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=== [[Animation sites]] === | === [[Animation sites]] === | ||
− | * [https://Agora.Community Agora.Community] - a free to join online community for artists in the animation industry of all skill levels, and their website serves as its learning hub. At Agora.Community, they believe that to get good at anything you need to follow this basic three step recipe. Learn, create, iterate. | + | * '''[https://Agora.Community Agora.Community]''' - a free to join online community for artists in the animation industry of all skill levels, and their website serves as its learning hub. At Agora.Community, they believe that to get good at anything you need to follow this basic three step recipe. Learn, create, iterate. |
− | * [http://www.AnimationMeat.com AnimationMeat.com] | + | * '''[http://www.AnimationMeat.com AnimationMeat.com]''' |
− | * [http://Animation-Studio-Stuff.Blogspot.com Animation-Studio-Stuff.Blogspot.com] for Students - Sources & Suggestions for setting up an Animation Workspace for Hand-drawn Animation. | + | * '''[http://Animation-Studio-Stuff.Blogspot.com Animation-Studio-Stuff.Blogspot.com]''' for Students - Sources & Suggestions for setting up an Animation Workspace for Hand-drawn Animation. |
− | * [https://www.AWN.com AWN.com] | + | * '''[https://www.AWN.com AWN.com]''' |
− | ** Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation_World_Network Animation World Network] | + | ** Wikipedia: '''[https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation_World_Network Animation World Network]''' |
− | * | + | * '''[https://www.LightfootLtd.com LightfootLtd.com]''' |
− | * [https://www.Studio-Technique.com Studio-Technique.com] - an artistic training studio dedicated to the artistic development of professional and amateur artists. ~ Samantha Yousseff, artistic director. | + | * '''[https://www.Studio-Technique.com Studio-Technique.com]''' - an artistic training studio dedicated to the artistic development of professional and amateur artists. ~ Samantha Yousseff, artistic director. |
− | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Animation_navigational_boxes Category:Animation navigational boxes] | + | * Wikipedia: '''[https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Animation_navigational_boxes Category:Animation navigational boxes]''' |
− | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Animation Portal:Animation] | + | * Wikipedia: '''[https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Animation Portal:Animation]''' |
− | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Animation Template:Animation] | + | * Wikipedia: '''[https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Animation Template:Animation]''' |
=== [[Animation books]] === | === [[Animation books]] === | ||
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=== [[Animation history]] === | === [[Animation history]] === | ||
− | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation History of animation] | + | * Wikipedia: '''[https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation History of animation]''' |
− | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_American_animation Golden age of American animation] | + | * Wikipedia: '''[https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_American_animation Golden age of American animation]''' |
− | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_animation History of computer animation] | + | * Wikipedia: '''[https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_animation History of computer animation]''' |
** Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_facial_animation Computer facial animation] | ** Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_facial_animation Computer facial animation] | ||
*** Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Morph_target_animation Morph target animation] | *** Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Morph_target_animation Morph target animation] | ||
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* Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier-grid_animation_and_stereography Barrier-grid animation and stereography] | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier-grid_animation_and_stereography Barrier-grid animation and stereography] | ||
* Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_book Flip book] | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_book Flip book] | ||
− | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation Traditional animation], or classical animation. | + | * Wikipedia: '''[https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation Traditional animation]''', or classical animation. |
* Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_animation Clay animation] | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_animation Clay animation] | ||
** Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_painting Clay painting] | ** Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_painting Clay painting] | ||
** Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Strata-cut_animation Strata-cut animation] | ** Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Strata-cut_animation Strata-cut animation] | ||
− | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_animation Computer animation], or CGI, computer generated imagery. | + | * Wikipedia: '''[https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_animation Computer animation]''', or CGI, computer generated imagery. |
* Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_animation Graphic animation] | * Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_animation Graphic animation] | ||
** Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutout_animation Cutout animation] | ** Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutout_animation Cutout animation] |
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Open Curricula Projects
Animation introduction
- Wikipedia: Persistence of vision
- Wikipedia: Filmmaking
- Wikipedia: Animation
- Wikipedia: Art pipeline
Classical animation production
- Fundamentals of classical animation
- Wikipedia: Twelve basic principles of animation were introduced by the Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in their 1981 book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life.
