Resources

Here is a list of links useful to members of the Clock Crew and other Flash animators in general. If you find a broken link on this page, or would like to suggest new links for this section, notify a Clockopedia editor!

If you can’t find what you’re looking for here, try searching the forums to see if someone else has found it. If that doesn’t work, then consider asking around the forums yourself. As a general rule, it’s a good idea not to ask a question that’s already been asked and answered many times.

Adobe Flash itself has a 30 day free trial available here, but beyond that you’ll have to buy the software yourself, either at student discount ($250 usd) or retail price ($700).
The Clock Crew does not condone software piracy of any kind, so do not bring it up.

The “robotic” clock voices, the ones that the Clock Crew has been almost unanimously pinned to, can come from a number of sources.

• AT&T advanced voices Text-to-speech online demo
• ATT TTS, but with less voices, in case the previous link stops working
• Cepstral Text-to-Speech
• CFS Technologies, the creators of Speakonia
• Rhetorial TTS, another free online voice program
• Textaloud MP3
• Macintosh users can download Orator to create audio files of built-in text-to-speech, or use WireTap to record the text-to-speech voices if that doesn’t work.
• Alternatively, some members of the Clock Crew are willing to provide voices for Clock Crew movies. A potentially inaccurate list of voice actors can be found here.

• Audacity One of the best free sound editing programs available for both Mac and PC.
• http://www.grsites.com/sounds/ Free sound effects
• http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/noflash.htm More Free sound effects
• http://partnersinrhyme.com/, http://www.iamusic.com/ Free and free use sound effects/music
• The Freesound prject
• Sound effects search engine
• http://www.grsites.com/sounds/ More free sound effects
• Another sound effects search engine
• Stickslaughter.com Sound packages available for members. Registration is free.

• http://www.flashkit.com
• http://kirupa.com/
• http://www.pixel2life.com/
• http://www.freefoto.com/
• http://www.istockphoto.com/
• http://www.ehow.com/

• http://myfrogbag.com - Flash and image hosting by Clocks, for Clocks.
• http://zodm.com
• http://photobucket.com (no longer hosts new Flash documents)
• http://imageshack.us/ (no longer hosts new Flash documents)
• http://www.1asphost.com/
• http://www.ripway.com/

• http://www.wordlab.com/tools/t_index.cfm
• http://www.seventhsanctum.com/

ArcticClock came up with this additional list of resources.

http://www.pixel2life.com
http://www.cbtcafe.com/index.htm
http://www.pensnpixels.com/instructional.html
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/

http://www.cartoonster.com/

http://www.martinridley.com/2_oil_painting_demonstration.html
http://www.johnlovett.com/class.htm
http://www.wetcanvas.com/ArtSchool/Watercolors/Textures/index.html
http://www.wetcanvas.com/ArtSchool/Oriental/ChinaWash/china01.html

http://www.stencilrevolution.com/tutorials/

http://www.natomic.com/hosted/marks/mpat/
http://rhysd.syntesis.org/tutorial/index.php
http://www.pixelfreak.com/v3/en/tutorial0.html
http://www.19.5degs.com/element/832.php
http://www.zoggles.co.uk/asp/index.asp
http://pixel.nascimpact.com/tutoriaux.php

http://www.good-tutorials.com/
http://www.absolutecross.com/tutorials/photoshop/
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/tut_photoshop/ps_tut.php
http://www.phong.com/tutorials/
http://www.pegaweb.com/tutorials/web-design-and-adobe-photoshop-tutorials.htm
http://myjanee.home.insightbb.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.photoshop101.com/
http://www.spoono.com/photoshop/tutorials/
http://www.photoshoptutorial.net/
http://www.eyeball-design.com/page09.htm
http://www.n-sane.net/tutorials.php
http://www.dubtastic.com/tutorials.php
http://www.steeldolphin.com/tutorials_photoshop.php
http://www.unleashedstudios.com/
http://www.johnschwegel.com/tutorials.htm

http://www.gfxartist.com/
http://www.shrunkenheadman.com/
http://www.angryblue.com/gallery.shtml
http://www.anry.ru/eng/
http://www.rogercruz.com.br/#
http://www.victrolaface.com/
http://www.unleashedstudios.com/
http://www.alterform.com/Content/Art
http://www.conceptart.org/
http://www.biteycastle.com/
http://www.synj.net/

http://www.pensnpixels.com/downloads.html

http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials.shtml
http://www.flashkit.com
http://www.tutorialoutpost.com/flash-actionscript/

http://www.techtutorials.info/drzadill.html
http://www.tutorialoutpost.com/illustrator-tutorials.php

http://www.saveloomis.org/

http://www.flashkit.com
http://www.cbtcafe.com/index.htm

I only suggest using for inspiration, I haven’t seen anyone worthy of posting on these
http://www.dave-co.com/gutterzombie/
http://www.stencilrevolution.com/forum/
http://www.cgtalk.com/
http://www.steeldolphin-forums.com/
http://sketchkult.com//phpBB/
http://www.ledheavy.com/forum/
http://www.eatpoo.com/phpBB2/
http://www.satellitesoda.com/phpBB2/
http://www.hotinks.com/yabbse/
http://pendako.syste.ms/bbs/
http://www.digitalwebbing.com/forums/
http://www.grafiksismik.net/forum/
http://www.penciljack.com/forum/
http://www.graphic-forums.com/