(c) Lucas Martell 2009
A quick plug this week for a great blog and seemingly Herculean effort by Lucas Martell and cohorts for the making of their short, Pigeon Impossible. You can check out the main website here and the blog here. I highly recommend reading through the blog and downloading the video podcasts (vidcasts?)
While Lucas and the team have been working in Autodesk XSI (though Softimage XSI at the time) the vidcasts are “3D application agnostic”. Actually that’s one of the reasons I am recommending you go check it out as Lucas focuses more on the *process* and the *concepts* and how they can help your production rather than “if you hit this button, X will happen”.
The thing is, creating a 6 minute long animation is a lot of work. Creating a 6 minute animation that looks professional quality is a totally different kettle of fish. Learn from Lucas’s mistakes (and of course hints from this very site) and you will hopefully be able to avoid many pitfalls and time-sinks which will let you keep your focus on your production rather than problems.
Anyway, I am going to list the websites and podcasts that I regularly check out. I must confess that while I used to listen to music pretty much 24/7, these days I am more likely to listen to podcasts and audiobooks while I work. Stuffed if I know how some guys can listen to Finlandish death metal with the volume at 11 while working, but different strokes for different strokes. 
