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INTJs are capable of making good impressions on that crowd, but it isn’t fun to them. They consider things like fussy grooming or empty flattery to be a bit dishonest, emphasizing appearances and time-wasting niceties over ability, competence and insight, so this type will only do those things for a good reason, not for the hell of it.“

Which explains my inclination in every superficial social situation to say: 

websites:

Animation World Network

Animation Backgrounds

Animation Magazine

Animation & CGI

Animator Island

Anime News Network

Cartoon Brew

Character Design References

On Animation

Reference! Reference! (free database for animation)

11 Second Club (monthly character animation competition)

tumblr blogs:

animationart

animationforce

animationtidbits

aspiretoanimate

calartscharacteranimation

disney-moments-sketches (Allen Ostergar’s blog, animator at Walt Disney)

drawingforsuckas

fuckyeahconceptart

storyboardresources

theanimationarchive

theartofanimation

wannabeanimator

resources/tips:

Animation schools: 1 / 2 (Top 50 USA) / 3 (Top 100 international)

Which animation school is right for you? (Ringling vs. CalArts)

Don’t want to/ can’t afford art school? you’ve got other options.

Animation Mentor: The online animation school

Art school exercises!!

51 Great Animation exercises

20 things you can expect as a traditional (2D) animation student that they never tell you

A Survivor’s Guide to Life Inside an Animation Studio

Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing

Animation Notes From Ollie Johnston

Animated chart of the basic principles of animation

10 Second tip: Always Anticipate

book: Animation: Learn How to Draw Animated Cartoons by Preston Blair

book: A System for Planning and Timing Animation by Glen Keane

book: Timing for animation by Harold Whitaker and John Halas

book: Gesture Drawing for animation by Walt Stanchfield

Basic 3D Animation Terminology

Digital pencil test!!

Keys to Emotion in Animation

Lessons from Disney’s Zootopia

Model Sheets central

The importance of Acting in Animation by Segio Pablos

Printable exposure/dope sheet

Phoneme Chart

Recommended reading for animation students and enthusiasts

The 5 Types of Animation

The Know-How of Cartooning 

The Unofficial Truth about The Animation Industry

Why Disney Sends Its Animators To Life Drawing Classes

Walk/Run Cycles reference

What is Pixar looking for in Animators? (scroll down)

Portfolio Advice for The Disney Animation Internship

What is Rigging?

3D Rigging Terminology

3D Modeling Terminology

tutorials:

Animation for Beginners: Where do I start

Animation Physics (Video tutorials on physics for animation artists)

Animation tutorial part. 1 AKA “the secret of animation”

Appealing Poses in Animation

Background & Movement in TV

Blinking tips

Breakdown tutorial (middle frame between to keys)

Drawing & Composition for visual storytelling

Drawing for Animation

Drawing a Likeness

Animation fundamentals + tutorials

Filmmaking: Composition and Framing

Getting Shape Change

How to animate using photoshop

How to animate Characters in Perspective

How to Animate Head Turns

How to Draw Gesture

OpeenToonz tutorials masterpost

Overlapping Action and Drag

Portfolio tips / Making A Successful Portfolio

Lyp Sync tutorial

Line of action

Basics of good cartooning 1-12 by Sherm Cohen

Squash & Stretch tutorial

Squash and Stretch 2

Storyboarding tutorials by Sherm Cohen

The Illusion of Life: 12 Principles of Animation

Tilt, Flow & Rhythm

Underlying Structure When Animating Expressions

TVPaint tutorial: Uploading and Coloring Scanned Animation

supplies (traditional animation):

10 Essential Art Supplies for the Traditional Animator

How to Use a Light Table for Animation

Making a Simple Animation Lightbox

Peg bars, Animation Disk & Desk

softwares:

free

Blender (3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline: modeling, rigging, animation,etc)

Emofuri (animate using .psd files)

Google Sketchup (

Live2D ( animation/drawing software

OpenToonz (Studio Ghibli’s open source animation software)

Pencil2D (create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics)

Renderman (Pixar’s free 3D rendering software)

Sculptris (Free digital sculpting tool by the makers of Zbrush

SculptGL (Online modelling program)

