Animation Training

www.gradshow.com - Capilano Colleges animation programs

www.vanarts.com - Vanarts animation programs

www.bcit.ca - BCIT Digital Animation

 

 

 

 

 

Animation Links

George Maestri - Siggraph Paper on walk cycles.

John Lasseter - Original Siggrpah Paper from the 1987 convention. Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation

John Lasseter - A link from the siggraph website. 1994 paper "Tricks to animating characters with a computer"

History of Mocap - a Siggraph paper on the history of Mo-cap

Optical Mocap - another Siggraph article

Facial Animation - a generic bones setup for creating facial animation

www.mrdink.com - homepage of the Mr. Dink Show. The show can currently be viewed on atom films

www.blackbriars.com - indie movies and flash stuff

www.atomfilms.com - movies galore

www.cartoonnetwork.com - flash cartoons. Very cool site.

www.adriandd.com - Preproduction, model sheets, gallery

www.cs.brown.edu - Siggraph 2002 papers online.

www.keithlango.com - Keith Lango's Web Site. Some good animation papers.

 

 

 

 

 

Online Mags

www.awn.com - Animation World Network

www.vfxpro.com - Vfx Pro Magazine Homepage

www.insidecg.com - Inside CG website

Adobe Streaming -Primer - Very informative video streaming paper by the folks at adobe. 47 Page paper.

www.cgchannel.com - home of CGChannel

 

 

 

 

XSI and general 3DSites

www.softimage.com - home of Avid Softimage

www.xsibase.com - home of XSI base

www.xsifiles.com - A site geared towards the XSI community. Maintained by Craig Simmons

www.3dtutorial.com - 3dtutorial Training Videos

www.isner.com - Michael Isners Home page. XSI Tutorials and Thesis stuff.

www.edharriss.com - Home of Ed Harriss. Tonnes of XSI and Soft3D Tutorials, as well as his own training tapes

vizlab.beckman.uiuc.edu - New Home for the softimage mailing lists archives (Benjamin Grosser

www.highend3d.com - 3D resource center for production 3D software and animation

www.cgchannel.com - everything 3d, news

www.3dark.com - everything 3d, news

www.3drender.com - video tutorials, 3d resource site. Home of Jeremy Birn

www.3dguidemagazine.com - Soft 3D, XSI video tutorials, online tutorials. Home of Chris Maraffi

www.filmtecknarna.se/stefan/ - Stefan Anderssons Home Page. XSI Tutorials and Gallery

http://www.lost.com.tj/Ulf/index.html - Ulf Lundgrens Home Page. Excellent Head Modeling Tutorial and Gallery

http://roger.rosa.free.fr/start.html - Home Of Roger Rosa. XSI Gallery and Tutorials.

http://pages.infinit.net/njapowa - Martin Belleaus Home Page. XSI Tutorials and gallery.

http://www.mindspring.com/~bblakesley/Tutorial1/main.html- Bill Blakesleys XSI Tutorials

http://www.aldis.org.uk/ - Home to Kim Aldis. A new site from a veteran 3D artist featuring some XSI tutorials.

www.xsikorea.com - English XSI tutorials translated from various user sites into Korean

www.skol.ch/tutorials - English and French XSI Tutorials by O

www.xsibase.com - XSI online forums

neat.co.kr - Korean MOV's outlining some of the features of XSI 2.0

www.tomsporer.com - Tom Sporers Home Page featuring his gallery as well as tutorials and shaders

www.betacarotine.de - User web site with gallery and great tutorials

www.grabiller.3dvf.net - Home of Guy Rabiller, XSI artist, featuring gallery and tutorials section.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flash Resources

www.flashkit.com - Flash tutorials, samples

www.were-here.com - online Flash community, Tutorials, samples

 

 

 

 

 

Joncrow World Education

www.ishmael.org - web site of a very influential author, Daniel Quinn

World Population meter - A running count of the worlds population.

David Suzuki - David T. Suzuki PhD, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.

Skepdics.com - A dictionary that dispenses with some common beliefs. Critical Thinking

Philosophy Portal - A resource center for critical thinking and philosophy