Reeview Player

There's yet another online review player showing up, but this one adds the bonus of being able to draw on your movie and it saves each drawing per frame. Nice! Head over reeview.it to check it out!

Anilyzer: Watch YouTube and Vimeo videos frame by frame and slow motion

Head over to anilyzer.com for this very handy tool.

Animation Viewer - Introduction

Maya Viewport 2.0 for Animators

Maya Viewport 2.0 for Animators from Tim Kallok on Vimeo.

"AnimDessin2" 2.0.0 for Photoshop CC

[EN] "AnimDessin2" 2.0.0 for Photoshop CC from Stéphane Baril on Vimeo.

AnimGesture

I remember Jimmy from work, good guy, give this a try!

Animgesture.com has all the information you need, including this video:

Keyframe - Playblast/Reference Viewer

Head over to Zurbrigg.com for more information and videos. I'm going to try this out tonight! Might be a solution to my Quicktime+Screen Sketch Tool problem.

Arc Tracker Pro for Maya

There's more info here.

Playblast/Reference Viewer for Maya

Playblast/Reference Viewer for Maya from Chris Zurbrigg on Vimeo.

- found via @AnimSchoolTweet

ngSkinTools

It's been so long since I've rigged anything but I've always had huge problems with painting weights.

The clip for ngSkinTools seems pretty cool, has anybody used this?

bhGhost - Outline onion skinning

I thought this was super cool and will try it at home very soon. Head over here for more info!

bhGhost Tutorial from Brian Horgan on Vimeo.

Muvizu - free 3D animation software

Interesting approach.You don't animate the character, you direct it using pre-existing libraries. Head over to muvizu.com for more info about it. Here's a clip with a quick overview:

Chris Zurbrigg's Blue Pencil for Maya

This is pretty cool (and reminds of Grease Pencil). There are a lot of cool features listed, but I haven't tried it yet. Anybody have any experience with it?

Animate It! - The New Animation App

Has anybody tried it yet?

Valve's Free Movie-Making Tool - Source Filmmaker

NICE!

Valve's Character Design Guidelines

Very cool PDF, found via @The3DNinja
The color section was especially interesting to me.

SloPro - iPhone app for shooting Reference

If you have an iPhone, I recommend you check out SloPro. It's free to check out but you won't be able to save your movies. For $1.99 you get the full version with more options.

Here the official info list:

 - Toggle slow motion while recording!
- Trim and change slow motion afterwards if needed
- No rendering delay--watch slow motion immediately!
- Facebook upload
- YouTube upload
- Upgrade to email, export to camera roll, and export raw 60fps

 For non-iPhone 4S 60fps is only on the iPhone 4S. Other devices can still record, edit and share great slow motion videos at 30fps. 

The slow-mo sound is fun, especially when it makes your baby sound like a huge ogre beast. :)

Flipbook - iPad animation app

I have a few different apps and they all have their strengths and weaknesses and so far I'm partial to Animation Creator because of its real time scrubbing and audio support and clean interface. The layer function is good too.

Animation Desk feels a bit cluttered at the beginning interface wise but has awesome features as well. For instance you can move around a piece of cloth around the drawing area which serves as a wrist resting area. That way you can place your hand on the screen and it won't recognize it as a drawing command.

I wish both had an easier layer/BG tool though, where you can easily create a BGs and stretch it out over a certain length of time without duplicating each frame. Also, when in frame edit mode, it's a merged view of all the layers/BGs and it would be cool have a broken up view for each layer.

But "Flipbook" for the iPad looks very promising as well (trying it out now). Check out the video tutorial:

FiLMiC Pro for iPhone

Listening to the Jeff Gabor Webcast he mentions the app FiLMiC for the iPhone, which lets you shoot in a 24fps mode, which is great for shooting reference. If you got an iPhone, head over here for the app.

Martin Orlowski : Character tools reel