Resources tagged: beginner
193 curated 3D resources tagged beginner (Skill level). Browse all tags.
- 📺 Learning All IN ORDER ~ Game Dev Cave channel. Unreal game-dev tutorial channel: blueprints, C++, quests, and GAS, ordered for beginners (160+ videos).
in Game Development → Game Dev: YouTube Channels - 📺 MEGA TUTORIAL ~ Unreal Sensei channel. Long-form Unreal Engine course covering Nanite and Lumen.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - 📺 What Studio Ghibli Does That Disney Doesn’t ~ Pomeroy Art Academy channel. Stylistic differences between Studio Ghibli and Disney animation.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - 1 Minute VEX tutorial. Short lessons teaching Houdini VEX one small snippet at a time.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: VEX & Coding - 10 Tips for Better Lighting tutorial. Helloluxx tutorial with 10 tips for improving lighting in 3D renders.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Fundamentals - 11 Second Club Rigs Free, non-commercial asset-source. Recommended rig list for the 11 Second Club competition: Norman, Eleven, Moom, Max, Mery, Azri plus Blender rigs.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - 25 Tips and Tricks ~ Unreal University channel. Unreal Engine shortcuts and tips.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - 2D Tutorials. Draw a Box tutorial. Free drawing fundamentals course.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → 2D Art References & Inspiration - 3D Game Shaders for Beginners reference. Clear breakdowns of SSAO, bloom, SSR.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - A Gentle Introduction to Shaders in Unity3D tutorial. Series of posts introducing shader coding, oriented to developers with little to no knowledge of shaders.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - Adding Animation to Buttons in Flutter using Rive channel. Simple Animated Menu Toggle Button in Rive.
in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials - Alan Becker Tutorials channel. Animation tutorials by stick-figure animator.
in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials - Alex Grigg channel. Animation for Anyone series.
in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials - An introduction to Shader Art Coding channel. Video tutorial on the basics of creating art with shaders.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - Andy Rig asset-source. Free SCAD student rig by John Doublestein with IK/FK matching, space switching, squash and stretch, facial setup.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - anima.to Rigs asset-source. Community index of animation rigs filterable by software (Blender, Maya and others) with links to free and paid sources.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Animation Guides Free Puppets (Character Animator) asset-source. Free rigged Adobe Character Animator puppets with walk cycles, head turns, lip sync and gesture triggers.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Animation Mentor Free Rigs Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free Animation Mentor Maya rigs Stewart (heavy body-mechanics character) and Squirrels (squash, stretch, tail), email signup.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - Animation Methods Maya Rigs Mixed asset-source. Archived directory of 150+ free and paid Maya character, creature, vehicle and prop rigs, linking to each creator's download page.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - Animator Island. 51 Exercises reference. Structured practice curriculum by difficulty.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Animation Principles - Animators React to KPop Demon Hunters - ft. THE DIRECTORS ~ Corridor Crew channel. Animation and VFX reactions and breakdowns.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - AnimSchool Malcolm Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free AnimSchool Maya character with wardrobe and hair options, facial controls and the AnimSchool Picker, downloaded 150k+ times.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - AnimStarter Rig Directory Mixed asset-source. Curated directory of 40+ Maya and Blender animation rigs with demo videos, filterable by software and price.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - Artisticrender tutorial. Tutorials, tips and resources for Blender and 3D.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Audacity software. Free open-source audio editor and recorder.
in Software Reference → Audio Software - Autodesk Project Falcon software. Free browser-based 3D modeler for building objects by kitbashing pre-made parts.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free - Azri Rig Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free game-style Maya rig with dual scythes, IK/FK hands and skirt auto-follow, built for fast playback; Maya 2018+.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - Beefy4D (Cinema 4D) asset-source. Free bulky character rig for Cinema 4D converted from the Maya Beefy rig, for body mechanics practice.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Better Web Type tutorial. Free typography course on rhythm and hierarchy.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Design Principles & Typography - Bezi Free tier software. Collaborative browser 3D design tool. Figma-style multiplayer editing for 3D scenes, prototypes, UI in 3D space.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free Tier - Blackthornprod channel. YouTube channel with game dev tutorials covering 2D art, Unity and game design.
