Is there a place I can find 3d artists?

is there any communities like flashkit out there where i can found talented 3d artists to hire for jobs?

i'm trying to locate some artists with nice skills in software like maya, 3d studio max, etc.

cgsociety has proven to be the best place.
http://jobs.cgsociety.org/
Depending on your needs, I might be of service too :)

sweet...i'm looking to have something that has that comic book/realistic type of feel mixed with live video footage, specifically something like the wolf in the movie 300 just as a quick example. is that something you can do?

Probably not as quickly as someone from that site could knock it out.

There's no 3D needed here...
http://www.lafcpug.org/reviews/review_toonit.html