More links than you can shake a stick at Volume 1

I’m trying to clean out my inbox and there are so many great links and resources I’ve stored in a bazillion e-mails. Thus, this massive compendium of inspiration and reference.

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R sent a survey by Web 2.0 Magazine, that as of January, categorized “the top 100 web 2.0 sites.”

http://web2magazine.blogspot.com/2007/01/thanks-for-web-2.html

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B sent these awhile back:

http://www.thestuntman.la/

http://www.actioncity.la/

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WOW Interactive 3D

http://roxik.com/index.html

http://www.noventaynueve.com/portfolio/index.html

Beautiful Portfolio Site (just my type)

http://www.dormoy.ca/

Great Graffiti Artist

http://www.5nak.com/

GREAT Content Organization and Flow**

http://www.jonathanyuen.com/main.html

Like the MP3 Player Pallette n Overall Design

http://www.byhead.com/v1.0/

Experimental

www.yugop.com

http://www.vincent-vella.com/

www.joshuadavis.com

3D Portfolio / Short Bumpers

http://stoav.be/

Easy Design / Slide Show Style

http://www.isa4d.com/

Dark, Clean Interface

http://in2media.com/flash

Interesting Organization of Content

http://www.pericraft.com/

Awesome video BG and organization

Square/Cubist Theme!

http://www.n-load.com/v3/

Otherworldly Context

3D video with vine orchestration

Interesting Content Layout

http://www.septime-creation.com/

List-Style on Left / Project Pane on Right

http://www.fluid.nl/

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Links on greenscreens from R

Collapsible Chromakey Green/Blue

http://www.amvona.com

Chromakey Green Spray Paint 11oz

http:// www.filmtools.com

Lighting tips:

http://www.kinoflo.com/FYI/FAQs.htm#3

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From MM

http://www.thefwa.com/

From an art director at 2advanced.

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From B

http://xplsv.tv/movie.php?id=638

And plenty of other collections posted by various users

http://motionographer.com/

Interspectacular Studio is 2004/2005 designer for Comedy Central.

Others of note:

http://www.lobo.cx/

Check the Nike spots (great POV animation)

Carlos’ personal Blog (with a COOOLLL X-Wing model)

http://www.rockonflash.com/blog/

Check out the archive (if you select new or platinum with the archive open it underlines favorites). I recommend “Coke Films”, Sheryl Crow (great landscape stuff).

http://www.psyop.tv/main.php

Found a great site with a lot of in depth tutorials using the effects I have come to love (Fractal Noise) and ones that I always knew could amount to something (PARTICLES).

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html

Be sure to check out #23 (Ink Spatter) and #24 3D lines. I’m inspired…

Got to this site via del.iciou.us a part of Adobe’s third party forums

http://del.icio.us/adobe/AfterEffects