Communities
3D Total
The CG artists homepage, daily news with links to all the best 3d animations and site. Huge libraries and galleries with free downloads (meshes/textures etc) and amazing artwork.
Adobe Design Center
Experts share new ideas in motion graphics and digital design. See how today’s designers engage with technology and what their experiences mean for design, design tools, and society. Experts share new ideas in motion graphics and digital design.
Animation Meat
A helpful site with great references for animation process.
CGSociety
The CGSociety is the most respected and accessible global organization for creative digital artists. The CGS supports artists at every level by offering a range of services to connect, inform, educate and promote, by celebrating achievement, excellence and innovation in all aspects of digital art.
COLOURlovers Color Trends + Palettes
If you're seeing some wonky colors or have a request for something you think would be a great addition then you're in the right place. There are currently 85,801 Lovers sharing 1,003,437 Colors in 347,373 Palettes. Lovers have scored the lovely Colors & Palettes 1,496,636 times and left 556,387 comments and created 80,213 Patterns.
CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.
Digital-Tutors
Visit Digital-Tutors.com today to learn more about our free online tutorial videos and training kits for computer graphics professionals, vfx animators, and post-production artists of any expertise level.
FlashKit
A Flash developer resource site.
GameArtisans.com
An art competition gallery held under GCCore.org (Game Content Core). Within these pages, a unique flavor of enthusiasm and motivation is provided to inspire artists of all levels to create art that is above and beyond expectations!
GDCRadio.net
Gamasutra is proud to present the latest Gamasutra Podcasts.
gotoAndLearn()
This Flash video tutorial site was created by Lee Brimelow, who is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities.
High-End 3D
Highend3d.com is a community for professional and learning professionals of the products Maya, XSI, Softimage, Alias Studio, Renderman, 3ds max, Zbrush, Shake, and other programs. With over 5000 files to download, thousands of tutorials, hundreds of forums, faqs, feature request systems, galleries, tips, news, events, dictionary, dvd listings, books, articles, reviews, interviews, case studies, and white papers highend3d.com offers users resources they cannot find anywhere else.
IGDA (International Game Developers Association)
The IGDA is a non-profit professional society that is committed to advancing the careers and enhancing the lives of game developers by connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating on issues that affect the developer community.
kuler (an Adobe Labs production)
Kuler from Adobe Labs. Quickly create harmonious color themes online. Explore, create and share color themes.
Lynda.com
Lynda.com is an award-winning provider of educational materials, including Hands-On Training™ instructional books, the Online Training Library®, CD- and DVD-based video training, and events for creative designers, instructors, students, and hobbyists.
Unreal Wiki
The Unreal Wiki is dedicated to gathering documentation on the Unreal Engine. Not only can you browse the large quantity of material already here, but anyone can add or edit information instantly – no registration required. A large community of mappers, coders and modelers helps in this effort.
ZBrush Central
ZBrush discussion forums, feedback, questions, problem-related topics, solutions and suggestions.
Polycount
Get your ass handed to you, in a constructive way... sometime

Scholarships
IGDA GDC Student Scholarship
The IGDA annually awards 25 GDC Student Scholarships to send qualified students to the Game Developers Conference, where game development professionals from around the world gather to share ideas and build the skills essential to creating the next generation of interactive entertainment. Each year, the number and quality of applicants grows dramatically. The GDC 2004 scholarship program took in about 250 applications.