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Welcome Fellow Animators

History of Animation

Animation Tutorials

Cartoonster
Animation Mentor - Online Training
Caligari TrueSpace 3 Free Download
Caligari True Space 7.6 Free Download
3D modelling and animation program
Maya - Personal Learning Edition
Teach Animation
MarkFiore
Cartoon Solutions
BrainPop Intro to Digital Animation
BrainPop Webinars
Animation Mentor
Timing and Spacing
Paperbased Animation
Tabletop Animation
Tabletopmedia
From Edutopia
Toon Institute Lesson Plans
Tutorials for Animate 2
Toon Boom
Karmatoons Free Online book
Tony Teach

Kool Products

Eye Think Inc.
Flipbook
Flipomania
Click on SHOP to see the flipbooks!
Flippies Custom Made Flipbooks
Animation Factory
UnFreez - Free Gif Animator
Pivot STick Animator
PipeCleaner Animation
Instructables: Easy, Cheap, Animation
You Can Create Your Own Flipbook from photos!
Xiberpix
Cool Free tools
Serif
Cool animation products
Free Serif Software
Older Versions but great to get started on for Free!
KToon 2D Animation
Go Animate
July 2008
Animasher
Scratch
More of a "programming" program but has animation capability
DoInk
Kerpoof
Kinemac 3D Animator for MAC
Awesome but expensive!
Anime Studio For MAC and PC
$49 but educators get 50% discount

Animation Websites

Animation World Network
Animation Arena
Random Motion
Mish Mash Media
Aardman
ARC
Animation Resource Center
Siggraph
Alan
Animation LInks Galore
11 Second Club
Virtual Art Room - Animations
Dfilm
Create your own online video!
My Toons
Pencil
Free, open source drawing and animation program for PC and Mac
Fluxtime Studio
Best Sties for Creating Online Animations
Larry Ferlazzo list
Oakey
Film Street UK

Animation Schools

Persistance of Vision

Animations

World's Oldest Animation?

Anmation Career Books

Learning to Draw

Preston Blair Course Online

Aids to Animation

Stop Motion Animation

Animation Inspiration from Apple
ClayMation and Stop Motion
Stop Motion Reviews
Clay Animation Made Easy
ClayAmimation: Tortoise Run
StopMotionPro
Stop Frame Animation by FilmStreet
Competition for UK but students can try anyway
The Little Red Plane
Paper-Cut-Out Animation
Gulp - The Largest Stop Motion Animation Set

Flash Animations

Animax Interactive

3D Animation

Anim8or
Free
Elephants Dream
Created entirely using Free Open Source Software
Blender
Free Open Source 3D content creator
HASH
ZenCub3D
MovieStorm
Galactic Soft
Alice
Google SketchUp
Reallusion: IClone3

Using Cartoons in Education

InToon
Mike Keefe Political Cartoons; check out his talking heads
Cagle Political Cartoons
Also includes Teacher Guide
Cartoons in the Classroom
Science Cartoons Plus
Sydny Harris Cartoons
ZimmerTwins
Squarepants Spongebob Rehersal

Online Articles

Students Become Animated, Drawing Connections to Lessons
Technology&Learning Ezine article
Technology makes art education a bigger draw !
eSchool News Article
Getting Animated
Games Move Towards Creation
Animation Creates Life
The.Journal article
Visual Art Units
Mark Gura article
Robb's Animation Examples
see student animations

Supporting Programs

MorphVox
changes your voice
Audacity
Free Audio Editor and Recorder
Celtx
all-in-one media pre-production software. It has everything you need to take your story from concept to production.

Animation Sites

Animation Studios & Sites Wiki
Animata
Stykz
Stick Figure Animation (FREE)
Joe Davis
Author of Telescopic Text
Create Old Japan animations
Scientifc Animations: Medical Animations
Film Street Stopframe Animator

animation blogs

Examples

Dangerous Animals 1
Dangerous Animals 2
Daria
Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water
Built from 1935 - 1939
Daisy and Drago
Animation by Turkish Kindergarten Students
Michael Levy
Using Animation to Study Cell Structures
Animation of Soccor Player
Piano
Life on the Block
Sherman Williams Ad
Amazing Ra ONe Movie Animation
Check out what they've done with the YouTube screen!

Camera Work

Hollywood Camera Work

Creativity

On Creativity
See Video
Freedom Lab
Kickstarter
Stop Animation social media
Geek Dad
animation projects vis Kickstarter