Animation Backgrounds Blog – For Study and Inspiration.

The Animation Backgrounds Blog is run by Rob Richards and is an amazing resource for those who are interested in background art in animated movies and short films. From classic shorts to the latest Disney movie, Rob eliminates the characters from the foreground leaving the beautiful painted backgrounds...

Animation Mentor – Free Newsletter

A while ago I signed up for the free newsletter from Animation Mentor (http://animationmentor.com). While the site is in fact an online animation school, you do not have to be registered as a student in order to sign up for the newsletter. This is a worthwhile resource, and provides tips, advice, and also...

2D Artist Magazine – A Digital painting resource.

If you are interested in using programs like Photoshop and Painter to produce backgrounds for your flash animations you might be interested in the back issues of the 2d Artist Magazine: 2d Artist Magazine If you wish to download the magazine in its entirety, there is a charge for each issue, or an option...

Animation Ebooks.

I recently came across this free ebook at animationmentor.com: Tips and Tricks There is also a growing collection of animation ebook chapters over at oohbitey.com, some of which are free: Bitey Castle Academy I bought the chapter on colouring a while back and found it very useful....

Useful Links for Model Sheet References.

JK recently made a post over on his blog on how to use a model sheet. I have been working on model sheets for some of my own characters so I thought I would share some of the great examples I have found from around the web: Unofficial Disney Animation Archive: Model Sheets of classic characters from feature...