The essential list

[Traditional and Flash Animation Tutorials]

The almighty Animation Resource List, compiled by TheEYE.
A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed their links and information for the community to use, share, and learn from! And a real big thanks to Thanatos for creating the original list!

Please report broken links, duplicates or suggested resources by replying to this post.

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Traditional and Flash Animation Tutorials
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Hayk "Neenja" Manukyan Tutorials
Toon Institute
Cartoon Solutions (free flash/animation tutorials)
Queensland Animators Group Inc (mostly for people who live in Queensland, Australia but lots of tips about animation in general. Wasn't sure about this one)
StopMotionAnimation.com
http://www.kennybellew.com/tutorial/
http://www.keyframer.com/
http://www.mudbubble.com/db_tutorials/db_tut_index.html
http://www.cartoonsmart.com/
http://www.cartoonster.com/
http://www.med.umich.edu/lrc/Hypermuscle/Hyper.html (some reference on body movement and muscle transformation)
http://www.animationmeat.com/index2.html (advice, rants and random stuff)
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/strange/default_lowband.htm - Animationtechniques for various mediums
http://www.vectorkid.com/tutorials.html (vector drawing techniques)
http://www.flashkit.com
http://www.carlosbaena.com/anim_material.html
http://www.acmeanimation.org/
http://www.animfound.com/tips/tips.html
http://www.animationtoolworks.com/library/library.html
http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/mainscreen.html
http://www.awn.com/tooninstitute/
http://www.scottmcdaniel.net/drawing/smdrawing.html
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/cartoon.htm
Tricks to Animating Characters with a Computer
Klasky Csupo Animation Lessons
A Simple Method for creating Walk Cycles
Character Animation Theories And Principles
Character Animation: Principles and Practice
WILLFUL IGNORANCE: making “Flying Fur”
Animation Notes and Exercises
http://www.lynda.com/
http://www.animateclay.com/
A Begginers course in the principles of 2D Animation
http://www.flashfilmmaker.com/forums/archi...der=asc&start=0 - A list of frequently asked beginners questions - thanks to 1llusions for pointing this out.
Eadweard Muybridge Photo Collection
Eadweard Muybridge - Animals in motion PDF

The company I used to work for has this site, it's worth a look... not just for kids!
http://www.kidzonline.org/TechTraining/vid...=2D%20Animation

Another huge tutorial resource that is well worth taking a look at is
www.tutorialized.com

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Flash Components for Animation
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http://www.27bobs.com/

*Sham Bhangal's Stuff:
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Page turn effect for MX
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript...flashhacks.html
The swarm (particle) effect he made for Adam to use
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript...flashhacks.html
And the granddaddy of em all, the VCam-
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript...cks.html?page=2
VCam MX
http://www.futuremedia.org.uk/ORA/FMX_files.zip
VCam for Flash 5
http://www.futuremedia.org.uk/ORA/F5_files.zip

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Recommended Reading
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Animation
The Animator's Survival Kit; everything you need to know about animating and more
http://snipurl.com/afor
The Illusion of life; Probably the best book on animation after the Survival kit.
http://snipurl.com/dvah
Flash Cartoon Animation; a book based on animating cartoons in Flash.
http://snipurl.com/afos
http://www.polykarbon.com/library/index.htm
http://www.animationmeat.com/index.html The best animation site ever!
http://jrhull.typepad.com/seward_street/ Seward Street
http://www.siggraph.org/education/material...n_trad_anim.htm Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to Computer Animation
http://www.siggraph.org/education/material...ation/anim0.htm Index to above pages
http://www.fpsmagazine.com/feature/041022goldberg.shtml Eric Goldberg Interviews
http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/storybd/ Storyboard Article
http://vrlab.epfl.ch/research/V_vision.html Overview of Motion Capture
http://genedeitch.awn.com/ Gene Deitch - How to Succeed in animation
http://www.characteranimationin3d.com/ 3D Character Animation
http://s7.invisionfree.com/Brackenwood/ind...?showtopic=3209 Typography How to work with text in flash.
http://s7.invisionfree.com/Brackenwood/ind...?showtopic=4353 - Some practical tips from Bill Plympton
http://www.animationpodcast.com/ Audio Interviews, Notes, and more!
Richard Williams Animation Master Class Notes
Animation Notes from Ollie Johnston
http://www.bolex.co.uk/
The art of stop motion animation
StoryBoard to Animation
“Cartoon, Anti-Cartoon” Revisited
Cartooning In AfterEffects
Flash Animation Killer Tips
How to Create Animation
How to Succeed in Animation
Flash Keyboard Shortcuts
A meeting with Bill Plympton (Thread) by Anghefil
Interview with Richard Williams http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone..._no=1291&page=1
The 12 Basic Principles of Animation