in Game Development → Game Dev: YouTube Channels - Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Python Scripting tutorial. Python scripting chapter from the Blender 3D: Noob to Pro wikibook.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Blender Beginner 3D Modeling Tutorial channel. Beginner 3D modeling tutorials in Blender.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Blender Studio Character Library Mixed asset-source. Blender Studio library of production character rigs from open movies, free CC-BY rigs plus subscriber-only archive.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - blenderscripting tutorial. Blog of Blender Python snippets to get started with scripting.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Tutorials - Blitz3D software. 3D BASIC-like programming language for fast 3D desktop games.
in Software Reference → Game Engines: Free & Open Source - Bony4D (Cinema 4D) asset-source. Free mannequin character rig for Cinema 4D by Ace5 Studios for body mechanics practice.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Book: Compositing Visual Effects (Lee Lanier) Paid book. Lee Lanier. Applied, project-based comp instruction.
in VFX, Compositing & Virtual Production → Compositing Learning, Books & Industry - Brackeys (Godot) channel. Returned in 2024 with Godot content.
in Game Development → Godot: Learning - Brackeys Game Jam community. Brackeys community game jam on itch.io, open to beginners.
in Game Development → Game Jams - Bradley Animation channel. Geometry Nodes basics for beginners.
in Learning, Community & Industry → YouTube Channels: Blender - Build an animated app tutorial. Free course that teaches you how to design and code an iOS/SwiftUI app with Rive animated assets, icon animations, custom layouts, and interactions.
in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials - Cambridge in Colour reference. Photography tutorials on exposure, color, and composition.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Photography: Reference & Fundamentals - Can't Unsee tool. Interactive game training visual alignment and spacing precision.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Composition & Visual Storytelling - Cartoon Animator Content Store (Cartoon Animator) Mixed marketplace. Reallusion store of rigged G3 2D characters and motions for Cartoon Animator, with free resources in-app.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Cascadeur Scenes (RenderHub) Mixed marketplace. RenderHub section of ready-rigged Cascadeur .casc character scenes, free and paid.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - CC Auto Setup (3ds Max) plugin. Free 3ds Max plugin that imports Character Creator and iClone characters as Biped or CAT rigged, shaded characters.
in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools - CG Boost channel. Blender beginner tutorial series and courses.
in Learning, Community & Industry → YouTube Channels: Blender - CG Cookie channel. Free Blender tutorials from CG Cookie.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - CGCookie Paid tutorial. Subscription site with Blender courses and learning paths for modeling, animation and game art.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Character Object (Cinema 4D) Paid asset-source. Cinema 4D template rig builder with biped, quadruped, bird and fish presets for fast character rigs.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Characters Content Pack (Moho) Paid asset-source. Eight rigged, animated Moho characters with bone IK and Smart Bones examples.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Cineversity tutorial. Official Maxon tutorials.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Cinema 4D: Learning - Clipchamp Free tier software. Microsoft's browser editor bundled with Windows 11.
in Software Reference → Video Editing Software - Cloner Object tutorial. SideFX tutorial on rebuilding the Cinema 4D MoGraph Cloner object in Houdini.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Miscellaneous Tutorials - Code Like Me channel. A wide variety of Unreal Engine tutorials.
in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources - Color Method tool. Interactive color matching game.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Color Theory & Tools - Complete Unity 2018 Game Development tutorial. Companion code for the Complete Unity 2018 Game Development book.
in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources - Computerphile 3DGS explanation channel. Computerphile explainer on 3D Gaussian splatting.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Construct 3 Free tier software. Browser-based no-code 2D engine with visual scripting.
in Software Reference → Game Engines: Commercial Free Tiers - Cookie Flex Rig (Blender) asset-source. CG Cookie's customizable Blender character rig with body shape, face and clothing controls, released Creative Commons.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - CopperCube software. CopperCube is an all-in-one 3D game engine. Very easy to use.