Synfig (2d animation using a vector and bitmap artwork)

paid

Zbrush (digital sculpting sw by Pixologic)

Mudbox (digital sculpting sw by Autodesk)

Cinema 4D (digital sculpting sw by Maxon)

TVPaint  (2d animation)

animation studios:

Aardman (Bristol, UK)

Blue Sky Studios (Greenwich, USA)

Dreamworks (Glendale, USA)

Fox Animation (USA)

Imagination Studios/CN (Burbank, USA)

Industrial Light & Magic (San Francisco, USA)

Laika (Hillsboro, USA)

Luma Pictures (USA / Melbourne, Australia)

Nickelodeon Animation (Burbank, USA)

Pixar (Emeryville, CA)

Rise FX (Berlin, Germany)

Studio Ghibli (Tokyo, Japan)

Sony Picture Imageworks (Vancouver, Canada)

Sony Pictures Animation (Culver City, CA)

Walt Disney Animation (Burbank, CA)

Weta Digital (Wellington, New Zealand)

inspiration: worth watching short films

Coda by and maps and plans

Contre Temps by the Contre Temps Team

Duet by Glen Keane

DOG ENVY by Olivia Huynh

Fallin Floyd by  il Luster

French Roast

Gravity by Ailin Liu

In Between by Gobelins

Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon

My Big Brother by Jason Rayner

Night Light by Qing Han

Nephtali by Glen Keane

Nocturne by Kari Casady

Historia de un Oso by Gabriel Osorio

Home Sweet Home  by home sweet home the film

One Bright Dot by  Clément Morin

Stickboy by Giant Ant

SOAR by Alyce Tzue

Tsunami by The Animation Workshop

Thought of You by Ryan Woodward

Vagabond by  The Animation Workshop

[ACT 1]

Germany is an country surrounded by other countries filled with forests and it’s ♪♫ OKAY ♫♪.

In the year negative a billion, Germany might not have been habitable. In the year negative 700 thousand, it was, and people inhabited it, and those people where Homo Heidelbergensis. Then it got colder, some things changed, they became Neanderthaler, and now there’s lots of ♫ HUNTERS AND GATHERERS ♫. Because there’s animals to hunt.

So now there’s people on the land; they’re basically sort of hanging out in between the trees drinking milk off wild cows and using the latest technology. Like stones, and twigs.

Ding dong, it’s southern Europe, and they have technology from the future. Like animal herding, and ♪ farming ♪. Now can make lot of meat really really quickly. That means if you own the farm, then you own a lot of food, which is something everybody needs to survvvvive. So that makes you a Keltenfürst.

Metal working and trade routes spread all across the land, and so did the Holy Roman Empire. The most important kingdoms were here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. But this one (Rome) was the most most important, ruled by a heavenly superperson, or Pope for short.

Then, the land was attacked by a bunch of nordics (the Swedes). And they were defeated but after that they changed some things, like making the rulers rule less, and making the rulers more like France’s rulers, which is are rulers that rule less.

“Hi France,” they said. “Hi potatoes,” said France. “Can you call us something else, other than potatoes?” said Germany. “Like what?” said France. ♫♪"How about zum Volk gehörig? “♪♫ (Teutonen) said Germany. And they stole France’s democracy and wrote a constitution. For themselves! And then they made lots of poetry and art and had the industrial revolution.

♫♪ It’s time for World War I ♪♫ The world is about to have a war. Because it’s the 1900s, and weapons are getting crazy, and all these empires are excited to try them out on each other. Meanwhile, Germany has been enjoying invading a bunch of African countries and wants MOOOOOOREE and the next thing on their list is to invade all the countries and also all the stuff.

None of that stuff currently belongs to Germany which just had war declared on by Britain, because Britain was friends with Belgium, who was being trespassed by Germany in order to get to France to kick France’s ass because France was friends with Russia who was getting ready to kick Austria’s ass because Austria was getting ready to kick Serbia’s ass because someone from Serbia shot the leader of Austria’s ass. Err, actually, he shot him in the head. So you know what that means, duhhh.

