Resource Exploration- Bickford

For my first blog post I will be doing Resource Exploration:

Animation Magazine: This site I found helpful because it not only show cases different animators but it also has articles on new techniques, links to other helpful resources for the animator and it also has a section for employers to post job postings from all over. It also gives information on Animators conventions or other digital conventions that animators can attend to learn about new and upcoming techniques. 

The preceding three web sites are great sites to refine and re-learn the how to's in Flash Animation. These sites give in depth tutorials in all that is flash.

EchoEcho: I found to be very informative. It has a bit of education and explanation of flash for the beginner. It explains how to use the flash tool box and how to draw basic lines and shapes. It has tutorials on buttons (simple and advanced), tweens and most of the basics of working in flash. And lastly it shows you how to allow flash and javascript to communicate.

Entheos: This site has a ton of tutorials on flash. It gives you how to's on all the basics such as tweening, motions, masking and working with layers. It also has tutorials on other animations and effects that you may want to use in your animation. The one thing that I really like about this site is it provides pictures of what your screen should look like as you progress in the tutorials. For the rest of you techies out there this site has tutorials in Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, CSS and more!!!

The Flying Animator: In this web site of tutorials they go into depth on basic animation and also the run and walk cycle. Animating a butterfly, a cat, and a bunny rabbit. One thing that this site does that I did not see on the others is that it posts links to free software for animators.