in Software Reference → Game Engines: Free & Open Source - Create the Most AMAZING Animations with Rive channel. Rive animation crash course by DesignCourse.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Creative Shrimp tutorial. Blender CG art and lighting tutorials by Gleb Alexandrov and Aidy Burrows.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Fundamentals - CS50 Game Development (Harvard) tutorial. Free, covers Love2D, Unity.
in Game Development → Game Dev: Courses - Ctrl+Paint tutorial. Structured free video library. Digital painting fundamentals, value studies, color.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Drawing & Painting for 3D Artists - Dave Character Rig (Blender) Paid asset-source. Cartoon Blender character built on CloudRig with full face rig and face and finger pose libraries.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - DebugLog HTC Vive Unity 3D Steam VR Video Tutorial channel. HTC Vive SteamVR tutorials in Unity.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Domestika Paid tutorial. Online course platform for creative skills such as illustration, design, 3D and animation.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Eleven Rig asset-source. Open-source 11 Second Club rig with adjustable gender and body type, IK/FK limbs and hand poses; Maya 2014 and earlier.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - Filmora Free tier software. Wondershare beginner-friendly editor; watermarked free tier.
in Software Reference → Video Editing Software - Flutter Web and Rive Animation Tutorial tutorial. Beginner to intermediate tutorial for setting up a Flutter web app with Rive animations.
in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials - Foundry Learn (Nuke) reference. Official Foundry training. Free tutorials plus certification tracks.
in VFX, Compositing & Virtual Production → Compositing Learning, Books & Industry - Free Girl Character Rig (Cinema 4D) asset-source. Free stylized girl character for Cinema 4D, rigged and ready for motion design animation.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Free Skeleton Rig (Blender) Free, non-commercial asset-source. Stylized skeleton warrior rig for Blender 4.4+ with equipment toggles, cloth physics and shader controls.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Fusion for Designers tutorial. Autodesk Academy course for designers.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Fusion 360: Learning - Game Development Essentials: Game Level Design License unspecified book. Book on game level design fundamentals.
in Game Development → Game Design & Theory - GameDev.tv Unreal Engine Blueprint Game Developer Online Course tutorial. Unreal Engine Blueprint game development course.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - GarageBand software. Free Apple DAW with built-in loops, drummers, and amp models.
in Software Reference → Audio Software - Gavin Hoey (Adorama) channel. Studio lighting tutorials with setup diagrams.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Photography: Reference & Fundamentals - GDevelop software. Open-source event-based no-code 2D.
in Software Reference → Game Engines: Commercial Free Tiers - GDQuest Free tier tutorial. Premium courses plus free YouTube tutorials.
in Game Development → Godot: Learning - GDQuest (YouTube) channel. GDQuest YouTube channel with Godot game development tutorials.
in Game Development → Game Dev: YouTube Channels - GDScript.com tutorial. Interactive GDScript learning.
in Game Development → Godot: Learning - Generative AI Genius 2024 tutorial. Free generative AI course material by Aishwarya Naresh Reganti.
in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Machine Learning for CG - Genesis 9 Starter Essentials (Daz Studio) asset-source. Free rigged Genesis 9 base figure with character presets, clothing, hair and poses, exportable via Daz bridges.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Get Better Lighting in C4D channel. YouTube channel of motion designer Lukas Thorup with Cinema 4D lighting tutorials and breakdowns.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Fundamentals - Getting Started with VR in Unity (DigitalTutors) tutorial. Introductory tutorial for building VR experiences in Unity.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Gorka Games channel. Long tutorial series, short tutorials, and Unreal Engine news.
in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources - Grant Abbitt channel. Beginner-friendly Blender tutorials.
in Learning, Community & Industry → YouTube Channels: Blender - Hippydrome reference. Richard Williams walk cycle and timing chart reference.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Animation Principles - Houdini Apprentice Free, non-commercial software. Free learning version of Houdini.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free Tier - Houdini Crash Course (ikrima) tutorial. Fast Houdini fundamentals primer.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Getting Started - Houdini Donut in Any Shape tutorial. Procedural donut by Lewis Orton.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Getting Started - Houdini in Five Minutes tutorial. Short Entagma video introducing Houdini's procedural node-based workflow.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Getting Started - How to Create Stunning Cinematic Lighting tutorial. Cinematic lighting tutorial.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Cinematography & Camera Work - How to Set Up Unity's VR Editor (EditorVR) channel. Tutorial on setting up Unity's experimental EditorVR.
