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websites:

• Animation World Network
• Animation Backgrounds
• Animation Magazine
• Animation & CGI
  
• Animator Island
• Anime News Network
• Cartoon Brew
• Character Design References
• On Animation
• Reference! Reference! (free database for animation)
• 11 Second Club (monthly character animation competition)

tumblr blogs:

• animationart
  
• animationforce
• animationtidbits
• aspiretoanimate
  
• calartscharacteranimation
• disney-moments-sketches (Allen Ostergar’s blog, animator at Walt Disney)
  
• drawingforsuckas
  
• fuckyeahconceptart
• storyboardresources
  
• theanimationarchive
  
• theartofanimation
• wannabeanimator

resources/tips:

• Animation schools: 1 / 2 (Top 50 USA) / 3 (Top 100 international)
  
• Which animation school is right for you? (Ringling vs. CalArts)
  
• Don’t want to/ can’t afford art school? you’ve got other options.
• Animation Mentor: The online animation school
  
• Art school exercises!!
• 51 Great Animation exercises
• 20 things you can expect as a traditional (2D) animation student that they never tell you
  
• A Survivor’s Guide to Life Inside an Animation Studio
• Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing
  
• Animation Notes From Ollie Johnston
  
• Animated chart of the basic principles of animation
  
• 10 Second tip: Always Anticipate
  
• book: Animation: Learn How to Draw Animated Cartoons by Preston Blair
• book: A System for Planning and Timing Animation by Glen Keane
  
• book: Timing for animation by Harold Whitaker and John Halas
• book: Gesture Drawing for animation by Walt Stanchfield
• Basic 3D Animation Terminology
• Digital pencil test!!
• Keys to Emotion in Animation
  
• Lessons from Disney’s Zootopia
• Model Sheets central
• The importance of Acting in Animation by Segio Pablos
  
• Printable exposure/dope sheet
• Phoneme Chart
  
• Recommended reading for animation students and enthusiasts
  
• The 5 Types of Animation
• The Know-How of Cartooning 
• The Unofficial Truth about The Animation Industry
  
• Why Disney Sends Its Animators To Life Drawing Classes
  
• Walk/Run Cycles reference
  
• What is Pixar looking for in Animators? (scroll down)
• Portfolio Advice for The Disney Animation Internship
  
• What is Rigging?
• 3D Rigging Terminology
• 3D Modeling Terminology

tutorials:

• Animation for Beginners: Where do I start
• Animation Physics (Video tutorials on physics for animation artists)
  
• Animation tutorial part. 1 AKA “the secret of animation”
• Appealing Poses in Animation
• Background & Movement in TV
  
• Blinking tips
• Breakdown tutorial (middle frame between to keys)
• Drawing & Composition for visual storytelling
• Drawing for Animation
• Drawing a Likeness
  
• Animation fundamentals + tutorials
• Filmmaking: Composition and Framing
  
• Getting Shape Change
  
• How to animate using photoshop
• How to animate Characters in Perspective
  
• How to Animate Head Turns
• How to Draw Gesture
• OpeenToonz tutorials masterpost
• Overlapping Action and Drag
  
• Portfolio tips / Making A Successful Portfolio
• Lyp Sync tutorial
• Line of action
• Basics of good cartooning 1-12 by Sherm Cohen
  
• Squash & Stretch tutorial
• Squash and Stretch 2
  
• Storyboarding tutorials by Sherm Cohen
• The Illusion of Life: 12 Principles of Animation
• Tilt, Flow & Rhythm
• Underlying Structure When Animating Expressions
  
• TVPaint tutorial: Uploading and Coloring Scanned Animation
  

supplies (traditional animation):

• 10 Essential Art Supplies for the Traditional Animator
  
• How to Use a Light Table for Animation
  
• Making a Simple Animation Lightbox
• Peg bars, Animation Disk & Desk

softwares:

free

• Blender (3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline: modeling, rigging, animation,etc)
• Emofuri (animate using .psd files)
• Google Sketchup (
  
• Live2D ( animation/drawing software
  
• OpenToonz (Studio Ghibli’s open source animation software)
  
• Pencil2D (create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics)
  
• Renderman (Pixar’s free 3D rendering software)
• Sculptris (Free digital sculpting tool by the makers of Zbrush
  
• SculptGL (Online modelling program)
• Synfig (2d animation using a vector and bitmap artwork)

paid

• Zbrush (digital sculpting sw by Pixologic)
• Mudbox (digital sculpting sw by Autodesk)
  
• Cinema 4D (digital sculpting sw by Maxon)
• TVPaint  (2d animation)

animation studios:

