3D Inspiration & Showcase

Showcases, portfolios, and visual reference hubs.

• 3D Maths Cheat Sheet. Math cheatsheet by Anton Gerdelan, from his OpenGL book.
• 50 Watts. Illustration history archive.
• Alan Williams (Pinterest). Curated visual inspiration boards.
• Animated AI. Animations and instructional videos about neural networks.
• Art of Animation. Curated animation art blog.
• autodestruct.com. Portfolio of concept artist Paul Richards with video game concept art, sketches and design lectures.
• Befores & Afters. Ian Failes. Shot breakdowns and artist Q&As across VFX features.
  See also: VFX, Compositing & Virtual Production → Compositing Learning, Books & Industry
• Ben Watts (Vimeo). Vimeo channel of motion designer Ben Watts with his motion design work.
• blender.daily. Daily Blender art and tips on Instagram.
• Character Design References. Shape language and character design studies.
• Chrome Experiments. Showcase of web experiments written by the creative coding community.
• cifraworld (Instagram). Instagram account sharing 3D motion art and abstract animations.
• Contemporist. Contemporary architecture.
• Cornelius Dammrich Paid. Gumroad store of digital artist Cornelius Dammrich, known for detailed sci-fi environment renders.
• Dash Slide Puzzle (Runner Up - Animation/Design). Flutter Puzzle Hack runner-up for animation and design: a slide puzzle race against an AI bot, built with Flutter and Rive.
• Disney Research. Research lab site listing Disney Research publications in graphics, animation, vision and robotics.
• Drew Berry (WEHI TV). Drew Berry's reference biomedical animation work at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
• Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript Paid. Everything you need to know to create animation using the HTML5 canvas.
• Gene Kogan: Perlin Noise. Introduction to 2D and 3D perlin noise.
• GPT-3 Demo. Showcase of GPT-3 examples, demos, apps, and NLP use-cases.
• Graphics Programming Projects. Book about 3D computational graphics by Morgan McGuire.
• HUDs and GUIs. FUI/screen graphics reference for sci-fi 3D work.
• Introduction to Ray Tracing. A simple method for creating 3D images.
• Island Slide Puzzle (Third Place - Animation/Design). Flutter Puzzle Hack third place for animation and design: a slide puzzle whose tiles form an animated island scene.
• Janet Iwasa Animation Lab. Univ. of Utah molecular animation lab and outreach.
• Level Sets in Production (Sony). Sony Imageworks paper on how level sets were used for fluid and sand VFX in Spider-Man 3.
• Linkage Mechanisms. Sample mechanisms for the free Linkage simulator, each with a downloadable file and video demo.
• Mathematics of Animation. Slides about the mathematics of animation (repo).
• Maths & trigonometry cheat sheet for 2D & 3D games. Maths cheat-sheet for 2D and 3D game-makers.
• Modlar. Architecture inspiration.
• Neil Blevins Art Lessons. Composition types, tangents, visual hierarchy by a Pixar artist.
  See also: Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Composition & Visual Storytelling
• Nick Taylor (MVSM). Portfolio of technical director and motion designer Nick Taylor with project write-ups, open-source tools and a blog.
• Physics for JavaScript Games, Animation, and Simulations Paid. How to incorporate real physics into HTML5 games, animations, and simulations.
• Retro Slide Puzzle (Winner - Animation/Design). Flutter Puzzle Hack winner for animation and design: a retro-styled sliding tile puzzle built with Flutter and Rive.
• Sean Browning - Pixel Art Animation Reel 2018. Sean Browning's pixel animations, from simple scenes to recreations of shows like Steven's Universe and RWBY.
• Sliding Puzzle 3D (Honorable Mention). Flutter Puzzle Hack honorable mention: an isometric pseudo-3D sliding puzzle built with Flutter and Rive.
• Strange Attractors. Site cataloguing strange attractors and other mathematical 3D forms with formulas and renders.
• The Gaming Library. Game showcase channel highlighting the scale and detail of modern real-time scenes.
• The Pixel Factory. Talk about WebGL, GPUs and Math by Steven Wittens.
• Three.js Basics. Introduction to Three.js by Eric Haines.
• Toros Kose (Behance). Behance portfolio of 3D artist Toros Kose.
• Writing a small software renderer. Introduction to how basic software rendering works.