YOutube channels 2D/3D animation/vfx
MOBOX Graphics - After Effects workflows and tips
Polygonpen - 3D modeling, rendering
Motion by Nick - After Effects workflows and tips
eyedesyn - Cinema 4D and After effects motion design
Grayscalegorrilla - Cinema 4D and After Effects motion design
Arvrid Schnieder - 3D VFX
FlippedNormals - 3D, Substance, VFX
After Effects Plugins free
Duik: 2D rigging scripts https://rainboxlab.org/tools/duik/
Trim Pack: https://gumroad.com/l/trimpack
Ease Copy: https://aescripts.com/easecopy/
Sortie: https://aescripts.com/sortie/
Shift Layers: https://aescripts.com/pt_shiftlayers/
Rift: https://aescripts.com/rift/
FX Console: https://www.videocopilot.net/blog/201...
after effects plugins - paid
Mt. Mograph (Motion-3, Boombox)
Battle Axe (Overlord, Rubberhose)
Other resources for animators
Storyboarder: https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder/
Coolors: https://coolors.co/
BBC Sound Effects: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/
Facebook Devices: https://design.facebook.com/toolsandr...
GYST: https://justinmcclure.com/gyst - file management, naming conventions, folder structures
Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/ - free stock photos and textures
Image After - free images, texture, etc.
Morgue File - free textures, etc
Internet Archive - sound, video, image files
Flkr Creative Commons - creative commons images, video
Stock Exchange - rights managed, and creative commons images
New York Public Library - digital image database, mostly free, rights managed and creative commons
digital resources
Stock Footage for Free - royalty free standard and high definition video clips
Fair Use - Wikipedia
Determining Fair Use - Rule
The Recylced Cinema Blog
The Animators Survival Kit - by Richard Williams- walk cycle illustration
after effects forums and PLUGINS
FX Console - Video Copilot - Free heads-up After Effects marking menu
advanced after effects keyboard shortcuts - great ways to speed up workflow
animography - cool animated typefaces and controllers
aescripts - after effects scripts and add-ons
motion boutique - NEWTON 2 - 2D physics engine
video copilot - after effects 3D plugins and light effects (great tutorials)
red giant trapcode - plug in package for fluid simulation, particle simulation, abstract simulations
postforum - oldest After Effects forum
media motion - serious After Effects user group
creative cow - square vs. non-square pixels - from
3D motion graphics - mainframe north MASH, cinema 4D, MOGRAPH
2D motion graphics engines - mainframe north CAVALRY
imaging and animation history
Eadweard Muybridge - 1872 - Animal Locomotion Study, Zoopraxiscope
Thomas Edison - 1889 - Kinetoscope
Lumiere Brothers - 1895 - Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
Winsor McCay - 1914- Gertie the Dinosaur
Disney Studios -1923 - Alice's Wonderland
Pat Sullivan - 1926 - Felix the Cat
Disney Studios - 1928 - Steamboat Willie
Charlie Chaplin - 1931,1936 - City Lights, Modern Times
Joseph Cornell - 1936 - Rose Hobart
Victor Fleming - 1939 - Gone With the Wind, Wizard of Oz
John and James Whitney - 1945 - Five Film Exercises
Yoko Ono, Joe Jones, Paul Sharits, et al - 1962-1970 - Fluxus Films
Stan Brakhage - 1963 - Mothlight
Andy Warhol - 1964 - Screen Tests, Sleep, Empire
John Whitney - 1966 - Permutations
Nam June Paik - 1969 - TV Bra for Living Sculpture
Bruce Nauman - 1968 - Pinch Neck
Gary Hill - 1978 - Mouth Piece, Around and About
Bill Viola - 1978-79 - The Reflecting Pool
Carl Sims - 1988 - Particle Dreams
Jennifer Steinkamp - 1993 - Untitled
moving image art
Lotte Reiniger - The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Yozhik U Tumane - Soyuzmultfilm
Mary Ellen Bute - Escape (1938)
Andre Sarrut - Total Oil (1958)
Jeremy Blake - Liquid Villa
Joseph Cornell - Rose Hobart
Martin Arnold - Passage a L'acte...
Dara Birnbaum - Technology Transformation: Wonder Woman
Ken Jacobs - Disorient Express
Douglas Gordon - 24 hr. Psycho
Martijn Hendriks - Give us this Day Our Daily Terror
Cory Archangel - Super Mario Movie
Paul Chan - The 7 lights, Greene Naftali
experimental video, animation and new media
Experimental Television Center
Random - new media, art and technology