Tako Yakida World - CG art using DAZ Studio, Hexagon, Carrara, LuxRender, Reality and Photoshop Elements 9

Simple is better!

The Reality plug-in's official forums.

A great place to begin your 3D journey.

Super simple introduction to lighting in Iray!

I love this program! It let's you create endless varieties of tileable textures easily, and you get access to many other user-created textures, with more being added every day!

Blender 3D is a great free program for making professional 3D graphics and animation. For me, the new versions (2.5 and up) are much easier to learn than the older versions, so don't be afraid to give it a shot!

Reality 2 is my favorite plug-in for DAZ Studio that connects Studio with my favorite rendering engine, LuxRender. Don't know what I'm talking about? Check out this site and find out!

Free awesome rendering software for everyone!

These guys have a variety of tutorials on various 3D design software.

A great site for free textures and images and other resources.

A nice place to find free high-quality textures for 3D graphics design and modelling.

A great place to learn Japanese directly from native speakers. (It has many other languages too, but since I don't study them I can't vouch for how active they are on the site.)

If you ever wondered what gamma really is, this video is a must-see.