Film animation: digital/computer animation, anime, famous animators, studios, history; a list of websites
- Academy awards for animated films
- Anime
- Awards
- Blogs
- Computer animation, visual effects
- Czech animation
- Databases
- Directors
- Disney, Walt
- Donald Duck
- Festivals of animated films
- Films: lists, directories
- History of animated film, early TV animated series
- Japanese animation, anime
- Journals, blogs
- Mickey Mouse
- Stop Motion
- 3-D animation
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Academy awards for animated films *
Academy Awards Database (search)
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Wikipedia
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Wikipedia
Academy Awards nominees (search)
Animated films. International Animated Film Society. ASIFA.
Archives, animated films network, animated films preservation.
Animation Art Gallery
The history of animation.
Animation World Network
Animation portal and magazine.
Anime *
Anime, Manga
A web directory of online animated films from Japan. Ex.
Animation World Network
Extensive animation internet resources, with online magazine.
Anime, Anime Tourist – a guide to Anime on the web.
ASIFA (Association International du Film d’Animation)
The International Animated Film Society. The Annie Awards, Animation Preservation project, animation web links.
Autour de Minuit Productions
Autour de Minuit is a film production company based in Paris created in 2001 by Nicolas Schmerkin. The company aims at supporting aesthetically innovative animation films
Awards *
Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature
Wikipedia entries.
Animago Award and Conference, Munich.
ANIMEX
International Festival of and Animation and Computer Games (UK)
BAFTA Short Film & Short Animation Awards
BAFTA Awards for Best Animated Film
Wikipedia entries.
Cartoon Media Bordeaux, France
Created in 1999, Cartoon Movie is an intense and efficient pitching event intended to create a synergy between producers, investors and distributors of feature-length animation films. Producers have the opportunity to pitch their project to all potential financial partners gathered in the same room, in order to find co-producers, speed up financing and negotiate deals with distributors, sales agents and game companies.
Genie Awards for Best Animated Short
Wikipedia entries.
Webby Awards. Online Film and Video Webby Nominees
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Blogs *
FX Guide
FX Guide is a visual effects and post-production community website founded by three visual effects artists.
Cartoon Brew
Cartoon Brew is a large animation blog, presenting news about animated films, cartoons and CGI technology.
The Guardian Film Animation Blog
Tarboy.com. Tarboy animation production blog and news
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Computer animation, visual effects *
Computer animation, Wikipedia entry.
Double Negative. Wikipedia entry.
Double Negative is a British full-service visual effects/computer animation company located in Fitzrovia, London. The company is Europe’s largest provider of visual effects for film.
3D Total
The CG artists homepage, daily news with links to all the best 3d animations and site. Huge libraries and galleries with free graphic.
CGArena
About CGArena.com (cgarena.com): CGArena.com is leading graphics and animation portal where people come from all walks of life (enthusiasts to students to professionals) to read industry news, tutorials, makings, interviews, evaluate other people s work and exchange ideas about animation, film, composting and much more.
Motion capture, Wikipedia entry.
Weta Digital
Weta Digital is a world-leading visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand. They produced the animated digital effects for Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Early digital feature films
Shrek
Official Site
Shrek
IMDb
Shrek
Wikipedia
Toy Story
IMDb
Toy Story
Wikipedia
Animation lessons.
Amazing-kids.org
CG101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference
History of early computer graphics production.
List of computer-animated films.
Wikipedia
Weta Workshop
Weta Workshop is a multi-award winning conceptual design and physical manufacturing facility servicing the world’s entertainment and creative industries.
Czech animation *
Czech film animation, a catalogue of films.
Karel Zeman Museum. Muzeum Karla Zemana
Czech animation, Wikipedia eentry.
Barta, Jiri. Jiří Barta. Wikipedia
Jiří Barta is a Czech stop-motion animation director.
Jirí Barta
IMDBD
Databases *
Internet Movie Database, Genre: Animation
Directors *
A list of animated film directors, from Wikipedia.
Barta, Jiri
Jiří Barta. Wikipedia
Jiří Barta is a Czech stop-motion animation director.
Jirí Barta
IMDB
Jiri Barta. Kiinoeye. Czech Horror: The animations of Jiri Barta
Fischinger, Oskar
Oskar Fischinger. Bright Lights Film Journal
Oskar Fischinger. Wikipedia entry
Lasseter, John
John Lasseter
Wikipedia
John Lasseter
IMDb
Miyazaki, Hayao
Yuri Norstein
Tale of Tales at the Animator.ru.
