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New Media Production and Design
Concept Art Storyboarding Scenic Design Composition 3D Modeling Texturing Rigging Lighting Compositing Motion Capture 3D Printing and Fabrication Digital Editing Chromakey VFX Practical Effects Stop-Motion Cinematography Layout Camera Techniques Mashup Remix Music Video Poster Design Web Design Graphics Branding Color Theory Typography Commercial Products Mobile Apps Figure Studies Character Design Creature Design Vehicle Design Comics and Graphic Novels Anime/Manga Game Design Illustration Digital Painting Matte Painting Print Compositing Color Correction
Essential New Media Programs to Know
Adobe Photoshop Illustrator After Effects Premiere Pro Maya Dreamweaver
Designers, Artists, and People to Know
Artists and Innovators List.pdf
Studio Space and Essential Equipment
Studio Equipment
Freeware
GIMP Inkscape Audacity Paint.NET Sketchup Arduino
Programming Languages
C++ C C# Java Python Html 5 CSS Javascript PHP Perl Ruby on Rails SQL AJAX jQuery XML
Coding and Text Editors
CoffeeCup Netbeans KompoZer Sublime Text Bootstrap Notepad++ Processing Brackets TextWrangler BBEdit UltraEdit Atom
Web Design Templates
WordPress Squarespace Weebly Blogger Wix
Font Editors
Fontographer FontLab Studio Type Tool FontForge Type light BitfontMaker Fontifier Fontstruct Font Constructor RoboFont Glyphr Font Creator
2D Animation and Drawing
Toon Boom Harmony TVPaint Anime Studio Pro Adobe Animate CC Toonz CorelDRAW Graphics Suite Autodesk Sketchbook
3D Modeling
3Ds Max ZBrush Mudbox Blender Modo
Rendering, Compositing, and Texturing
Substance Designer Substance Painter Mari RenderMan Stingray LightWave 3D V-Ray Softimage Cinema 4D Houdini NUKE Fusion
Stop-Motion
Dragonframe MonkeyJam Windows Movie Maker AnimatorHD istopmotion StopMotionPro
Video Compositing, Stabilization, and Color Correction
Final Cut Pro Lightworks DaVinci Resolve Magic Bullet Looks Mocha Pro iMovie
Screenwriting and Storyboarding
Final Draft FrameForge Previz Studio Fade In Pro Celtx Toon Boom Storyboard Pro DAZ 3D Storyboard Pro Storyboard Quick Writer Duet Trelby
Game Engines and Development Tools
Unreal Unity CryEngine Havok Source GameMaker Studio Pro Game Salad RPG Maker Speedtree Terragen
Audio Editing
Garageband Audition Ableton Live WavePad Sound Forge Avid Pro Tools Logic Pro X FL Studio 12
Alternative Software Options
InDesign AutoCAD
Creative Commons, Fair Use, Royalty Free, and Public Domain
Sound Cloud Jamendo CCTrax FreeSound Free Music Archive Creative Commons The Noun Project Morguefile Stockvault Pixlov ShutterStock Free Images Blambot Textures.com Photoshop Brushes NASA Prelinger Archives ccmixter Wikimedia Commons
Fonts
Dafont 1001 Fonts Google Fonts Font-A-Day FontSquirrel Hype for Type FontLibrary Behance Free Fonts FontShop MyFonts Fonts.com
3D Assets
Morpheus Rig Malcolm Rig Mery Rig MooM Rig Norman Rig The Eleven Rig Sony Pictures Zombie Rig Dragon Rig Malcolm 2.0 Rig Turbosquid TF3DM Pixel Lab CG Trader Renderosity Poser
3D Printing
Shapeways You3Dit MakeXYZ Ponoko 3D Printer Experience The Object Shop Spectra3D Autodesk123D
File Conversion, Video Compression, and Free Online Tools
smallpdf Tinypng ClipConverter.cc HandBrake Any Video Converter TinEye Reverse Image Search Adobe Color CC Avidemux What the Font Picmonkey Pixlr SyncSketch Prezi Dogpile Google
Online File Sharing and Cloud Storage
Google Drive Filezilla FTP GitHub SourceTree
Tutorials and Online Courses
Lynda W3schools Animation Mentor 3D Buzz Digital Tutors/Pluralsight udemy UArtsy Future Learn Khan Academy Codecademy Coursera Schoolism Every Frame A Painting Filmmaker IQ No Film School Glitchet TED Talks 11 Second Club Bloop Animation Animschool iAnimate 3DTotal Feng Zhu Design School World of Level Design
