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CGTalk is a popular website and discussion forum for CG (computer graphic) artists. Its membership is derived mainly from people involved in computer animation for the film, television and computer gaming industries, as well as people aspiring to enter those industries. CGTalk currently boasts a membership of over 225,000 people[1625].

CGSociety Manifesto

The CGSociety is for creative digital artists. This is anyone that uses computers to tell a visual story. No matter what the format or scope, from a still image to a complete film or game, telling a visual story is the thread that ties this community together.

The CGSociety is committed to enhancing the global state of creative digital arts. It celebrates, aggregates, supports, trains and promotes creative digital artists in their local and global communities.

The CGSociety is unbiased in its enthusiastic support of all genres, styles, tools and outlooks. It supports professional chapters including Film, Games, Concept Design, Visualization, Illustration, and more.

It celebrates everyone from enthusiastic beginners to the industry leaders in every aspect of our community: pure artists, designers, animators, programmers, directors, producers and hardware developers.

The CGSociety offers value in a number of areas: publications, events, training, and artist promotions. Amongst these will be the special discounts and access to books, exclusive content, products on CGProShop, privileged access to CGNetworks, CGTalk and CGSociety web sites and services, the CGConference and film festivals, CGAwards, CGPortfolio, member and industry promotions.

The CGSociety brings together the creative digital artists and the whole community that supports, supplies and enjoys their endeavors.

The CGSociety celebrates a rich set of digital tools, and their developers, that have empowered creative digital artists. Fueled by artistic desire and the never-ending onslaught of new hardware and software, the creative digital artist has a foot in two worlds - they must be artist and have technical mastery over their digital tools at the same time.

Above all, The CGSociety will be the coolest and best way for creative digital artists to further their individual and collective goals. The tools and technology available now enable the digital artists to go way beyond the images and animations created by traditional hand methods.

Digital artists can mimic reality or create fantasy with greater intensity and believability than ever before. With interaction the viewer can even become a player or participant in the digital artist's world. It's fun. It's cool. It's who we are.

History

CGTalk began in Adelaide, Australia in December 2001, and now has a global audience.
It is owned by Ballistic Media, under the direction of founder, Leonard Teo. CGTalk was recently placed under the CGSociety umbrella.

External links

CGTalk website

CGSociety website

Interview with Leonard Teo

CG Challenges

The CG Challenges are the largest online art contests of their kind, with huge amounts of sponsorship and publicity for each challenge. Working within guidelines and software limitations, artists are challenged to create outstanding artworks based upon set themes while showing their work-in-progress to the community.