Oh man, I was finally able to kick IRC 6 or so months ago, now 3d modeling related channels threaten to drag me back in! I will have to check out #model_design
no! you cant just tell anyone about #model_design, we have to keep noel locked up. There's the Conceptart.org irc and all, but i'm sure you already know about that. And it's not exactly 3d, just arts.
don't miss the #smc (speed modeling contests) irc channel on freenode.. i hang out there a lot.. it's mostly Blender artists, but they welcome people of any background.. what's cool about it is there is a bot that organizes the contests, you tell it the topic, duration, and when to start and it would count the duration…