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Cinema Studies Links:
Animation
- Society for Animation Studies. SAS, the only international scholarly organization to focus on animation in all its forms, was founded in 1987. The Society supports animation scholarship in a variety of ways, including an annual conference, special exhibits, a newsletter, and a journal.
- Animation World Network. AWN serves as a major hub for information on all types of animation. The site includes the online version of ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE; listings of current studio productions, job opportunities, galleries, festivals, and clubs, and links to other animation sites.
- ASIFA. The official site of the International Animated Film Association (ASsociation Internationale du Film d'Animation) contains information about animators, animation, and festivals around the world as well as a comprehensive world-wide directory of colleges and universities with animation programs.
- Michael Barrier.Com. The creator of renowned animation magazine Funnyworld gives extensive news, reviews,a nd comments on animation and comics. Some Funnyworld articles and interviews are reprinted on the site, and there is also a page of links to recommended animation sites.
- Bruno Bozzetto. The web site of Italy's foremost animator features information on all his films, his biography, updates on DVD releases, and flash animation.
- Big Cartoon DataBase. The goal of this searchable database is to contain every relevant fact about any cartoon. It is not there yet, but its list of titles is already impressive and continues to grow. It concentrates on US releases and only rarely and apparently randomly includes non-US films.
- Cartoon Research. This site by animation researcher Jerry Beck is an invaluable source of information on animation both old and new, including a check list of all animated features released theatrically in the United States from 1937 to the present.
- The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts. In no way affiliated with the Disney company, this site covers all Disney animated short subjects made since 1922 with such information as release dates, synopses, credits, and characters, as well as ratings and comments volunteered by viewers.
- UPA Mavericks, Magic, and Magoo The site is a platform for the production of the documentary film of the same title about the UPA studio, but it contains much information about UPA titles and history.
- Anime Web Turnpike. This site provides links to hundreds of other pages dealing with Japanese animation, including guides to specific series and features, fan pages, and commercial pages.
- Rei's Anime and Manga Page.
This page includes several helpful introductory essays on Japanese animation and comics as well as artwork and discussions of specific series.
- Origins of American Animation. This Library of Congress site represents the development of early American animation with a collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, spanning
the years 1900 to 1921 and including clay, puppet, and cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings.
The films can be viewed in MPEG, Quicktime, and videostreaming versions and are accompanied by a piano score written by Philip Carli and
notes written by Scott Simmon.
- Censored Animation:
- Disney. This page lists scenes and themes cut from Disney animated cartoon shorts for television exhibition, giving original running times and edited running times.
- MGM. This page lists cuts and changes in MGM cartoons and notes those which do not get shown at all on television.
- Warner Bros. This site lists the cuts made in Warner Bros. cartoons for television exhibition and includes a page of descriptions of "The Censored Eleven," which are neither televised nor released on video because of their stereotypical Black caricatures.
- Toonhound. Anything you want to know about cartoons, animation, comic strips, and puppets in the United Kingdom.
- ToonHub. Over 3,300 animation and comic book links, including animation artists, studios, and galleries.
- Brickfilms.com. This site, dedicated to the art of stop motion animation, focuses on the animation of plastic building toys, or bricks (LEGO, Mega Bloks, Best-Lock etc), in "brickfilms" (a.k.a. "LEGO Movies"). It encompasses a searchable directory of hundreds of films, contests, a busy forum, and other resources to help animators of any level in the creation of their movies.
- The Clay Animation How-to Page. This tutorial site by Marc Spess, a sort of web synopsis of his book on the subject, provides pictures and brief commentary on all aspects of clay animation.
- Aardman Animations. This is the official site of the studio which created Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, among other classics of clay animation.
- The Enchanted World of Rankin/Bass. Cartoonist Rick Goldschmidt
and puppeteer Mark Sykora provide a history of the animation studio which made The Hobbit and several beloved Christmas specials, including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, as well as discussions of individual works and ancillary products.
- SIGGRAPH.
The ACM SIGGRAPH On-Line site serves the entire computer graphics community, provides information on SIGGRAPH conferences and publications, lists resources for educators, artists, and technicians, and seeks generally to advance the technology of computer graphics and interactive techniques.
- Looney Laughs Lists & Lyrics. Dedicated to Warner Bros. cartoons, this site provides a stunning array of lists and information about the contents of the cartoons, including lyrics to the songs composed for the films and a catalogue of all ACME items. Birthdays of cartoon characters for the current month are also noted.
- The Simpsons Archive. This is the Internet's clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news, and information, maintained by members of alt.tv.simpsons.
- StopMotionAnimation.Com. This site functions as an information source for stop motion animators. It includes a handbook on how to do stop motion animation and a page of links to related sites.
- Iran Animation. Although the text on this site is written mostly in Farsi, you can still view samples of contemporary Iranian animation, and some of the links will take you to animators' sites in English.
Animation Festivals:
- Animafest.
Animafest (The World Festival of Animated Film), located in Zagreb, Croatia, the second oldest animation festival in Europe, is built on the tradition of the Zagreb School of Animation and is oriented towards auteur films.
- Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
The oldest international festival of animation in the world and the largest in Europe.
- Hiroshima International Animation Festival.
Asia's most prominent animation festival.
- Ottawa International Animation Festival.
The oldest and largest animation festival in the Western Hemisphere and the second largest in the world, full of retrospectives of the animated works of studios, countries, and individual artists in addition to a treasure trove of films in competition from around the world.
- Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film. One of the world's largest animation festivals, Stuttgart features an impressive array of entries and retrospectives.
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