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- Iwona
- Visual and performance artist, Lecturer in Narrative and Time Based Media at Gotland University / Department for Game Development
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This blogg is in the reference to my courses in animation and time based media at Gotland University.
Sometimes I stumble across interesting information on-line and saving it here as a inspirational material or source of knowledge for my students or 'bay-passers'. It is picking table for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper, depending on how hungry you are: =).
Most part of my courses are in web design, animation, 2D graphics and sound. The tools I am using in my courses are; Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Sound Forge + lots of open source. //
Sometimes I stumble across interesting information on-line and saving it here as a inspirational material or source of knowledge for my students or 'bay-passers'. It is picking table for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper, depending on how hungry you are: =).
Most part of my courses are in web design, animation, 2D graphics and sound. The tools I am using in my courses are; Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Sound Forge + lots of open source. //
Magazines
Forums
Bloggs
- actionscripter.co.uk/blog/
- bittbox.com (grafik)
- blogg.vlogportalen.se
- bloggywood.se
- computerlove
- designiskinky.net
- dezinerfolio.com
- Digital Inspiration
- digitalthread.com
- digitaltools.node3000
- film.nu blogg
- gomediazine.com
- graphic-exchange
- inspiredology.com
- meathaus.com
- netdiver.net
- oneframe-creatingclassicanimation.blogspot.com
- Outlaw Design
- qbn.com
- reformrevolution.com
- smashingmagazine.com
- Tale of Tales
- video-tutes.com
Inspiration
- 10 Photoshop Masters
- 101+ Places To Get Design Inspiration
- 99rooms
- Axel Ritter
- bookmarkd.net (portfolios)
- brands and logos
- cgdigiart.com (CG)
- Derbauer (sound)
- Designarchives.AIGA
- designflavr
- eyeballnyc (visual effects)
- faveup.com
- favoritewebsiteawards
- femalepersuasion.net
- ffffound
- fwa theater
- Historic Illustrators
- instructables.com
- Interview with Alex Mayhew
- Joshua Davis
- k10k.net
- kraftwerk
- machinima
- manystuff.org
- monoscope
- naturemorphosis.com
- One Rat Short (CG, film, animation)
- orisinal
- pixelsumo
- Realtime art manifesto
- reformrevolution
- saizenmedia
- setpixel
- soulwire.co.uk
- Tale of Tales /interviews (games)
- Toni Bratincevic
- Tronic Studio (CG, visual effects)
- turbulence.org
- We All Love Typography
- we-make-money-not-art
Festivaler/ konferenser
- Animafest Zagreb
- Atlanta Underground Film Festival
- Aurora (manipulated moving image) Norwich UK
- BitFilm Festival (Hamburg)
- Crossroads Film Festival
- Eksjö Animation Festival 2009
- Electrohype
- Flash Film Festival Boston
- FMX: animation, visual effects and gaming industries conference
- Göteborg International Film Festival
- Libre Graphics Meeting (open-source tools)
- Nordic Game
- Pictoplasma Animation Festival
- Platform Festival Portland
- SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival
- Stockholm International Film Festival
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Links
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Graphic design resources
- artsoftware.org (Open-source software)
- bluevertigo
- design-bookshelf.com
- designerstoolbox (standart sizes)
- designfloat.com
- digitalartistshandbook.org
- digitalartistshandbook.org
- digitalrefueler.com
- FormFiftyFive
- Free Softwere Founation
- Free Stock Textures: Texture King
- Free Vector Downloads
- Free Vector Graphics
- Free vectorgrafik: briarpress.org
- Free vectors from inspiredology
