Illustration & Character Design

Originally a digital artist’s resource website, 3dtotal has grown into an industry-leading art-book publisher. Renowned for creating high-quality, inspirational, and practical tutorial books with some of the best artists working in the movie, games, animation, and publishing industries, 3dtotal Publishing sets the standard for modern art books.

An animation industry site with articles, forums, resource links, and more

Animation news from around the world

Animation jobs, news, and more with a Canadian focus

A comprehensive animation news site

A blog about experimental animation.

Held annually in Chicago, Eyeworks is an invitational festival focusing on abstract animation and unconventional character animation.

A collaborative database of audio samples that are free to use and remix.

GR2 Gallery features art exhibitions by notable artists like Katsuya Terada, Luke Chueh, David Choe, Mari Inukai, Deth P Sun, Rob Sato, Ako Castuera, Sean Chao, Yoskay Yamamoto, Uglydoll, and countless others. (See some examples of work and see our Flickr) We're located at 2062 Sawtelle Blvd. LA, CA 90025

This site features over 1500 animation project profiles and thousands of user-submitted reviews.

La Galería Roja is a contemporary art exhibition space and center for artistic studies.

Nucleus offers a curated selection of high-quality art, art-related goods, and rare finds. Through exhibitions, artist panels, signings, and other special events, Nucleus remains devoted to celebrating the illustrated arts. Emphasizing animation, games, narrative art, and entertainment design, we aim to spotlight the talented creators behind the works we all love.

One of the world's premier animation festivals

PixelSquid is a library of design-ready 3D objects that you can easily use in your graphic design projects and workflow. Search our growing catalog to find the object you need, spin it to get the perfect angle, then immediately download it as a PNG with a perfectly transparent background or as a layered PSD file.

This long-form zine will walk you through cameraless animation, handprocessing film, and other tasty treats

At the Boston Comic Arts Foundation, we believe in the power of comics to inspire, educate, and bring people together. That's why we help promote spaces for both creators and readers to find one another, exchange ideas, and grow as a community.

Boston needs to have a space like this that not only celebrates stories by creators of color but is a space for Blerds to be themselves and connect with one another.

A community of comics creators, meeting weekly since 2006.