People sometimes ask me where to get started in animation. I’m in no way qualified to teach the subject myself, but I’ve been mentored by just about every piece of information I could get my grubby little hands on. Below I’ve compiled a list of blogs, books and websites.
I hope somebody finds this stuff useful! I’ve starred my favorites!
Books
- The Animator’s Survival Kit by Richard Williams*
- The Illusion of Life by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas*
- Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair
- Character Animation Crash Course by Eric Goldberg*
- Drawn To Life by Walt Stanchfield *
- Timing for Animation by Harold Whitaker and John Halas
- The Animation Book by Kit Laybourne
- Animation: From Script to Screen by Shamus Culhane
- The Animator’s Workbook by Tony White
- Chuck Reducks by Chuck Jones
Blogs
- On Animation *
- Animation Progression Reels
- Flip
- Hans Perk
- Disney History
- Colorful Animation Expressions
- Thad Komorowski
- Michael Barrier
- John K Stuff *
- Mayerson on Animation
- Michael Sporn Animation
- The Cartoon Cave
- Rainplace
- Ink and Paint Club
- Keith Lango Animation
- The Blackwing Diaries
- Temple of the Seven Golden Camels
- Matt Jones
- Clockroom
- Stephen Silver *
- Shannon Tindle
- Shane Prigmore
- Dave Pimentel
- Aurian Redson
- Daily Peril
- Bobby Pontillas
- Carlos Baena
- Aaron Hartline
- The Iron Scythe
- Paperwalker
- John Nevarez
- The Art Center
- Rad How To *
- Speaking of Animation
- Spline Doctors
- Sauer
- Comicrazys
- Colin Jack
- Pencil Test Depot
- Kyle Kenworthy
- Leo Matsuda
- Lorelay Bove
- Pierre Alary
- Ben Balistreri
Websites
