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Beginners Guide to Learning 3D Computer Graphics - YouTube
How To Make Triple A Graphics - YouTube
Danny Mac 3D - YouTube
InspirationTuts - YouTube
On Mars 3D - YouTube
Arise.Works - YouTube
Acerola - YouTube game rendering

Blue Bubble Bursting Pins
bubblepins - YouTube

CAD

OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
Tinkercad | Create 3D digital designs with online CAD
FreeCAD: Your Own 3D Parametric Modeler
Sign up | Onshape Cloud Product Development Software

OpenJSCAD.org
OpenJsCad
BITPlan/docker-openjscad: dockerized OpenJSCAD

30 Best Free CAD Software Tools 2018 (2D/3D CAD Programs) | All3DP

Blender

blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software
Blender Fundamentals 2.8 - YouTube
Blender Market | A Unique Market for Creators that love Blender

"Money doesn't interest me" - Creator of Blender talks about its future - YouTube
Why is Blender Free - YouTube

Blender Guru
Blender Guru - YouTube
Blender 2.8 Beginner Tutorial Series - YouTube
Blender 基礎教學 - YouTube
Make BEAUTIFUL characters using a FREE APP (Blender) - YouTube

Grant Abbitt - YouTube
Blender 2.8 for beginners full course - YouTube
also other low poly tutorials
Low Poly Animals | Quick and Easy | Blender 2.8 | Basic Tutorial - YouTube
Create any low poly animal | Blender | 10 mins - YouTube
Sculpting with Blender For Beginners (Tutorial) - YouTube
Blender 3.1 Beginner Tutorial | Low Poly Worlds - YouTube

CynicatPro - YouTube

I Learn Blender From Scratch and Here's My 30 Day Progress - YouTube

MoonRay

DreamWorks's production renderer

MoonRay Production Renderer
Features and Functionality - MoonRay Production Renderer
dreamworksanimation/openmoonray: MoonRay is DreamWorks’ open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer.

MCRT: Monte-Carlo Ray Tracer

DreamWorks Animation will open source its MoonRay renderer later this year
MoonRay - Andrew Pearce, Randy Packer, Mark Jackels, Dan McCann, & Keith Jeffery, DreamWorks - YouTube
Open MoonRay Update - Andrew Pearce & Randy Packer, DreamWorks Animation, LLC - YouTube

Volumetric Effects

OpenVDB

DreamWorks's file format for volumetric effects
Blender and game engines support this format

OpenVDB

OpenVDB Is Overpowered - YouTube
OpenVDB Is A Game Changer | Blender Tutorial - YouTube

COMPLETE UNREAL ENGINE 5.3 VDB PIPELINE - YouTube
Mastering VDB in Unreal Engine 5.3 - YouTube

EmberGen

EmberGen: Real-Time Fluid Simulations For Fire, Smoke, And Explosions! uses Odin

Houdini

Houdini - 3D modeling, animation, VFX, look development, lighting and rendering | SideFX
Houdini doc

Houdini Category • FX TD Wiki

Houdini For Beginners - VDB Clouds - YouTube
What is a Volume? in Houdini for Beginners | Core Concepts - YouTube

Clouds in Houdini with VOPs - YouTube
Houdini Attributes and VOPs - YouTube

Photorealism

The Science of Rendering Photorealistic CGI - YouTube
Pixar in a Box | Computing | Khan Academy
The Secrets of Photorealism - YouTube

Photorealism Series - YouTube
Photorealism Explained - YouTube ❗!important

Two Minute Papers
Rendering Course Videos A course on ray tracing and global illumination – Károly Zsolnai-Fehér – Research Scientist
TU Wien Rendering / Ray Tracing Course - YouTube

The Secret Ingredient to Photorealism - YouTube
How to Make Photorealistic PBR Materials - Part 1 - YouTube
How to Make Photorealistic Materials - Part 2: Metal - YouTube
Filmic Blender | filmic-blender

Why it’s so hard to make CGI skin look real - YouTube

Connecting in the Metaverse: The Making of the GTC Keynote - YouTube

Raytracing

Ray Tracing Resources Page
Ray Tracing Gems
Call for Participation: Ray Tracing Gems II

Raytracing explained: Nvidia, Microsoft lead the way in revolutionizing gaming graphics – Ars Technica
NVIDIA’s Ray Tracer - Finally, Real Time! ☀️ - YouTube

Forget Old School Ray Tracing, NVIDIA Demos Stunning Real-Time Path Tracing
What Is Path Tracing? | NVIDIA Blog

Control PC: Ray Tracing's Killer App? Plus: Full Xbox One X vs PC Comparison! - YouTube

How Realistic CGI Works (And How To Do It Way Faster) - YouTube
Ray Tracing in Games: How Today's Big Tech Gamble Became Tomorrow's Sure Thing [Sponsored] - YouTube
Ray Tracing Essentials Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing – NVIDIA Developer News Center
Ray Tracing Essentials Part 2: Rasterization versus Ray Tracing – NVIDIA Developer News Center
Ray Tracing Essentials Part 3: Ray Tracing Hardware – NVIDIA Developer News Center
Ray Tracing Essentials Part 4: The Ray Tracing PipelinWe – NVIDIA Developer News Center

What's the Deal With Raytracing? - YouTube
NVIDIA RTX In 2020 - STILL Not Worth It? - YouTube

Gamers Nexus
Real-Time Ray Tracing Explained - YouTube
Battlefield V RTX Deep-Dive: Reality vs. Demo Graphics Comparison - YouTube
Faking RTX Global Illumination vs. RTX | 100% Ray-Traced Game, Pt 1 - YouTube

Intel® Embree

ssloy/tinyraytracer: A brief computer graphics / rendering course

GopherCon 2018: Hunter Loftis - Painting with Light - YouTube

Rendering Tricks

SimonDev - YouTube
The NEW way that 3d engines do bloom. From the basics to cutting edge - YouTube convolution -> FFT
How Big Budget AAA Games Render Clouds - YouTube

3D Data

3D Models for Free - Free3D.com
Download Free 3D Models - Royalty Free - Sketchfab

PCL - Point Cloud Library (PCL)
PCL Notes · GitBook (Legacy)

Open3D – A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing
intel-isl/Open3D: Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing

3d - Can I generate Point Cloud from mesh? - Stack Overflow

Point Cloud to Mesh · GitBook

Monster Mash: New Sketch-Based Modeling and Animation Tool
Turn 2D Images into 3D Objects with Monster Mash! (Free Web Tool) - YouTube

无人机扫描整座山!耗费 30 天,用 10000 张照片还原世界文化遗产 - YouTube
The Ultimate Guide to 3D Scanning | FULL WORKFLOW - YouTube

Software

nschloe/meshio: I/O for various mesh formats

MeshLab
CloudCompare - Open Source project

Libraries

Open3D – A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing
The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library

Visualization

AliceVision | Photogrammetric Computer Vision Framework
alicevision/meshroom: 3D Reconstruction Software

VTK - The Visualization Toolkit

vtk+DearImGui integration through vtkGenericOpenGLRenderWindow - Development - VTK
trlsmax/imgui-vtk: test on how to integrate vtk into glfw + imgui project
phcerdan/vtkImGuiAdapter: Adapter to add imgui to an existing vtkRenderWindow using SDL2.

nicanor-romero/QtVtk: An integration between Qt Quick Controls 2 and VTK for 3D rendering

Data Files

Data Files