in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources - iMovie software. Apple's free consumer editor for macOS and iOS/iPadOS.
in Software Reference → Video Editing Software - Intro Three.js reference. Introduction to pixel shaders in three.js.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - Intro to JS: Drawing & Animation tutorial. Use JavaScript and the ProcessingJS library to create drawings and animations.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Drawing & Painting for 3D Artists - Introduction to Generative AI Community Course channel. Free community course on generative AI fundamentals by iNeuron.
in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Machine Learning for CG - Introduction to shaders reference. Part 1 of an introduction to shaders using three.js.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - Joe Daniels Rigs Free tier asset-source. Joe Daniels' Maya practice rigs: free flour sack and juicebox for weight drills plus paid character rigs.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - Keeper of the Lighthouse (3ds Max) Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free stylized old sailor character for 3ds Max rigged from scratch with CAT, ready to animate.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - KidsCanCode Godot Recipes reference. Clear beginner-friendly guides.
in Game Development → Godot: Learning - Kokraf software. Collaborative browser-based polygon modeling with real-time mesh editing.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free Tier - Laws of UX reference. Gestalt principles, visual perception laws (directly applicable to 3D composition).
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Composition & Visual Storytelling - Leading Ones (LeadingOnesVR) channel. Quick look at Unity's EditorVR.
in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources - Leadwerks software. Easy-to-learn game engine for 3D and VR.
in Software Reference → Game Engines: Free & Open Source - Learn HTML5 Graphics and Animation Free tier tutorial. Introduction to the canvas 2D drawing API.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Drawing & Painting for 3D Artists - Learn OpenGL: Beginner's guide to 3D rendering and game development with OpenGL and C++ License unspecified book. Beginner's guide to 3D rendering and game development with OpenGL and C++.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Make Your Own Pixel Art Paid book. Walks you step-by-step through the available tools, pixel art techniques, the importance of shapes, colors, shading, and how to turn your art into animation.
in Game Development → Game Dev Tools: Sprite & VFX - Mannequins Asset Pack (Unreal) asset-source. Manny and Quinn UE5 mannequins with Control Rigs for keyframing in Sequencer, sharing the MetaHuman skeleton.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Moom Rig asset-source. Free cartoon Maya rig by Ramtin Ahmadi with IK/FK arms and feet, stretchy spine and neck, facial control panel.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - NineBetween channel. Houdini beginner series (Houdini Isn't Scary).
in Learning, Community & Industry → YouTube Channels: Houdini - Ocenaudio software. Free waveform editor with real-time effect preview and large-file handling.
in Software Reference → Audio Software - OpenGL 3D Game Tutorials channel. Beginner tutorial series on creating 3D games with OpenGL.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - OpenGL 4 Shaders reference. Short introduction to OpenGL shaders by Anton Gerdelan.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - OpenShot software. Award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
in Software Reference → Video Editing Software - P2Design Free Rigs (Blender) asset-source. Pierrick Picaut's free Blender rigs: Trident, Mannequin, Crimson Ronin, P2DBOT, Trex, Mech and a 2D camera rig.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Pencil2D software. Free lightweight 2D animation.
in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software - PhotoPills Golden Ratio Guide reference. Golden ratio, spirals, triangles with overlay diagrams.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Composition & Visual Storytelling - Pixel Art Tutorial Basics for Beginners tutorial. Pixel art basics for beginners.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Pixel Shaders reference. Interactive introduction to graphics programming.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - Pixel Vision 8 software. Teaches retro game development with streamlined workflows. 8-bit fantasy console.
in Software Reference → Game Engines: Free & Open Source - PixelSpirit Elements Deck reference. Tarot-style deck for learning GLSL shaders, each card pairing a visual element with its shader code, ordered simplest to most complex.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - Pluralsight Paid tutorial. Subscription platform with video courses on software, creative tools and IT topics.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Pointer Tracking Animation Implemented in Webflow channel. How to set up a Rive file with pointer tracking for Webflow implementation.
in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials - Practical Typography reference. Free online book on type fundamentals, hierarchy, spacing.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Design Principles & Typography - Premiere Elements Paid software. One-time-purchase consumer Premiere variant.
in Software Reference → Video Editing Software - Proko Free Library Free tier tutorial. Anatomy, figure drawing, portrait (substantial free tier).
