10 of my favourite and useful website

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/

The best well-known and amazing online video streaming site. There is no video you cannot find in YouTube!! YouTube is even more amazing with the High Definition video, so now it is not only quantities, it is also quality of the video.

Wikipedia Encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

The best online Encyclopedia. All the knowledge you wish to know is all in this site. It even have high range of languages to choose from, for everyone in the world.

Alones by Aqua Timez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joyTDZn01-8

Another Music Video from my favourite Japanese band, Alones by Aqua Timez. I love the way they create the animation part by using different people to hold the sketchbook.

新しい世界Atarashii Seika(New World) by Asian Kung fu Generation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYA83Q3cSP4

An Animated Music Video from one of my favourite Japanese band, 新しい世界, Pronounce “atarashii seikai” means New World. They used all the illustration from their previous album’s and Single’s cover to create the story and at the end it shows the cover of their new album.

Software Tutorial site

http://www.tutorialized.com/

A very useful tutorial site for variety of software. They have tutorial from 3ds max, maya, photoshop, Flash, Premeire, Final Cut ….and more. Every times I am stuck when working on 3D model, animation, I will seek solution from this site.

AREA

http://area.autodesk.com/

An official forum of well-known software developer, Autodesk. The forum gather artists all over the world in different industry, sharing their ideas, thoughts, portfolios. The forum also include tutorials of all the Autodesk products. Sometimes even have competitions with incredible prizes.

Fonts

http://www.dafont.com/

This site has tons of fonts in different style available for everyone to download for free. From Gothic, Techno, Fancy, Movies, Games….. all kind of fonts.

Graphical Ideas

http://www.graphic-exchange.com/01graphic.htm

It contains many great graphical ideas of posters, websites, logos…. They inspired some of my thought in my animations.

ANIBOOM

http://www.aniboom.com/

AniBoom is a video streaming site only for animations. They also hold animation award each year, so you might gain your reputation across the world!!

3D World Magazine

http://www.3dworldmag.com/

One of my additional sources of knowledge, 3D World Magazine. Although the site doesn’t have the actually content of the magazine, but it still have the forum for everyone round the world to discuss their works. They also have many competition related to animation for everyone to enter and claim the grand prizes!