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The Crisis in Darfur project is a downloadable set of layers for Google Earth which combines high-resolution satellite images of Darfur with photographs and first-hand accounts of the genocide currently underway in the region. Users of Google’s 3-D world atlas can zoom in on burned-out Sudanese villages, read the stories of the victims and see [...]

ShareCG just opened. It’s a new website allowing cg artists and creative people to upload their works and to earn some money out of it. I decided to register and I gather some more information besides what is contained in the press release.

A rich and frequently updated forum for matte painters looking for job offerings.

A Computer Graphics and digital arts discussion forum with double language sections in English and Spanish.

Funny and solar interface for the Web of Longneck Animation Studios, Romania.

French-speaking Computer Graphics community from Belgium with about 750 users.

Mars Explorer by Marco Genovesi. Digital illustration (3D computer graphics, digital painting, compositing)
CG Channel published an article on self-promotion tips and guidelines for digital artists. There are suggestions about what to do when creating an artist’s website: avoid Flash, use a simple and usable user interface for navigating your image / animation portfolio, carefully select [...]

IllustrationMundo.com
Online Web portal dedicated to illustrators with a rich illustrator database searchable with different criteria: medium, style and category. 9 pages with 99 illustration artists is what you get if you search for all, which would mean there are at least one thousand of artists categorized on IllustrationMundo.com .
Submit your information if you are a [...]

A very good resource about the history of digital graphics and animation. Utilized for an academic course the website I am suggesting is rich of timelines, anectodes, stories about famous people of 3D CG and a lot of external references.
thanks to Cristian Contini
Visit: A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation

But Hollywood’s not about telling good stories, it’s about telling popular stories, stories that many people will pay to come and see.
Link: Only a Game: Lessons from Hollywood