- Wikipedia: Squash and stretch
- Wikipedia: Anticipation
- Wikipedia: Staging
- Wikipedia: Straight ahead action and pose to pose
- Wikipedia: Straight ahead animation
- Wikipedia: Pose to pose animation
- Wikipedia: Key frame
- Wikipedia: Inbetweening
- + Pushing through or bounce back.
- Wikipedia: Follow through and overlapping action
- + Successive breaking of joints.
- + Whip.
- Wikipedia: Slow in and slow out
- Wikipedia: Arc
- Wikipedia: Secondary action
- Wikipedia: Timing
- Wikipedia: Exaggeration
- Wikipedia: Solid drawing
- + Physics.
- Wikipedia: Appeal
- Superior to the 12 principles, on YouTube: 21 Foundations of Animation (9:41) ~ Angry ANIMATOR, 2019-01-15.
- Wikipedia: Twelve basic principles of animation were introduced by the Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in their 1981 book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life.
- Wikipedia: Phonemes and visemes
- Wikipedia: Viseme
- Character design
- Illustration
- Storyboards
- Layout
- Backgrounds
- Animatics
- Key animation
- Inbetweening
- Pencil tests
- Scanning
- Inking
- Painting
Computer animation production
- 3D animation production is incrementally built in stages, often compartmentalized into CGI departments
- Storyboards
- Modelling
- Rigging
- Staging
- Previsualization
- Animation
- Dynamic simulations
- Textures
- Lighting
- Rendering
- Post production (see below)
- See also, Wikipedia: Art pipeline
Related production
Animation production
Like any other industry, animation is a business.
- Animation business
- Animation producers
- Animation resources
- Grant writing
- Publishing and distribution
- Screenwriting
Audio production
- Audio engineering
- Audio performances
- Sound editing
- Sound effects
- Sound engineering
- Sound foley
- Sound recording
Post production
- Colour timing
- Compositing
- Compositing 2D
- Compositing 3D
- Editing
- Graphic design
- Video editing
- Visual effects
Animation equipment
Animation desks
Naturally a professional desk is preferable, but budgets may limit realistic options.
- Disney Studios' animation desk and scene stacker goes for about $8000.
- Chromacolour.co.uk Lightbox 12 Field - Wooden Portable SKU WP-1402CC £229.99
- Yescom A3 LED Tracing Light Box 12"x17" with stand on Amazon.ca for $190.
- The LightTracer light box illuminates 10"x12" area, available on Amazon.ca for $65.
Animation exposure dope sheet
- AnimationMeat.com Templates include bar sheets, exposure sheets, field charts, storyboards, etc. Free to download.
- Printed X-Sheets / Exposure Sheet 24fps 100 Blank SKU: SKU002-24FPS $29.95 at LightfootLtd.com.
- Wikipedia: Exposure sheet, or dope sheet.
Animation field guide
Animation paper
- Studio-Technique.com: Animation Paper Guide - excellent article.
- 10f = 10 field is Letter sized 8.5" x 11" / 215.9mm x 279.4mm
- A4 = 8.3" x 11.7" / 210mm x 297mm
- 12f = 12 field is 10.5" x 12.5" / 266.7mm x 317.5mm
- The thickness/lightness of the paper impacts paper durability, important for lots of flipping.
- The thickness/lightness of the paper impacts paper transparency.
- The tooth of the paper impacts line quality.
- Wikipedia: Paper press weight should not be confused with Grammage.
Animation peg bar
There are four kinds of peg bars:
- ACME
- Oxberry
- Lightfoot Ltd Round (3-Ring Binder)
- Disney (out of use)
Erasers
- Never use the Pink Pearl erasers as they'll chew up your paper.
- Amazon.ca: Staedtler Mars Plastic Eraser
Pencil sharpener
- An Exacto knife provides ultimate control to refine the pencil point for what your drawings require.
- A hand sharpener is excellent. There are pros and cons to shallow or steep points.
- An electric sharpener is fast and suitable when precision is less important.
Pencils
- Amazon.ca: Staedtler non-photo blue pencils EAN 40 07817 056523 Art. Nr. 146C-37
- The lightest blue for initial rough sketching.
- Less smudging than graphite.
- Staedtler Mars Non-Print 108 40 purple pencils
- A little darker, for cleaning up drawings.
- Less smudging than graphite.
