Pen and ink-like rotoscope gifs

Fun (and gorgeous) pen and ink gif loops by Matthias Brown.
Rotoscoping.

TED-ED: Time & Space in Animation

Really great explanation about timing in animation:


Norman McLaren, a pioneer of 20th century animation, once said that "what happens between each frame is more important than what exists on each frame." But what the hell did he mean?

This video, by TED Ed, explains how tiny differences in timing and spacing—qualities provided by differences between frames rather than the frames themselves—can turn a an awful mess of an animation into something wonderful. The differences are subtle, barely perceptible frame-to-frame, but add up to have a huge impact—and it's all demonstrated very neatly with an example of a bouncing ball. Well worth watching. [TED Ed]

Rotoscoping examples

Robert Breer's Fuji, 1974.  Gorgeous minimal rotoscoping.

Sand animation: fish

Gorgeous fluid sand animation.

A Tangled Tale from corrie francis parks on Vimeo.

"Shot by Shot" editing examples

In David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's book, "Film Art: An Introduction," the chapter on "The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing" describes several different types of edits.  The student authors of this BLOG explain and give some good examples of:

• graphic relations between shot A and shot B
• Rhythmic relations between shot A and shot B
• Spatial relations between shot A and shot B
• Temporal relations between shot A and shot B
  
  and more!

Storyboards-some examples

Good web resources:

• Stanford's Tutorial here 
• Storyboard basics - OSU
• YouTube storyboard channel
• Awesome Storyboards from 15 of Your Favorite Films - Flavorwire

Hitchcock's storyboard for Psycho, 1960

Masters of Polish Animation trailer

Lots of good references.

THE MASTERS OF POLISH ANIMATION trailer from Cinefamily on Vimeo.