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◉ ANIMATION ◉ YouTube playlist compiled by User:JasonCarswell.
Noteworthy videos with analysis, insights, and instructions on acting, animation, arcs, arts, audio, budgets, character, character design, cinematography, classical animation, clients, commentary, communicating, composition, computer animation, craft, credits and titles, culture, design, dialogue, documentaries, editing, entertainment industry, filmmaking, how-to, industry animation, layout and design, lighting, making-of, marketing, media, music, pacing, pencil tests, performance, political influence, previsualization, rigging, screenwriting, social analysis, social media, staging, stop-motion, storyboarding, storytelling, structure, substance, subtext, technical animation, techniques, textures, video distribution, web animation, etc.
There's also an ◎ ANIMATION Unseen ◎ YouTube playlist with unseen content that may or may not be noteworthy.
Noteworthy videos with analysis, insights, and instructions on acting, animation, arcs, arts, audio, budgets, character, character design, cinematography, classical animation, clients, commentary, communicating, composition, computer animation, craft, credits and titles, culture, design, dialogue, documentaries, editing, entertainment industry, filmmaking, how-to, industry animation, layout and design, lighting, making-of, marketing, media, music, pacing, pencil tests, performance, political influence, previsualization, rigging, screenwriting, social analysis, social media, staging, stop-motion, storyboarding, storytelling, structure, substance, subtext, technical animation, techniques, textures, video distribution, web animation, etc.
There's also an ◎ ANIMATION Unseen ◎ YouTube playlist with unseen content that may or may not be noteworthy.
Open Curricula Projects
Classical animation production
- Fundamentals of classical animation
- Wikipedia: Twelve basic principles of animation
- 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: Inbetweening
- Pushing through and 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
- Wikipedia: Phonemes and visemes
- Wikipedia: Viseme
- Wikipedia: Twelve basic principles of animation
- Character design
- Illustration
- Storyboards
- Layout
- Key Animation
- Inbetweening
- Backgrounds
- Scanning
- Inking
- Painting
3D computer animation production
- CGI departments or stages
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
Animation introduction

A series paper sizes with comparison to Letter and Legal.
- Wikipedia: Persistence of vision
- Wikipedia: Filmmaking
- Wikipedia: Animation
- Wikipedia: Traditional animation
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.
- AWN.com
- Wikipedia: Animation World Network
- Studio-Technique.com - an artistic training studio dedicated to the artistic development of professional and amateur artists. ~ Samantha Yousseff, artistic director.
- Wikipedia: Portal:Animation
- Wikipedia: Template:Animation
Animation books

Book cover of Cartoon Animation (1994) by Preston Blair is the best book for animation students.
Worth getting:
- Wikipedia: Preston Blair's Cartoon Animation (1994), a 224-page book which compiles most of the content from his previous books. The best book for animation students.
- Wikipedia: Understanding Comics, masterfully explains visual language clearly, simply, and deeply with greater applications beyond just comic books.
- Wikipedia: Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, overkill for anyone but animation enthusiasts.
Animation equipment
- Wikipedia: peg bars
- Wikipedia: Paper press weight should not be confused with Grammage.
- Studio-Technique.com: Animation Paper Guide
- Wikipedia: Exposure sheet, or dope sheet.
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: 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: 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: Chinese animation
- Wikipedia: Limited animation
- Wikipedia: Rubber hose animation
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: List of highest-grossing animated 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
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