- Col-Erase 20044 [Navy] Blue pencils
- Darkest, for tight clean up.
- Less smudging than graphite.
- Graphite pencils
- Darkest, for tight clean up.
- Softer graphite will smudge more. Graphite is harder to erase.
- Wikipedia: Pencil grading and classification
- Col-Erase 20045 Carmine Red pencils
- Red is primarily more for special markings and layout and design.
- Less smudging than graphite.
- Col-Erase has now been bought out by Prismacolour and the Prismacolour brand will be on all col-erase pencils in the future.
- Col-Erase Black and Purple have been discontinued by the manufacturer, now only available in sets and kits, while supplies last.
- COL-Erase Animation Pencils (12 pencils per box) in Red, Blue, or Non-Photo Blue. SKU: SKU00061 $29.99
Suppliers
- ArtSupplyWarehouse.com Animation Accessories
- Animation Field Guide, 12 Field Size CAR1309 $28.00 /
MSRP $30.00 - Animation Plastic Peg Bar - White CAR1401 $8.00 /
MSRP $10.00
- Animation Field Guide, 12 Field Size CAR1309 $28.00 /
- Lightfoot Ltd.com Animation Supplies
- 12f HD-Wide Screen Field Guide 16:9 (ACME Holes) SKU: SKU001HD/FG/ACME $19.99
- ACME Pegbar Plastic SKU: SKU00035-AP $10.00
- "Black Beauty" Acme Pegbar-Ruler Ultra Thin [Metal] SKU: SKU00189-AB
$26.95$24.95 - X-Sheets / Exposure Sheet 24fps 100 Blank SKU: SKU002-24FPS $29.95
- Animation Starter Kits
- Personal-Lightboxes
- 12f Sampler Pack LGE 400 sheets SKU: SKU00183 $49.00
- A Sampler Pack to try each paper type without purchasing 3 full reams. This pack has 100 sheets of four types of 12f to test before making selections of full reams of Animation Paper. Available in Round or ACME punched.
- 12f Ingram Bond 22 lb.
- 12f Lightfoot Pro 17 lb.
- 12f Lightfoot Pro 20 lb.
- 12f Lightfoot Pro Studio 24 lb.
Animation resources
- Wikipedia: International Animation Day October 28, the International Animation Day (IAD) was an international observance proclaimed in 2002 by the ASIFA as the main global event to celebrate the art of animation.
Animation sites
- Agora.Community - a free to join online community for artists in the animation industry of all skill levels, and their website serves as its learning hub. At Agora.Community, they believe that to get good at anything you need to follow this basic three step recipe. Learn, create, iterate.
- AnimationMeat.com
- Animation-Studio-Stuff.Blogspot.com for Students - Sources & Suggestions for setting up an Animation Workspace for Hand-drawn Animation.
- AWN.com
- Wikipedia: Animation World Network
- LightfootLtd.com
- Studio-Technique.com - an artistic training studio dedicated to the artistic development of professional and amateur artists. ~ Samantha Yousseff, artistic director.
- Wikipedia: Category:Animation navigational boxes
- Wikipedia: Portal:Animation
- Wikipedia: Template:Animation
Animation books
- Wikipedia: Preston Blair's Cartoon Animation (1994), a 224-page book which compiles most of the content from his previous books. The best reference for animators. Available on Amazon, from $23 to $69.
- Wikipedia: Understanding Comics, masterfully explains visual language clearly, simply, and deeply with greater applications beyond just comic books. Available on Amazon, from $29 to $59.
- Wikipedia: George Bridgman's classic books on human anatomy and life-drawing remain unsurpassed. Available on Amazon.
- Wikipedia: Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, overkill for anyone but animation enthusiasts.
- Animation Studio Stuff's recommended books.
Animation research
Animation history
- Wikipedia: History of animation
- Wikipedia: Golden age of American animation
- Wikipedia: History of computer animation
- Wikipedia: Computer facial animation
- Wikipedia: Morph target animation
- Wikipedia: CSS animations
- Wikipedia: Onion skinning
- Wikipedia: Pixel art
- Wikipedia: SVG animation
- Wikipedia: Flash animation
- Wikipedia: Computer facial animation
Animation techniques
- Wikipedia: Barrier-grid animation and stereography
- Wikipedia: Flip book
- Wikipedia: Traditional animation, or classical animation.