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Animation Supplies
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http://www.chromacolour.com
http://www.lightfootltd.com/
http://www.paperpeople.co.uk/

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Misc.
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http://www.pixar.com/
http://www.pixar.com/companyinfo/jobs/howto.html Pixar Submissions Info
http://www.animation-backgrounds.com/home.html Backgrounds!!!
http://www.celshader.com/anime/index.html Anime Tips
A website on copyrighting flashfiles.



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Animation Communities
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Newgrounds Community
Animationforum.net http://www.animationforum.net/
Animation corner http://www.animationcorner.com/
The animation guild http://www.mpsc839.org/
Animation world network http://www.awn.com/
ASIFA http://asifa.net/





Character Sheets, Storyboards, etc.


Disney model sheets
http://animationarchive.net/Model%20Sheets/index.php



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Animation Blogs
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Cold Hard Flash
John K's Blog
WoodenBlog
http://www.disada.com/disada2002/mag/magFrames1.html
http://jrhull.typepad.com/seward_street/
http://www.animationpodcast.com/
http://cganimation.blogspot.com/
http://www.michaelbarrier.com/commentary.htm
http://pixaranimation.blogspot.com/
http://www.drawn.ca/
http://www.cartoonresearch.com/comments.html
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/
http://www.pruiksma.com/index.html
http://www.cataroo.com/index.html
http://jaredchapman.blogspot.com/
http://www.animationblast.com/
http://www.ronniedelcarmen.com/blog1/blog.html
http://www.deneroff.com/Commentary/Commentary%2003.htm
http://www.thedisneyblog.com/
http://www.xanga.com/skin.asp?user=fwak
http://www.jimhillmedia.com/
http://persistenceofvision.blogspot.com/
http://wardomatic.blogspot.com/
http://chadgmoore.blogspot.com/
http://ghostbot.blogspot.com/
http://www.off-model.com/
http://teenageroblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/blogger.html
http://www.animationarchive.org/blogger.htmlAdvanced animation by preston blair (free online)

Great Guide Mate. It really helped take my flash skills to another level.

It's all thanks to TheEYE and Thanatos who worked hard compiling the list

Why isn't newgrounds listed as one of the animation communities?

90% of the Brackenwood population came here from Newgrounds, so we assume it's an obvious one. I guess it belongs in the list though.

As we said at the top of the first post, feel free to suggest links and resources to add
.. rather than asking why they're not in the list

Great list! I will definitely check it out someday 

Nice list!
Well here are the ones that are broken:

Hayk "Neenja" Manukyan Tutorials
Queensland Animators Group Inc
http://www.animationmeat.com/index2.html
http://www.flashfilmmaker.com/forums/archi...der=asc&start=0
A Begginers course in the principles of 2D Animation
http://www.animfound.com/tips/tips.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript...flashhacks.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript...flashhacks.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript...cks.html?page=2
http://jrhull.typepad.com/seward_street/
Flash Keyboard Shortcuts

If someone has an updated link for those resources, it would be of great help

upcoming pixar.com

I think that http://www.stopmotionanimation.com should really be added to the "animation communities" list, as it's the main community and resource for stop-motion animators and admirers.

http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/ - a wonderful blog with in-depth analysis. Covers mostly anime, but also other rare films that aren't covered elsewhere.
http://hydrocephalicbunny.blogspot.com/ - not very frequently updated these days, but there's a wealth of entries dating back years about some weird and great animation.

I suppose Animatsiya in English (my blog covering Russian animation) could be added if you think it's notable.

http://moolt.blogspot.com/

There's some pretty good tutorials there.

Ill Have to view all of them another time im too tired right now ill start in the morning!

Thanks for posting this, I will have to take a look at it, as I want to learn some flash!

The oreillynet links in the middle of the first post are broken. They include the ellipses from the text. Any chance those could get fixed? I couldn't find the articles just by searching.