I've posted an RFP to our own Help Wanted forum for paid contract work, but I'm looking for other forums to post on (GameDev seems to attract more programmers than designers).

So far I've found conceptart.org and game-artist.net. What other forums are popular for 3D artists?

we have a forum getting ready for 3d, 3d games, and for all 3d faq's keep in touch or you can shoot ur ques.. will try to reply asp

Thats about it. You can find a lot of cool artists on deviantart.com

polycount.com has a lot of excellent 3D artists and a subforum specifically for paid job postings.

there's http://turbosquid.com/ and http://www.daz3d.com/ too (:

CGTalk http://forums.cgsociety.org/ is one of my favorites, very helpful...and patient ;)

If you want to use actual models to make the images: http://www.3drt.com/3dm/sf-alien-fleet-extreme/sci-fi-aliens-fleet-extreme-shots.htm

polycount.

http://www.polycount.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=39