links categories
storyboarding
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"Directors Boards by Directors NoteBook Software is a very simple application for creating "AV" format storyboards from existing digital scans, illustrations and photos. The software prints the boards, presents them as a digital slide show, and exports them to tab delimited text..."
free software for digital storyboarding
london online
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...so let's start sharing... sign up by going to the website and start adding your favourites :)
to start off with - have a look at my collection: del.icio.us/eyedea
old versus new
to start off with - have a look at my collection: del.icio.us/eyedea
"...information includes details of the artists and organisations
represented ... as well as a selection of other relevant sources of further information."
Old Versus New - Archives for Artists
exhibition 0607
Old Versus New - Archives for Artists
"... our end of year show 30th June '07 onboard the SS Robin..."
view promo and Flickr Photos
view promo and Flickr Photos
exhibit & compete
- Animex International Festival of Animation
"...recognises and rewards student animators from around the world..." - filmnetwork &mdash animation
[ bbc ]
"Film Network is a new BBC website designed to showcase new British film talent by screening short films and profiling the people who made them." - MESH
[ channel4 ]
"MESH, channel 4's cutting edge digital and interactive animation scheme...seeks to blur the lines of destinction between disciplines and to develop talent in digital animation across all media platforms." - animwatch
"...showcasing the best in independent animation."
online animation
- creativecommons.org — competitions
"We have two Flash-based shorts to watch, "Get Creative," which explains the history and launch of Creative Commons, and "Reticulum Rex," that revisits Creative Commons a year after launch and looks toward the future." - JibJab
"n 1998, brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis saw a dancing doodie and it changed their lives forever - it was in a cartoon broadcast over the Internet...." - bestflashanimationsite.com — Best Flash V2.2
"Each week we select the best Flash sites that have been submitted and you vote for your favorites." - Mark Fiore
"Mark Fiore creates animated political cartoons from an undisclosed location somewhere in San Francisco. His work appears regularly in a wide variety of online news web sites." - strange attractors
"12 animations. 12 animators. 12 insights into their practice and their trade secrets. Experience 12 reasons why Victoria is the Australian centre for independent animation." - UGO player
"Welcome to UGOPlayer.com, we are the internets largest flash showcase site. We have featured hundreds of the internets most creative and amazing movies, games and music videos." - the creep
"monkeyhub presents: music video for "the creep" by Radiohead" - ilustris
animation by Marek Charytonowicz - Nim's Journey
animation by goober productions - vitorvilela
portfolio site of Brazilian animator Vitor da Silva Vilela - giant steps
motion graphics to music by John Coltrane — animation by Michal Levy - flinch studio
animation studio based in Florida, USA - the plumber
"Plumber was our first fully computer generated short film produced over a six month period at Redrover Animation Studios Ltd. in association with Bravo!Fact." - Ninjai, The Little Ninja
"Ninjai, The Little Ninja is our online action/adventure series. We invite you to join Ninjai on his exciting, enlightening and sometimes humorous journey as he travels throughout the Ancient World." - hoogerbrugge
"The first incarnation of Han Hoogerbrugge's Neurotica was as a comic strip cataloguing the adventures and misadventures of his life as an artist in the mid-1990s. Hoogerbrugge then adapted it for a series of digital animations that he posted on his personal website. First he developed them as Gif animated shorts and the introduced interactivity with Flash software."
resources — tutorials — bibliographies
- opsound
"Opsound is a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians and sound artists are invited to add their work to the Opsound pool using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine. " - creative cow
"creative communities of the world - media professionals user forums - more signal, less noise." - digital-tutors
"tutorials and training - free and to buy - 2001-2005 Digital-Tutors, a service of PL Studios, Inc." - animationarena
"... art. models, articles, tutoirals, links, animations ..." - toonhub
"...animation links and information - vast collection of links to animators, studios, schools, galleries, communities...and much more..."
flash — tutorials — communities
- were-here
"professional designer & developer community ... forums - tutorials - resources - featured - community - games - job centre - shop" - flashkit
"news | reviews | forums | site check | tutorials | gallery | fonts | links | news" - kirupa
"Flash — News, Information and Resources — resource site by Kirupa Chinnathambi - articles, tutorials and forums" - flashgoddess
"resource and community site showcasing and promoting women who work with Macromedia Flash" - ultrashock
"flash community site with news, awards, source flas and more..."
!! be warned: a bit heavy loading on a landline connection :'( - iwantmyflashtv
"FlashTV, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, is a mac-based community site committed to supporting independent digital artists worldwide by providing a free platform to showcase and market their original artwork to the masses."
3D — tutorials — communities
- highend3d
"articles - books - dictionary - downloads - dvds events - forums - gallery - jobs - news - newsletters - schools..." - learning-maya
"maya tutorial database" - 3d cafe
"online community with tutorials, plug ins, galleries, jobs, and more." - 3d ark
"3D ARK is a free on-line archive of 3D related content and resources for 3D enthusiasts." - 3d buzz
"3D community with tutorials, forums, contests..." - 3d kingdom
"3D Kingdom.org is Computer Graphics website which comes from small Balcan country Bosnia and Herzegovina ..." - spicycricket
"animating a walk cycle | by digital character animator Angie Jones"
animation industry
- Shooting People
"Shooting People is run by filmmakers for filmmakers.
Shooting People runs the essential daily email bulletins to facilitate all questions and needs of independent filmmakers, previews the best of indie films coming up, puts on Q/A masterclasses with our patrons and other leading filmmakers (transcribed on the site), regularly showcases the best of our members work,..." - uk film | council
"The UK Film Council is the Government-backed strategic agency for film in the UK. Its main aim is to stimulate a competitive, successful and vibrant UK film industry and culture, and to promote the widest possible enjoyment and understanding of cinema throughout the nations and regions of the UK." - toonhound
"...your starting point for info on British cartoon, animation, comic strip and puppet creations of the past, present and future..." - screen daily
"Welcome to Screendaily.com, the best daily news service for the global film industry, produced by the team that publishes Screen International." - animation magazine
"animation magazine - the business, technology & art of animation" - awn
"The Animation World Network is the largest animation-related publishing group on the Internet, providing readers from over 145 countries with a wide range of interesting, relevant and helpful information pertaining to all aspects of animation." - animation industry database
"... Use the database and free downloadable directories to find animation, visual effects and related companies located throughout the world..."