The Joy of Animation: Tips Tricks and Techniques - Hjalti Hjalmarsson

Every Frame A Painting

Check out the playlist of Every Frame A Painting, if you're into analyzing filmmaking techniques. Below are two examples.

Follow through and overlapping action - animation principle

Animation Physics

Lots of cool information, head over here to check it all out!

Clothing the Morpheus Rig - A Tea Time 'How To' Video Tutorial

Clothing the Morpheus Rig - A Tea Time 'How To' Video Tutorial from Lana Bachynski on Vimeo.

Cgtarian: A Character Close Up Course Preview

Cgtarian: A Character Close Up Course Preview from mike safianoff on Vimeo.

Understanding Color

Really nice examples in the clip. I'm pretty bad at colors, so this is very helpful to me.

The Know-How of Cartooning by Ken Hultgren

Head over here to check out all the scanned pages. Out of print for 65 years, not sure about copyrights, so check it out as long as it's up.

How to Draw Balanced Poses - Figure Drawing

Keith Lango Animation Training Videos

Keith Lango is having an insane sale going on right now. Get 60+ hours of animation training for $29!! Buy it, don't torrent it! Head over here to get this crazy sweet deal!

Quadruped Walk Cycle Tutorial

Basic Quadruped Walk Cycle Tutorial from Chris Sokalofsky on Vimeo.

Quadrupede Walk Cycle Tutorial from SamyOddjob on Vimeo.

Richard Williams’ “Animator’s Survival Kit” - App Version

 That's very interesting! Check out Cartoon Brew for all the juicy bits!

Valve's Character Design Guidelines

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

Photoshop Character Animation Tutorial

Modifying Rigged Characters for Animation (Tutorial) by Jason Fittipaldi

Modifying Rigged Characters for Animation (Tutorial) from Jason Fittipaldi on Vimeo.

Bouncing Ball Tutorial

Always great when people take the time to create tutorials. Thanks Jerzy for sharing this!

Flash Rigging

I have no experience in Flash, but I got this link from Michael and it would be cool to get more of those. What do you guys recommend?

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MasterClass - Animating Animals by William Groebe

Thanks Sam for the tip!

MasterClass - Animating Animals: Tips and Tricks to Animating Believable Animal Characters in a Live Action Feature by William G from CGMeetUp Team on Vimeo.

AnimSchool Classtime: Character Eye Blink

This is great!

Animation Tutorials

Over the Summer I've been downloading and watching awesome animation tutorials and highly recommend them to you.

First, you got Jason Ryan's tutorials at jasonryananimation.com (and there a ton of them there).


There are also webinars available, which kick some serious butt! If you go to jrawebinar.com, you have a great selection:

Jason Ryan Four Legged Series

Ken Fountain Animating a Basic Acting Shot

Jamaal Bradley acting shot walk-through

There's a lot more to check out, so don't miss it!