Mayerson on Animation

Animators had more control of their characters’ behaviour and fewer collaborators in the silent era than at any time since, but they didn’t ...

Rotoscoping was invented by Max Fleischer in 1915 ( Cabarga 19 ). The process involved taking live action film and projecting it onto glass...

Just as animation came late to movie theatres, having to adjust production schedules to fit an already established exhibition model, animati...

Once the animator has taken the script, storyboard, voice track, layout drawings and exposure sheets and synthesized them into motion, the m...

Just as actors have different strengths – the ability to do comedy or drama, a realistic vs. stylized approach to performance – animators al...

This clip from Ratatouille fortuitously arrived online. It's a clear demonstration of what I've been talking about in my thesis/MRP...

Having established the timing of the animation, the question was now what the animator was going to draw to accompany the established musica...