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Changelog
12.22.24 - Updated the page and added tons of new stuff! Removed some outdated links.
Sitely
88x31 buttons were made on Photoshop with help from (Neopets homepages, you must be logged in to view, unfortunately) Button Pop Tutorials, Charly's SWF Collection (page no longer up), Details, Lore, Peony, and Eris.
Caylis image found with help from Dr. Sloth's Image Emporium
Personal Web
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Other Web (Mostly Resources)
Art/Animation Resources
Animation Obsessive Newsletter - Great journalism on animation, including obscure animation, as well as a focus on world animation. The Sunday issues are free and I highly recommend them. Thursday issues are smaller and for paid subscribers, but I've always enjoyed those as well.
Warrior Painters - Community for plein air painting, very approachable for beginners. Their Discord community is nice.
Walt Stanchfield Handouts - PDFs of handouts the late Walt Stanchfield used in his classes.
Jaykittens' Background Q&A - A 35-page Google Doc broken up into 4 sections of tips on drawing backgrounds ranging from beginner level to putting together a portfolio. This really inspired me to try backgrounds, as someone who shies away from them in illustration.
Settei Dreams - Anime production materials.
Draw a Box - Resource for free drawing lessons. They have their own Discord group for peer feedback as well.
Andrew Loomins' Books - Great guides on figure drawing that are still widely in use today. They are in the public domain.
Pixar in a Box - Free Khan Academy course.
GES DRAW PARTY YouTube Channel - Timed gesture drawing with live models. Realeses new videos every Thursday. My go-to place for gesture drawing!
Every Frame a Painting YouTube Channel - Essays about filmmaking.
Toniko Pantoja's YouTube Channel - A great resource for those pursuing animation or story art. I always learn a lot from his vids.
Bobby Chiu's YouTube Channel and New Schoolism Channel - Lots of good videos here. Interviews with artists and old life drawing streams. Bobby also runs the Schoolism website and Lightbox Expo. Here are free playlists of recorded Lightbox Expo lectures from 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Nickelodeon's "Animation 101" playlist - Lots of insight into the production pipeline of TV animation and the expectations of specific jobs.
Post-Modern Art Podcast (YouTube link) - Neat indie podcast that interviews a variety of artists (animators, storyboard artists, musicians, etc).
JookpubStock - Free reference photos.
Grafit Studio 1190+ Dramatic Female Poses and Portraits - Free reference photos.
Rachel Bradley Free Portrait Poses and Free Reference Bundle - Free reference photos.
Jane Blundell Blog and Website - Lots of watercolor swatches.
KimCrick.com Guide to Lightfastness - What I personally reference to build lightfast watercolor palettes.
Werner’s
Nomenclature of Colours Website - I use this more for fun than actual reference, but a gorgeous website.
AnarchoStencilism subreddit and DeviantArt - Resource for stencils you can trace to make DIY patches or other such.
Featured Character - "...someone's original character is featured every 48 hours. Everyone will have the chance to create art of this character and be entered by a randomized raffle to have their own character featured for the next round." I played this game for a while last year and had fun!
Art Fight - Art trading game that occurs annually in July.
Software and Such:
BeeRef - Light and free program I use to organize reference photos.
Magma - (Previously "aggie.io"). Good program to draw in real-time with friends. Features a lot of tools for free and supports layers.
Photopea - In-browser Photoshop clone.
Pikimov - In-browser After Effects clone. Does not work on all browsers, read the FAQ. (In my back pocket, but I've not personally used it).
Tahoma 2D - A modification of OpenToonz. I've not personally tried it yet.
JS Paint - In-browser MS Paint.
JS KID PIX - In-browser KID PIX. I haven't really used this one (didn't grow up with that program, haven't experimented much with this version.)
PhotoMosh - Add glitch effects to your art and images.
Electric Zine Maker - Neat freeware.
Devin Elle Kurtz Brushes - Great brushes for bg painting at $0+. I bought the foliage, city, and cloud brush packs and adore them. Brushes are packaged with video tutorials.
Animation History:
Cartoon Research
MichaelBarrier.com
Daffy Duckaroo - My friend Eliza is in the process of thoroughly reviewing all of the Looney Tunes cartoons. An excellent source of information.
The Internet Animation Database
Writing for Visual Art:
Write for Animation YouTube Channel - Really underrated channel with succinct video essays.
Studio Binder YouTube Channel - Essays on screenplay.
Film Courage and Film Courage 2 YouTube Channels - Interviews with screenplay writers.
No Film School - Essays on filmmaking, especially screenwriting.
StimuWrite 2 - Neat freeware. Lots of settings to add more visual interest when writing for neurodivergent folks.
Resource Sheets for Those Who Want It All:
Storyboarding on a Budget - Resource Google Document list from @ebbigal on Twitter.
TV Animation Design on a Budget - Sister guide to the above, also compiled by @ebbigal on Twitter.
PuccaNoodles' Animation & Art Resources - Google Sheet of more resources from @PuccaNoodles on Twitter. Contains different sheets for varying topics (including foundational drawing) and clearly indicates whether a resource is free or paid.
TV Animation Writing Resources - A handy Google Doc I see linked around, though I don't know who assembled this information. Serves almost as a guide, with advice in addition to resources.
