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Animation Educators Forum | This is the home of a new group that brings together all who teach animation in North America. |
Richard Wolff UK | Richard is a photographer who worked in the animation industry in the 1990s. He posts some great portraits of animation luminaries like Jules Engel , Geoff Dunbarr and Ted Hall. |
ASIFA San Francisco | The Bay Area chapter of the International Animators Society |
Creative Talent Network | Tina Price and her Disney animator friends have created a wonderful co-op for display and networking. |
The Internet Movie Database. | An indispensible resource for film credits. Animation pros are always checking each other out on IMDB. It's the Show-biz equivalent of dogs sniffing each others genitals. |
Animation World Network | The premiere on-line animation trade-zine. Animation legends like Gene Deitch have written for them often. And they even get losers like me to contribute! |
Animation Scoop | Author and historian Jerry Beck blog on trends and traditions in Toontown. |
Hollywood Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE | The largest professional benevolent organization for animation workers in the world. I led the Guild for three terms and these massed legions of toonsters awarded me the title President-Emeritus. Be sure and check out Steve and Kevin's Blog. |
ASIFA Hollywood | The Non-profit animation society started by UNESCO charter in 1961. ASIFA has chapters all over the world. Tom was a member of ASIFA *East and is currently vice president of the Hollywood Branch. |
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Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco | Wonderful gallery and collection by the bay. Imaginative shows like rejected and censored cartoons, framed with it's accompanying hate mail. |
What Now? Cartoons | Hawaii based storyboard artist Keith Tucker creates progressive cartoons that are featured on Air America's Randi Rhodes Show website |
Wireheads | My pal Jim Hillin is one of the top CG guys in Hollywood. This is his personal view on everyday workaday madness. |
National Cartoonists Society | The original cartoonists society started by Rube Goldberg, Milt Caniff and others in 1946. Their big annual event is the NCS Reuben Awards. |
San Diego Comicon | The largest International Comic art and Fantasy Convention in the Western Hemisphere. Started in 1972. Many big Hollywood movies of the sci-fi-fantasy genre are given their first sneak screenings at the Comicon. |
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Beachwood Reporter | Animation editor Julia Gray reflects on life, liberty and contemporary mores in the wilds of Chicago |
FLIP | Director Steve O. Moore site about animators, written by animators. |
Mark Kausler | Animator, historian, archivist and painter. Mark is a Hollywood Animation institution. No one can write seriously about cartoons without his input. |
Steve Silver | Steve is a gifted cartoonist-designer who's drawings are inspiring. He added the zing to Kim Possible, and we had fun collaborating on Click & Clack. |
Nancy Beiman | Animator, teacher and author. One of the great ladies of the business, with a great blog. |
Animation Who and Where | Local historian Joe Campana has a great nose for finding rare images of animators form Hollywoods Golden Age. A great resource. |
Patrick Mate' | Patrick is an Indominable Gaul who is a character animator and illustrator who did the cover of Drawing the Line. His site has links to a Grande Armee' of great European cartoonists |
Hans Bacher | If Michaelangelo had his nose broken by another artist for being too good, then Hans is asking for a knuckle sandwich. |
Mark Mayerson | Mark Mayerson-NY animator and teacher who settled in Toronto. He created a website tribute to his mentor, animator Al Eugster, with lots of cool images. |
Oscar Grillo | Argentine-born Oscar Grillo has been one of the lions of the London animation scene. His unique style is matched by his unique, uncompromising wit. |
Ronnie Del Carmen | Eisner winning cartoonist and storyboard meister for PIXAR, Ronnies blog is a great source of inspirational animation art. |
The BlackWing Diaries | DreamWorks Storyboard artist Jenny Lerew has created a wonderful blogsite dedicated to the best in classic animation drawing. She turns up stuff even a geek like me has never seen! |
Michael Sporn Animation | Mike Sporn has been making animation in the Big Apple since 1980. A protege of John Hubley and Richard Williams, his award winning films include Between Two Towers and my favorite Dr. DeSoto |
Floyd Norman and Leo Sullivan | Two pioneering Black Animators who create some wonderful gag books about the animation industry |
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Car Talk | From Cambridge Mass, the home base of Click and Clack, the Tappett Brothers. |
Samuel Pepys Diary a Day | Samuel Pepys was the original blogger. His daily diaries covered a tumultuous period in English history including the Great Plague and Great Fire of London. Its not animation related but dammit, it's my website and i think it's cool! |
Roman Empire | If the Nap Society is the Napoleon geek-site, UNRV is the geeksite for Roman Empire information. Hardcore scholars answer your questions about anachronisms in Gladiator and Vin Deisel's Hannibal. My name in these chat rooms is PLautus. |
The Napoleonic Society of America | The official society for scholars on the Napoleonic period. John Pomeroy first turned me on to them. Imagine 150 old professors standing in a banquet hall toasting Vive l'Empereur! Newsletter with interesting facts. |
Flock of Dodos | Intelligent design documentary by Randy Olsen. Tom animated a flash sequence about why rabbits eat their own poo. |
Hollywood Heritage | Hollywood landmark preservation Society. Hollywood Heritage fought to save the Brown Derby, the Hollywood Bowl, and last year saved the original offices of the Screen Cartoonists Guild from developers. |
Joshua J. Morgan | Webmaster / Designer. Josh just got back from Luxembourg where he was working on the film Nine. |