| Autodesk: The Area | Digital entertainment & visualization community |
| Develop Online | Number 1 source of trade news for the games development sector |
| Edge Online | Video games, game news, and gaming jobs |
| Engine Room | Ubisoft Technology Blog |
| Gamasutra | The Art & Business of Making Games |
| Game Dev Map | A living map and catalog of game development organizations |
| Games Industry Biz | Games industry news, features, and jobs |
| IGDA | International game developers association |
| Tech Artists | A community for technical artists in videogame and film development |
| 11 Second Club | The most versatile and expressive rigs for the 11 Second Club competition |
| Animation Buffet | Free delivery of Maya rigs |
| Blender | Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite |
| CMU MoCap Database | CMU Graphics Lab motion capture library |
| CryEngine | CryEngine Free SDK |
| Endorphin LE | endorphin Learning Edition is your free, time-unlimited version of endorphin |
| GIMP | GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program |
| Google SketchUp | You can use Google SketchUp to create, modify and share 3D models |
| Maya PLE | 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, rendering, and compositing software |
| Mocap Club Library | The Motion Capture Library is free to the public and meant for educational purposes only |
| Models Resource | Free resource of ripped 3D models |
| Motion Capture Lab | ACCAD Motion Capture Lab data and downloads |
| Puppetshop | Puppetshop is a FREE Rigging and Animation plugin for 3dsmax 8 (or higher) |
| Source SDK | The Source SDK is a software development kit compiled by Valve Software |
| Unity | Game Development Tool |
| Unreal Development Kit | The world’s best game engine… now at your fingertips |
| XSI Base | Softimage XSI skeletons |
| Artnatomy | Anatomical basis of facial expression learning tool |
| BBC Motion Gallery | Stock video footage |
| British Pathe | The world’s finest news and entertainment video film archive |
| Corbis Motion | Video footage, royalty free, rights managed |
| Daily Motion | Online videos, music, and movies |
| Game Trailers | Video game trailers for upcoming video games |
| Getty Images | HD Video, film footage, video footage |
| Google Video | Advanced video search |
| Greenscreen Animals | The world’s leading solution for high quality, humane animal content |
| Internet Movie Archive | Moving image archive |
| Meta Cafe | Online video entertainment |
| Ocean Footage | Ocean stock footage video clips |
| Reference Reference | Free database for animation |
| The Spriter's Resource | Home of the largest seletion of sprite sheets on the internet |
| YouTube | Broadcast yourself |
Jonathan Cooper is Animation Director on Assassin's Creed III at Ubisoft Montreal.