CG Tutorials, Reference

• spot3d – a Chaos group V-Ray full official documentation.
• cg.tutsplus.com – Cgtuts+ is a website for CG and 3D artists. Learn to use After Effects, 3Ds Max, Maya, Mental Ray, zbrush and more.
• archdaily.com – Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide: Architecture news, competitions and projects updated every hour for the architecture professional.
• 3dworldmag.com – 3D World magazine provides tutorials, tips and step-by-step guides covering every major 3D software package.
• digital-tutors – Digital-Tutors helps you learn to make movies, games, digital art, projects & more with the world’s largest creative tutorial and training resource.

Textures

• cgtextures – 50.000+ high resolution textures, free for personal and commercial use.
• viz-people – VizPeople is on line store with commercial and free cut out people images.
• cgskies – CGSkies.com is your source for high resolution panoramic HDR skies. Free samples of both the 8 bit and HDR version are available.

Script

• maxplugins – This site contains a database of all known freeware and commercial plugins for Autodesk 3ds max.
• cg-source.com – FloorGenerator, great tool for doing architecture visualization and make floors.
• scriptspot – ScriptSpot is a diverse online community of artists and developers who come together to find and share scripts that empower their creativity with 3ds Max or SketchUp.

some useful blogs about architectural visualization

• peterguthrie.net – Blog of talented architectural visualisation artist Peter Guthrie.

Model