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Sunday, February 19th, 2023

Member Appreciation Month Event Schedule

Podcast Schedule

LIVE STREAM LOCATIONS

The Cartoon History podcast will be live-streamed simultaneously to these locations. We recommend using Animation Resources’ own live streaming page to avoid disconnects by third party sites.

Animation Resources Live Stream Page
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(Cartoon History will also stream to YouTube and Facebook. The Best Of videos will only stream to Facebook.)

LIVE STREAM SCHEDULE

The Best of 1-25 Podcast: WEDNESDAY MARCH 8th 5pm / SATURDAY MARCH 11th 2pm (PST)

The Best of 26-50 Podcast: THURSDAY MARCH 9th 5pm / SATURDAY MARCH 11th 4pm (PST)

The Cartoon History Podcast (in two parts): (Streamed in two parts) FRIDAY MARCH 10th Part 1: 5pm (PST) Part 2: 7pm (PST) / SATURDAY MARCH 11th Part 1: 6pm (PST) Part 2: 8pm (PST)

Animation Resources Discord

During Members Appreciation Month, Animation Resources is hosting weekly events on its Discord server. Join us every Sunday during Members Appreciation Month to participate in discussions and network with fellow artists from all over the world. The doors open at 4:30 pm (PDT) and the get together begins at 5:30 pm.


DISCORD SUNDAY HANGOUTS
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JOIN US At The Animation Resources Discord Server
HOSTED BY DAVEY JARELL WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19th 5:30 pm (PDT):
A Discussion About The Best of RefPack 1-25

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26th 5:30 pm (PDT):
A discussion on our Best of RefPack 26-50

SUNDAY MARCH 5th 5:30 pm (PDT):
A Discussion About The Cartoon History: From East To West Podcast

SUNDAY MARCH 12th 5:30 pm (PDT):
Animation Resources 10th Anniversary Party!


Animation Resources is one of the best kept secrets in the world of cartooning. Every month, we sponsor a program of interest to artists, and every other month, we share a book and up to an hour of rare animation with our members. If you are a creative person interested in the fields of animation, cartooning or illustration, you should be a member of Animation Resources!

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Davey Jarell is a member of the Board of Directors of Animation Resources. He is a professional storyboard artist for television and acts as our Director of Programs.

ABOUT DISCORD

Discord is a free chat app that supports video, voice chat and text chat. Discord servers are divided into channels, which all have their own subject or theme of discussion. Members are assigned roles which helps everyone keep track of who’s who. The Animation Resources Discord channel is a virtual meeting place for our supporters. You can meet other Animation Resources members, talk with the people behind the scenes at our organization, and attend lectures and screenings— all without leaving your home. It’s free and open to everyone in the creative community. If you’d like more info on how Discord works, see this article: What is Discord?

Here’s how to install the Discord app and login to the Animation Resources Discord Server:


    1. INSTALL DISCORD
  • iPhone or Android: Download the app from the App Store or Google Play Store and install.
  • Desktop: You can access Discord for your Mac or PC from discordapp.com. You can choose to download and install the free Discord app, or enter our channel directly using your web browser. https://discord.gg/cuvNvsMNQP
    2. CREATE AN ACCOUNT
  • Just follow the prompts to create your own login account.
    3. JOIN THE ANIMATION RESOURCES CHANNEL
  • Click the plus sign to the right of the app and select "JOIN A SERVER".
  • Enter this invite code: vES5YsV
    4. YOU’RE THERE!
  • Take a moment to look around, read the rules and introduce yourself.

The Animation Resources Discord Server is open to the public right now. Pop in and look around, and make a point to visit on Sunday!

Animation Resources 10th Anniversary

It’s Members Appreciation Time again at Animation Resources, and For the past decade, Animation Resources has been serving artists working in the fields of animation, cartooning and illustration. Our volunteers and members have pulled together to raise the bar for our art form, and it’s time to celebrate… It’s Members Appreciation time again!

