Use this thread to post favorite sites with reference images, downloadable textures, models, blueprints, et cetera.
Good sites for prints and pics (from Brickhead's bookmarks),
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifiblueprintsxchange/
http://www.smcars.net/forums/index.php
http://www.suurland.com/ - blueprints for download
Reference images of studio models and/or near-exact replicas
http://www.culttvman.com/ -lots of images of studio models, or close replicas of them
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/ - ditto
http://www.forbiddenplastic.com/ - for hardcore scale model folks. Good for reference
http://www.cloudster.com/EntryCardSets.htm - excellent shots of the TMP Enterprise model
http://www.olsenart.com/strek.html - website created by the man who painted the TMP Enterprise. Excellent discussion of what colors he used, how the "Aztec" effect was achieved.
http://www.onnovanbraam.com/ - blueprints for download
Sexton Design link removed due to uncredited usage of other artists' meshes
http://www.studioscale.com/kitscans.htm - images of Tamiya, Airfix, and other model kits - useful when modeling greebles
Downloadable textures
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ Very high-end planetary textures, including Earth textures up to 32k in resolution
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ - NASA's Earth Observatory site, source of some amazing Earth bitmaps
http://www.mayang.com/textures/ - link provided by Guerilla
http://www.imageafter.com/ - ditto
http://www.lwg3d.org/v3/presets.php - has LW presets as well as downloadable textures. Magma's amazing scifi texture packs are available here
Downloadable meshes:
http://www.lwg3d.org/v3/meshes.php - LWO meshes, lots of categories. Several of the meshes on LWG3D were also available here on SFM, before the Great Crash of 2006.
http://www.scifi3d.com/ -hosted by theforce.net, has lots of Star Wars, lots of Trek. Incidentally, the
greeble packs I released a while back are here, available in MAX, OBJ, and LWO formats.
Testures for purchase:
www.3dtotal.com
If ya got 'em...post 'em!!!
Posts
http://boards.theforce.net/fan_films/b10015/21278629/p1/
how can i use the sownloads from this in my 3ds max, they all are ment for celestia? transfrom file?
Not everything there can be used in Max. However, the images in JPG format can be used, and I'm 90% Max can use PNG images, too. If it can't, lots of image editors can convert a PNG file to JPG format.
http://www.chrisfoss.net/
http://www.bonestell.org/
http://mccallstudios.com/mccall/index.htm
http://www.vincentdifate.com/
General Artist Sites
http://jason9704.fotopic.net/
http://homepage1.nifty.com/sphere-design/
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Pulp Magazine Reference Sites:
http://www.sfcovers.net/mainnav.htm
http://www.philipkdick.com/works_covers.html
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
http://www.noosfere.org/heberg/ericb33/
http://home.comcast.net/~pulpgallery/welcome.html
http://www.noosfere.com/showcase/
http://www.frankwu.com/paul1.html
http://www.geocities.com/chapulinas/index.html
http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/wotw/wotw.html
http://www.hobbyspace.com/Art/gallery.html
http://www.locusmag.com/Links/Portal.html
Video Game Reference Library
http://www.vgmuseum.com/
A GENERAL Art Posting Sites
http://www.artwanted.com/?GID=0
http://www.epilogue.net/index.html
http://www.flightcomics.com/forum/
http://www.conceptart.org/
Museum Level Art Sites
http://www.artrenewal.org/
http://www.sf-art.com/
Godzilla Concept Art
http://www.tohokingdom.com/web_pages/concept_art.htm
GENERAL Reference & Artbook Sites - contain mature material not for the immature
http:// budplant. com
http:// 4chan. org
Well a lot of Warhammer 40k is popping up, references and stuff are easily found here and on the forge world website. (There is a link on their site.)
http://shipschematics.net/
Official Star Trek Blueprints and Scans:
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints-main2.php
Star Wars "Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels" Scans:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/STARWARS_Blueprints/
Gilso's Star Trek Schematics:
http://www.strekschematics.utvinternet.com/index.html
Comprehensive List of EVERY Star Trek ship to ever appear in the series:
http://www.neutralzone.de/database/indexfra.htm
Star Trek LW Meshes:
http://trekmeshes.ch/
Current Projects:
Ambassador Class
http://www.sounddogs.com/catsearch.asp?Type=1
Those are some very cool links! Thanks a lot!
Warning for the mature not immature
http:// www.himawari.sakura.ne.jp/~hisakun/
www.deviantart.com
In the middle of the homepage there's links to resources, including a small collection of textures and tuorials for various 3d software.
Don't think of it as just a site, think of it as a challenge. They don't make it easy, do they?
On the Trek page I easily recognize Dennis Bailey's Enterprise refit, Ralph Schoberth's Enterprise-E and Ed Gidding's Centaur class, but that one is a scan from the Star Trek Magazine.
He actually states that he's using meshes from other creators here, but he doesn't name them.
The link has been removed due to uncredited use of other artists' meshes.
Thanks for the info.
Though I am a bit surprised to see these not on the list:
www.3dgladiators.com
www.colonialfleets.com
They're great sites with art, models, textures, forums.
http://www.subdivisionmodeling.com/wiki/tiki-index.php
H.P. Lovecraft :cool:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/popcult/art.asp
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/images/
modellbau science fiction übersicht thats a german site with a lot of stuff
M41-A Pulse Rifle here you can build a m41 pusle rifle made with paper
PVC Blaster Builders Club this is a site where you can learn how to build stormtrooper blasters
greets, djart
Download_Simbiont2
try it , its for free...
Pen & Paper :: A collection of resources for pen and paper RPGs
Yamato Mechanics
CGTextures
Licence and usage info HERE.
There's got to be thousands of textures on this site!!!
They have a bunch of different categories:
Animals
Brick
Concrete
Dirt
Fabric
Grunge
Machinery
Metal
Nature
Ornaments
Plastic
Rust
Scrap
Signs
Skies
Stone
Thatched
Windows
Wood
cheers!
J
Free
Anim8or Free 3D Animation Software
www.blender.org
Wings 3d
Purchase neccessary
Modeling tools for designers
Autodesk - Home Page (30 day trial possible)
NewTek
Free vector/2d software/ photoedit
free
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
Inkscape. Draw Freely
Purchase neccessary
Adobe (30 day trial possible)
Err, given these can be classed as resources I will add to them if possble.
If these are already in a list, someone hit me.XD
[CGTextures]
CYGAD's 3DXtra - Textures - Textures from CYGAD, Partner and Friends for FREE Download
Mayang's Free Texture Library
Would be cool if we could keep this as a sticky.
Hope they come in handy