Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual

Additional 3D Resources

This chapter is by no means a complete guide to 3D modeling—it’s more of an heroic attempt to simplify a complex art form! To learn more, check out these resources:

• CGSociety (www.lesa.in/3dcgtalk) is a huge community of professionals who are helpful and insightful. Be sure to check out the 3D sections if you want to have your mind blown by what others are doing with professional-level 3D applications.

• 3Dtotal (www.3dtotal.com) has endless resources for all things 3D (and 2D).

• PSD tuts+ (www.lesa.in/3dpstuts) has a fine selection of free 3D tutorials for Photoshop CC users. However, some are for older versions of Photoshop that had a very different set of 3D tools, so you may have to figure out how to accomplish them with the current toolset.

• “60 Excellent Free 3D Model Websites” (www.lesa.in/3d60free) is an article by Kay Tan that highlights 60 valuable 3D resources.

• Archive3D (www.archive3d.net) has 35,000+ 3D models and props, and they’re all free!

• CG Textures (www.cgtextures.com) has zillions of free textures.

• Blender (www.blender.org) is a free, open-source, cross-platform suite of tools for 3D creation.