Useful Networks

I found many useful networking sites such as twitter, deviantart and linked in. These are all very good for finding artistic people in the area you want to go into in my case it is stop motion animation.
Here are seven tips from Sacha Chua on networking

1. It's okay to be an introvert. Most networking books tell you to act like an extrovert. You don't have to fake it. Don't worry you can be a shy connector.
2. Change your perspective. It's not about selling yourself, it's about helping others. It's not about becoming popular, it's about learning and sharing. 
3. Give people reasons. If it's hard to talk to strangers, make it easier for strangers to talk to you. By blogging about your interests, being quirky and you don't have to be an expert to share.
4. Look for ways to help. What can you bring to a conversation? You can ask good questions that draw people out and make them think. You can recommend books and websites that help people learn. 
5. Give yourself homework. Promise to follow up with link/ resource/ etc from tip 4 (help). Follow up. Write it down. Use the network effect. 
6. Make it easy to get to know you. When you help others, they'll want you to know and help you too. Make it easy to find and know you. 
7. keep going, keep practicing. The more you think, the more you listen, the more you write, the more you speak, the more you figure out who you are, what you want to say, why it matters and how you want to say it and the happier you'll be. 

There are other sites you can use to network for instance youtube, Fuckyeah concept art and behance. There are loads out there you just need to find the ones that suit you and your career choice. The ones that I use frequently are Youtube and Twitter.