Animation Resource&Tutorial thread

#1

Here is an ongoing sticky thread for animation resources.

Please post links to books , tutorials , websites & anything useful here.

here are some to get it started:

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Animators survival kit (book) -

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-1062726-6223328

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The Illusion Of Life , Disney animation

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0571212689/qid=1033933650/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-1062726-6223328?v=glance

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The Animators workbook

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0823002292/ref=pd_sim_books/102-1062726-6223328?v=glance

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Cartoon Animation

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560100842/ref=pd_sim_books/102-1062726-6223328?v=glance

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Timing For Animations

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0240517148/qid=1033933857/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/102-1062726-6223328

#2

Good idea Sheep

#3

I can thoroughly recommend the Animators Survival Kit. Brilliant piece of work, and quite cheap to boot!:smiley:

#4

Thanks for heading this up Sheep. I will be sure to add some resources.

#5

www.freetoon.com = online version of cartoon animation by preston blair.

http://www.comet-cartoons.com/toons/3dhelp.cfm = website with tutorials from michael comet of big idea.

hope those help.

#6

I will try post my rigs and animation stuff up, soon need some webspace though.Ive got:

Quadraped rigs

Biped rigs

Advanced Facial setup

Walks, runs, jumps, gallops,etc. Character pieces.

All my stuff is based on ideas from when i worked at Framestore, London on Dinotopia.

#7

Here’s a nice site by Carlos Baena, where he has collected some useful animation material:
http://www.mclinn.net/~carlos/anim_material.html

#8

How to draw shoulder motion:

http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=pageone&article_no=1549&page=1

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#9

http://www.animationmeat.com/

Some great resources for traditional animation.
Storyboarding, animal motion and animation, model sheets – all useful for 3d as well.

and it’s all in PDF format!!
:buttrock:

#10

Here some tuts about IK joe character rigging on 3dsmax IK

http://www.kicrea.com/articles/index_us.php3

Hope helpfull

Kib

#11

I can’t add much…

http://www.multiliteracy.com/persist/

http://www.keithlango.com/tutorials.htm

http://d3d.com/heads/Art/round_4/jack.html

http://www.amazing-kids.org/anilessons.html

http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/animation/character_animation/principles/lasseter_s94.htm

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18380&perpage=15&pagenumber=2

:beer:

#12

here’s some links

http://www.animfound.com
http://www.animationartist.com
http://www.rubberbug.com

& some toon sites
http://www.toonopedia.com
http://www.animatusstudio.com

Cheers,

#13

This thread may have been sleeping for a while, but folks have been following the link to my site, so I thought I’d chime in.

http://animated-movies.squareworld.com/News.html

http://www.animationartist.com/

http://www.animationblast.com/

http://www.animfound.com/index.html Animation Foundation

http://www.animationmagazine.net Animation Magazine

http://www.animationhistory.com/

http://www.animationjournal.com/

http://www.animationnation.com

http://www.awn.com Animation World Network

http://news.toonzone.net/btan/ Batman The Animated Newsletter

http://www.deneroff.com/ Animation Consultants International

http://www.bcdb.com/ The Big Cartoon Database

http://www.cartoonresearch.com CartoonResearch.com - Jerry Beck

http://www.digitalanimators.com/HTM/HomeSet1.htm Digital Animators

http://www.digitalmediafx.com/ Digital Media FX

http://vds0.webmastertechniques.com/jtracy4/disneyanimation/index.html Disney Animation Archive

http://www.nfb.ca/E/ National Film Board of Canada

http://www.pigsfly.com Pigs Fly mailing lists for Boris FX, Maya, in-Sync

http://www.flipcode.com FlipCode Video Game Development News &amp Resources

http://www.snpp.com/ The Simpsons Archive

http://www.vfxpro.com/ VFXPro Articles and Interviews

http://www.toonzone.net Toon Zone Current Shows, Schedules, Message Boards

http://lantz.toonzone.net/
Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia at Toon Zone<br>

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More animation resource links at
http://www.animatusstudio.com/html/links.html

#14

Originally posted by eek
[B]I will try post my rigs and animation stuff up, soon need some webspace though.Ive got:

Quadraped rigs

Biped rigs

Advanced Facial setup

Walks, runs, jumps, gallops,etc. Character pieces.

All my stuff is based on ideas from when i worked at Framestore, London on Dinotopia. [/B]

Would really like to see that stuff

#15

Very nice animation reference for just about everything.

http://photo.ucr.edu/photographers/muybridge/contents.html#

#16

wow thanks lots of stuff to look at, seems there is alot of animation resources on the web! Cool! :buttrock: :bounce:

#17

Thanks a lot :bounce:

These will help me.

#18

Huge facial expression library

http://dataface.nirc.com/FACS_Man/TOC.html

#19

HI !

Loved the links! they are very useful…but…

How about posting links to sites that contain 3D animations. There are a ton but there’s always a couple that you never knew of…

I usually check

Pocket Movies

I know that are a ton of eyecandy sites out there…how about posting to get are blood riveting!:bounce:

TENL

#20

Can’t believe this one isn’t up here yet …

http://www.10secondclub.org

Monthly character animation comp / learning tool , there are no prizes as such in this competition , instead , if you are the monthly winner , your wining peice goes into the gallery of winners .

The group uses yahoo groups as a message board or you can choose to be on the mailing list .

The monthly entrants are voted on by members , most voted for entrant is the winner.

Post your work for crit , crit others works , some big names get about on the board , Rob Starr , Keith Lango , Jason Taylor .

An absolute must if you take your character animation seriously, one of the best communities / groups out there for animators today .

Ben .