Databases, Archives, and Informative Collections
Wikipedia Internet Movie Database Game Developer Magazine Archive Game Development Terms Animation Terms PanTone Animation Career Review Moving Image Source Media College.com Pixel Prospector Know Your Meme Urban Dictionary Character Design References Art of the Title SIGGRAPH 1999 Animation Principles Notes TV Tropes
Inspiration
CGSociety Creative Bloq 3DTotal Sketch Dailies Abduzeedo Short of the Week Pinterest deviantart Colossal baubauhaus.com Mojizu Book Cover Archive Sci-fi-o-rama GigPosters Coolvibe Illustratd The Design Inspiration CGMeetup Brooklyn Street Art Fatcap Sywork The Creators Project Creative Uncut Spriters Resource.com Concept Art World UCreative Dark Roasted Blend Ello Beautiful Type Motionographer DigitalArts CG Bros Bored Panda Laughing Squid Mubi ArtStation Rhizome Living Lines Library The Beat
Culture, News, Opinion, and Forums
A113 Animation Gamasutra Gamespot Destructoid GamesRadar GameDev.net Polycount Screen Rant PBS Off Book CineFix Movie Lists Cartoon Brew Chris Oatley Blog On Animation Animation World Network Animation Scoop Popular Science Expcinema.org Polygon IGN Kotaku Indiewire The Independent Gamer Source Retro Gamer Comics Alliance Bleeding Cool Comic Book Resources Giant Bomb Ars Technica What Culture Anime News Network Stopmotionanimation.com Worlds Without End Ludum Dare
Privacy Add-ons, Extensions, and Software Maintenence
DuckDuckGo Adblock Plus uBlock Origin Ghostery Disconnect Do Not Track Me Avast Malwarebytes AVG Avira Bitdefender Norton McAffee Kaspersky Microsoft Security Essentials/Windows Defender
Operating Systems and Consoles
Windows 10 Windows 8 Windows 7 Mac OS X Linux Ubuntu
Mobile: iOS Android
Unsupported: Windows Vista Windows XP MAC OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
Next-Gen Consoles: PlayStation 4 Xbox One GameCube Steam Machine Wii U Oculus Vive
Backwards Compatibility: PS3 PS2 Xbox 360 Xbox Wii Nintendo 3DS
Classic Systems: Atari NES Genesis GameBoy GameBoy Advance PlayStation Nintendo 64
Web Hosting Services
DreamHost InMotion Bluehost GoDaddy HostGator iPage SiteGround eHost Just Host A Small Orange 1&1 WebHostingHub FatCow GreenGeeks
Web Browsers
Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Internet Explorer/Edge Safari Opera
Browser Plugins
Adobe Flash Player QuickTime Java Silverlight
Web Analytics
Alexa Google Analytics Google Adwords
Web Safe Fonts
Arial Courier New Times New Roman Verdana Impact Georgia Trebuchet Comic Sans Webdings
Reliable Designer Fonts
Helvetica Univers Futura Avenir Gill Sans Bodoni Gotham Metro FF Scala Avant Garde Garamond Baskerville Trajan Eurostile Interstate Akzidenz Grotesk Didot Caslon Frutiger Myriad Pro Officina Trade Gothic Meta Calibri Mrs Eaves
Most Overused Fonts
Helvetica Helvetica Neue Arial Times New Roman Gill Sans Souvenir Brush Script Neuland Inline Papyrus Avant Garde Comic Sans Courier Grunge
University and Studio Online Resources
New York Film Academy Gnomon Workshop Stan Winston School CalArts Student Shorts Gobelins Student Shorts SAIC Student Work Animation School Daily ILM Visual FX Disney Technology The Animation Workshop, Viborg University of Texas LANIC Cinema Unreal Engine Resources
Magazines
ImagineFX Computer Arts Gameinformer Photoshop Creative 3D Creative 3D World 3D Artist 2D Artist Web Designer Layers Print CMYK Digital Arts Advanced Photoshop Form Total Film Empire Communication Arts How Net Edge PC Mag Wired Stop Motion
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading List