During the month of February, Animation Resources expresses our appreciation for to members with a very special Reference Pack, and we invite you to become a member too. For the next 30 days, we will be sharing reasons why you should join us. Our benefits of membership far exceed the cost of our annual dues. You can find out what our members get at the Member Appreciation Page. It’s easy to join. Just click on this link and you can sign up right now online…


JOIN TODAY!
https://animationresources.org/membership/levels/

Members Appreciation Month

PayPalAnimationAnimation Resources depends on your contributions to support its projects. Even if you can’t afford to join our group right now, please click the button below to donate whatever you can afford using PayPal.


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Friday, July 8th, 2022

UPDATE 7/08: Animation Resources Needs Your Help

Animation Resources’ Live Streaming Project is nearing its goal. The bulk of the cost is being covered by the dues paid by members, not direct donations from the public. This impacts whether we make our live streamed seminars and screenings public, or reserve them strictly for viewing by members of Animation Resources. It would be nice to make out programs available to everyone, but ultimately, the people who support the project will be the people who benefit from it.

To date, we have raised $370 of our goal of $2,500. Seven students or educators will receive free one year memberships because of these donations. Please CONTRIBUTE USING PAYPAL if you can, or you can donate on Facebook, here… FACEBOOK LIVESTREAM FUNDRAISER.

Live Streaming Project

UPDATE: June 23rd, 2022

A week ago, Davey Jarrell, David Eisman and Stephen Worth met to begin making plans for the equipment, software and online accounts necessary to bring our online streaming project to fruition. We have a shopping list of equipment ready and we’re researching the technical aspects of producing livestreamed programs.

One of the hurdles to overcome is the way video hosts like YouTube and Facebook handle copyright. Animation Resources is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization, and as such, we are allowed broader Fair Use provisions. But public video sharing sites aren’t set up for organizations like us. They don’t provide for Fair Use. This is going to limit what we can stream publicly. However, if we stream from our own server, we can take advantage of our non-profit classification to provide educational screenings and seminars that would not be able to streamed from YouTube or Facebook.

We are looking into a package called Streamyard, which is able to stream live video from multiple sources to both Facebook and YouTube, as well as to a streaming portal on the Animation Resources website. The best part is that Streamyard will also record our stream so we can prep it as a downloadable file for our Reference Packs. This would allow us to stream non-copyrighted material to Facebook and YouTube, and Fair Use educational programming to our own website.

Our problem at this point is one that we have faced since the beginning of the Animation Archive… bandwidth costs. Serving video to a large audience is costly, and the general public isn’t used to paying for content from the web. Animation Resources shares our Reference Packs, which consist of large downloadable files with our members, rotating in a new RefPack every other month. If we shared all of these RefPacks publicly all the time, the monthly bandwidth costs would exceed our income almost immediately.

It would be possible, both legally and technically to host our Fair Use programming on a public page on our website, rather than one behind the Members Only login, but if we were to do that, we would need more support from our non-member followers. We need to keep expenses within our means, but as a non-profit, every cent donated is used to bring more valuable educational content to you. We hope you will seriously consider JOINING Animation Resources, and CONTRIBUTING to this project.

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FUNDING CHALLENGES

Many people, even our own members, don’t realize that Animation Resources and The Animation Archive are not funded by grants or large corporate sponsors. All of our operating funds come from the annual dues of our members. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit, the money we raise is used exclusively for our projects, and the amount of income from dues dictates what we can and can’t do as an organization. Over the past decade, we have been serving the worldwide community of animators, cartoonists and illustrators, and our membership numbers have steadily increased; but not at a rate that allows us to do everything we want to do.

2004 G5 Mac

OBSOLETE TECHNOLOGY

We’ve been forced to cut corners. The last time we bought a new computer was in 2004. Since then, we have been making do with equipment donated to us by members. We’ve been using a G5 Mac as our digitizing computer since the Animation Archive Project was established in 2004. Our first one burned out long ago, and a member donated his old one to take its place. We finally retired this computer when a Mac Mini from 2007 was donated last year. We are still using the Apple Cinema Display from 2004. We currently have two iMacs and a MacMini, all of which are over seven years old. They have served us well, but the time has come to buy a current computer that is capable of taking our organization to the next level.

