Quality Animation Resources for Art and Artists

About.com: Animation Guide - Keep up with developments in online animation for all skill levels. Download tools and seek inspiration from brilliant online work.

Animation - American and Japanese - Dan Patanella's essays and reviews on over three dozen films and animated series. Also includes list of animation books articles and magazines.

Animation World Network - Provides information resources to the international animation community. Features include searchable database archives monthly magazine web animation guide the Animation Village discussion forums and other useful resources.

Chronology of Animation - Timeline of animated films and related events.

Coobics - Directory for cartoon comics anime manga and game sites. Also includes message boards for conversing with fellow fans.

Digital Media FX: The History of Animation - Michael Crandol takes an exhaustive look at the history of animation and animators/visionaries like Max Fleisher Walter Lantz and Otto Messmer.

Enculturation: From Mouse to Mouse: Overcoming Information - Essay by Patricia Pisters on the animated image and its changing relationship with the cinematic image.

History of Animation: Before Disney - A short illustrated essay by Patrick James on the basics of early animations.

Spark Online: Only Genius Is Genius - Chris Romano feels that the proliferation of Flash and other web-based animation technologies has not improved the overall quality of animation and cartoons.

Toonhound - British cartoon animation and comic strip creations - links reviews and news from the UK.