Fantastic tutorials and downloadable resources for just about everything —
2D, 3D, graphics, chat rooms, galleries, forums — you name it!

www.adigitaldreamer.com: an extensive graphic design, web design, and 3D design resource broken down into 20 categories.

www.3Dcafe.com. where you'll find product and current project information, great free downloads (software, plus literally hundreds of free meshes, textures, clip art, photographs, fonts, sound effects wav files etc), classifieds where you can sell your models, textures, software and hardware online (no cost to advertise), games (free games and demos), software tutorials with links to other artists and animators' websites, forums to get answers to 3D related questions, employment opportunities, galleries to show your work, contests and more.

www.the3dstudio.com Although it sounds like it, this site is not affiliated to the product vendors or distributors - Autodesk, Kinetix or Discreet. It terms itself a 'one-stop-shop' for free 3D resources, especially those related to 3D Studio Max. Resources include pretextured models in MAX and 3DS formats, seamless and tileable texures, matching bump maps, tutorials, gallery images, categorized and ranked links.

www.3Dalliance.com: aimed mainly at professionals, has industry and software development news, forums and a digital art museum.

www.3dgate.com: a huge 3D learning resource - stacks of useful tutorials.

www.Pixeljunction.com for the graphic design community: tutorials on PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Poser, Bryce and Flash. Tips and techniques to drive traffic to your website. Free WebPages, graphics, interfaces; flash loops all for your customization. Guide to commercial and freeware graphic filters and plugins that can be viewed alphabetically by filter, type or platform.

http://download.cnet.com website for free downloads useful to artists, designers, animators and editors.