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teamseanced:

SEANCE’D is now live with the first three pages plus a mini strip! 
We are excited to share this with y’all!

READ THE FIRST PAGE HERE!

Check out this awesome webcomic!

animationdesk:

s0ffia:

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
  

The Motherload of Animation!

theartofem:

My prediction for Rowlet’s final evolution. 
It just gets beefier for a possible Mega Evolution.

ameithyst:

Gravity Falls (2012 - 2016)

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schweizercomics:

When Theodore Roosevelt became police commissioner of New York in 1895, the NYPD was its most dangerous and powerful criminal enterprise.  An organized brutal shakedown ring, the captains had a hand in most of the city’s illegal operations.  Determined to clean up the corruption, Roosevelt did exactly what Commissioner Gordon did when he took over Gotham City’s corrupt police force: he put on a black cape, patrolled the most dangerous parts of the city at midnight, and used his great physical strength, expertise in martial arts, and detective skills to personally deliver wrongdoers to justice.  

Wait, no, Gordon didn’t do that.  Batman did.

And so did Theodore Roosevelt.

Keep reading

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nprfreshair:

Google, you so smart. 

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Also, Fresh Air interviews with Matthew McConaughey and Andre 3000. 

Have a great weekend!

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nevver:

Snow day, Cynthia Matthews

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georgetakei:

When there’s one cookie left and everyone in your family wants it.

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