Documentaries
Side by Side, 2008
The Story of Film: An Odyssey, 2011
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, 1991
American Movie, 1999
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, 2001
Everything is a Remix by Kirby Ferguson, 2010- 2015
Helvetica, 2007
Linotype: The Film, 2012
The Pixar Story, 2007
Frank and Ollie, 1995
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, 2014
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan, 2011
Men in Suits, 2012
How Videogames Changed the World by Charlie Brooker, 2013
Video Games: The Movie, 2014
Double Fine Adventure!, 2015
Indie Game: The Movie, 2012
Citizenfour, 2014
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, 2014
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, 2012
How Robots Will Change the World, 2011
The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, 2014
Life in a Day, 2011
Key Concepts
Copyright vs. Fair Use Design Process and Pipeline Industry vs. Indie Development Freelancing Networking Portfolio
12 Principles of Animation Principles of Design Elements of Art Pleasing Clients vs. Artistic Freedom Good-Fast-Cheap Business Model
Time Management Adaptation Story Documentation and Citation Designer's Contract Form follows Function
Theory
Additive/Subtractive Method Applied Science, Engineering, and Intentional Design Technological Progression Experimentation and Innovation Aesthetics vs. Functionality Society and Pop Culture Disruptive Innovation Analog vs. Digital Emotional Response
ASCII Art Bio Art Cyberformance Computer Art Digital Art Digital Poetry Tradigital Art Modding Timelapse Photography Grunge Sublime Abstraction Electronic Art Experimental music Evolutionary Art Generative Art Glitch Art Hacktivism Information Art Interactive Art Internet Art Hypertext Kinetic Sculpture Light Art Motion Graphics Net Art Performance Art Radio art Robotics Ephemera Installation Polygon Primitives Collage Sound Design Sampling Systems Art Telematic Art Image Manipulation Video Art Programming Animatronics Cybernetic 2D Animation Synthesia Virtual Reality Pixelation Urban Art Underground Uncanny New Aesthetic Luminescent Art
New Media Production and Design
Concept Art Storyboarding Scenic Design Composition 3D Modeling Texturing Rigging Lighting Compositing Motion Capture 3D Printing and Fabrication Digital Editing Chromakey VFX Practical Effects Stop-Motion Cinematography Layout Camera Techniques Mashup Remix Music Video Poster Design Web Design Graphics Branding Color Theory Typography Commercial Products Mobile Apps Figure Studies Character Design Creature Design Vehicle Design Comics and Graphic Novels Anime/Manga Game Design Illustration Digital Painting Matte Painting Print Compositing Color Correction
Essential New Media Programs to Know
Adobe Photoshop Illustrator After Effects Premiere Pro Maya Dreamweaver
Designers, Artists, and People to Know
Artists and Innovators List.pdf
Studio Space and Essential Equipment
Studio Equipment
Freeware
GIMP Inkscape Audacity Paint.NET Sketchup Arduino
Programming Languages
C++ C C# Java Python Html 5 CSS Javascript PHP Perl Ruby on Rails SQL AJAX jQuery XML
Coding and Text Editors
CoffeeCup Netbeans KompoZer Sublime Text Bootstrap Notepad++ Processing Brackets TextWrangler BBEdit UltraEdit Atom
Web Design Templates
WordPress Squarespace Weebly Blogger Wix
Font Editors
Fontographer FontLab Studio Type Tool FontForge Type light BitfontMaker Fontifier Fontstruct Font Constructor RoboFont Glyphr Font Creator
2D Animation and Drawing
Toon Boom Harmony TVPaint Anime Studio Pro Adobe Animate CC Toonz CorelDRAW Graphics Suite Autodesk Sketchbook
