Resources

Favorite Websites

Below are some of our favorite sites for advancing yourself in media production.

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Video CoPilot

www.videocopilot.net

High quality After Effects Video Tutorials for motion graphics and visual effects presented by Andrew Kramer.

This website taught me virtually everything I know about After Effects, and for free at that, but has taken my money in exchange for some amazing graphics packages. I highly advise this site to anyone interested in video compositing or motion graphics.

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Digital Tutors

www.digitaltutors.com

Access every single video in the world's largest online CG training library including all project files.

This site offers a wide array of tutorials for pretty much anything to do with digital media. It requires a subscription, but they are world-renowned and worth it.

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Neosounds

www.neosounds.com

Royalty free music downloads, premium production music library, royalty free sound effects. Listen, purchase and download stock music & sound effects.

This site sells 100% royalty-free music that you can use over and over, forever and ever, in anything you want. Most songs are modestly priced, and there are no watermarks on the demo tracks.

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Dafont

www.dafont.com

Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.

A gigantic library of fonts that are free to download. You can even narrow down your searches to the public domain/free-for-commercial-use fonts, but not all fonts have the license agreement in the zip file which made me take off a star.

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Turbosquid

www.turbosquid.com

Serving the 3D model community with over 200,000 3D models available for download, TurboSquid is the leading source for 3D models on the web.

Download free models, or buy the nice ones, or create your own account and sell your own. This site is a bloated database for the lazy 3D designer.

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Autodesk Education Community

students.autodesk.com

Now you can push the boundaries of design with Autodesk® software. Download the same, full version software that over 9 million designers, engineers and digital artists are using.

Autodesk realized everyone was stealing its thousand-dollar software, so it decided to just offer their entire software library free to students. You get the the most recent full version with a serial number and updates, as long as you have a student email. Also, update your student profile and add pictures of your work - it shows up in Google images.