Damn. I remember avidly drooling over ACantarel's helicopter WIP threads when I was starting my CG journey in the mid 2000's. Those WIP forums contained some real gold. I think they, and the 3d gallery, motivated and inspired me to follow this path.There's no denying that the forums went downhill in their latter years…
Their site redesign when moving from the old black-red naughties-style forums with the gallery on top to some barren shades-of-gray tablet-optimized thing (or whatever that was meant to be) with huge header images and microscopic text in the second half of the 2010's was awful to use for the longest time. Wouldn't be…