MIPA Resources

Below is a list of resources to help with the creation and development of web/digital/interactive projects, career planning, area groups, and other useful subjects. Please email links and descriptions to info@MIPA-NET.com Thanks!

Area Groups
Career Planning
Colleges and Courses
Programming and Scripting
Sounds and Effects
Useful Links

Area Groups

Ann Arbor Association for Women in Computing - The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Association for Women in Computing is part of a national organization. AWC was founded by fifteen women in Washington, D.C. in 1978, and it is one of the first professional organizations for women in computing. The initial purpose of the group was to establish and encourage communication among women in computing. The scope of the organization has grown to include professional networking, continuing education, and mentoring.
GLIMA - GLIMA Mid Michigan's mission is to be the interactive voice with a primary mandate to create products and services which provides lifelong learning, networking, and community outreach opportunities for its members.
International Game Developers Association (Michigan Chapter) - The International Game Developers Association is a non-profit professional membership organization that advocates globally on issues related to digital game creation.
SCORE (Ann Arbor Chapter) - The Ann Arbor Area Chapter of SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” is part of a national nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of the nation’s small business. We primarily serve Washtenaw, Livingston, and Lenawee counties. SCORE volunteers serve as “Counselors to America's Small Business.”
Southeast Michigan Animation and Special Effects (SEMAFX) - SEMAFX has become your most powerful resource and support structure to help you "kick it to the next level", whether you're a pro, freelancer, student, teacher or a fan of animation and effects! Whatever you're trying to do, SEMAFX is here to help you.
glimaWest - Glima West. Professional Assn. of West Michigan

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Career Planning

Aquent - Find contract, project-based, and permanent work for a broad range of Creative and Information Technology professionals.
CraigsList - Local community classifieds and forums - a place to find a job, housing, goods & services, a social life, advice, and just about anything else.
Creativehotlist - Media related-specific jobs.
DevBistro - Dev Bistro is a community resource that lets you search and post Web Development and other Information Technology jobs.
Gamasutra - Find jobs for game designers.
GetAFreelancer - As a freelancer you can choose among hundreds of outsourced projects. Join free and pay only a small commission.
Salary.com - Find out what you're worth.


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Colleges and Courses

College for Creative Studies - The College for Creative Studies (CCS), formerly known as the Center for Creative Studies, is one of the nation’s leading arts education institutions. A private, fully accredited, four-year college located in Detroit, CCS offers Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in eight studio majors plus an Art Education program leading to State of Michigan K-12 Teaching Certification.
Drexel University - The College of Media Arts and Design nurtures creativity and expression in media, design and the performing arts, while empowering students with the knowledge, skills and techniques to assume leadership roles in creative enterprises. Evolving with the latest technologies, the CoMAD curriculum helps students embrace and master the changing mediums on which their art depends.
Georgia Institute of Technology - Program in Informational Design and Technology.
Indiana University - MIME....is about art, music and storytelling designed for New Media, along with every media ever invented or used by humankind....from cave wall etchings to Gibson's stimsims and virtual light. We strive to meld the digital with the traditional, be it film, radio, television, print, or any other medium. MIME recognizes that the explosion in digital convergence has come from applying human talent and imagination to technology. We therefore look to bringing content and creativity, whatever form they take, to digital and virtual platforms, resulting in New Media products that cover the gamut from computer games and internet development to virtual reality environments.
Michigan State University - DMAT (Digital Media Art & Technology) is the home for those interested in creating, producing, and researching present and emerging digital media at Michigan State University.
Northwestern University - Interactive Entertainment Group.
Purdue University - Computer Graphics Technology prepares visually oriented students for careers in creating and managing the production of computer graphics within a wide range of industries. Students work collaboratively in computer labs to master graphic techniques and concepts, and management skills. Students can choose to generalize in applied computer graphics technology or develop more in-depth knowledge and skills in areas such as interactive multimedia; technical animation; manufacturing graphics; or construction graphics.
Ringling School of Art and Design - Ringling School of Art and Design is a private, not-for-profit, fully accredited college offering the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree [BFA] in six disciplines: Computer Animation, Fine Arts, Graphic & Interactive Communication, Illustration, Interior Design, and Photography & Digital Imaging. Located on Florida’s Gulf Coast, the picturesque 35-acre campus now includes 69 buildings, and attracts more than 1,000 students from 46 states and 33 foreign countries. It is recognized as being among the best and most innovative visual arts colleges in the United States as well as a leader in the use of technology in the arts. With a better than 2:1 student to computer ratio, Ringling School’s computing infrastructure rivals even that of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT].
Rochester Institute of Technology - Founded in 1829, RIT is an internationally recognized leader in professional and career-oriented education enrolling more than 15,000 students in eight colleges.
Savannah College of Art and Design - The Savannah College of Art and Design exists to prepare talented students for careers in the visual and performing arts, design, the building arts, and the history of art and architecture. The college emphasizes learning through individual attention in a positively oriented environment. The goal of the college is to nurture and cultivate the unique qualities of each student through an interesting curriculum, in an inspiring environment, under the leadership of involved professors.

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Programming and Scripting

CodeWalkers - Resource for PHP and SQL Developers.
FlashKit - One stop raw materials center for flash creations. Tutorials, loops, sound bites, images, help forums, etc.
HotScripts
MSDN Library - Great Web Development Site -- tips, functions, scripts, etc.
Macromedia Action Script Dictionary - Action Script Dictionary.
php net - Helpful php resource.

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Sounds and Effects

FreeAudioClips.com - Looking for awesome audio clips? Look no further! FreeAudioClips.com is loaded with tons of wav, midi and au files for your listening and downloading pleasure!
Loopasonic - Loopasonic free loops and free samples since 1998.
Partners In Rhyme - Free Sound Effects
The Mod Archive
Sound America

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Useful Links

AIGA - AIGA, the professional association for design, is committed to furthering excellence in design as a broadly-defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force. AIGA is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice.
Communication Arts - Communication Arts is the leading trade journal for visual communications and was the first major design publication to launch a Web presence in 1995.
Design Interact - Design Interact was created to be the premiere source of information and inspiration for the field of interactive media.
Getty Images - The world's leading provider of imagery, film, and digital services.
Lorem Ipsum - It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English.
SIGGRAPH - ACM SIGGRAPH is dedicated to the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques. We are a membership organization that values passion, integrity, excellence, volunteerism, and cross-disciplinary interaction in all of our activities. We are probably best known for the annual SIGGRAPH conference we sponsor, but we also put on a variety of programs year-round and worldwide to benefit the SIGGRAPH community.

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