sokerov |
Simo Sokerov |
Pose Tool |
| Steve 'Chuggnut' Johnson |
Steve 'Chuggnut' Johnson |
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| Steev Kelly |
Steev Kelly |
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| VG 2 Max |
http://www.vg2max.spb.ru |
Some are free and some are paid. Useful scripts. |
| Wahooney |
Wahooney |
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Website |
A Short Description |
| EGM.1up |
EGM.1up |
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| India.animationxpress |
India.animationxpress |
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| Animation Xpress |
http://www.animationxpress.com |
AnimationXpress.com is one of the world's leading portals and resources for news, information and community activities for the animation, visual effects and game development industries. Its mandate is to work as an information facilitator and as a knowledge catalyst for the animation, visual effects, and game development communities through news, features, forums, case studies, analyses, promotions, as well as through online community services such as forums, galleries, etc among many other services. It has offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi. |
| Ability Game Engine |
Ability Game Engine
Ability Game Engine |
Ability Game Engine is a 3D game engine currently in development by EivaaGames. The engine will support Microsoft Windows, Xbox, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. |
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