3d modeling

Burnt Kona's Coffee House
   A talented 3D modeler, animator, and skinner. Produces a lot of good work and is helpful within the community. If you're looking for love ladies, this is your man.

casManG's All You Can Eat Games Stuff
   A tastey model flavored site. Lots of helpful tutorials and tips of working in our favorite medium, 3D player models. I tried to get him in as a hosted site, but he has his own domain and is pretty darn comfty. 

Clan Ramirez
   Everything gaming and animated. A conglomeration of cool gaming and animation related stuff that's of interest to any gamer seeking eye candy. Hmm... That logo pic looks familiar.

Daz's Home
   A Uk modeler who just so happens to have been the author SAS and the Colonial Maribe models, and holds the title, lead modeler for Dungeon Keeper 2, the upcoming game from Bullfrog.

Deconstruct
   This site has details on Jeff "Stecki" Garstecki's projects and creations. You'll find his killer Quake II models; Civi, Fuel4.46, Waste, plus their official add-ons and a detailed "how to" section on model creation.

dhabih eng
   An electronic artist more than a skinner or modeler, but his work has proved very popular within the community. I'm sure you're seen and loved at least one of his works without knowing it was him. Does a lot of covers and you see his work popping up just about anywhere. Oh and he works for Valve.

Epic Knights
The website of James Green, lead modeler at Epic Games. They've got a message board, some tutorials and some other goodies, if you're nice on the board. If you want to shake your UT groove thang you should definitely check it out. Their essage board crowd is a helpful lot, with many of our regulars - and Mr. Green himself - making appearances, so stop on by. Look for a full-blown opening of the site in the (hopefully) near future.

g-net
   Quake 2 and Half-Life modeler and cool stuff maker, Ian Waugh. A nice well above average site that has lots of bells and whistles but doesn't scream at you about it.

Krayzee's Modeling Guide
   A veteran model author's site full of fun tutorials and info.  if you're a lightwave user, you'll like this guy.

Nerve Damage
   David Carter's personal site. He was the lead modeler at Epic and as such this puppy is stacked up to the rim with Unreal modeling knowledge. A serious resource.

Q2 Modeling Studio
   The original Q2 modeling site. now dead, but plenty of good stuff still inside.

Rungy's Metropolis
   Have ideas for creating a MOD but don't have the knowledge or skills on how to implement them? Well then this could be a great place to get the basics for all your needs.

Shattered Art
   Home to multi-purpose artists Chris "Shatter" Holden & Jon "shine" Jones. Their site's loaded with: news, a variety of models, skins, maps, assorted textures for all your... texture needs, plus most excellent tutorials on a variety of topics, and as always.. links galore!

SteveMinton.com
   This is the home of 3D modeler "Deimos". You'll find all of his Quake II goodies on this "no longer updated" site: models, skins, artwork, tools & where to get 'em, and links to a variety of other web sites.

Zebayan
   Author of the Purgatory Quake 2 model and MAX script author.  Has a few scripts for download and some nice models and candy too look at. 

Skinning

666 skins
   Roger Bacon's choice skin site. Nothing but high quality skins here, he's even got some tutorials for those looking to start some pixel pushing.

Confusion Gfx
   He's a skinner, and he's got some damn nice stuff. Some of his work is a little cartoony for myself, but it's definitely quality down to the core.

Rorshach's Journal
   So you think you know skinnin', eh? Perhaps you need to take a peak at this site then. Rorshach's an excellent artist with creativity flyin' out the wazoo. You'll find previews, skins for sale, tutorials, and lots of other sweet stuff. His older content can still be found at his old website here.

Skinning 101
   If you're all jittery about all the new possibilities on Q3 skinning, there's a skinning site just for you. The site is in the process of being your one stop skinning info spot. They got funk in Q1, Q2 and Q3, plus Half-Life and Unreal flavors. A nice spot to visit if you're looking to get the gist of pushing of pixels.

Model and Skin Repositories

Cold Fusion
   If you're lookin' for the latest Half-Life news, models, and reviews... look no further. Just click here for easy lubricated access!

House of Style
   So you're a fan of Unreal/Unreal Tournament eh? Looking for skins or tutorials on how to make 'em and use them in the game? Check out these guys cuz they're there to help.

Ram2000's Skins Models and Voices Page
   With the demise of Painful Detail, Ram2000 decided to try take their place but bigger and better. Did he succeed? Check it out!

Shrine of Ovum
   Your one and only source for Heretic 2 modeling. They recently redid their site design and reorganized. Some interesting things going on that you won't find elsewhere.

SkinDeep
   This is a growing skin / add-on site is brought to you by some of the ol' BodyShop regulars. There's lots of goodies posted frequently for those in need!

Team Fortress 2 Models
  A small site detailing the modeling concerns on the Valve product in development: Team Fortress 2. They don't have much yet as the game is still months off. But you aren't going to find another source with this same info. 

Quake Female Skin Archive
   Ophelia's home site. She's a a pretty decent skinner and collects everything female that is skins and model related under her site.

