harbor, links

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Art & Animation

  • Animation Mentor - excellent online animation school where you learn directly from the pros (ie Pixar, Disney, ILM, etc).

  • CGCHAR : Ask the Pro - very insightful Q&A sessions with professional animators.

  • CGTalk : Meet the Artists - more cool Q&A sessions with the pros.

  • Spline Doctors - five Pixar animators talk about animation.

  • Animation Meat - a vast collection of awesome notes on all things animation.

  • Carlos Baena - great resource on animation and filmmaking.

  • The Animation Podcast - interviews with various Disney animators.

  • Temple of the Seven Golden Camels - very interesting blog on drawing and filmmaking.

  • Art Renewal - for great sense of posing and anatomy, you can't go wrong with the old masters.


    • Games

  • Gamasutra - an excellent site with news and articles about game design and development.

  • Giant Bomb - fascinating site featuring a massive wiki linking together games and all the things they have in common.

  • IGDA - the International Game Developers Association.

  • David Perry's webpage - the homepage of game designer David Perry. Some interesting speeches (mainly the "Design Memory Dump").

  • Adventure Game Studio - a cool program with which you can make 2D adventures like the old LucasArts and Sierra ones.

  • Game Maker - a limited but surprisingly powerful tool for creating small 2D games.

  • Adventure Gamers - where adventure gamers go; news, features, reviews and forums... Excellent site!

  • Game AI for Developers - fascinating site on Artificial Intelligence in games.

  • Zero Punctuation - entertaining commentary on the many failings of games today.

  • TIGSource - great site on all things indie.


    • Sound Effects

  • Sound Dogs - an excellent and enormous collection of royalty-free sounds.

  • FindSounds - a sound effect search engine.


    • Misc

  • Dodo Blog - my blog about short film development, games, animation and other things.

  • Gamasutra - The Necessity Of Interactive Animation For Games - an article I wrote on how in-game animation can be used to enhance and expand gameplay.

  • Realistic fire, Weta-style - a tutorial I wrote on using Primal Particles FX (or Python) to create animated fire in trueSpace.

  • Olof Moleman - my brother's online portfolio: runes, dinosaurs, fossils, dragons, more dinosaurs...

  • YouTube - my personal contributions and various favourite videos.

  • Del.icio.us - more delicious links.


    • Reference

  • BBC Motion Gallery

  • Getty Images - Film

  • Framepool Stock Footage


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