AN EXCITING NEW PROJECT IN THE WORKS

Board Members Davey Jarrell and David Eisman have been working on a new project to benefit our members and the general public, a live streaming initiative, but our current equipment isn’t capable of filling the needs of the project. We need your help to raise the funds to purchase a new computer.

THE GENESIS OF THE PROJECT

Before COVID, we hosted events in the Los Angeles area. Along with Advisory Board member, Steve Stanchfield we produced a screening at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood that was very successful. Our Animation Creative League hosted programs with guests like animator Eric Goldberg and Twilight Zone writer George Clayton Johnson. The members who attended got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from people who are at the top of their fields.

Audio Podcast

Due to the pandemic, we have been unable to host in-person gatherings; so Program Director Davey Jarrell has been conducting monthly get-togethers in Discord. These have been recorded and edited to serve as downloadable podcasts in our bi-monthly Reference Packs. Davey has produced some amazing programs… an analysis of Chuck Jones’s timing techniques on the Grinch special, a panel discussion on the proper use of reference, and interviews with professionals like Joe Murray, Lenord Robinson and Craig Bartlett.

Audio Podcast

Our Discord Discussions are very popular, but they are limited to audio only. We don’t have the facilities to live stream video. Davey has teamed up with David Eisman to spec out what is needed to be able to live stream speakers and films from multiple locations to audiences on YouTube and Facebook. We want to be able to interact with the live audience in real time so they can ask questions and participate in discussions. Davey and David are also looking into recording the live streams and editing them to produce programs that can be shared in our Reference Packs and syndicated to schools and other animation organizations. This would take the wonderful programs we produce beyond the confines of Los Angeles to the whole world.

WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO

Davey and David have plans to do virtual screenings of rare films from our collection, seminars on storyboarding and acting, profiles of great artists illustrated with film clips and original artwork, and informal virtual get togethers where artists can come together to socialize and share information.

Video Podcasting Equipment

As I said before, our most recent computer is over seven years old. It just isn’t capable of doing what we need to do. In addition, we need sound equipment, cameras and lighting. We’ve gone as far as we can with the money we have, but it isn’t enough to get this project started. We’ve allocated all of our current funds to the project and we have come up short of the figure we need to get the live streams rolling. We will need more money down the road for this live streaming initiative to reach its full potential, but right now we need at least $2,500 to get it started. In the past, as the President of the organization, I’ve reached into my own pocket to help fill Animation Resources’ funding shortfalls, but right now, I’m afraid I’m not able to do that.

We could do a Kickstarter or GoFundMe campaign, but those are a lot of work, and with our small group of volunteers, a project like that would inevitably take resources away from our important job of curating and producing content of interest to artists. We have decided to turn to our members and social media followers for help.

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HERE IS WHAT WE ARE ASKING…

We would like 25 of our followers to donate $100 apiece. That wouldn’t be a burden on anyone, and it would get us started. In return, we will give you a discount code for a free one year membership in Animation Resources. If you aren’t a member yet, you can use it to join us and find out for yourself how important this organization is. If you are already a member, you can gift the coupon code to a friend or colleague and share the wealth of inspiration with the people around you. More members mean a more solid financial footing for our organization. We’re confident that once more people see what we are doing, they will want to sign up to be ongoing annual members. If you don’t have anyone you would like to gift a membership to, let us know and we will use the credit to give free memberships to two worthy students in our Sponsor A Student Program. If you can’t afford $100, please donate what you can. Every little bit helps.

Double The Reference Packs

If we reach our goal, we will do two things… 1.) We will increase the number of rerun Reference Packs on our Annual Members Archive Page from three a year to six a year. This means that annual members will be able to download a different Reference Pack every month! …and 2.) We will live stream many of our programs, open to the general public, and after the stream is over, we will format it to go in a Reference Pack, so members can download them and save them forever.