Artist Resource Links - A well-designed Google Sheet from @ashleyodellart on Twitter. Covers many topics with a handy key to know at a glance what type of resource is being given.
The Vintage Inkwell Academy Library - List of free art education PDFs.
Website Resources
I'm not great at web dev, but here are some silly tools I've used to make this one. (Mostly for customization. W3Schools and Google are my best friends regarding HTML and CSS).
W3Schools - Everything about HTML and CSS.
Catbox - Website I use to host audio and weird filetypes.
PicMix - A good replacement for Blingee.
blinkies.cafe - Make blinkies!
textanim - Used to make several of the old navigation images.
loading.io - Limited free options, but another text animation program I used to make an old header.
EZGIF - Excellent resource for GIF editing & webp conversion.
Convertio - File converter, supports obscure filetypes.
GifCities - Old web GIFs.
Wikiplayer - MP3 player.
Webamp - What I am using to embed Winamp 2 on certain pages.
Dr. Sloth's Image Emporium - Excellent database of Neopets graphics.
Taezsthemes Resources - List of resources curated by someone making Tumblr themes, but a lot of it can be useful for websites also.
32-Bit Cafe Resources List for the Personal Web - VERY extensive link list.
Fansites
Empty Movement - Revolutionary Girl Utena fansite and huge repository of goodies. Also check out the Something Eternal forums.
Kirby Informer - Kirby news.
samandmax.co.uk - Sam & Max news, interviews.
Sam & Max Funhouse Facebook Page - The only comprehensive official source for Sam & Max news hosted by Steve Purcell himself. Didn't know this page existed for a long time.
The Venom Site - News about Marvel's Venom. Their subreddit is also pretty active.
It's Not Stupid, It's Advanced! - Newer Invader Zim fansite that had me convinced it was from the Olden Times. Very fun.
gotfuturama.com and slurmed.com - Old Futurama fansites that are still up.
Official Rocky Horror Picture Show Fan Site
Zenin's Rocky Horror Picture Show Archive - Delightfully old web.
Jellyneo - If you play Neopets, you already know about Jellyneo. They are by far the most popular site for dailies, item database, and news. They just celebrated their 20th anniversary!
Sunnyneo - That said, Sunnyneo is the fansite I grew up with so it's special to me. They're just a couple years shy of their 20th anniversary also.
Dress to Impress - Until I get a proper Neopets page, I suppose I will also link Dress to Impress which is my resource for Neopets closet management and customization.
Other
Tech and Creative
Startpage - Privacy-centric Google Search proxy.
IntelTechniques Data Removal Guide - Remove your information from data brokers where you can.
BlueMaxima's Flashpoint - An archive of playable Flash games (as well as some Shockwave games, etc.). They also include some Neopets Flash animations.
archive.today - A website similar to the Wayback Machine that not everyone knows about.
Adventuron Classroom - Browser-based tool to create text-based adventure games. I have yet to try, but looks cool.
Twine - "Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories."
Bitsy - A tiny game maker. There are a lot of Bitsy game jams on itch.io!
Kristal - A Deltarune fangame engine written in Lua.
WINDOWS93 - Cool virtual desktop.
WinWorld - Old OSes.
OSBoxes - VirtualBox images.
Infinite Mac - Old Mac and NeXT OSes.
BeepBox - Browser-based music composition software. Also check out the JummBox mod.
Spacehey - Old MySpace clone in active development.
Circlejourney's ToyHouse Live Code Editor - Invaluable if you have a ToyHouse account.
Google My Maps - Website I use a lot to save custom points on a map. Most people don't seem to know about it? (Use Google at your own discretion, there may be a more private site out there, but Lord knows I'm using Google's GPS on my phone anyway.)
Reading
StoryGraph - What I'm using to track the books I've read in place of Goodreads.
Tachimanga - App I'm using to read comics on mobile when my library doesn't have them.
Queer Liberation Library - "Free e-library serving the LGBTQIA2S+ community in the United States." You can apply for a card and get books on Libby.
Lesbian Connection Magazine - "Lesbian Connection is the free worldwide forum of news, ideas and information for, by and about lesbians. We’ve been publishing this bimonthly magazine since 1974, and we mail issues out via snail mail in plain brown envelopes. (The word 'lesbian' doesn’t appear anywhere on the outside.)" Free to all lesbians with a suggested donation.
Women Film Pioneers Project - Biographies of women who contributed to early film.
The Food Timeline - The history of food.
The Vintage Chiffon Cake Site
Self Care
Greater Good in Action - "Science-Based Practices for a Meaningful Life"
Queering the Map - "Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space."
Mapping Trans Joy - Similar to Queering the Map, but this website seems to be more underground and hasn't gotten much traction yet.
Misc.
Greater Good Click to Give - (Unrelated to Greater Good in Action). A free website that uses ad revenue to donate to listed causes. Just click to give.
Arab.org Click to Help - Similar to Greater Good's click to give.
irasutoya.com - Tons of nice looking and coherent Japanese clipart made by one man. Free-to-use unless commercial use of over 20 images (check the terms). Here is an English YouTube video about it.
Interactive IPA Chart
The Vintage Pattern Files - In their own words, "A Link Library of free Vintage Knitting, Crochet and Sewing Patterns Scattered Across The Web"
