Animation & animated cartoon freebies, tutorials, tools, and advice.
Free downloadable tools and professional lessons for animation creators, with an emphasis on good old-fashioned hand drawn cartoon making, stop-motion, and more.
What's here:
- Classic Hand Drawn Animation
- Download Some Free Animation Tools & Practice Sheets
- Background Noise: Animation Music
- Really Good Advice From Animation Masters & Pros
- Animation "How To" From The Professionals
- Writing For Animation
- Flash Tutorials & Plug-ins
- FLASH! Aaahhh aaaaaaah...
- Looking For A Rare Old Cartoon?
- Brick Films
- The Animated Blogosphere
- Original Animation Cells
- To Draw The Line, Or Not
- Animation Tools Guestbook
Classic Hand Drawn Animation
Classic, traditional animation help.
- LEARN THE TECHNIQUES OF THE PROFESSIONAL ANIMATORS OF KLASKY CSUPO!
- With never before seen production work on some of your favorite KC cartoons including Rugrats, Wild Thornberrys, AAAHH!!! Real Monsters, Santo Bugito and more!
Part 1: Creating Characters Out of Basic Shapes
Part 2: Determining Height and Basic Details
Part 3: Turnarounds
Part 4: Movement Sketches
Part 5: Off Model/On Model
Part 6: Advanced Animation Drawing
Part 7: Backgrounds
Part 8: Coloring and Props - Idleworm: Animation Tutorials - main page
- Animation tutorials for traditional hand-drawn that teach concepts applicable to Flash and other animating methods as well:
Lesson 1: The Bouncing Ball
Lesson 2: The Walk Cycle
Lesson 3: Dialog - Hand Drawn Nomad Blog
- "I like to see drawings come to life!" Matt Williames
Download Some Free Animation Tools & Practice Sheets
- Animation Meat Free Tools
- Free animation production template downloads in PDF & TIFF formats.
- Animation Meat Model Sheets
- Hone your drawing skills with character model sheets from Bluth Misc, Family Dog, Filmation Archies, Flintstones, Frankenstein Jr., Herculoids, Mighty Heroes, Powerpuff Girls, Space Ghost, & more.
- The Unofficial Dreamworks Animation Archive
- Model sheets for Over the Hedge, The Prince of Egypt, The Road To El Dorado, Sinbad-Legend of the Seven Seas, & Spirit-Stallion of the Cimarron.
Background Noise: Animation Music
Copyright free sound and music sources.
- Musopen - Free Public Domain Classical Music
- "Free online public domain classical music. Download, edit, share and enjoy our music, copyright and cost free."
~ No Hassle Really Truly Copyright Free Music For Anything, Even Animated Films ~ - ccMixter - Welcome to ccMixter
- ccMixter is a community remix site sponsored by Creative Commons.
Important: Some of the CC audio licenses do not allow the audio to be used for commercial use; others require that the original artist be given credit. Check the Creative Commons license carefully before downloading & using audio. Be respectful. - freesound :: home page
- Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?
Important: Some of the CC audio licenses do not allow the audio to be used for commercial use; others require that the original artist be given credit. Check the Creative Commons license carefully before downloading & using audio. Be respectful.
Really Good Advice From Animation Masters & Pros
- Frank & Ollie's Official Site: Animation Tips
- Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston share some of what they learned from forty-three years of working at Walt Disney Studios:
Principles of Physical Animation
Principles of Emotion in Animation
Animation Notes From Ollie Johnston - The Stop-Motion Handbook
- Stop-Motion step-by-step online guide by Mike Brent. My favorite part? The "don't be a troll n00b" common sense advice that starts it off.
StopMotionAnimation.com also has an excellent links page. - Animateclay.com :: The Clay Animation and Stop Motion How To Page: Clay & Stop Motion Animation Community, News & More (Sections)
- The Clay Animation and Stop Motion How To Page: Clay & Stop Motion Animation Community, News & More
Animation "How To" From The Professionals
Writing For Animation
Animation Writers' Resources
The word just don't write themselves into the frame, you know!
- What Every 'toon Writer Needs To Know
- The Writer's Guild of America page for cartoon & animation writers.
- How to Format A(n Animation) Script
- Description: Want a professional looking script and don't know where to start? Paul T. Abramson and David D. Williamson offer us the formatting basics of what makes a good "reading" script.
- Animation Writers
- "A place for animation writers to write about animation. (God, that looks redundant.)" - Steve Marmel, Yin! Yang! Yo!
- all kinds of stuff: Writing for animation: Keep it simple and short! Misconceptions of animation "writers"
- Misconceptions of animation "writers" by
John K. (Ren & Stimpy).
The animators and producers will like you better for having read this.
Flash Tutorials & Plug-ins
- Tutorials | Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links
- Blog entries with links to Flash tutorials.
- Plugins | Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links
- Keep up with the latest Flash plug-ins.
- Flash | Layers Magazine
- Flash news, tutorials, and articles from the How-To magazine for everything Adobe.
FLASH! Aaahhh aaaaaaah...
...animate the impossible!
Looking For A Rare Old Cartoon?
Search the Big Cartoon Database.
Brick Films
As if Legos weren't cool enough already.
- LEGO Digital Designer : Virtual Building Software
- Download a revolutionary platform for virtual building that can also be used to set up your shots for bricking, for free.
- Brickfilms.com
- Welcome to Brickfilms. We are a community dedicated to the art of stop motion animation.
The Animated Blogosphere
- Spline Doctors
- "Animators by day Animation teachers by night."
Pixar animators' blog. - Story Boredom
- "We are storyboard artists in animation. During the course of production millions of sketches are produced. Some are used but most are not. These are the ones that "got away" and scribbly scribbles deemed not worthy for prime time."
Original Animation Cells
The Art of animation, frame by frame.
To Draw The Line, Or Not
A debate on the place of hand-drawn in the future of animation.
Animation Tools Guestbook
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Zorgy
Mar 31, 2009 @ 11:21 am | delete
- There is an alternative to brickfilms site at http://StopMotionCentral.com for those who are new to stop motion animation with bricks et al.
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