Disney, Walt *
Mickey Mouse, Wikipedia entry.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the feature film by Walt Disney.
Donald Duck *
Donald Duck
INDUCKS
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The anime and manga magazine.
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Fantasia, The Walt Disney film. Wikipedia entry.
Fantasia
Internet Movie Database
Festivals of animated films *
Festivals; animation festivals and events.
AWN
Art In Motion
International festival on multimedia hosted by the Southern California School of Fine Arts.
Cartoon Media Bordeaux, France
Created in 1999, Cartoon Movie is an intense and efficient pitching event intended to create a synergy between producers, investors and distributors of feature-length animation films. Producers have the opportunity to pitch their project to all potential financial partners gathered in the same room, in order to find co-producers, speed up financing and negotiate deals with distributors, sales agents and game companies.
Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Market.
ASIFA-Hollywood Anifest
The International Animated Film Society
DOK Leipzig
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
Fredrikstad Animation Festival
The Nordic and Baltic Animation Festival Fredrikstad
Hiroshima International Animation Festival
Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF)
A showcase of the best Australian and international animation.
Ottawa International Animation Festival
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film
Svjetski festival animiranog filma, Zagreb.
Films: lists, directories *
List of animated feature films from Wikipedia.
Animated feature films, a web list from Keyframe.
Internet Movie Database, Genre: Animation
IMDB
Most popular animated films.
Walt Disney Animation Studios Official Website
Beauty and the Beast
Wikipedia
UP
The Internet Movie Database
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Hanna-Barbera.com
Information about Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters.
History of animated film, early TV animated series *
Animated Cartoons History
An illustrated blog by Sergi Camara, with video samples of the first animated films.
Animation Art Gallery
The history of animation.
Animation Gallery. The National Science and Media Museum
A History of Animated Films
Filmsite.org
Digital Media FX: The History of Animation
Pixar.com
A timeline of digitally animated films
Hanna-Barbera.com
Information about Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters.
Timeline of animated film history.
Joshua Mosley
Japanese animation, anime *
Japan Academy Prize official website.
Anime News Network
Daily anime and manga news.
Ex
The anime and manga web zine.
Mamoru Hosada
Anime News Network
Summer Wars
Internet Movie Database
Otaku World
The best of anime and manga on the web.
Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Internet Movie Database
Akira
Japan official website
Akira
North American official website.
Akira
Internet Movie Database
Journals, blogs *
Animation Journal
Peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to animation history and theory.
Animation Magazine
Industry news, animation bookstore, industry directory, events calendar.
Animation Nation
Essays, news, message boards and forums.
Ex
The anime and manga magazine.
FLIP
Online magazine focusing on the craftsmanship and people of the animation industry.
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Mickey Mouse *
Mickey Mouse, Wikipedia entry.
Mickey Mouse
INDUCKS
Disney’s Mickey Mouse character page.
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Norstein, Yuri. Yuri Norstein, Russian animator.
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Premier Animation, a UK gallery specializing in the sale of vintage and contemporary Animation Art.
A huge selection of Animation gels, Animation drawings, sericels, limited edition cels, lithograph’s, key master set ups. Vintage cels and drawings. All major studios – Disney, Warner Bros, Hanna-Barbera, Fox, etc.
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Reviews
Reviews of animated features, from Keyframe
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the feature film by Walt Disney.
Stop Motion *
AnimateClay
A clay animation and stop motion how to website.
Barta, Jiri. Jiří Barta. Wikipedia
Jiří Barta is a Czech stop-motion animation director.
Jirí Barta
IMDB
Stop Motion Animation
Message Board, informational, resources, library, and how-to instructions.
The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation
The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation is a charitable Trust set up by Ray Harryhausen to protect his name and to further the art of model stop-motion animation.
Wikipedia entry on stop motion film animation.
3-D animation *
3D Total
The CG artists homepage, daily news with links to all the best 3d animations and site. Huge libraries and galleries with free graphic.
CGArena
About CGArena.com (cgarena.com): CGArena.com is leading graphics and animation portal where people come from all walks of life (enthusiasts to students to professionals) to read industry news, tutorials, makings, interviews, evaluate other people s work and exchange ideas about animation, film, composting and much more.
Wallace and Gromit
Wallace and Gromit official site.
Wallace and Gromit Wikipedia entry.
Wikipedia entry on the animated film.