List of animation tutorials and references

[WhiteShadow]

I thought I should put a post together that has links to all the great animation resources out there in the published media. This list is just my personal link collection at work, so if you know of more great animation sites, feel free to add to the list.

Animation Tips and Tutorials
Links to tutorials and articles on animation.

http://www.evl.uic.edu/ralph/508S99/contents.html (http://www.evl.uic.edu/ralph/508S99/contents.html)- The Principles of Animation. If you are new to animation, start here.

http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/animation/character_animation/principles/prin_trad_anim.htm - principles again, but this time from John Lasseter.

Website of Carlos Baena, Pixar animator and one of the founders of Animation mentor.
http://www.carlosbaena.com/anim_material.html
http://www.carlosbaena.com/resource/resource_tips.html

http://www.shaunfreeman.com/animating_tips/- List of great tutorials, tips and articles.

http://www.keithlango.com/wordpress/?page_id=226 – more tutorials

http://asifa.net/israel/animationacting-e.html - article on acting and animation

ILM Animation Lecture Notes - http://www.jeremycollins.net/lecture.doc

Animation Blogs
Most of these blogs are chock full of great character animation tips and references. A lot have tutorials packed into them as well.

http://pixaranimation.blogspot.com/
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/
http://www.splinedoctors.blogspot.com/
http://www.animationmeat.com/
http://www.navone.org/blogger/ - Pixar animator and Animation mentor lecturer
http://www.synchrolux.com/
http://www.keithlango.com/wordpress/?cat=4
http://www.shaunfreeman.com/blogger/index.html

Book Recommendations
The two books below are the first books I bought, and I have them sitting here next to me on my desk at work. Animators Survival Kit is a necessity for any animator. Illusion of Life is a heavy read, but there is so many great tips and so much history in there, it’s a must read.

"Animators Survival Kit" - Richard Williams
“Illusion of Life" - Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston

Other books I own and recommend:

“Acting for Animators”– Ed Hooks
"Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right" - Jason Osipa

Now there are a bunch of great books that I haven’t read, but which come highly recommended. I was going to link them all here, but they are all taken from the links above. http://www.carlosbaena.com/resource/resource_books.html is a good start if you are looking for more reading material on animation.

Finally, here is a link to Jim Jagger’s website. He has a collection of links to all the animators that inspire him the most, and I couldn’t make a better list if I tried. If you’re looking for inspiration, your first stop should be here -http://www.jimjagger.com/Pages/Documents/Links_Muses.htm

Hope this helps out everyone looking to get into animation, or push their animating ability. I know I’m no pro, and I use these references daily to keep pushing my work to the best of my ability.

[Bendragon]

Richard Williams is releasing a boxset of dvds that is pretty much the Survival Kit but animated! But Ive heard they cost a limb.

[Aneru]

Yeah the box set has 16 dvds and costs about $1000

[J.Willis]

Additional Books for different perspecitves of the same principles:

Character Animation Crash Course! - Eric Goldberg
Cartoon Animation - Preston Blair
The Animator's Workbook - Tony White
Animation from Pencils to Pixels - Tony White

[ScaryPotato]

I've got a couple links that people might find useful:

AWN (http://www.awn.com)

Vancouver Animation (http://www.vancouveranimation.ca/)

These are both great general starting points for all kinds of resources:)

[iven]

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