Resources
Recommended Books
Animation: 2D and Beyond by Jayne Pilling
The Animation Book by Kit Laybourne
Additional Books
Animations of Mortality by Terry Gilliam
Batman Animated by Paul Dini and Chip Kidd
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim and Simon Deitch
Chuck Amuck by Chuck Jones
Creating 3D Animation: The Aardman Book of Filmmaking by Peter Lord and Brian Sibley
Scriptwriting for Animation by Stan Hayward
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Video
The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger
Alice by Jan Svankmajer
Batman: The Animated Series — The Legend Begins
Beyond by Koji Morimoto
The Cameraman's Revenge by Ladislas Starewicz
Clerks — The Animated Series Uncensored
Director's Series: Michel Gondry
Gorillaz Phase One — Celebrity Takedown
The Hand by Jiri Trnka
The Idea by Berthold Bartosch
Kaleidoscope by Len Lye
Princes at Princesses by Michel Ocelot
Samurai Jack by Genndy Tartakovsky
Street of Crocodiles by the Brothers Quay
Superman by Max and Dave Fleischer
Tale of Tales by Yuri Norstein
Software
iStopMotion (Mac)
Macam USB web cam driver for OS X (to use USB cameras with iStopMotion)
Stop Motion Pro (Win)
Anasazi Stop Motion (Win)
Web Sites
Animation Express from Wired Magazine
Bembo's Zoo (animated text)
The Brothers Quay in Film Quarterly
Classic Animations from the Library of Congress
Rather Good by Joel Veitch
Stainboy by Tim Burton
Thomas Timberwolf by Chuck Jones
When I Was Three by Marianne Petit