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I plan to assemble a collection of information about animation, programming and starting up a company.

So you want to be a digital artist?

It takes a lot of dedication, passion and time to master any skill and digital art is no exception. Here's some links and information that I hope will serve as a good starting point.

Illustration

Digital illustration allows you to quickly test out ideas, convey a message visually and serve as a starting point to take your concept further with animation, motion graphics or 3D.

Download and learn MyPaint. MyPaint is a FREE fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. The brush blending is superior to photoshop and painter.

Use R to color select off your canvas.
D and F for brush size.
E to toggle eraser and brush

Get yourself a tablet. Preferably a Wacom intuos, but the bamboo range is pretty good as well. Buy from nivo, outdoorphoto, b&hphotovideo for international shipping.

3D Animation/Illustration

This is a lot more technical and can sometimes feel tedious, but don't let that discourage you. You'll learn to make the computer do the hard stuff for you! Have a look at this video, it will give you a pretty good idea of how the 3D workflow fits into the production pipeline.

Download and learn Blender. Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. The latest experimental builds are available on Graphicall.

Watch tutorials. Go through the getting started series on BlenderCookie. The best way to learn is to see how its done and to then try it yourself. Take notes, repetition, whatever method you need to understand and to remember how to do a certain task.

Render with Cycles. Download a build with Cycles from Graphicall, switch to GPU mode and be amazed.

http://fluentart.com/data/uploads/dart.rar

So you want to code?

Many people think that they won't be able to code, or that they cannot benefit from learning a programming language. I hope to show you that you can learn and become productive with programming and some examples of how you can use programming in your industry or market your own startup. Alot of ground to cover and this is still being typed, so hang on.

CoffeeScript - Programming the easy way

At first we'll do some simple tasks, maybe some pixel pushing as well. For now just head over to the website and try it out. You can try it online from the website, straight in the browser.

http://coffeescript.org/

Node.js - Web Development

Node.js works perfectly with coffeescript. It's for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

So basicly what that means to us is we'll be coding in a way so that multiple people can use the program at the same time, nodejs makes that easier for us.

Download http://nodejs.org/

Read http://www.nodebeginner.org/#about