Ivy

artist and bookworm girl who's just here for the vibes (Ps. I do accept commissions and no I’m not going to respond to spam)

[silver1vy]

Odysseus being both warrior of the mind and fighting with his mind. I have like 5 different designs for Athena and the final design still might change(working on my first ever animatic)

[s0ffia]

websites:

Animation World Network

Animation Backgrounds

Animation Magazine

Animation & CGI

Animator Island

Anime News Network

Cartoon Brew

Character Design References

On Animation

Reference! Reference! (free database for animation)

11 Second Club (monthly character animation competition)

tumblr blogs:

animationart

animationforce

animationtidbits

aspiretoanimate

calartscharacteranimation

disney-moments-sketches (Allen Ostergar’s blog, animator at Walt Disney)

drawingforsuckas

fuckyeahconceptart

storyboardresources

theanimationarchive

theartofanimation

wannabeanimator

resources/tips:

Animation schools: 1 / 2 (Top 50 USA) / 3 (Top 100 international)

Which animation school is right for you? (Ringling vs. CalArts)

Don’t want to/ can’t afford art school? you’ve got other options.

Animation Mentor: The online animation school

Art school exercises!!

51 Great Animation exercises

20 things you can expect as a traditional (2D) animation student that they never tell you

A Survivor’s Guide to Life Inside an Animation Studio

Animation basics: The art of timing and spacing

Animation Notes From Ollie Johnston

Animated chart of the basic principles of animation

10 Second tip: Always Anticipate

book: Animation: Learn How to Draw Animated Cartoons by Preston Blair

book: A System for Planning and Timing Animation by Glen Keane

book: Timing for animation by Harold Whitaker and John Halas

book: Gesture Drawing for animation by Walt Stanchfield

Basic 3D Animation Terminology

Digital pencil test!!

Keys to Emotion in Animation

Lessons from Disney’s Zootopia

Model Sheets central

The importance of Acting in Animation by Segio Pablos

Printable exposure/dope sheet

Phoneme Chart

Recommended reading for animation students and enthusiasts

The 5 Types of Animation

The Know-How of Cartooning 

The Unofficial Truth about The Animation Industry

Why Disney Sends Its Animators To Life Drawing Classes

Walk/Run Cycles reference

What is Pixar looking for in Animators? (scroll down)

Portfolio Advice for The Disney Animation Internship

What is Rigging?

3D Rigging Terminology

3D Modeling Terminology

tutorials:

Animation for Beginners: Where do I start

Animation Physics (Video tutorials on physics for animation artists)

Animation tutorial part. 1 AKA “the secret of animation”

Appealing Poses in Animation

Background & Movement in TV

Blinking tips

Breakdown tutorial (middle frame between to keys)

Drawing & Composition for visual storytelling

Drawing for Animation

Drawing a Likeness

Animation fundamentals + tutorials

Filmmaking: Composition and Framing

Getting Shape Change

How to animate using photoshop

How to animate Characters in Perspective

How to Animate Head Turns

How to Draw Gesture

OpeenToonz tutorials masterpost

Overlapping Action and Drag

Portfolio tips / Making A Successful Portfolio

Lyp Sync tutorial

Line of action

Basics of good cartooning 1-12 by Sherm Cohen

Squash & Stretch tutorial

Squash and Stretch 2

Storyboarding tutorials by Sherm Cohen

The Illusion of Life: 12 Principles of Animation

Tilt, Flow & Rhythm

Underlying Structure When Animating Expressions

TVPaint tutorial: Uploading and Coloring Scanned Animation

supplies (traditional animation):

10 Essential Art Supplies for the Traditional Animator

How to Use a Light Table for Animation

Making a Simple Animation Lightbox

Peg bars, Animation Disk & Desk

softwares:

free

Blender (3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline: modeling, rigging, animation,etc)

Emofuri (animate using .psd files)

Google Sketchup (

Live2D ( animation/drawing software

OpenToonz (Studio Ghibli’s open source animation software)

Pencil2D (create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics)

Renderman (Pixar’s free 3D rendering software)

Sculptris (Free digital sculpting tool by the makers of Zbrush

SculptGL (Online modelling program)

Synfig (2d animation using a vector and bitmap artwork)

paid

Zbrush (digital sculpting sw by Pixologic)

Mudbox (digital sculpting sw by Autodesk)

