A small render farm, at reasonable rates, for the SolidWorks 2011/2012 PhotoView 360 and Modo 501 user.
We have dual socket, 6 core, Xeon render nodes with 48 gigs of RAM, SSD hard drives with SolidWorks 2011 and 2012 installed for rendering your PhotoView 360 frames.

Visual Effects Wikipedia
This is is a wiki for visual effects artists. It is being created by vfx artists working on feature films.
It is a notebook of tid-bits for pixel pushers and their notes from the edge.
If you want to contribute read the about page.
If you are looking for something use the search function, or look in the index below of all the pages on this site. Failing that use the custom google search below, to search VFX only sites on the web.
Most of there pages are rough notes, unintelligible, and not available publicly

Refraction Index of Various Substances for 3D modelers

Brilliant customer training video. Shows the do's and don'ts of CG production to a potential customer.

The concept of a deep image isn’t brand new; ultimately it’s just the technique of encoding more than just the RGBA value in a pixel. Many applications and systems already store multiple channels of data to enhance the compositing workflow as well as re-using calculations already performed by the rendering engine. Side FX software’s Houdini is an example of one of the more recent applications to utilize this workflow via it’s custom camera image format.
What we’re doing is utilizing a simplification of already existing representations for shadow maps to encode camera space information. This reaches further than traditional Z depth buffers, as those tend to lead to artifacts in semi transparent areas, such as motion blur or oversampling.
Deep images solve this issue by storing multiple samples for every pixel at varying depths which contain the chosen values (opacity, color, P) at that depth, encoding it in efficient way to solve a lot of the aforementioned historical issues.

The REBUS Render Farm provides you with 250 workstations right away to render your still-images and animations. No matter which 3D-application you're using: We support them all!

Whether you have to meet close deadlines or permanently need a reliable partner for your renderings - our renderfarm service is fast, safe and easy, thanks to our unique technology, the Farminizer Software.

We're the only render farm that utilizes a system which seamlessly integrates into your 3D software. Developed by the REBUS Renderfarm the Farminizer Software renders your animation-projects with just a simple click.

The Farminizer is an extremely robust piece of software, which has proven it's worth a thousand times in the daily production workflow with 3D Studio Max, Cinema 4D, MODO, Lightwave and Maxwell.

Furthermore the Farminizer Software automatically checks the completeness and compatibility of your data. Expensive mishaps, as they happen with other render farms, are impossible. Incorrect render jobs are a thing of the past! That's our guarantee as the market leader. Also our Render Farm Manager gives you complete control over your costs.

Our renderfarm staff manually checks scene-consistency, file-transfers and the rendering process.

From large scale still images for architectural visualization to GI-intensive animations for futuristic or medical projects, RenderFriend has rendered projects for HDTV, film, commercials, promos and science.

All of your projects are manually supervised to ensure a high degree of quality control and efficiency. While other farms rely on absentee supervision and client-side management, clients can't always tell if there is a flaw in their file which will waste valuable time if allowed to proceed. Therefore, we like to personally oversee the renders on our farm to spot problems before they become a time drain. And really, the entire point of a render farm is to speed things up and so we are committed to that.

Octane Render- The Interactive Physically Based Render Engine — — Fully GPU accelerated Unbiased Render Engine

great and innovative 3D search engine. allows you to precisely filter e.g free & commercial, etc.

Brilliant topology imagery. Very high res.

The following are some very interesting insights on filtering in PRMan.

Last known source for the classic 3D software Monzoom 3D formerly known as Reflections 3D.