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Dani’s Art Resource Masterdoc

My goal with this doc is to have an easily shareable place to post all of the resources I have found over the years. If something is excluded here feel free to reach out and suggest it- though there are some things I exclude for various reasons.

2D

Puccanoodles Masterdoc

A much more expansive list than I could ever compile myself

Learning

Devin Korwin useful tools and knowledge.

This to That site for finding ways to attach different materials together.

Drawabox Fundamental drawing exercises through an analytical lens

Learning The most popular place to host art, which also happens to have a fantastic learning resource. Plenty of general courses, but if you’re looking for something specific, look on the marketplace or on other sites.

Gumroad Marketplace for anything digital. Many fantastic artists selling brush packs, tutorials, assets, finished works and much much more.

Tools

PureRef reference gathering organization tool

Eagle.Cool File sorting and organization solution

Hundredrabbits Various low power creative software and cool stuff in general.

Heavypaint Cool drawing software made by Heavypoly. Incredibly unique and a fun way to do studies.

Sergey Kritskiy fantastic photoshop and blender plugins that I personally use the majority of. Incredible workflow tools that can boost your productivity or give you access to things that photoshop should have by default like layer factory’s fantastic multilayer move and layer baking.

Reference

Wildlife Reference Photos for Artists Wildlife related photo reference, not free, typically $5 but royalty free and high quality.

Photos 4 Artists Landscape reference typically of europe. Completely free to use. Terms and Conditions

Morguefile one of the best free photo reference sites

Croquis Cafe Figure drawing reference site, monthly subscription

Photobash.org High quality photobash asset packs

3D

Software

Blender Highly acclaimed & community supported free and open source 3D software. A great starting point especially on a low budget. Not considered industry standard, but times are changing. Notably used in the making of Across the Spider Verse

Plasticity “CAD for artists” Excellent independent hardsurface modeling software. Permanent license, 1 year of updates and no expiration. Free trial also available.

Maya The industry standard for 3d. Not as much community support as Blender & more expensive. Great to have on a resume.

Learning

Blender Guru Highly regarded Blender tutorial website

Blender Nation Blender related tutorials, assets, and other community material.

Assets

Poly Haven Community driven high quality 3D asset library. HDRIs, Models & Textures

Kitbash3D High quality kitbash asset packs. Worth the price, but also has occasional promotional free packs

Free3D Free 3D model library

Sketchfab Large marketplace for 3D assets, including free 3D assets

FreePBR Free library of PBR assets

Turbosquid Large marketplace for 3D models, including free models

Game Dev

Unreal Engine A great place to start with learning any side of game dev. Free to use unless you are already earning a good amount of money from it. Visual node based systems make learning how to create code, shaders and textures very intuitive. If you are an aspriring 3D environment artist, having Unreal Engine work in your portfolio is a great way to get noticed.

Godot Free and open source game engine. A great engine if you already know how to code, and even a good starting point for non-coders due to the extensive resources and learning materials for GDScript.

Learn Code From Zero With GDScript An amazing and free way to learn to code. I completed this recently and it was the first time I really grasped how coding works.

Godot Tours 101 Gives you a tour of Godot, a great step after completing the course above, or to hop in right away.