Animation Links Page
Animation Tutorials | Flash Tutorials | Action Scripts | Sounds | Game Tutorials | Sample Games | Maya Tutorials | Animations | Web Sites | Open Source (Free) Software
JavaScript | CSS | Fonts | Web Colors
If you find other useful or interesting links related to animation let me know and I will post them for the rest of the class.
Jeff Gabor - Horton Hears a Who
http://www.gamasutra.com/
How to Score a Career in the Video Game Industry
GameDev.netSledgehammer - located in Foster City
DuckDuckMoose - San Mateo
College Programs
San Jose State University
Canada College
Expression College
San Francisco State UniversityAnimation Mentor
Animation World Network
Animation Arena
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Animation Tutorials
Cartoonster - looks like kid's stuff but is full of a lot of good animation principles
Creating a Flip Book Animation
Granite Schools Animation Class Maya Tutorials
12 Principles of Animaton - flash and the bouncing ball
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DragoArt - all kinds of tutorials for drawing almost anything
DrawingCoach - another drawing site
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Web Design Dev - mostly for web design but some of the skills can be applied to animation as well
Flash Animation Tutorials: Step-by-Step Lessons - a variety of quick simple tutorials
VineyarDesigns Flash Tutorials
Flash MX Tutorial 1-5
Tutorialized.com - lots of tutorials submitted by users but also lots of pop-ups
Granite Schools Animation Class Maya Tutorials
GoToAndLearn - flash video tutorials
CartoonSmart.com - some demo tutorials that are free at the bottom of the page, here is a walk cycle demo
Character Animation - tutorial from the Adobe site, this is part 2 of the tutorial.
Bone Tool Tutorial - how to dance
Complex Bone Armature
Bone Tool - for graphics and for symbols
Creating a Bee Game - shows how to create a simple game using action script
FlashGameU - lots of tutorials for creating games
OTutorBlog - flash and many other tutorials
Republic of Code - here is a good intro to Functions
Flash & Math
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Audacity - a free sound editing program
findsounds.com - a search engine just for sounds
SoundBible.com - royalty free sounds (just sounds, no music)
FlashKit.com - a site just for flash, also includes tutorials on using sound in flash.
Partners in Rhyme - just right click and choose "save target as" to download the sounds.
Templateswise.com
GRSites - large collection of free sounds in both WAV and MP3 formats
Television Tunes
8Bit Rocket
WebPlaces.com - free sounds but you must register to download.
Looney Tunes Sound Source - find quotes from your favorite Looney Tunes characters, bugs bunny, porky pig...
Simply the Best SoundsFilmSound.org - history of film sound and how they create the sounds for famous films.
AudioCookBook.org - recipes for sound design
acoustica.com/sounds.htm - another source of free sounds
http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/ - more free sounds
Asteroids Game Design - Excellent tutorial using AS 3 to create a classic arcade game.
Avoider Game - run away from the invaders
Flash Game Univeristy
Avoider - can you save your mouse?
Cursor Thief
Granite Schools Animation Class Maya Tutorials
Nurbs (surfaces) VS Polygons (primitives) - a quick podcast explaining the differences
How to Model a Hand in Maya
How to Model a Face in Maya
Creating a Pig in Maya
Creating Controls -
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Animations
Kiwi - great little animation, this was a students master thesis
Alien Song - created using free software in his spare time, this animation was able to land Victor Navone a job at Pixar.
Bert - cute animation using very simple characters
Fly Wars - simple characters but a great animation
Defective Robot - another winner
Bridging the Gap - animation by Gunn High School Robotics club
Jeff Gabor's Comparison Reel - shows the animator acting out the character and the animated character - this is a very large file.
Carlos Baena.com - great source of animation insights, check out the Simplicity in Planning page (scroll down to the middle of the page
Animation Studios in the Bay Area - take a look at the number of animation studios nearby. Not all are as well known as Pixar but there are lots of opportunities.
Why take an animation class?
Hollywood Animation Archive - a little history of animation you might find interesteing.
Animation Toolworks
13 Principles of Game Design
Animation Tips and Tricks Blog
Animation World Magazine
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/01/animation-school-lesson-9a-tom-and.html
Utah State Flash NotesVictor Navone's Web Site - this is the creator of Alien Song
Web Colors
Choosing the Perfect Colors for Your Web Site
Wheel of Color
Effective Color Contrast - Designing for people with partial sight
Color Scheme Generator
Flash Web Sites
www.axix-media.com
firstbornmultimedia.com/websites/chr/crossfire.htm
www.ry-guy.com
http://www.hightechinstitute.com/index.php
www.PowerSki.Com
www.2advancedstudios.com
Valhalla High School - excellent Flash tutorials
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/ - nice use of flash
Graphics and Images
File Formats for Images - provides information about the various image formats
FreeImages - some very nice photos of a variety of things
Getty Images - a well know resource for pictures that can be purchased
Military Photos - provided by the armed services
BigFoto.com - free photos provided by amateur photographers
FreeFoto.Com - boasts to be the worlds largest archive of free photos
Corbis - no freebies but check out their homepage
Sergey.com - brief introduction to server side applications
vbip.com - a primer on server side technologies
FormMail.com - an email form service
HForm.com - another form hosting service
Form 2 Mail - set up your own form to mail service
More Forms Sites - this link provides links to many form hosting services
Freedback.com - they claim you can create and apply a form using their site in under 10 minutes.
http://www.formsite.com/pricing.html
http://www.webpasties.com/create_form_mail.html - have the results of your form emailed to you.
http://www.cgiconnection.com - here are some examples of the type of forms you can create
http://www.webformfactory.com/ - send them your form and they will create the cgi script for you.
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Open Source Software:
Site
Description
Audacity - a nice audio editing program. Can be used to create your own podcasts. Requires LameFe to convert files to MP3s.
JavaScript Source - thousands of JavaScripts that you can insert into your pages.
JavaScript Kit - good tutorials and a great resource for scripts
Drag & Drop for Images and Layers - Include Dynamic HTML in your web page.
HTML Goodies Java Script Primers - 30 JavaScript lessons so you can teach your self
WC3 CSS Tutorial
CSS Zen Garden - Demonstrating the power of CSS
CSS Edge - pushing the limits of CSS
Project 7 - great tutorials on CSS with some advanced topics
Bluerobot.com - links to other CSS sites and one to the Layout Reservoir.
The reservoir page also has links on how to center content on a page using CSS.
CSS Layout Techniques - description and demonstration of page layouts accomplished with CSS
Free Web Templates -
Rounded Corners and Gradient Backgrounds - you select what you want and this page will create the code for you.
53 CSS Techniques - the name says it all
CSS Gradients - want to give your site a nice gradient to make it more appealing?
Fonts
Urban Fonts - good source of free fonts
The Font Thing - small utility that allows you to view different fonts.
Link to Mrs. Givens Web Resources