Animation Companies

LIST OF LINKS FOR ANIMATION COMPANIES AND FACILITIES.
http://www.4rfv.co.uk/m3_animation



 BRACE MEDIA - (http://www.4rfv.co.uk/brieflisting.asp?scategory=26&company=38310)

"Brace Media is an Online Media Company, conceived in July 2009 as a direct response to a combination of the ever-growing online World, our industry experience in the offline world & constant considerations for project costs while retaining our high standards for quality of product – be it physical or virtual.

A few companies and organisations who benefited from our services and skills include Barclays bank, Harley Davidson, Buell Motorcycles, Ducati, T-Mobile, the Church of England, NHS, many City Councils, Heritage Lottery Fund, Sky, Birmingham City University, Open University, Thomas Vale, Birmingham School of Acting, Hook Norton Brewery, Levi Roots Reggae Reggae Sauce.

We support individuals, bands, ad agencies, production companies, manufacturing partners, City Councils & more with Corporate Videos, TV Commercials, Short Films, Project Pitches, Music Videos & Feature Films.

We’ve assisted our clients to win up to £50million contracts & even helped provide jobs for 500 people in one instance.

In just the offline world, our work has been seen locally, nationally and internationally, within the UK, across Europe, to the Far East and across to the USA. We’ve delivered finished media on portable devices, through CD, DVD and television standards, right up to hallowed cinema screen!

We won an animation contest in 2008, with our entry announced & also shown repeatedly at the World's largest computer graphics show, SIGGRAPH in L.A.

Further evidence of our knowledge, reliability & quality is the fact that we are used by three different disc manufacturers as their exclusive Authors, & one of these is the 2nd largest plant in Europe.

Specialties
Recognised & approved by Dolby Labs as the ONLY facility in the Midlands region to correctly encode audio in Dolby Digital format to their high standards reinforces the quality & effort we put into our DVDs. Thus we can legally use the Dolby Digital logo & animatons on DVDs where we've done full production.

Highly versed at DVD authoring, and deal with a lot of duplication of CDs and DVDs, long and short run. Love animation work, and visuals in general."

Theory Of Animation

Traditional Animation Info (http://www.desktopacademy.com/)

Commercial Softwares

TOON BOOM - Homepage

FLASH - Homepage

TVPAINT ANIMATION 9 - Homepage

ANIME STUDIO - Homepage

TOONZ - Homepage

THE TAB - Homepage

CRATER SOFTWARE _CTP - Homepage

CTP PRO - Animation Page

DIGICEL FLIPBOOK - Homepage

FRANKA - Page
Water marked version for free.

PLASTIC ANIMATION PAPER (PAP) - Hompage
Also a free verion however this one can't use layers.

PROJECT DOGWAFFLE - Homepage               VIDS AND TUTORIALS

ANIMATION STAND - Homepage
Free?..... not sure, haven't tried downloading it yet.

SWIF 3D - Homepage

Animations

LOGORAMA

Police chase an armed criminal in a version of Los Angeles comprised entirely of corporate logos.
Won 2010 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Another 2 wins.
Directed by François Alaux, Herve de Crecy and Ludovic Houplain / France / 2009

Watch (http://shortsbay.com/film/logorama)

CAT SHIT 1 ( I know)

 SORRY GUYS, ANIMATION HAS BEEN REMOVED!
Just about two characters who are special ops (Rabbits) on a mission to free some captives.

I find this to be a really, really  cool animation and find it very well animated. Havn't looked into this so I dont know why they are rabbits vs Camels although I do get the camels seing the location that they are in. While watching this I sometimes forget what they are and see it just as a action animation.
 Watch (http://www.animeultima.tv/cat-shit-one-episode-1/)

SWORD OF THE STRANGER

OKTAPODI 2007

2007 - Oscar 2009 Animated Short Film

 

FREE SOFTWARES

PENCIL

Just stumbled across this software called 'Pencil'.. Not seeing it being any better than flash/toonboom or anything but its small and probly worth trying it out...(gonna try it out now XD).Works in both bitmap/raster and vector so should be good or at least decent. It is free and open to download.

Well, tried it now and its pretty basic and stuff but still worth a messabout  I guess when bored and for absolute amatuers that don't really want to get into animation but would like to have something there to be able to animate now and then.

PENCIL HOMPAGE (http://www.pencil-animation.org/)

For windows XP/ Vista/7
Download Here. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pencil-planner/files/Pencil/0.4.4beta/pencil-0.4.4b-win.zip/download)

For Mac/Linux
Download Here. (http://www.pencil-animation.org/index.php?id=Download)
                                                                                                                                     

UNITY 3D ENGINE

A 3D animation software but more for games. There is a free version to downlaod aswel which obviously doesnt offer the features that Unity Pro offers but its free! 

Was told about this by Mark (a friend at university)

Depending what you want to get into but it seems really good so far, haven't used it yet but will soon.


Unity Spring 2010 Highlight Reel from Unity3D on Vimeo.

UNITY.COM (http://unity3d.com/)

Unity 3.1 Free Version (http://unity3d.com/unity/download/)

Specs - Pro/Free

                                                                                                                                      

KTOON

Another free software but this is only for Linux so I can't really check to see how it is but it looks OK from some footage and images I've seen. That's all I'm basing it on though so I really don't know.

Homepage (http://www.ktoon.net/portal/)

                                                                                                                                     

CREATOON

This other free piece of software seems to be better for for scenery and tweening more that animating characters and such. But might aswel just use Flash as this doesn't offer much.

I did find this animating on youtube which has some nice scenery animations/tweening 

Thats all I got as I'm not too interesting in this since Flash could get me the same efects.

Homepage (http://www.creatoon.com/index.php)

Download (http://www.creatoon.com/download.php)

Just follow the instructions given from on the homepage (so I'm guessing that it is ligit) which are:
"You can now download the full version of CreaToon 3.0.
After installing CreaToon, first run it once, which will produce a message box saying you need to unlock it.
To unlock CreaToon, also download unlock.zip, unzip this file and run unlock.exe. It will say that CreaToon is now unlocked. You will now be able to run CreaToon."

Animators