Animation

Welcome to my animation page. This section is mainly concerncered with the following areas. 2D animation, clay animation, and the tools and software involved in both. For 3D animation and tools, please jump to my 3D section.

 


Animators Sites

Dave Lebow

Aimee's Studio

Jill' Stuff aka Bronze Pig

Brian Lemay

Erik van Schaaik

Sonserae Leese

 
Animation Houses

Animation Houses

http://www.aardman.com :creators of Wallice and Grommit along with "Chicken Run"

Art and Animation Station: Also teaches

http://www.jaggededgestudios.com/

http://www.atomiccartoons.com

http://www.vinton.com/ Will Vinton coined and copyrighted the term 'claymation'


http://www.blueskystudios.com/
MediaSoft: German film studio providing Anicolor ink and paint.
Eye to Eye: South Afican multimedia, design, and animation studio.
Hibber Ralph: UK animation studio
Media Lab: Performance animation from Paris, France
MessyOptics: San Francisco based animation studio.
Wreckless Abandon Studios: Under Construction


Animaton Links

Animation Links

GENERAL

Animation Magazine

Animato: Pencil test sharware and animation tips
http://library.thinkquest.org/25398/DrawnAni.html

http://www.imaging.dundee.ac.uk/animation/exchange/alexander/index3.html

http://asifa.net/

http://www.animationartist.com/

 

 

CELL ANIMATION


Chroma Colour: Great source for cell animation supplies and software

Cartoonsupplies.com The name says it all

Light Foot Ltd. Animation supplies and training

 

STOP MOTION

Armaverse: Get you human or dinosaur aramature right here.

http://stopmotion.dhs.org/

http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/

http://stopmotion.webjump.com/

 

CLAY

Van Aken Clay

http://library.thinkquest.org/22316/home.html

www.animateclay.com
http://members.spree.com/thearts/animateclay/clay.htm

Aardman Animations: Creators of Wallace and Grommit
Jungle Fungis: get ready fo some supa funky clay.
 

GIF Animation

ssanimation.com: Free animated gifs.
GIF animation and Midi: A site with lots of gif animation.
The 1st Internet Gallery of GIF Animation
Animated GIF Links from...
(desktoppublishing.com)
Poul's Homepage lots of hand-drawn animation and some erotic nudes.
 Lot of Links in bad English make me feel bottomless
Tudogs: Gif animation link collection.
Cat Gif animation: Link added for NAACP
GIFFY: The GIF Animation Builder
(WWWeb-Ready Homepage)

ANIME

http://www.jdillon.net/tutorial/ How to
http://susanooh.anime.net/
Whiteradish.com
Anime51 : Houston anime fan and artist
Anime Models: just as it says... Anime toy models.
Ultimate Animagna Archve

Animation Software

 

TITLE  
PLATFORM
   

Windows

 Mac Linux SGI
Archer: Cell animation software by Yogurt Technologies yes no    
Animation Stand Cell animation software by Linker systems yes yes    
Retas Pro the Award-Winning 2.5D digital animation production system yes no    
Toon Boom   yes no    
Toonz         Yes
Creatoon Simulates "cut out" animation yes no    
CTP Cell animation ink paint, x-sheet ect. by Crater Software yes no    
Animo: Cell animation software by Cambridge Animaton Systems yes     Yes
Magpie Lipsync animation software yes yes    

 

Video Capture Hardware

 

TITLE  
PLATFORM
   

Windows

 Mac Other
iView USB motion and still image capture device by Ariston yes yes  
Interview USB by XLR8.com      
Animation Toolworks Maker of the Video Lunchbox for cell pencil tests. n/a n/a n/a
Stopmotionpro Onion skinning with clay animation!      
         
         
         

 

GIF Animation Software

 

TITLE  
PLATFORM
   

Windows

 Mac Other
Adobe Image Ready Made by Adobe, comes bundled with Adobed Photoshop yes    
ULEAD Gif animator 3.0: GIF animation by Ulead
 yes    
Animo: Cell animation software by Cambridge Animaton Systems yes   SGI
    yes    
  http://www.cosmigo.com/promotion/      
         

 


Behavioral Animation

Craig W. Reynolds :be sure to also look at steering behaviors in java.


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