Inspiration

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Animation

Animation from About dot com

• The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics, 1965
• Famed animator Chuck Jones and the MGM Animation/Visual Arts adapted
• the book by Norton Juster, 1963
• Home Star Runner, animated shorts

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Frame-by-Frame Animation / Stop Motion / Animated GIF

Artists

• The Brothers Quay
• Norman McLaren: Neighbours
• Lotta Reininger
• Ladislas Starewicz
• Jan Svankmajer: Meat Love (1989), Food-Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
• Julian Opie

Films

• Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune): Georges Méliès, 1902
• Corpse Bride: Tim Burton, 2005
• Anomalisa: 2015

TV

• Jack Frost
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Gumby
• Wallace and Gromet

List of Stop Motion Films on Wikipedia

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Movie Title Sequences/Motion Graphics

Saul Bass (1920-1996), title sequences designed by Saul Bass. 

• The Man with the Golden Arm
• North by Northwest
• Psycho
• Vertigo

Kyle Cooper, Wired Magazine-The Dark Genius of Kyle Cooper

Tile Sequence Design, New Media Art

• Catch Me if You Can
• Cowboy Bee Bop
• Freeway
• The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Movie Title Sequences Parodies

• Cinderella
• Scary Mary
• The Shining

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Designer Sites

• Hamdouchi Interactive - Your Ideas Activated - Interactive / Web and App Developer
• JLern Design - Interesting Navigation
• Jonathan Yuen
• Old site
• New interdisciplinary graphic design studio site - Nice use of an animation to show the Old Sites progression

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Firms and Studios

• Leo Burnett - If you do not know this, you SHOULD!
• Pivot Design
• Trollback + Company -  
• Septime Creations - Creative navigation and animation
• Design Firms - The ultimate design directory since 2003

• Studio Tord Boontje - Nice design on the site (they changed the site layout since the last time I was there, old format was a lot nicer.)

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Just for Fun

• A is for Apple - Interesting architecture, design, and animation / audio
• Don't Click It - Nice interactivity
• Monoface - Nice Interactivity
• Boohbah Zone - Funny & annoying - I am sure kids love this

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Net.Art

What is net art? What makes it different from graphic design? Does it have any limitaions, if so what they? What are some advantages of using net.art as a medium?

Net art, web art, online art, net.art? by Andreas Brogger

Ten Myths about Internet Art by Jon Ippolito

• jodi.org
• Superbad
• Gaku Tsutaya: Candy Factory
• Olia Lialina, Russian: My Boyfriend Came Back From the War & Agatha Appears also see The Last Real
• Michael Mandiberg: Shop Mandiberg & AfterSherrieLevine.com
• Yucef Merhi: Maximum Security networks
• Motomichi Nakamura: Bcc - Check out this video
• Mouchette
• Natalie Bookchin: The Intruder a story based by Argentinia writer Jorge Luis Borges
• Brody Condon: Adam Killer & love_2.wad (Velvet Strike spray)

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Check out these sites

• Design Licks
• Razorfish
• Webby Awards
• Cool Home Pages
• Web Page that Suck
• FWA Winners

• Top 10 Illustrators Online Portfolios Worth Exploring
• 20 Top Illustrators to follow on the Behance Blog
• 15 Female Illustrators We Have a Crush On | Complex Art & Design

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There are a ton of great places online to make a portfolio including creating your own website. Here are just a few places to look into:

• Carbonmade
• Behance
• Cargo Collective
• Coroflot
• Dribble
• Shown'd
• Weebly
• Wordpress

Please be sure to read all the terms and conditions of any site you put your work up on. I do not suggest using DeviantArt as your portfolio.