the Directory · 683 entries · 12 collections
What is useful is already online, spread across tabs nobody keeps. The Directory holds it in one place: organised, filterable, and honest about what has been checked.
Shelf
Learning, centralised
The scattered stuff, in one place and filterable.
YouTube Channels
The channels worth subscribing to, tagged by software and by what you actually get: tutorials, rigs, breakdowns, scripts.
32 entriesBCourses
Paid and subscription courses, filterable by level, skill, school and price: so you can tell a $99 class from a $1,000 bootcamp before you click.
50 entriesCSchools & Teachers
Where the courses come from, sorted by what they cost and how they teach.
13 entriesDBooks
Animation principles, design theory and the few books about storytelling that change how you time a cut.
18 entriesShelf
Reference and inspiration
Indexed, not judged. Where to look, not what to think.
Studios
Nearly four hundred studios with their sites and cities: for reference, for job hunting, and for seeing who works near you.
393 entriesFGalleries & Archives
The places that already collect the work. Start here instead of scrolling a feed.
14 entriesGAwards & Festivals
Where to submit and where to go, split by what it costs to enter.
15 entriesShelf
Tools and technique
What to install, what to open, what it costs.
Shelf
Community and opportunity
Other people, and how the work becomes a living.
Shelf
Context and language
The words and the history nobody hands you.
How it's kept
A directory is only as good as its last check.
The Directory is generated from plain text files, not typed into a page. Entries exported from the club's own databases are marked as such; entries seeded from experience are marked too, so you know which ones have been checked and which are still on trust.
Found a dead link, or something that should be here and isn't? Tell us. This only stays true by being corrected.
the Motion Social Club
A place to question ourselves
The letter is free. The exercises are here. The references are here. Read one, or do one.