Finding Visual Media
If you're looking for help finding images & video, and figuring out what you can publish legally, check out the visual media guide!
You'll find some additional resources specific to animation below:
LA+D Animation Gallery
- Collection of Student AnimationThis collection contains work of animation students around 2013
- Digital Commons @ LesleyMore recent works by animation students
Reference Videos
Need to animate someone talking on the phone? Or people in a sword fight? Try these collections of reference videos!
- 3D Digital Models & AnimationsStart with skeletal models and add layers for muscular and nervous systems, etc.
You can choose different models, anatomical systems, body parts, or videos of 3d models. - Mixamo Animated 3D ModelsSearch reference videos for free, or sign up to customize and download files (costs money)
Vintage Animation References
- Origins of American Animation, 1900-1921 (Library of Congress)The development of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, and cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings.
- Film Chest Vintage CartoonsAnimated cartoons from the 1930's and 1940's; part of the Internet Archive's Moving Image Archive. Film Chest offers high-quality content for use in broadcast television, film projects, video streaming, distribution, public television, cable or other prof