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      To build up the sections of this page, I count especially on visitor's contributions: while Computer Graphics applied to anime is a limited field I still have quite a comprehensive vision about, 3D art and anime (corresponding to sections soon added) on the web are immense oceans largely overwhelming the surveying possibilities of a single individual.

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    Anime & Computer Graphics
      This section is still heavily influenced by the original theme of the site, that is anime Super Robots: links and references suggested below keep a special eye on this subject, resulting in an unbalanced, biased choice of sites.    As SA3D will transform into a true anime site, this situation will change accordingly. To my surprise (the great revival of Japanese animation, at least in my country, and the increasing number of people practising worldwide 3D modelling led me to incorrect expectations), surfing the Web I came across very few sites with 3D galleries featuring the first breed of Super Robots (Grendizer, Jeeg etcetera): probably characters born a quarter of century ago (ugh!) haven't rooted in the imagination of today's 3D artists, who belong to an age overwhelmed by an incredible plenty of anime productions and have little time (or probably no chance at all) to look back to what may be considered the "classics" of the genre.    A totally different situation exists for Gundam: many sites filled up of good graphic stuff are available, some of which containing really explosive pictures. The only problem is that often are Japanese-only sites, definitely hardly accessible to western visitors: I got to some of the following URLs with a little of intuition.
Jeeg page
www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/program/3615
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      Despite the name, a site opened to suggestions coming also from subjects belonging to different countries of the cartoon and comics universe beyond the pure anime subjects.   The Super Robot theme represents anyway the ”main course”, with a good number of quality pictures already present and, trusting the site owner, many more yet to come. Very appreciable the breadth and variety of aspects of computer graphics treated: topics covered range from questions concerning 2D images processing to specific case studies carried out with the most popular 3D softwares.
Gianluca Panebianco home of 3D
www.3dlinks.com/panebianco
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      The real forerunner of this site and, from my point of view, a spur to get the work done quickly (a healthy competition is essential to give the best).  Here you'll find many fine renderings of several Super Robots models made by the site owner along with varied material concerning the more specific broadcasting history of the cartoons: a special mention goes to a tutorial section, constantly updated with interesting, originally exposed stuff.  Quite nice also the idea to institute a ”chart” of the most favorite Robots collecting the direct vote of the visitors.
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    Anime Resources
      Links suggested in this section should be more properly regarded, in most cases, as real rings: sometimes they offer more than the usual environment of a ring, for they provide a more effective “glue“ (in terms of search facilities, points of aggregation, services for information exchange and so on) to make the single affiliate feel as part of a community of like interests and tastes.    Besides, sites like the following are often the results of the titanic efforts of single individuals and, for this reasons only, should be already kept in special consideration.
Anime Pitstop
www.animepitstop.com
Trixie Anime Web Turnpike
www.anipike.com
Anime Art
www.animeart.com
Anime100 Anime 100
www.anime100.com
      Anime 100 is truly a well balanced combination between a chart and a resource site: it's not by chance that this site is mentioned in the Charts and Contestssection of SA3D.  You can look for sites by subject with an easy-to-use and essential search engine or you can browse the rank and enjoy the anime/manga universe from a lot of perspectives.
     
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