Nugget starter kits - new to cg? READ THIS FIRST

[Hundred]

Imagetoavi(freevrsn) (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

Imagetoavi(payversion) (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

Rating: 5/5 (both)

Here's some more software, though it's not pretty, it works. Up top are two links, the first for a free version, and the second, for a pay version, however the pay version is really cheap, like around six bucks or so (U.S.).

[Hundred]

DDS Converter 2 (1.0) (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

Rating: 5/5

[XRaiderV1.7]

nice finds, very nice.

[spudmonkey]

A few more free modeling apps for you

Wings 3d

EDIT: Only click the following link if your browser security settings are set to secure. Mine are, so the link was safe for me, but others have clicked and reported a potential attack. FFS, show some bloody sense and disable remote scripting before you surf the web in other words, or at least get a reasonable popup blocker!

EDIT 2: Apparently the sPatch site is fine, but some of the links to artist's work from the page are dodgy. I've changed the link to a direct download to the zip file

SPatch
SPatch docs

[Hundred]

Well now that you have all the links, to acquire all the software, that you will probably need in order to, "Make an 85min feature film for 200 dollars!", . Sorry PMiddy, that was too easy. In any case, now that you're set to start crank'in those out eye popping, aesthetically pleasing CG masterpieces, along with those Spielberg quality, block buster, sci-fi features; you're gonna need a place to put all that crap. (I.E.) you're going to need an image host. Because, as we all know by now, SFM's database can only handle so many of our individual images and or posts. (As Indicated by the little red bar at the top of your upload screen, whenever you try to upload an image and or attachment.)

When it comes to image hosting there are a lot of choices out there, but as image hosting service providers go, these two are probably your best bet.

Image Shack (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the site.)

Rating: 5/5


Photo Bucket (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the site.)

Rating: 5/5

And, once you've compiled a significant batch of pics, animations, writings and what have you; you're probably going to want to put together an online portfolio. Here are two that I highly recommend. (Even though to this day, I've been too lazy to finish or even update my own, .)

Freewebs (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the site.)

Rating: 5/5

The123d (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the site.)

Rating: 5/5

[XRaiderV1.7]

Originally Posted by spudmonkey

A few more free modeling apps for you

Wings 3d

SPatch

I actually have wings 3d already.

decent app, plenty of potential, if they ever update it, that is.

-edit: whoops, spoke before I looked, it had been so long since they updated it that I pretty much gave it up for dead, lol.-

havent seen that other one, whats its system requirements?

[Hundred]

To spudmonkey: I never saw SPatch before this morning either, what's it like?

EDIT: Wow, just saw some SPatch renders. Not bad. Good one spudmonkey.

[Ozylot]

Cant forget about Kerkythea, it is some free rendering software that goes well with wings, in fact, it even plugs-in now.

[Hundred]

We may have to start another thread for testing and rating some of this software, or devise some sort of rating system in this thread. Good one Ozylot.

[XRaiderV1.7]

my wanna include any system requirements as well, where possible.