Maya is an exceptionally powerful program that many major studios use to produce mind-blowing visuals. We've relied on Maya for more than ten years on large projects such as Black Ops 3 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.

Modo is one of our go-to tools for building Interactive Environments. Its modeling tools are outstanding and its preview rendering is lightning fast. Long a favorite in architectural visualization, the program has been embraced by many artists in the video game industry too. We love everything about this package, and it keeps improving.

Blender is a free, open-source 3D creation suite. It covers the entire 3D pipeline — modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, and motion tracking, plus video editing and game creation.

ZBrush is a digital sculpting and painting program that has transformed the 3D industry with its powerful features and intuitive workflows. Capable of sculpting up to a billion polygons, ZBrush lets you create with only your imagination as the limit.

We love the power of voxels and believe they represent the future of Interactive Environments — which is why 3D-Coat ranks among our favorite sculpting packages. 3D-Coat packs every tool you need to take a 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production-ready, fully textured organic or hard-surface model.

The world's leading imaging and design app sits at the heart of nearly every creative project. Work across desktop and mobile devices to create and refine your concepts, textures, graphics, and more. We've used Photoshop for more than 18 years and can't picture a production environment without it.

Substance Painter is 3D painting software that lets you texture, render, and share your work. It offers a complete, familiar texturing toolset: PBR and particle painting, Substance procedural effects, smart materials and smart masks, plus fast baking.

Substance Designer is a node-based, non-destructive application for authoring materials. Edit entire texture sets quickly with its non-linear workflow and watch your changes apply to all outputs at once. Harness the power of Substance Designer and focus on what truly matters: your art.

Substance B2M lets you generate every PBR output from a single input image: base color, normal, metallic, roughness, and ambient occlusion. Fine-tune the smallest details of your material thanks to the comprehensive set of parameters B2M exposes.

Adobe Stock offers some of the most inspiring imagery on the web. It's a fantastic resource for references, textures, lighting, and composition. Whatever you're looking for, you're sure to find it in this remarkable royalty-free collection.

This site is loaded with excellent Substances. Its team of talented artists supplies virtually any environmental texture you need — and if you can't find it, they'll build it for you.

Substance Share is a great destination for downloading free Substance source materials for use in Substance products. From brushes to smart materials, you're sure to find it here.

Textures.com (formerly CGTextures.com) is an impressive site with more than 117,000 photos, textures, substances, 3D brushes, and 3D scans. You can download up to 15 textures per day, and premium content is also available.

Megascans is the largest scan resource on the planet. Its fully standardized library holds thousands of world-class 3D scanned items sourced from all over the globe.

This is a community-contributed repository of ZBrush mesh brushes. They're extremely powerful and make it easy to add extra detail to your ZBrush models.

Pixologic has assembled a library full of remarkable Alpha materials from ZBrush artists who want to share their work with the ZBrush community. It gives you a single place to view, download, and start sculpting with any of the alphas in the collection.

GraphicRiver offers a massive collection of images and tools to meet your graphic needs. Explore its huge library of hand-reviewed graphic assets from a large community of designers.

PhotoDune is a great resource for images you can use in many different ways. Its high-quality photos are shot by professional photographers, so you'll always get plenty of visual information for references, textures, and graphics.

Pinterest is our favorite site for reference images. Pin the images you like into organized categories and follow other people's boards. It's easy to spend hours browsing millions of stunning visuals. Just remember to be inspired and build your own worlds!