3D Modeling
3Ds Max ZBrush Mudbox Blender Modo
Rendering, Compositing, and Texturing
Substance Designer Substance Painter Mari RenderMan Stingray LightWave 3D V-Ray Softimage Cinema 4D Houdini NUKE Fusion
Stop-Motion
Dragonframe MonkeyJam Windows Movie Maker AnimatorHD istopmotion StopMotionPro
Video Compositing, Stabilization, and Color Correction
Final Cut Pro Lightworks DaVinci Resolve Magic Bullet Looks Mocha Pro iMovie
Screenwriting and Storyboarding
Final Draft FrameForge Previz Studio Fade In Pro Celtx Toon Boom Storyboard Pro DAZ 3D Storyboard Pro Storyboard Quick Writer Duet Trelby
Game Engines and Development Tools
Unreal Unity CryEngine Havok Source GameMaker Studio Pro Game Salad RPG Maker Speedtree Terragen
Audio Editing
Garageband Audition Ableton Live WavePad Sound Forge Avid Pro Tools Logic Pro X FL Studio 12
Alternative Software Options
InDesign AutoCAD
Creative Commons, Fair Use, Royalty Free, and Public Domain
Sound Cloud Jamendo CCTrax FreeSound Free Music Archive Creative Commons The Noun Project Morguefile Stockvault Pixlov ShutterStock Free Images Blambot Textures.com Photoshop Brushes NASA Prelinger Archives ccmixter Wikimedia Commons
Fonts
Dafont 1001 Fonts Google Fonts Font-A-Day FontSquirrel Hype for Type FontLibrary Behance Free Fonts FontShop MyFonts Fonts.com
3D Assets
Morpheus Rig Malcolm Rig Mery Rig MooM Rig Norman Rig The Eleven Rig Sony Pictures Zombie Rig Dragon Rig Malcolm 2.0 Rig Turbosquid TF3DM Pixel Lab CG Trader Renderosity Poser
3D Printing
Shapeways You3Dit MakeXYZ Ponoko 3D Printer Experience The Object Shop Spectra3D Autodesk123D
File Conversion, Video Compression, and Free Online Tools
smallpdf Tinypng ClipConverter.cc HandBrake Any Video Converter TinEye Reverse Image Search Adobe Color CC Avidemux What the Font Picmonkey Pixlr SyncSketch Prezi Dogpile Google
Online File Sharing and Cloud Storage
Google Drive Filezilla FTP GitHub SourceTree
Tutorials and Online Courses
Lynda W3schools Animation Mentor 3D Buzz Digital Tutors/Pluralsight udemy UArtsy Future Learn Khan Academy Codecademy Coursera Schoolism Every Frame A Painting Filmmaker IQ No Film School Glitchet TED Talks 11 Second Club Bloop Animation Animschool iAnimate 3DTotal Feng Zhu Design School World of Level Design
Databases, Archives, and Informative Collections
Wikipedia Internet Movie Database Game Developer Magazine Archive Game Development Terms Animation Terms PanTone Animation Career Review Moving Image Source Media College.com Pixel Prospector Know Your Meme Urban Dictionary Character Design References Art of the Title SIGGRAPH 1999 Animation Principles Notes TV Tropes
Inspiration
CGSociety Creative Bloq 3DTotal Sketch Dailies Abduzeedo Short of the Week Pinterest deviantart Colossal baubauhaus.com Mojizu Book Cover Archive Sci-fi-o-rama GigPosters Coolvibe Illustratd The Design Inspiration CGMeetup Brooklyn Street Art Fatcap Sywork The Creators Project Creative Uncut Spriters Resource.com Concept Art World UCreative Dark Roasted Blend Ello Beautiful Type Motionographer DigitalArts CG Bros Bored Panda Laughing Squid Mubi ArtStation Rhizome Living Lines Library The Beat
Culture, News, Opinion, and Forums
A113 Animation Gamasutra Gamespot Destructoid GamesRadar GameDev.net Polycount Screen Rant PBS Off Book CineFix Movie Lists Cartoon Brew Chris Oatley Blog On Animation Animation World Network Animation Scoop Popular Science Expcinema.org Polygon IGN Kotaku Indiewire The Independent Gamer Source Retro Gamer Comics Alliance Bleeding Cool Comic Book Resources Giant Bomb Ars Technica What Culture Anime News Network Stopmotionanimation.com Worlds Without End Ludum Dare
