gah, I hate to wait for stuff.. so here you go, a journal entry with some useful sites for artists.. and normal people-
a collections of these short titleanimations before the real film begins..
[link]they have some great artistical freedom and there is really good stuff
most useful blog out there, unbiased (fuck you John K) and on many subjects..
[link]best series here is "things they don't teach you in art school":
[link]he also has some sweet analysis of movies, check out his newest indiana jones post.
His links lead to excelent other blogs like this guy:
[link][link]some guy filmed for a year or two the Ghibli crew and Miyazaki especially, as they made Mononoke.
You can see Mr. Miyazaki making story boards, giving sweetsweet critiques to the animators, having a totally other approach as Disney/American animators and being a nervous wreck :3.
famous prometheus art tutorial, should be famous enough to not say anything to this
[link]sa forum (sometimes not open for the public) a huge dump of Don Bluth animation crap with pics of movies that never made it - horny cats and swastika princes :>
[link][link]Framefilter, beautiful movie stills, ideal for picking either compositons or colourschemes
pic lens, a small firefox add on that makes any search for reference pictures/ da or flickr browses unbelievably fast and comfortable
[link]GERMAN :C rather unknown features with Photoshop
[link]cloud nine is one of the best forums out there, the artists are awesome and their ressources are brilliant.
[link]team fortress design process...
what makes the figures work, where are their resources, what light tricks are used
[link]Furry art was so much better hundreds of years ago..
Reineke Fuchs illustrations:
[link]ah... well..
a huge archive with japanese illustrations
[link]check out the tanukis and their baaaallllls ; )
John singer sargent wiki commons.. a damn important americna painter, absolutley unknown in europe.. he's brilliant
[link]I would cut my left hand of to get some J.C.Leyendecker illustrations, why am I unable to find a gallery?
Tek's site, I love it that he lives less than 1 hour away from my place :>
[link]Glen Keane is one of the most talented and popular disney animators.
[link]Rapunzel concept art :> :> :>
press the button and force yourself to draw the first word that comes up
[link]you suck at photoshop
[link]even if you know everything he says, it is damn entertaining to watch
after Mayang went down, cg textures has some sweet stuff with bigger resolution:
[link]the 40 most awful Rob Liefield drawings
[link]sang de betes (blood of the beasts)- an old documentary of a 1940 slaughter house, surreal scenes from some long lost world.. you can't get a better a reference for gory violence, slitted throats and spilling blood. Careful, this is extremely graphic.
[link]sorry Ruth for not showing this to you.
the banned pokemon episode where James has tits and makes Misty jealous.. wait.. this isn't a useful art resource at all O_o
[link]I saw this guy in Berlin :>
nicholas di genova, beautiful style, extremely tiny illustrations ^^
[link]Not art ressources: (most basic stuff about writing)
english teachers- a hero's quest.. basic stuff about archetypes and myths. Nothing with art here, just writing.
[link]archetype entry wikipedia
[link]archeology and historical backgrounds- nice to see what happened in different regions at different times
[link]wikipedia list of common misconceptions
[link]cryptomundo, cryptozoologic, another giant cat in Britain ZOMG! Look, the liopleurodon that turns out to be some whale blubber..
[link]how stuff works tells you how stuff works
[link]damn interesting- stories and science
[link]century of the self documentary, a story of psychology, subconsciousness, the masses, the manipulation and the consequences
[link]Neil Gaiman speaks at Yale university
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I have a ton more of obscure references from radioactivity, urban exploring, paleontology, archeology, history but these are so specialized that no one cares anyways.
other stuff:
a proxy list to get yourself a british ip adress
[link]why would you want to do this? to watch BBC, they have got documentaries from last week up.
If you have some good resources about art/ movie/ writing/ science, tell them :> Stage6 went down and I can't get back the many awesome documentaries about moviemaking and the great interviews