Membership Brochure

If you’ve been thinking about signing up for a membership and haven’t gotten around to it yet, this is the time to join. If you have no money at all right now, share Animation Resources with your friends and encourage them to join. Print out our brochure (see above) and give it to people you think would benefit from what we have to offer. We don’t just want donations… we want new members to share our treasures with. Members are even more important to us than money.

You can donate right now using this PayPal button…

Donate Today

Or you can donate on Facebook, here…
FACEBOOK LIVESTREAM FUNDRAISER
Facebook Fundraiser

After you have donated, drop us an email at sworth@animationresources.org and let us know if you would like a discount code for a free membership, or if you would like us to sponsor students with your donation.

Raising the bar with our live streaming initiative will make things better for the whole art form. Don’t stay on the sidelines. Be a part of Animation Resources and join our team to build the foundation for the future of animation.

Thank you,
Stephen Worth and the Board of Directors of Animation Resources

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Friday, April 23rd, 2021

April 24th- Discord Discussion: Less Explored Genres of Animation

THIS WEEKEND!

Animation Resources Discord

Animation Resources is hosting monthly Discord parties on its Discord server. Join us the last Saturday of every month to participate in discussions and network with fellow artists from all over the world. The party starts at 4:30 pm (PDT) and the program begins at 5:30 pm.

THIS MONTH’S PROGRAM

Animation Genres

Our schedule of monthly programs under the banner Discord Discussions continues Saturday April 24th!

We’re used to seeing certain types of animation: funny animals, superheroes, princesses, anime, and so on. We’ve seen live actions films of every genre, but when have you ever seen an animated horror film? We know animation does comedy and action well, but we’ve only begun to scratch the surface of the medium’s potential in other genres. Join Animation Resources President Stephen Worth and Board Member Davey Jarrell this Saturday, April 24th, on Discord as they discuss the possibilities of animation in less explored genres. We’ll break down the techniques and impact of the animated horror film “Borley Rectory” as well as some 20th century Russian propaganda films. All of the films being discussed are in the current Reference Pack. Doors open at 4:30 PDT and the program starts at 5:30 PDT!

LESS EXPLORED GENRES OF ANIMATION
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At The Animation Resources Discord Server
SATURDAY APRIL 24th, 2021 5:30 pm (PDT)
HOSTED BY DAVEY JARELL WITH STEPHEN WORTH

Animation Resources is one of the best kept secrets in the world of cartooning. Every month, we sponsor a program of interest to artists, and every other month, we share a book and up to an hour of rare animation with our members. If you are a creative person interested in the fields of animation, cartooning or illustration, you should be a member of Animation Resources!

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS

Davey Jarell is a member of the Board of Directors of Animation Resources. He is a professional storyboard artist for television and acts as our Director of Programs.

Stephen Worth has been producing animation for 35 years. He is the President of Animation Resources.

ABOUT DISCORD

Discord is a free chat app that supports video, voice chat and text chat. Discord servers are divided into channels, which all have their own subject or theme of discussion. Members are assigned roles which helps everyone keep track of who’s who. The Animation Resources Discord channel is a virtual meeting place for our supporters. You can meet other Animation Resources members, talk with the people behind the scenes at our organization, and attend lectures and screenings— all without leaving your home. It’s free and open to everyone in the creative community. If you’d like more info on how Discord works, see this article: What is Discord?

Here’s how to install the Discord app and login to the Animation Resources Discord Server:


    1. INSTALL DISCORD
  • iPhone or Android: Download the app from the App Store or Google Play Store and install.
  • Desktop: You can access Discord for your Mac or PC from discordapp.com. You can choose to download and install the free Discord app, or enter our channel directly using your web browser. https://discord.gg/cuvNvsMNQP
    2. CREATE AN ACCOUNT
  • Just follow the prompts to create your own login account.
    3. JOIN THE ANIMATION RESOURCES CHANNEL
  • Click the plus sign to the right of the app and select "JOIN A SERVER".
  • Enter this invite code: vES5YsV
    4. YOU’RE THERE!
  • Take a moment to look around, read the rules and introduce yourself.

The Animation Resources Discord Server is open to the public right now. Pop in and look around, and make a point to visit on Saturday!

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