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Drawing & Painting for 3D Artists - Rain Rig (Blender) asset-source. Free stylized female Blender rig from Blender Studio with IK/FK snapping, face controls and pose library, no add-ons needed.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Ray Wenderlich's Tutorials tutorial. Beginner and mid-level Unity tutorials and small example games.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Raylib software. Minimal C library for learning game programming.
in Software Reference → Game Engines: Free & Open Source - Rigify (Blender) plugin. Blender's bundled modular auto-rigger: generates human and animal control rigs from metarig templates.
in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools - RigsArena (3ds Max) asset-source. Blog index of 400+ free 3ds Max character, animal and prop rigs sorted by category.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Robot Kyle (Unity) asset-source. Free Unity robot character with humanoid rig, a common test model for Mecanim retargeting.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Rusty Animator Free Maya Rigs Mixed asset-source. Curated guide to free Maya rigs grouped by skill: basics, body mechanics, acting, creatures, props and vehicles.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - Ryan Laley channel. Primarily Blueprint-based Unreal Engine tutorials.
in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources - Saint11 Pixel Art Paid channel. Patreon of Pedro Medeiros (Saint11) with pixel art tutorials.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → 2D Art References & Inspiration - School of Motion (site) Paid tutorial. C4D, motion graphics, animation, After Effects, design courses.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Cinema 4D: Learning - School of Motion Lighting Blog reference. Shadows, volumetrics, HDRI, and area light techniques.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Fundamentals - Shalabology Free Rigs (3ds Max) asset-source. Free 3ds Max rigs by Shalabology: biped, Cute Box, horse quadruped and Shiko character rigs.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Shalaby Rigs Free tier asset-source. Ahmed Shalaby's Maya rigs: free educational X-Rig, paid Dude 2.0 with three variations, Box-Men body rigs.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - Shotcut software. Free open-source video editor.
in Software Reference → Video Editing Software - SideFX Getting Started tutorial. Official Houdini getting-started learning path.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Getting Started - SideFX Learn reference. Official curated learning hub.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Getting Started - SideFX Tutorials tutorial. SideFX learning library of official Houdini tutorials, sorted by topic and skill level.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Essential Learning Resources - Simple Character Rig (Blender) asset-source. Joey Carlino's lightweight Blender character rig with IK/FK limbs, heel and toe foot pivots and optional face rig.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Simple ECS reference. Example of Unity's Entity Component System, inspired by Roll-a-ball.
in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources - Sir Owl Rig (Toon Boom Harmony) Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free Toon Boom Harmony cut-out owl rig for animation practice and demo reels.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Snow Rig (Blender) asset-source. Free stylized male Blender rig from Blender Studio built on the Sprite Fright rig system, with IK/FK, layered face controls and pose library.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Sonic Pi software. Code-based music livecoding environment, education-friendly.
in Software Reference → Audio Software - Spineboy Example (Spine) asset-source. Official Spine 2D example project showing meshes, IK, transform constraints and clipping on a rigged character.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Spline Free tier software. Browser-based 3D design with real-time collaboration. Exports to web, video, code. AI features for prompt-to-3D.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free Tier - Squiggly Rigs Free tier asset-source. Lightweight cartoon Maya rigs with bendy limbs, smear controls and full face: Thep mummy, Grey Matter Gary, Lee.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya - Strobist Lighting 101 tutorial. Definitive free course on shaping light (directly applicable to 3D lighting).
