Forums

Lightwave Group

A very active Lightwave community with knowledgable users of NewTek's Lightwave 3D software. My most visited forum, it's an endless source of inspiration and learning.

SpinQuad Forums

Proton's corner of the CG multiverse and another great spot for Lightwave talk.

NewTek Forums

The official LightWave community sponsored by NewTek.

Luxology Forums

All things modo.

pmG messiah

Discussion for users of pmG messiah:studio and messiah:animate

ZBrush Central

Dedicated to Pixologic's ZBrush 3D sculpting software.

CG Focus

General 3D forums, similar to CGTalk in scope and purpose.

Spiraloid

Bay Raitt's forums, an invaluable resource for serious organic modelers.

Subdivision Modeling

Discussion on subdivision surface modeling, it's theories, concepts, and applications.

Textures

Arroway Textures

Great commercial texture packages here and a number of great freebies.

Image * After

A searchable image database of royalty free imagery. Lots of content.

Mayang's Free Texture Library

Over 3000 free high resolution textures. Mayang will burn you a CD set with all of them and send them to you in the mail for a small fee plus the cost of shipping. Cool.

Spectralogue

Searchable image database that is good for general imagery.

OSF - Oxford Scientific

Supplier of high quality licensed photo library images from around the world.

Facial Skin Texture Database

Very useful base for painting UV texture maps. Lots of good facial reference here as well.

Blueprints

Onno van Braam

Huge archive of blueprints, probably the most extensive public blueprint site on the Web.

Suurland

Suurland comes in a close second in my book. Great site for military and aircraft blues.

Sinopoli Blueprints

Maintained by the very talented Diego M. Sinopoli, thank you for the resource Diego!

Aviation Blueprints

Military aviation blueprints. Great site with many complete prints.

Dryden Flight Research Center

Blueprints of NASA air and spacecraft all the way back to 1963.

Human Anatomy

Facial Muscle Actions Illustrated

Home of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)

Phoneme Illustrations

Phoneme mouth shape references by Gary Martin.

Anatomy for Artists Online

Tons of human photo reference and drawings.

Anatomy Atlases

A digital library of anatomy information maintained by Prof. Ronald Bergman, Ph.D.

Tutorials

LightWave Tutorials on the Web

Home of the most complete compilation of LightWave tutorials available anywhere.

LightWave Tutorials at CGTutorials

Fast growing collection of tutorials for LightWave, along with tons of other software packages.

Meshweaver

Online home of Fabio Passaro LightWave talent extraordinaire.

3dm3 UV Mapping Tutorial

Well, this one's for Maya, but the Photoshop painting section is a great reference.

Software and Plugins

NewTek -LightWave 3D

Luxology -modo

pmG -Project:messiah

Worley Labs -FPrime

Shekinah Studios -VertiBevel

VertexMonkey -modo plugins

Flay -LightWave plugins