- Wikipedia: Clay animation
- Wikipedia: Clay painting
- Wikipedia: Strata-cut animation
- Wikipedia: Computer animation, or CGI, computer generated imagery.
- Wikipedia: Graphic animation
- Wikipedia: Cutout animation
- Wikipedia: Motion comic
- Wikipedia: Silhouette animation
- Wikipedia: Motion capture
- Wikipedia: Physically based animation, or dynamic simulations
- Wikipedia: Rotoscoping
- Wikipedia: Stop motion
- Wikipedia: Go motion
- Wikipedia: Model animation
- Wikipedia: Object animation
- Wikipedia: Pixilation
- Wikipedia: Whiteboard animation
Animation styles
- Wikipedia: Cartoon physics
- Wikipedia: Character animation
- Wikipedia: Chinese animation
- Flying logos
- Wikipedia: Limited animation
- Wikipedia: Rubber hose animation
- Wikipedia: Special effect
Animation genres
- Wikipedia: Adult animation
- Wikipedia: [https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adult_animated_television_series List of adult animated television series
- Animated feature films
- Wikipedia: Lists of animated films
- Wikipedia: Animated series
- Wikipedia: List of adult animated television series
- Wikipedia: Adult Swim
- Wikipedia: Love, Death & Robots
- Wikipedia: Oats Studios
- Wikipedia: TripTank
- Wikipedia: List of adult animated television series
- Wikipedia: Anime
- Wikipedia: Anime-influenced_animation
- Wikipedia: Template:Film genres
- Wikipedia: Independent animation
Animation studios
- Wikipedia: Animation studio
- Wikipedia: List of animation studios
- Wikipedia: Disney Television Animation
- Wikipedia: Paramount Animation
- Wikipedia: United Productions of America, or UPA animation studio.
- Wikipedia: Googie architecture
- Wikipedia: Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Wikipedia: Warner Bros. Animation
Animation screenings
- Wikipedia: Category:Animation film festivals
- Wikipedia: Lists of animated films
- Wikipedia: List of highest-grossing animated films
- Wikipedia: List of stop motion films
Animators
- Wikipedia: Animator
- Wikipedia: List of animators
- Wikipedia: Preston Blair
See also
- ◉ ANIMATION ◉ YouTube playlist compiled by User:JasonCarswell.
- Category:Animation
- Category:Filmmaking
- Category:Media
- Category:Windsor media
- Decentralized alternatives, includes lists of crowdsourcing alternatives and YouTube alternatives
- Economic alternatives
- Filmmaking
- ◉ FILMMAKING ◉ YouTube playlist compiled by User:JasonCarswell.
- Open Curricula Projects Animation
- Technology alternatives
- Television series pitches
- Windsor Media Center
- /s/3DArt
- /s/3DRequests
- /s/AlternativeMedia
- ► /s/AnimatedSeries ◄
- ► /s/AnimatedShorts ◄
- ► /s/Animation ◄
- ► /s/Anime ◄
- /s/AnimeFoodPorn
- /s/AniMemes
- /s/AnimeSub
- /s/Art
- /s/ArtVideos
- /s/ASCII_Art
- /s/BritishTV
- /s/Cartoons
- /s/CorporateMedia
- /s/Documentaries
- /s/Drama
- /s/Filmmaking
- /s/GIFs
- /s/HistoryVideos
- /s/Illusions
- /s/JapaneseTelevision
- /s/Journalism
- /s/LiveTVLinks
- /s/MediaAnalysis
- /s/MeTV
- /s/Movies
- /s/MovieAnalysis - spoilers
- /s/MovieCritiques - spoilers
- /s/MovieReviews - spoiler-free
- /s/Music
- /s/MusicVideos
- /s/Paintings
- /s/PerformanceArts
- /s/PinUps
- /s/PixelArt
- /s/PoliticalVideo
- /s/RealityTV
- /s/SaidItCreatives
- /s/Screenwriting
- /s/Soundtracks
- /s/StreetArt
- /s/Television
- /s/Trailers
- /s/TVEpisodes
- /s/VideoEssays
- /s/Videos
- /s/VideoViews
- /s/Writing
- /s/YouTube
- /s/YouTubeAlternatives
- /s/YouTubeVideos