- Buzzle.com - Animation
- Animation World Network Publishing group that serves as a platform for interaction between related businesses, institutions, organizations, and their affiliates. Features a gallery of original animated artwork. Also provides a database of career opportunities and awards, an events calendar, business yellow pages, and discussion forums.
- Don Markstein’s Toonopedia
- Fact Monster - Cool Stuff - Animation
- Bright Lights Film JournalU.S.-based quarterly magazine on the motion picture industry. Contains archives of actor and director profiles and articles on a variety of genres like animation, horror, silent, and experimental as well as international films. Also includes reviews of movies and festivals.
- The Surrealist Conspirator: An Interview With Jan SvankmajerBrief profile and an interview of this filmmaker from Czech republic best known for his animations.
- DreamWorks Animation SKGInformation on this Palo Alto-based animation studio. Contains sections on computer-generated three-dimensional animations, feature films, commercials, short films, and other projects. Includes video clips from Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers, Budweiser’s Boy Meets Girl commercial, and Michael Jackson’s Black or White.
- "So, What Was It Like?": The Other Side Of Animation’s Golden AgeArticle discussing the working conditions during 1930-50 in the animation studios of Walt Disney and Max Fleischer.
- Popeye From Strip To ScreenArticle discussing E.C. Segar’s comic strips and Fleischer Studios’ animated films of the 1930s featuring Popeye the Sailor.
- A Capsule History of AnimeArticle on the history of the development of animation films in Japan.
- Digital Media FX - The History of Animation - Advantages and Disadvantages of the Studio System in the Production of an Art Form
Britannica Web Sites
Articles from Britannica encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.
- animation - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11)
Animation is the art and science of making pictures, or images, appear to move. Animated movies and television shows are popular forms of entertainment. There are two basic types of animation: traditional animation and computer animation.
- animation - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
Animation is the process of giving the illusion of movement to drawings, models, or inanimate objects. Animated motion pictures and television shows are highly popular forms of entertainment. Traditionally, animation has involved the filming of a series of cartoon drawings or objects so that, when projected, the illusion of movement is created. With the development of computer technology, many animated films and TV shows have been made from computer-generated images (CGI; also known simply as computer animation).