♫♪ Germany should shoot some people. ♪♫ Which they wanted to do anyway. So they sort of called everyone douche-noodles on all the media to sort of let them know, and then they did it! And they also helped Austria here and there with some errands and stuff. *bell rings*

Now the war is over, and congratulations Germany, you totally lost it which means you don’t get to sit at the negotiating table, with the big dudes, where they decided who owns what. And yes, Japan gets to keep all that shit they stole from Germany. And you also don’t get to join the post-war mega alliance ♫♪ the League of Nations ♪♫ whose mission statement is to try not to take over the world.

The Great Depression is bad, and Germany’s economy is now crappy. So they start printing a shit ton of money, which makes everything worse. So they plan on taking over the world again. And everyone is like ♪"No don’t do that even if you’re not in the League of Nations you’re not supposed to try to take over the world.“♪ And Germany said, ♫♪ How bout I do, anyway? ♪♫ And Germany invaded more and more and more of Europe, and was planning to invade the entire World.

[You’ve sent mail.] It’s to Japan, from the new leader of Germany, he has a cool mustache and is trying to take over the world and needs friends. This also got forwarded to Italy. They all decided to be friends because they had so much in common.

♫♪ It’s time for World War II ♪♫ Germany is invading the neighbors, then they invade the neighbors’ neighbors, then, the neighbor’s neighbors’ neighbors, who happen to be Britain, said “Holy shiiit” and the United States started helping Britain because they are ♫♪ good friends ♪♫ and continued not helping Germany because ♫♪” Their friends and our friends are not friends. Plus they’re planning on invaaading the entire world.“♪♫

The Nazis are also working on killing all, every single one of the Jews. All of them, ever. Just in case (Racism). But they are still fighting the war, which they are losing, and the United States is really starting to also fight in the war.

And they haven’t used all of the bombs yet, and are curious to see how many it takes, so they drop a few. They actually drop a lot. And the US help the gang chase Germany back into Germany. And they also chase Japan back into Japan.

Now that the entire country was not at war with all the other countries, it was divided into two parts. The government parted, a fence was built, a wall was built, everyone learned to say goodbye, constitutions were published. There was protests, heartbreak, wall-climbing, and socialism studies. The East started to study Russian socialism from orders they were given from the Soviet Union. We’re talking Planwirtschaft, Stasi, Zensur, and maybe even Folter.

Over time, the economic and cultural prosperity began to gradually slow do- *impending doom music* Knock knock. It’s West Germany. With a free market. With democracy. Free democracy. “Open East Germany. Stop. Having it be closed” said West Germany. *music ends* There was really nothing they could do, so they destroyed the wall so everyone could leave anytime they want.

Some people hated this. “That sucks!” they said. “This sucks!!!” But with almost very little outside help, (from money) they reunited the country. And somehow made the Germans German again, and moved the capital to Berlin, which they didn’t rename. They made a new government, which was a lot more democratic. And they made a new constitution, which was.. pretty democratic. And a military that was… pretty democratic (small).

Other fun turns of phrase in German include:

“Ich versteh’ nur Bahnhof” = “I only understand train station” for when you’re confused

“Hast du Tomaten auf den Augen?” = “Have you got tomatoes on your eyes?” for when someone’s not seeing the obvious

“Auf die Schippe nehmen” = “Take someone on a shovel”, basically means to take the piss out of someone

“Du gehst mir auf den Senkel.” = “You’re walking on my shoelace(s).”

“Du gehst mir auf den Keks.” = “You’re walking on my cookie.”

Pulouar Sword

Dated: circa 1676 - 1725

Culture: Indian/Afghan

Medium: steel, gold

Measurements: overall length 97 cm; blade length 83 cm

The Pulouar is an Afghan sword, also used in India, a variant of the Tulwar. It always displays a short guard, curved in the direction of the blade, and a hemispheric pommel without a counter guard. This piece displays a blade in watered steel, curved and with a slight wave in its double edge.

Near the hilt a golden cartouche is desplayed with the following inscription: “Akbar Sha al-Sultan Mirza”. The hilt, also in steel, displays a spherical pommel completely covered in an engraved web motif and geometrical patterns. The hand guard features a delicate swan head on the pommel, also engraved, an inscription with the “Ali”, followed by the sentence “nasr min Allah wa il-fath qrabi.”