Last weeks #AMA brought up a great question about resources - check it out here - so we asked some Baggers what their favourite resources are. What gets a Brown Bagger going?

Derek Horan

Preston Blair is for me the best book you could have on animation - it’s a great guide to all the basic areas of animation and comes across in clear concise language.

Cathal Gaffney

There is no “one” resource for creativity - despite the creative environment of the studio, my day is usually back to back meetings and I find it hard to turn a switch and “be creative” (even if my role is more reviewing finance and dashboards these days). Creativity typically comes when there is calm so the best ideas usually happens in downtime or outside the organised mayhem of work. After years of research I can confirm that the creativity does not come from a bottle of red wine. For me the best place to look for it is in an art gallery or on a long walk.

Darragh O'Connell

Follow awesome people on Twitter, people that you really admire, whether it be a painter, writer, designer, musician. Sometimes they have real nuggets of advice & after a couple of weeks if you don’t like… UNFOLLOW!

Megan McMahon

Story Cubes for writers block and the laugh, and music can help too if the job doesn’t require too much concentration. Blog hopping to fill the brain with inspiration through Feedly. (Two of my favourites are here and here)

Ciaran Dempsey

Some Online 3D animation resources - iAnimate.com, AnimationMentor.com, Animschool.com and Animsquad.com. If it's 2d animation you're thinking of - look at Flipbook or Pencil - nice simple hand drawn 2d animation programs. Good for practicing the principles of animation without getting bogged down with learning Flash.

Ronan O'Neil

Ted talks are great for inspiration.  Photography too.

Damien O'Connor

It varies at different stages. At the begining, before a script is written, I read as much as possible about the world or environment the story will be set in. Then I head to Google images and try to establish the look and feel, then board to music and use music for editing animatic. Also watch a lot films, I'm convinced they train your brain subconsciously as you watch.

What gets you motivated? Creative?