The St Petersburg company ALS Group supports two interesting websites – Render.ru (an online magazine of 3D graphics and animation) and Graphics.ru (a resource about everything to do with 2D graphics).  Here you can find the latest news from the world of design, read specialised articles, and reviews, and also extract a lot of useful material from lessons which have been developed by real professionals.  Unfortunately, the section “Articles” on both sites is updated relatively infrequently, and instead the newsreel   regularly highlights interesting events. On Render.ru the work is divided between “Art Gallery” and “ Gallery of architecture”, and on Graphics.ru there is “Art gallery” and “Design galleries”.

On the website forums you can discuss a problem or ask a question, and you can also get to know interesting people who have been working in computer graphics for some considerable time.  If you have your own work you can send it to the gallery and find out the opinion of colleagues about it. And if you consider yourself sufficiently competent in design, you can even try your efforts in a competition.