• Aardman (Bristol, UK)
  
• Blue Sky Studios (Greenwich, USA)
  
• Dreamworks (Glendale, USA)
• Fox Animation (USA)
• Imagination Studios/CN (Burbank, USA)
• Industrial Light & Magic (San Francisco, USA)
  
• Laika (Hillsboro, USA)
  
• Luma Pictures (USA / Melbourne, Australia)
• Nickelodeon Animation (Burbank, USA)
• Pixar (Emeryville, CA)
• Rise FX (Berlin, Germany)
• Studio Ghibli (Tokyo, Japan)
  
• Sony Picture Imageworks (Vancouver, Canada)
  
• Sony Pictures Animation (Culver City, CA)
• Walt Disney Animation (Burbank, CA)
• Weta Digital (Wellington, New Zealand)

inspiration: worth watching short films

• Coda by and maps and plans
• Contre Temps by the Contre Temps Team
  
• Duet by Glen Keane
• DOG ENVY by Olivia Huynh
• Fallin Floyd by  il Luster
• French Roast
• Gravity by Ailin Liu
• In Between by Gobelins
• Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon
  
• My Big Brother by Jason Rayner
  
• Night Light by Qing Han
  
• Nephtali by Glen Keane
  
• Nocturne by Kari Casady
• Historia de un Oso by Gabriel Osorio
  
• Home Sweet Home  by home sweet home the film
  
• One Bright Dot by  Clément Morin
  
• Stickboy by Giant Ant
• SOAR by Alyce Tzue
  
• Tsunami by The Animation Workshop
  
• Thought of You by Ryan Woodward
  
• Vagabond by  The Animation Workshop
  
• 5 Gobelins Shorts That Pay Tribute To Women Animation Pioneers
  

@supersonicstarchild for ur dream, friendo

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*UPDATED VERSION SUMMER 2015*

Digital Painting and Drawing

• Autodesk SketchBook Copic Edition - This is the limited edition of SketchBook Pro with 72 Copic colours to choose from
• Krita - Krita offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other great features
• GIMP - GIMP is a well known free alternative to Photoshop with similar features 
• Mischief Free Version - With six essential brushes, a basic palette of colors and an infinite vector canvas, Mischief-Free is perfect for hashing out ideas, life drawing, and endless doodles
• MyPaint - MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters, and comes with 39 different brushes
• Verve Painter - Verve is a small painting application that uses fluid dynamics and brushes to push the paint around, though it is still in development.
  
• Inkscape - Inkscape is an open-source professional quality vector graphics software with sophisticated drawing tools with capabilities comparable to Adobe Illustrator.
• FireAlpaca - A similar program to Paint Tool Sai that offers features such as a snap feature which creates a variety of perspective overlays.
• MediBang Paint - A free lightweight painting program for Windows, Mac Os and Android with cloud saving to allow users to easily switch between platforms.
• SpeedyPainter - Basic painting program with a simple layout and features such as perspective grids and reference view mode

3D Modelling  

• Google Sketchup - Drawing-based tool for architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers who design for the physical world. SketchUp Make is a free version and SketchUp Pro is a paid version with additional functionality.
• Sculptris - A free, introductory digital sculpting tool, a great stepping stone for digital sculptors, created by the makers of Zbrush.
• Blender - A powerful application with full-fledged professional tools, Blender has a wide community and resources to help you learn.
• SculptGL - This handy modelling program works online in your browser and is compatible with wacom tablets

Animation

• Synfig - Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.
• EmoFuri - EmoFuri is a new animation software that helps artists easily animate photoshop illustrations in a 2D-3D style.It uses PSD files of character illustrations to animate them. 
• Pencil2D - Pencil2D is an open-source animation/drawing software that lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation using both bitmap and vector graphics.
• Live2D - This increasingly popular 2D-3D animation software is similar to Emofuri with sample models available to experiment with, and is also available in english.

Pixel Art

• Piskel - An online pixel art app that lets you animate pixel art with a live preview of your work.
• Piq - While it doesn’t have the best looking layout, this online tool has lots of interesting features including a colour-drift tool that’s great for making colour palettes.

Etc

• Thisissand - An online fun and unique playground for creating colourful sandscapes, also comes in an app version
• Flame Painter - A free demo of the full program, it allows you to try out the flame generator and change different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings
• Silk - An online interactive generative art program that creates bright silk-like patterns, with options to change colours and rotational symmetry.
• Bomomo - This interesting program has a group of dots that move around the screen in the pattern you choose, then paint the canvas according to when you click the screen.
• Drawpile -  Drawpile is a software collaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch on the same canvas simultaneously.

Free

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