Privacy Add-ons, Extensions, and Software Maintenence
DuckDuckGo Adblock Plus uBlock Origin Ghostery Disconnect Do Not Track Me Avast Malwarebytes AVG Avira Bitdefender Norton McAffee Kaspersky Microsoft Security Essentials/Windows Defender
Operating Systems and Consoles
Windows 10 Windows 8 Windows 7 Mac OS X Linux Ubuntu
Mobile: iOS Android
Unsupported: Windows Vista Windows XP MAC OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
Next-Gen Consoles: PlayStation 4 Xbox One GameCube Steam Machine Wii U Oculus Vive
Backwards Compatibility: PS3 PS2 Xbox 360 Xbox Wii Nintendo 3DS
Classic Systems: Atari NES Genesis GameBoy GameBoy Advance PlayStation Nintendo 64
Web Hosting Services
DreamHost InMotion Bluehost GoDaddy HostGator iPage SiteGround eHost Just Host A Small Orange 1&1 WebHostingHub FatCow GreenGeeks
Web Browsers
Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Internet Explorer/Edge Safari Opera
Browser Plugins
Adobe Flash Player QuickTime Java Silverlight
Web Analytics
Alexa Google Analytics Google Adwords
Web Safe Fonts
Arial Courier New Times New Roman Verdana Impact Georgia Trebuchet Comic Sans Webdings
Reliable Designer Fonts
Helvetica Univers Futura Avenir Gill Sans Bodoni Gotham Metro FF Scala Avant Garde Garamond Baskerville Trajan Eurostile Interstate Akzidenz Grotesk Didot Caslon Frutiger Myriad Pro Officina Trade Gothic Meta Calibri Mrs Eaves
Most Overused Fonts
Helvetica Helvetica Neue Arial Times New Roman Gill Sans Souvenir Brush Script Neuland Inline Papyrus Avant Garde Comic Sans Courier Grunge
University and Studio Online Resources
New York Film Academy Gnomon Workshop Stan Winston School CalArts Student Shorts Gobelins Student Shorts SAIC Student Work Animation School Daily ILM Visual FX Disney Technology The Animation Workshop, Viborg University of Texas LANIC Cinema Unreal Engine Resources
Magazines
ImagineFX Computer Arts Gameinformer Photoshop Creative 3D Creative 3D World 3D Artist 2D Artist Web Designer Layers Print CMYK Digital Arts Advanced Photoshop Form Total Film Empire Communication Arts How Net Edge PC Mag Wired Stop Motion
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading List
Documentaries
Side by Side, 2008
The Story of Film: An Odyssey, 2011
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, 1991
American Movie, 1999
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, 2001
Everything is a Remix by Kirby Ferguson, 2010- 2015
Helvetica, 2007
Linotype: The Film, 2012
The Pixar Story, 2007
Frank and Ollie, 1995
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, 2014
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan, 2011
Men in Suits, 2012
How Videogames Changed the World by Charlie Brooker, 2013
Video Games: The Movie, 2014
Double Fine Adventure!, 2015
Indie Game: The Movie, 2012
Citizenfour, 2014
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, 2014
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, 2012
How Robots Will Change the World, 2011
The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, 2014
Life in a Day, 2011
Key Concepts
Copyright vs. Fair Use Design Process and Pipeline Industry vs. Indie Development Freelancing Networking Portfolio
12 Principles of Animation Principles of Design Elements of Art Pleasing Clients vs. Artistic Freedom Good-Fast-Cheap Business Model
Time Management Adaptation Story Documentation and Citation Designer's Contract Form follows Function
Theory
Additive/Subtractive Method Applied Science, Engineering, and Intentional Design Technological Progression Experimentation and Innovation Aesthetics vs. Functionality Society and Pop Culture Disruptive Innovation Analog vs. Digital Emotional Response