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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: 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
- Wikipedia: Phonemes and visemes
- Wikipedia: Viseme
- Wikipedia: Twelve basic principles of animation
- Character design
- Illustration
- Storyboards
- Layout
- Backgrounds
- Animatics
- Key animation
- Inbetweening
- Pencil tests
- 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
- 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: Category:Animation navigational boxes
- Wikipedia: Portal:Animation
- Wikipedia: Template:Animation
Animation books

Book cover of Cartoon Animation (1994) by Preston Blair is the best book for animation students.
- 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

A series of paper sizes with comparison to Letter and Legal.
- Animation exposure dope sheet
- Wikipedia: Exposure sheet, or dope sheet.
- Animation field guide
- Animation paper
- Studio-Technique.com: Animation Paper Guide
- 10f = 10 field is about A4/letter sized?
- 12f = 12 field is about A3 sized?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Amazon.ca: Staedtler non-photo blue pencils EAN 40 07817 056523 Art. Nr. 146C-37
- Animation suppliers
- ArtSupplyWarehouse.com/departments/animation-accessories-|22|229|229020.html
- 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 /
- LightfootLtd.com - Lightfoot Ltd. Animation Supplies.com
- 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
- 100 sheets of each of our four 12f Animation Papers:
- 12f Ingram Bond 22 lb.
- 12f Lightfoot Pro 17 lb.
- 12f Lightfoot Pro 20 lb.
- 12f Lightfoot Pro Studio 24 lb.
- This Sampler Pack was created for those that would like to sample each of our paper types without having to purchase 3 full reams. This will give you 100 sheets of each to test before making your selection of full reams of Animation Paper. Available in Round or Acme punched.
- ArtSupplyWarehouse.com/departments/animation-accessories-|22|229|229020.html
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: 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: 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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