- Free Vectors Grunge, Urban, Plants
- friendsofed.com
- gomediazine.com
- graphic-design.com
- graphics.com
- Graphics.com Resources Directory
- History of Visual Communication
- How & Where To Get Paid Freelance Work While You’re Still A Design Student
- k10k.net
- kuler (color sheme)
- listorials.com
- moluv.com
- Open Clip Art Library
- pixelsurgeon.com/interviews/
- publicdomainpictures.net
- spectracol (RGB v CMYK)
- surfstation.lu (typsnitt mm,)
- symbols.com
- texturearchive.com
- Textures från urbandirty.com
- Textures: plaintextures.com
- The Designers Jumpola
- The Learn LIst
- The Text Animation Component for Flash CS3
- tutorialblog.org
- typophile.com
- Typsnitt (bra översikt)
- Typsnitt (databas för de snygaste)
- Typsnitt (Urban style)
- Typsnitt av Gyom Séguin på Dafont
- Typsnitt från film, musik ,dataspel
- Typsnitt(30 kvalitets bästa)
- typsnitt: Most Popular Free Quality Fonts
- Typsnitt: TV / film-relaterade
- Typsnitt: WhatTheFont
- Typsnitts designer Billy Argel
- vectorvault
- volumeone: (visual communication)
- zentu.net (open source tools info)
Art Museums / art gallerys
Concept Art
Animation och film
- 0xdb.org (databas)
- aaaproduction.fr
- animateclay.com
- Animation on the World Wide Web
- animation resources link portal
- Animation:wikipedia (svenska)
- animationmeat.com
- animationtrip.com
- animwatch.com
- Art of the title
- awntv.com
- blinkx (video search engine
- caryn.com/indie
- Centre for British Film and Television Studies
- dekku.blogspot (film clips library)
- Different Types of Animation
- dorkbot.org
- dvd-basen.
- film-tv.co.uk
- filmcafe.nu (svenska)
- filmform.com
- filmmakers.com
- Filmordlista (svenska)
- filmwaves.co.uk
- Free Animation Software
- free movie scripts
- gobelins.fr
- Greatest Films at filmsite.org
- GUIDE BOOK For Guerrilla Filmmakers
- History of film and popular culture
- indieslate.com
- Jimmy Ruskas videotips
- microcinemascene.com
- movieweb.com
- movingweb.org
- ONLINE MEDIA GOD: 400+
- rewind.ac.uk
- russin.nu (svenska)
- Senses of Cinema
- stopmotionanimation
- stopmotionworks.com
- svenskfilmdatabas.se
- swedishfilm.net (resursguide)
- The Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga
- The Official Dogme 95 Website
- UBU:avant-garde films library
- UBUWEB
- voodoofilm.org (svenska)
- voodoofilm.org/filmskola
- webmovie.com
- xplsv.tv
- zigzag.se
Visual Effects/ CGI
- 3dcgi.com (3D technology)
- blender.org (open source)
- CGI Family Tree
- cgsociety.org
- Computer-generated imagery (Wiki)
- End of celluloid (book)
- highend3d (Maya community)
- motionographer
- PIXAR: technikal memo library
- siggraph papers/ research
- urbandirty.com (textures)
- Visual effects (Wiki)
- Visual Effects Portal
- Visual Effects Society (VES)
- wetcircuit.com (3D)
Game Criticism
- A random gnome's random lair
- Critical Distance
- Critical-Gaming Network
- Elements of Meaning
- Engendering Gaming
- Experience Points
- Gamasutra
- Game Design Advance
- game-ism.com
- GamesAreEvil.com
- Graduate School Gamer
- Insult Swordfighting
- Living Epic
- Magical Wasteland
- Man Bytes Blog
- Noble Carrots
- Only a Game
- Ordinary Swords
- Press Pause to Reflect
- Sexy Videogameland
- Subject Navigator
- The Artful Gamer
- The Autumnal City
- The Brainy Gamer
- The Game Critique
- The New Gamer
- The Quixotic Engineer
- Two Bits
- Verbal Spew
- Versus CluClu Land
- Words on Play
Diferent game*
- art games special
- artificial.dk
- avant gaming
- Broken Brothers Deluxe
- City in a bottle
- Crayon Physics The Next Game Crazy
- Excel games
- Frontiers
- Game art: theory, communities, resources
- gameology.org
- games are art
- gamescenes.org
- Global Rhythms
- hackaday.com
- Independent Games Festival
- Let's Play 66!
