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| Useful Animation Websites |
| www.animationmentor.com |
Watching the showreels alone is inspiring! They also release ebooks for anyone to download, written by recognised animators |
| www.cgsociety.org |
Another good forum that will help you out with any issues |
| www.digitaltutors.com |
Some very worthwhile videos to demonstrate a range of tools in different programs. That, and another helpful forum |
| www.garycmartin.com |
The most useful part is Preston Blair's extended phonemes, with decent reference images to work from |
| www.highend3d.com |
A helpful community if you get stuck, as well as loads of rigs, shaders and plugins that you can download and play with |
| www.keithlango.com |
Keith's method of animation is definately worth looking at, from blocking out poses to refining motion arcs |
| mayadocs ebook |
A handy ebook for modelling, texturing, rigging, and most other things in Maya |
| www.pigeonimpossible.com |
A really good podcast following the animator's progress through his 5 year long project |
| www.rigging101.com |
This site has some excellent rigging tutorials. They don't hide all the techniques behind example projects like most tutorials do |
| www.youtube.com/user/squirc |
This channel contains some good videos about how to go about modelling faces, bodies and hands in Maya for the best results |
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| Friend's Websites |
| www.autymation.co.uk |
Brad Auty, my web hoster and general awesome animator |
| www.jamesense.co.uk |
James Lewis, character design and animator |
| www.andrewleeke.com |
Andy has a good range of both animation and VFX |
| www.redsupernova.wordpress.com |
David Cheung, a 3D Digital Games Artist |
| www.animalloz.com |
Austin Durose, another fellow animator |
| www.geoffhaines.co.uk |
Geoff paints a number of portraits, life models and other work |
| www.pennylicker.com |
Liz Dyer is a keen artist and designer of all sorts |
| www.madebyhandby.me.uk |
A lovely site selling a range of gifts made from recycled materials |
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