Sites of Interest - Artists Edition

Textures:
CG Textures (Credit: Almare57

Forums:
CG Society (Credit: Amatobahn)
Game Artist Forum (Credit: Amatobahn)
Animation Forum (Credit: Amatobahn)
Polycount Forum (Credit: Amatobahn)

Other Inspiration:
ConceptArt.org (Credit: Mat)

Training Sites:
Gnomon Workshop (Credit: Amatobahn)

ConceptArt.org is a pretty useful source of inspiration and information.

cgtextures.com is a useful site for quick easy textures. They even have a lot of premade tiling textures

Almare57 wrote:cgtextures.com is a useful site for quick easy textures. They even have a lot of premade tiling textures

It's always better to hand-paint textures on UVs for games. Creating a normal map off of a pre-made texture, with accuracy (not using some photoshop plugin), is more difficult. Good for low-poly mesh's though.

Mat wrote:ConceptArt.org is a pretty useful source of inspiration and information.

At GDC, one of the presenters mentioned this site. He said it's important for modelers to show that they can work with other people's ideas. He suggested finding concept art you like and asking them if you can model it.