The Animation SIG

Resources

This is only a rough listing which will be reviewed and expanded as we are able to make time to work on it

- Myles has created a tiddlywiki page which is a great resource. Have a look at it at http://myles.tiddlyspot.com. It makes our resource page redundant, but we'll leave it operating for now.

Books.

George Maestri. Digital Character Animation 2 Volumes
Richard Williams. The Animator's Survival Kit
Preston Blair. Cartoon Animation
P. Lord & B.Sibley. Creating 3-D Animation H.N. Abrams. New York 2004
Sherri Sheridan Developing Digital Short Films New Riders. California 2004

Software.

- Anime Studio (formerly Moho) from smithmicro
- Audacity.Free sound recorder and editor
- Blender - Free 3D Modelling Program
- Cool 3D. Animated 3D Graphics etc
- CrazyTalk.4.6 from reallusion.com
- Facegen Used to create 3D human faces from 1 or 2 photos or at random. There is a free version, but it cannot export to external 3D formats, and It displays a logo on the graphic.
- Flash
- Google Sketchup. July 2006 PC User Group Disc
- hamaPatch
- IClone 2. 3D animation software from reallusion.com
- Inkscape. July 2006 PC User Group Disc
- Kahootz. A set of 3D multimedia tools which allow students and teachers to be creators, designers, inventors and storytellers. Developed by the Australian Children's Television Foundation.
- Maya. 3D animation software
- Papagayo. Free speech synthesizer from lost marble.
- Poser 7. 3D animation software from smithmicro
- Stopmotion Pro. A software tool for making stop motion and other animated films
- Swift 3D
- Toonboom Studio. 2D animation software from toonboom.
- Truespace. Software for 3D presentation, design, animation and art.
- Xara

Articles.

Article in Flash Online Magazine 14/11/2004. About MOHO 5
Myles Strous. Drawn Out. Article in PC Update Online July 2001
Myles Strous. Animated Conversation. Article in PC Update Online July 2001
Myles Strous. Spline Fever. Article in PC Update Online November 2000

Web Sites

- about.com. Search for animation. Pages of animation links
- animationarena.com . Articles by Doron A. Meir
- animationmeat.com
- awn.com
- coolclones.com. An IClone resource site
- current.tv. Set up by Al Gore to encourage young film makers. Viewer created content model
- The Digital Labourers Federation. A non profit social group, which acts as a contact point for people working in the Digital Arts industry
- go-motion.com.au
- The internet archive. A digital library of internet sites. It has a collection of animation and cartoons
- learnflash.com
- leconcombre.com/board/flashtutorial. A French site
- mindseyemedia.com
- myflik.com
- Myles Site at PC user Group Graphics SIG Webpage
- rmit.edu.au/aim/
- steveryan.net/tutorials. -moho tutorials
- storytron.com. An interactive story telling development
- suite.101.com
- youtube.com
- wikipedia.org. Search for animation

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