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This is where the artists roam after a busy day in front of a long render with nothing but coffee as their friend.

This is where the new users can safely ask questions, without offending the 3d-palace "Old Timers" - please do learn about using the search button though as it will prevent you from repeating old threads.

The new Written Tutorials archive on 3d-palace. Please post up your written tutorials here and help the community as a whole.

NO RUBBING LINSEED OIL ON THE 3d-PALACE CORMARANT. Talking Toot welcome. Bowl of chewing fat is in the corner. This is the forum for non 3d related chat and asshattery

Sub-Forums: Raptus is a butt... lol

Want to review something impartially? Want to tell us your opinion about something related to 3d? Write about it here - the best review of the month wins a prize - remember to include pictures if you can and rate out of 10.

The official 3d-palace competition forum - enter a competition here to prove you have what it takes or just browse the other entries.

Are you new to 3d and want to get some help? Ask our mentors to help you on your project then play it forward and help someone out yourself!

One of the most popular 3d Packages on the market, this is a great place to discuss your max problems with the community as well as show off some of your ideas, chat with max users or just blow off steam. (Maya sucks!)

This is the forum for Cinema 4D Users to post their questions, wips, finished pieces, mentor each other and for c4d related news.

XSI is one of the industry leaders in CG, used by massive studios, coming as standard with more features than almost all the opposition and also running Mental Ray natively. Come in here to discuss issues with fellow XSI users, help each other out and chat. (No, Max and Maya both suck though.)

Autodesk's Maya is one of the industries most popular applications, held under contract my many studios around the world it is used in Film, TV, Games, Advertising, Visualisation and a lot more.

A place where you can pop those WIPS, finished images and other gallery related images you want to show the 3d community. This really is the world of tommorow...yesterday.

If you would like to create a portfolio of your work on our forum, you are very welcome to. You may upload images here directly to your created thread and to un-enable people replying and commenting there is an option when you create your first post. You may include your contact details entirely at your own risk.

Post up works here to let others see your progress and comment upon it. No trolling, no flaming, only serious critique in here please.

The paint cans are open in Prime it up - 3d-palace's newest subforum area specifically for traditional minature painting discussion, wips and ideas.