Links

3D General

CG Talk: Big computer graphics community

CG Cars: All about virtual cars

Cartoon Brew: Animation blog

3d-WorXX: German CG community

Blender 3D

blender.org: official Blender webpage

Blenderartists: best Blender userforum

Blendernation: really good Blender news site

Free/Open Source Renderers

3Delight: Renderman compliant renderer, one license is free

Aqsis: Renderman compliant renderer, no support for ray tracing

Freestyle: Non photorealistic renderer

Kerkythea: Renderer that supports different GI-methods

Luxrender: Artist-friendly GPL port of PBRT

PBRT: The ray tracer described in the highly recommended book Physically Based Rendering

Pixie: Renderman compliant renderer that supports even ray tracing and photon mapping

Sunflow: open source JAVA renderer

WinOSi: Renderer with the all-known renderer comparison scene

Yafray: Old GI renderer, but rewritten as Yaf(a)ray which is capable of making really nice images again

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