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Photography: Reference & Fundamentals - StudioBinder Film Guides reference. Shot composition, camera shots encyclopedia, camera movements, lighting.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Cinematography & Camera Work - Substance Academy tutorial. Free official Substance Painter/Designer tutorials.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - Template-Chan (Toon Boom Harmony) asset-source. Toon Boom Harmony cut-out character rig template for practice or reskinning into your own character.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Texture Paint Manual reference. Official Blender manual for the texture paint mode.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Tutorials - The 12 Principles (Illustrated) reference. GIF breakdowns of each principle.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Animation Principles - The Book of Shaders reference. Interactive intro to GLSL fragment shaders.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - The Book of Shaders Glossary reference. Shader glossary by theme.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - The CG Essentials tutorial. Blender tutorials covering modeling, rendering, animation and particle simulation.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - The Digital Revolution channel. YouTube channel, formerly Motion Designers Community, with beginner Cinema 4D lighting tutorials.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → 3D Lighting: Fundamentals - The Futur channel. Graphic design fundamentals, typography, grid systems.
in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Design Principles & Typography - The Motion Social Club community. Motion design community with a bi-weekly newsletter, learning paths, practice exercises, and a creator directory.
in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums - The Principles of Animation: Interactive Edition reference. Interactive web explainer of the 12 principles of animation.
in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials - The Shaggy Dev channel. YouTube channel with Godot tutorials on game programming patterns.
in Game Development → Godot: Learning - Tinkercad software. Browser-based CSG modeling.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free - Toon Rig (Cinema 4D) Paid asset-source. Built-in Cinema 4D Character Object preset for cartoon rigs with stretch, squash and bendy limbs.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Two-minute explanation of 3DGS channel. Two-minute explainer on 3D Gaussian splatting.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Unity + Vive Tutorial: Beginners channel. Beginner Unity and Vive VR tutorials.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Unity 3D Steam VR Video Tutorial Series channel. Unity SteamVR video tutorial series.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Unity in Action (book) License unspecified book. Hands-on Unity game development book (Manning).
in Game Development → Game Design & Theory - Unity tutorials in AR tutorial. Unity Learn tutorials filtered for augmented reality.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Unity-Chan (Unity) asset-source. Unity Technologies Japan's free anime character with humanoid rig, animations, facial blendshapes and voices.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Unity5 EditorVR hello world tutorial video (from scratch) featuring Oculus channel. Unity EditorVR hello-world walkthrough featuring Oculus.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - Unreal Engine Learning tutorial. Getting-started tutorial for Unreal's Texture Graph.
in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources - Unreal Engine Official YouTube channel. Official Unreal Engine YouTube channel with weekly live streams.
in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources - ursina software. A game engine powered by Python and Panda3D.
in Software Reference → Game Engines: Free & Open Source - USD Basics with Solaris tutorial. Official tutorial on USD basics in Solaris.
in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Miscellaneous Tutorials - Vegas Movie Studio Paid software. Consumer/prosumer Vegas variant for hobbyist editing.
in Software Reference → Video Editing Software - Vincent Rig (Blender) Paid asset-source. Classic Blender Institute cartoon character rig with squash and stretch body and expressive face controls.
in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps - Virtus Learning Hub channel. Unreal Engine tutorials with several long course series.
in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources - Vive Tutorial - Intro / UI | Unity VR (VRTK) channel. Unity VR UI tutorial using VRTK.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - VR Development - Unity Learn tutorial. Unity Learn pathway preparing you for VR development jobs.
in Game Development → XR, AR & VR: Resources - Walking animation cycle in games tutorial. Tutorial series on 2D walk-cycle animation for games.
in Game Development → Game Dev Tools: Sprite & VFX - WebGL 2 Basics reference. Blog post on getting started with WebGL 2.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - WebGL Academy tutorial. Learn WebGL and 3D algorithms in a progressive, interactive way.
in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms - WebGL Fundamentals reference. In-depth WebGL resource covering 3D rendering, lighting, and 2D transforms from first principles.
in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory - Womp3D Free tier software. Playful browser-based 3D modeler for product design.
in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free Tier