Final Light explosions and fx database
/ production, reference

Affordable, hard to find, royalty free, high resolution, multi-layered, multi-angled Visual FX stock footage element.

 

http://www.finalight.com

 

Creating Clouds in Maya using Particle Clouds
/ reference, software

I have reposted here a VERY old cloud tutorial.

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Open Culture free educational lectures
/ reference

The best free cultural & educational media on the web

http://www.openculture.com/

Essential Pipeline Concepts
/ production, reference

cgsupervisor.blogspot.com/p/pipeline-articles.html

 

A VFX pipeline belongs to one of three classes:

  • production (task) primary
  • material (data) secondary
  • approval (meta-data) tertiary

 

A VFX pipeline is comprised of four structural dimensions:

  • leadership
  • personnel
  • tools
  • methods

 

A VFX pipeline utilizes technology but is not the technology

 

A VFX pipeline divides a work-flow into separate and meaningful tasks assigned to two or more persons

 

A VFX pipeline tasks divisions are determined using a tree of specialization across the three dimensions

 

The VFX pipeline structural form is dictated by

  • the functional mission,
  • resources available and
  • company culture

 

A VFX pipeline is malleable

Ascii generators
/ cool, reference, software

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  ____  ____   ____ |  |  
_/ ___\/  _ \ /  _ \|  |  
\  \__(  <_> |  <_> )  |__
 \___  >____/ \____/|____/
     \/                   

http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

http://www.text-image.com/download.html

http://textify.it/

Khan Academy
/ reference

http://www.khanacademy.org/

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google art project
/ reference

Explore museums from around the world.
Discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.