Animation - You will need this to combine meshes for rigging

http://www.mac3dsoftware.com/tutorials_combine.php

3D Short Examples for Animation Class

Oktopodi
Magic Box
For the Birds
Luxo Jr. 
Lifted

Vimeo Video School

This is a great section on Vimeo with tons of video tutorials and techniques:

http://vimeo.com/videoschool

Mouth Charts for Lip Sync

In case anyone needs some references for mouth shapes, I am going to reblog the link Will found this week: http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~rpyjp/a_notes/mouth_shapes_01.html

Plus this one for simpler characters: http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~rpyjp/a_notes/mouth_shapes_02.html

Plus this creepier one that may help when we get to 3D: http://www.garycmartin.com/phoneme_examples.html

You can also search for other charts. Blog them if you find good ones!

Animation Walk Cycle Resources

There are several tutorials available online to help you with the walk cycle exercise. The simplest tutorial, which you may want to start with, is here:
http://animation.about.com/od/flashanimationtutorials/ss/flash29walkcycl.htm

Once you are comfortable with the technique, here are some others you may want to reference:
http://www.angryanimator.com/word/2008/11/01/animation-tutorial-2-walk-cycle/ http://flashtrick.blogspot.com/2007/10/walk-cycles-right-way.html

This is a great page with examples and tips on creating walk cycles: http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/aim/a_notes/04_walkcycle_project.html#

Optimizing videos for YouTube

Do this before uploading your videos to YouTube, and it will make your life much easier:

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=165543

Make sure you SAVE AS, so you don't copy over the original!

Another Portfolio Option

Some people have been having issues with Weebly, as far as not being able to customize it as much as they want. Another site you can use is www.wix.com. This was originally the site I was going to use, however, it does not handle swf files very well at this point. If you are in Video, that won't matter to you. If you are in Animation, the swf issues might be a problem for you, but there are workarounds.