Cinema 4D (digital sculpting sw by Maxon)

TVPaint  (2d animation)

animation studios:

Aardman (Bristol, UK)

Blue Sky Studios (Greenwich, USA)

Dreamworks (Glendale, USA)

Fox Animation (USA)

Imagination Studios/CN (Burbank, USA)

Industrial Light & Magic (San Francisco, USA)

Laika (Hillsboro, USA)

Luma Pictures (USA / Melbourne, Australia)

Nickelodeon Animation (Burbank, USA)

Pixar (Emeryville, CA)

Rise FX (Berlin, Germany)

Studio Ghibli (Tokyo, Japan)

Sony Picture Imageworks (Vancouver, Canada)

Sony Pictures Animation (Culver City, CA)

Walt Disney Animation (Burbank, CA)

Weta Digital (Wellington, New Zealand)

inspiration: worth watching short films

Coda by and maps and plans

Contre Temps by the Contre Temps Team

Duet by Glen Keane

DOG ENVY by Olivia Huynh

Fallin Floyd by  il Luster

French Roast

Gravity by Ailin Liu

In Between by Gobelins

Jinxy Jenkins and Lucky Lou by Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon

My Big Brother by Jason Rayner

Night Light by Qing Han

Nephtali by Glen Keane

Nocturne by Kari Casady

Historia de un Oso by Gabriel Osorio

Home Sweet Home  by home sweet home the film

One Bright Dot by  Clément Morin

Stickboy by Giant Ant

SOAR by Alyce Tzue

Tsunami by The Animation Workshop

Thought of You by Ryan Woodward

Vagabond by  The Animation Workshop

5 Gobelins Shorts That Pay Tribute To Women Animation Pioneers

[bawono-173]

Signal boosting

[istowin]

Attack on Titan edit Levi

[istowin]

Attack on Titan edit

~Ivy~

[istowin]

Rewatching Lord of the Rings when you are older hits different. Arwen and Aragorn gouache painting because why not

~Ivy~

[silver1vy]

They are perfect for each other

[madockisser]

JuniperBooks, limited edition Holly Black novels of Elfhame, including authors note on inside flap.

[silver1vy]

I NEED IT😭 They are too beautiful

[eternal-books]

Reminders for readers:

It doesn’t matter how many books you read. 

It doesn’t matter how many books others read.

Don’t worry too much about your reading goal.

Don’t judge others on their preferences.

Nobody likes book snobs.

Don’t worry about how many books you own. 

Don’t force yourself to read books.

You can put a book down if you aren’t enjoying it.

Life’s too short to read books you don’t like.

You are allowed to reread books as many times as you want.

Ebooks are books and they’re great. 

Audio books are books and they’re great.

Physical books are great too.

You are still valid. You are still a reader. It literally doesn’t matter how or what you read. 

Don’t worry about what everyone else is reading.

Don’t worry about other opinions. 

Read what you want. 

[maisy1111]

you can’t tell me this isn’t Jude Duarte sitting in the court of shadows

[flybysun]

first post ever on tumblr??

anyway, it’s jude in all her glory!

[malykotek]

Me coming onto tumblr dot com ready to make another post nobody cares about

[thememedaddy]

[silver1vy]

I literally have 12 books in my physical tbr, help me please. I need someone who’ll read them with me

[softbratxoxo]

Reblog this if it’s okay to DM you and shoot the friendship shot.

[catchymemes]

[catchymemes]

[brackenferns]

taryn dumping locke's corpse into the ocean and changing her relationship status to widow (self-inflicted)

[silver1vy]

That’s what made her similar to Madoc. I don’t think Jude will ever be able hurt someone she loves, but those 2 can

[catchymemes]

[ruthless-women]

what i like about cardan is that he’s Not Like Other YA Love Interests but, like, in a good way. he isn’t huge and muscular and overwhelmingly powerful and strong. he’s kind of a loser. he’s endearingly pathetic. things rarely ever go his way. he isn’t the top alpha dog that commands the pack, he’s more like that one lonely dog in the corner who licks his paws and whines and makes you feel bad for him. jude didn’t want him because he was this godlike, all-powerful guy, she wanted him because he’s a sad pretty boy who likes to drink wine and say poetic things about her and be kind of useless at times. he’s a very refreshing love interest. i wish we had more cardans in fantasy books!