Quake III Nexus
   A small model and skin site focus ed on Quake 3. Not as big a site as us, but along the same lines. They also have a buttload of the character sheets, both the official and custom ones.

3d tools and developers

3D Cafe
   If you're serious about doing 3D modeling and animation, you need to know of this site.  An excellent site for info, programs, tutorials, and tons of free stuff.

3D Matrix
   This site is dedicated to the tools you'll need for all your Quake2 creations. You'll find qME ( model editor ), as well as these other helpers: qED2 ( level editor ) and qWAL ( PAK texture tool ).

Aztec
   A new 3d modeler/editor by Phillip Martin, author of the original Q2 modeler. This one isn't released yet, but it should prove to be a large tool in the Q3A editing scene if the programmer's past record is any indication.

Developer's Corner - The Learning Forum
   The DC is a non-profit central learning forum, created and run by professional game developers. The DC is dedicated exclusively to helping the future members of the game development community. Here is where you will find priceless knowledge, guidance and information about the complex world of game development by your fellow peers from around the world.

Discreet/Kinetix
   Makers of 3D Studio MAX, the program which a lot of modelers are using to do the player models. All of the major games that allow player models are also releasing plugins for this program as well, that will allow you to directly export to the format needed for the games. If you're serious about getting into game modeling as a profession, know this package.

Hash Inc.
   Makers of Animation Master 98, a low cost character creation and animation tool.  If you're on a budget and looking to do quake models, this is probably your first option above the freeware tools.  An excellent program that gives the best bang for your buck.

Newtek
   Makers of LightWave, another extremely popular program for doing quake models.  It doesn't have all the plugin support from the community that other programs have, but you won't go wrong with it.

Nichimen Graphics
   This company is a supplier of 3D graphics, modeling and animation software development tools specifically designed for the professional 3D interactive, gaming and entertainment industry. They also have released a new software product named Nendo. It is a 3D modeling and 3D painting package that is both simple enough for the novice and powerful enough for the professional. Cost affordable too!

Turbo Squid (formerly FreeTextures.com)
   This is a clearinghouse where digital artists can make money selling their content and a software package used to find digital art. A growing library with over 70,000 assets available for purchase or free. Definitely something you'll want to check out.

Q2 Modeler version 0.91b  
  Jaimi McEntire's homepage offers a new version of this workhorse of the Quake2 modeling scene. 

The Surreal Artist's Loft
   This goes through how to set up advanced modeling programs to work with Surreal's format as well as instructions on how to deal with their freeware modeler. Lots of good info here if you're into editing for the Drakan engine.

Polycount Cottages

Alpha Wolf's Model Den
   A model author [ SUW, Dire Avenger, Sorbogon, Prettything, She'k... ] with some very nice models in the works.

Evil Bastard's House of Models
   He's been called the "King of Quake Models" and his resume doesn't do anything to dispel that myth.  If you've got a few favorite models, its a good chance one of them was authored by Evil.  But he'll always be a young Captain Sheridan to me.

Gwot Make Skin
   An all around good guy to the modeling community. He's helped out on several models, he's done reviews, models, skins [duh] Plus he's a MAX, user and you know those guys are the coolest and get into heaven with just a nod from Saint Peter.

Meshsmith
   A team member here at the ole site, Mr. Wrath's been a pretty good contributor to the modeling community, so you might give his site a look over. If that's not enough for you, he's got some of the best tutorials on his site as well.

Moto Creations
   The leader of the Cybertonian Warriors clan and a first rate Transformer and model author.  The man has an absolute fetish with things robotic, but then who doesn't? Another author who's already leaning towards Q3 models.

Guplicity
   Guplik's home page. If you don't know him, you probably know his work, such as TeamRocket for Q3, Carianne for Half-Life, model and animation work for the Machinima series Eschaton, and a whole slew of other top notch stuff. Finally he has agreed to let us host him.

fOoL's Page
   Another long time regular to the site and community. He's got a fetish with purple haired young ladies anf loves to model them.

SuperGirl's Skin Site
   A female skinner [ like gender really matters... ] that is a member of one of the more successful female Q3A clans, the Violent Femmes. She's been cranking out some Q3A skins from almost day one.

Rungy's Cottage
   In addition to his Mod page, Rungy the genius has a cottage with us. A nice place to stop by, if you're so inclined.

General and Miscellaneous

Blue's News
   Probably a waste of time to stick this up, just in case you haven't seen the most popular quake news site.

Looneygames
   An intelligent magazine style site that deals with the community at large.  Always full of good stuff, plus it carries Paul Steed's weekly column, Thinking Outside of the Box.

Quake3World
   A news site is focusing on Quake3 they plan on trying to be the one stop shopping for all that is Quake3 from news to tutorials to ..well everything.

ruff-stuff.com
   A Discreet trainer with several metric tons of interesting stuff on his site, including several useful Max scripts and plug-ins. Definitely one to check out for Max users.

Voodoo Extreme
   A news site that focus on 3d accelerators and the games that use them.  Nothing is usually directly modeling/animating related but it's a good site to keep an eye on.