Useful Tools & Links
Here is a growing list of links to websites, resources and downloads.
Blogs and Communities
Real-Time VFX : The home of real time VFX, you should have an account there!
Chimeras and Manticores : the new Tech art survival guide.
Tech Art Survival Guide - Technical art : Maya, Python, and Unity. (old version)
Documentation
Houdini Information
Tokeru's CGWiki for Houdini : Extremely Useful bunch of articles about houdini tricks.
Math for Graph Information
Inigo Quilez's Articles : Good place with a lot of shader functions
Software and Utilities
DCC & Pipeline Software
Houdini : The must-have toolchain for CG VFX
Offline Utilites
ARCalc : Mathtoy for drawing 2D/3D/Color/Sound curves based on equations
RenderDoc : Graphics Debugger and Basic Performance analysis. Enables capture/replay of 3D Application frames.
Online Tools
Desmos Grapher : Equation Graph Viewer with controls and sliders
ShaderToy : GLSL Shader Creation community
VFX Asset Resources
OpenVDB Sample Files : Binary openvdb files to be used in houdini or other software.
Free Flipbook Image Sequences : Released under CC0 Public Domain License.