- LittleBigPlanet
- monochrom
- opensorcery.net
- pacmanhattan
- pixelsumo.com (games)
- platform11
- Realtime art manifesto
- selectparks
- Serious Games Source
- seriousgames.org
- SFZero Collaborative Production Urban Game
- Soviet Unterzögersdorf
- spore
- submachine
- switch.sjsu.edu
- Tale of Tales
- Technoculture, Art and Games
- the-playermagazine
- trsp.net
- utopia
- videoludica
- Will Wright: Toys that make worlds
Photography inspiration mm.
Photoshop tutorials/ resurser
- 60 advanced Photoshop tutorials
- Create Concept Art in Photoshop
- Design av CD omslaget
- effectlab.com
- Free Hi Res Watercolor Textures
- Free Photoshop Plug-ins Collection
- Glossy Orbs
- Graphics.com Resources Directory PS
- layersmagazine.com
- Making a Frame Animation
- moderskeppet.se
- noupe.com> Photoshop Toolbox
- Nyheter i PhotoshopCs3
- Photographic Results for Beginers
- Photoshop > Keyboard Shortcuts
- Photoshop Cs3 video tutorials
- photoshop cs3 video tutorials basics
- photoshopcafe.com
- photoshopsupport.com
- PS tips och trix
- snowdrip.com
- tutsbuzz.com
Illustrator Tutorials
Flash tutorials & resouces
- actionscript.com
- actionscript.org
- actionscripts.co.uk
- Adobe´s"Using Flash CS3"-Help Files
- AS3 Snippets
- AS3.0 Language and Components Reference
- as3.betaruce.com (AS 3)
- as3.metah.ch (AS3)
- as3workshop by Grant Skinner
- Cartoon Smart's videos on vimeo
- Compression software
- edutechwiki.unige.ch
- entheosweb.com
- Flash Enabled Blog
- flashdevils
- flashessential.com
- flashfeathers: series of Flash Classes
- flashflex.com
- flashfruit
- flashgoddess.com
- flashguru.se (svensk forum)
- flashkit.com
- flashmagazine
- flashria.blogspot.com
- flashthusiast.com
- gotoandlearn.com
- hotscripts.com
- http://www.insideria.com
- jing:(captures and shares images and video)
- layersmagazine.com
- Make your Own Fog
- OSFlash (Open Source Flash verktyg)
- quasimondo.com
- The Flash Blog
- The Learn List - Flash
- tutalflash.blogspot.com
- Tutorial AS3 (AS3 Making Things Move)
- tutorial-center.com
- tutsbuzz.com
- tutvid.com (video tutorials)
- ultrashock.com
- Video Tutorial on ActionScript 3 Advanced XML
- video-animation.com
Webdesign resources
- bestwebgallery.com
- css heroes
- css remix
- css snipets mm
- CSS Zengarden
- Css3 Exemples /Style Form Generator
- cssprism.com (Css color pallet)
- cssvault.com
- Cymbolism (color mood)
- designmeltdown
- dezinerfolio.com
- Dreamweaver Cs3 video tutorials
- Dreamweaver cs3 video tutorials basics
- easypeasydesign.blogspot.com
- en sida med Css länkar
- hongkiat.com
- iconfinder
- kompozer (free web authoring system)
- kuler.adobe.com (color palette)
- mostinspired
- movingweb.org
- myprofolio.sticktacular.com (free)
- Portfolio:indxr.net (free)
- smashingmagazine.com
- Snabb referens till css på svenska
- techmagazine.ws
- the fwa
- tutsbuzz.com
- typografi för webben
- We Feel Fine (color moods)
- Web 2.0 technology explained
- webdesignerwall.com
- webresourcesdepot.com
Premiere Tutorials
After Effects Tutorials
- 50 AF Tutorials via hongkiat.com
- Adobe after effects video tutorials
- ae.tutsplus.com
- After Effects video tutorials
- Animating Spray Paint and Stencil Effect in After Effects
- Cartoon Smart : Rendering Basics Tutorial
- Creating an Eclipse in AE
- Forum: Toolfarm
- gomediazine.com
- Illustrator Objects to After Effects Layers
- inerx-ia.blogspot.com (presets mm)
- layersmagazine.com
- tutsbuzz.com (tutorials)
- videocopilot.net tutorials
- Warping Video With After Effects