3D Graphics

3DS Max forum covering topics common to game developers, design visualization specialists, and visual effects artists. Discuss tips to create rich, complex design virtualizations, realistic game characters, or 3D film effects.

AutoCAD forum covering the computer aided drafting software package, for 3D modeling, architectural design, engineering plans, and more. Discuss how to use this software effectively and create drawings that you never knew you could.

Blender 3 forum covering the open-source alternative for 3D content creationDiscuss how you can use Blender for creating 3D graphics for web or video use.

Bryce 3D forum covering landscape modeling, animation, and rendering. Discuss how to combine imported animations, lighting effects, add human figures and animals, and more to create realistic, detailed 3D landscapes and fantasy worlds.

Cinema 4D forum covering the high-end 3D graphics application that provides high quality images at a modest price-point. Capable of procedural and polygonal modeling, animating, lighting, texturing, and rendering. Discuss it here.

Lightwave 3D forum covering the software originally created for the Commodore Amiga. Find out how use this cross-platform application to create stunning hi-resolution print graphics, dynamic video content, powerful motion graphics, and more.

Maya forum covering the imaging software program that is used mainly for special effects in movies and modeling objects and characters. Learn how to use its open, programming architecture to create cool animations, 3D characters, and more.