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This part of the site is brand new. I'm going to update regularly and build these lists. Please don't be shy about suggestions for categories or sites you love!
2D Animation Software - pricing as of Sept 2017. Canadian $ unless otherwise specified.
Wikipedia list of 2D software.

 Toonboom Harmony collection
Harmony Essentials - 21 $ / month
Harmony Advanced - 52 $ / month
Harmony Premium  - my personal favorite.  99 $ / month

Adobe Animate CC  - formally Adobe Flash
 USD $19.99 / month  -but price varies by  bundling with other adobe products.
Adobe Photoshop CC
USD $19.99 / month  -but price varies by  bundling with other adobe products.
Adobe After effects CC
USD $19.99 / month  -but price varies by  bundling with other adobe products.

Clip Studio Paint  - aka Manga studio
*goes on sale frequently, Keep an eye out for deals.
Paint pro  - $66
Paint EX  - $219

Moho Pro  AKA Anime studio
Digital copy $239.99 - $399.99 , price varies with sales.

Flip Book
$19.99  - on sale, will check price updates again soon.

Krita - free

Opentoonz  - Free!! Open-source software.
Free!
Synfig  - Open-source
Pencil2D - Open-source

Just for Kids!
Kid's Guide to Making Movies

Miss Brushes Art Academy - Short cartoons about art and music for Little kids
Art-type stuff.
Living Lines Library  -   Drawing reference, Model sheets, Pencil tests.

Character Design Reference- home of the Character design challenge!

The Etherington Brothers, Think when you draw series - and their blog is the best.

2D specific
Toonboom.com - I work in Harmony Premium, learn more about that software here, and loads of great resources.

Traditional Animation.com  - everything 2D !

AAron Blaise  / creature art teacher .com. In case you somehow missed his marketing storm.


General Animation stuff
The Animation World Network 

Canadian Animation Resources

Animation Jobs
They have a great twitter


Toronto Animation Arts Festival International  (Taafi)

Channel Shunt - a collection of awesome indie youtube channels

The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast.

Reddit /r/Animation

Online Learning
Toonboom Harmony tutorial people/sites
YT- Jesse J. Jones - animation tutorials & indie animation

YT- Tony teach - animation tutorials
YT - Frank Summers - tutorials and animation
YT- Chluaid - demos & some older tutorials
YT- Onion skin - animation and tutorials
YT- Whimmery - animation and tutorials
Jon Taylor - animation and tutorials
Toonboom learning portal

Other good things
Oatley Academy of Visual Storytelling
Imaginism studios
Ctrlpaint - digital painting
Level up
FDZ school - concept art
YT- Rubber Onion - so much. I just can't even.
YT - Marco Bucci - loads of painting goodness
YT- I want to be an animator- animation tutorials (3D)
YT- James Gurney - painting and inspiration
YT- Stephen Silver  - he will yell inspiration into your soul.
YT- Noah Bradley - painting environments
YT- Proko - lots of drawing tutorials, more on his website
YT - Swatches - drawing and paintovers
YT - Howard Wimshurst - animation


Friends of Stylus Rumble
Reptoid Games

Tony Teach  - aka Tony Ross, check out our youtube collab!

Cartoon Flow  - all your toonboom addon needs!

Nicole Pav's Whiteboard animation review
Contact me on many things!