Mayerson on Animation

For me, the most interesting animated features being made today are not from North America.  Europe has come on strong, both in terms of s...

My Life as a Courgette ( aka My Life as a Zucchini ) is a Swiss-French stop motion feature that was nominated for an Oscar and has won p...

Michael and Lisa (Spoilers below.) Anomalisa , written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Kaufman and Duke Johnson, is a film that I r...

The Library of Congress National Film Registry invited me to write about the George Pal Puppetoon Tulips Shall Grow .   It is one of the mos...

On Saturday night at 2:15 A.M. Eastern Time (really early Sunday morning), Turner Classic Movies will run a genuine rarity.  Twice Upon a ...

The Boxtrolls is a visually elaborate fantasy that is built on an extremely weak foundation.  While the art direction, cinematography and...

A very interesting article on Will Vinton's career, including how he lost his company to Phil and Travis Knight.

"When working with material objects they look at you and demand attention. They tell you things and maybe you wouldn’t otherwise b...

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Stop motion animation can be done with anything that you can move one frame at a time.  But atoms?  IBM can do it.   "Obviously, th...

Nokia 'Dot' from Sumo Science on Vimeo . Read more about it here .

Today is Ray Harryhausen's 90th birthday. In his honor, let's all duel with skeletons.

Chris Walsh has put up part 2 of his interview with stop motion animator Payton Curtis. Part 1 is here .

Chris Walsh is one of my fellow instructors at Sheridan College. While he lectures on story and animation history, his main area of experti...

There's no reason to believe that [computer animated] characters will ever live on the screen as the characters do in the best hand-draw...