My passion for art often put me in the position of the teacher. A teacher who repeats himself. Did I mention I was an adjunct art instructor for nearly 10 years? These are some classic links and knowledge bits from gurus around the world. Shout out to those who break their backs spelling things out for the next generation often lifting everyone and not asking for a thing in return. I cut teeth in the Threedy forums starting in 2004 and eventually found myself part of Polycount in the early 2010s. Thanks guys. This list is forever WIP.
FULL PROCESS
Creating Modular Environments in UDK
Making of DM_ZEST
Scifi Prop Tutorial Part 1: Highpoly for Games
Scifi Prop Tutorial Part 2: Lowpoly, Unwrap, Baking
HIGHPOLY
Subdivision Surfaces: Overview
Subdivision Surfaces: Artifacts
Exploring OpenSubdiv Part 1
Exploring OpenSubdiv Part 2
Working with OpenSubDiv
Double Smooth Video
Inorganic Modeling Fundamentals: Part 1
Inorganic Modeling Fundamentals: Part 2
Inorganic Modeling Fundamentals: Part 3
Hard Surface Essentials
Edge Readability
Advanced Modeling Tricks Thread
LOWPOLY, NORMALS, SMOOTHING
Smooth Shading
Smooth Shading Examples
How to Bake Flawless Normal Maps
In-Depth Normal Map Tutorial
You're Making Me Hard
Understanding Averaged Normals
Smoothing Groups and Normals
Chamfering Edges
Overdraw
UNWRAPPING, PROJECTION
Understanding UVs
Lightmap Unwrapping
EQ's Words on Unwrapping
Baking Ambient Occlusions
TEXTURING
Racer445 - How to Paint Metal Textures
Racer445 - Sword Texturing Tutorial
PBR: Basic Theory
PBR: Practice
How NOT to Create Normal Maps
Photoshop Secret Shortcuts
PRESENTATIONS
Basic Lighting Theory in Max
Marmoset Basics
3point Shader Lite
Eat3d Highpoly Presentation
Highpoly Zbrush MatCap Presentation
MUST WEBSITES
Polycount News
Polycount Forum
ArtStation
MOTIVATION, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Deliberate Practice
26 Reasons Why No One Likes Your Art
Paul Pepera ArtStation Interview
Josh Singh - Origin Story
INSPIRATIONAL ARTISTS
paul pepera
lonewolf
polygoo
Daniel Simon
Artem Volchik
Ilya Nedyal
Dorde Jovanovic
COOL BLOGS and THREADS
Crazy Motorcycle
Trash Collector
Krabtank?
Street Sweeper
Military Vehicle
Jeep!
REFERENCE
Kitbashing with Prog
Hard Surface Enthusiast
Kallamity
Car Pornography
Prime Portal
Shapeshifting
sort Normal Maps:
http://www.svartberg.com/tutorials/article_normalmaps/normalmaps.html#1.1
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81154
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1433946&postcount=5
http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/normal_workflow.htm
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Normal_map