Mayerson on Animation

I worked in animated TV commercials for a lot of years. The good thing about commercials was that they had relatively high budgets (at leas...

I've been struggling to write something for the last several days and it's just not coming together. This blog has been quiet for al...

By now, you no doubt know that the three nominees for the Best Animated Feature Oscar are Cars , Happy Feet and Monster House . I find it o...

Nancy Beiman has created a commercial for her new book, Prepare to Board! The book is scheduled for release on March 2 and is up for pre-...

This is a Sesame Street spot created by Dan Haskett. Dan is one of the most natural animators I've ever met and it's a shame that he...

Dean Yeagle will be doing an on-line chalk talk via the Entertainment Art Academy on February 18 from 3-6 p.m. Pacific Time. The cost is $6...

One of the things that fascinates me about this cartoon is the way it points both forwards and backwards in animation styles. A lot of the D...

After reading the comments here about the look of King of the Hill , Jaime Weinman has added his thoughts about the nature of prime time an...

My review of Tom Sito's book Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson is up on the fps si...

Here's the pitch trailer that Mike Judge and Greg Daniels used to sell the King of the Hill series to Fox. Jaime Weinman has also pos...

After being booted from the company he founded (now named Laika), he co-wrote a graphic novel called Jack Hightower . He'll be appearing...

The Comics Reporter notes that producer Steve Krantz passed away last Thursday. Here is Variety's obituary . Krantz was responsible f...

You might not know it from reading this blog, but I was a working animator for decades and am teaching the nuts and bolts of animation right...

The new issue of Draw is out and it contains part 2 of an interview with cartoonist Kyle Baker. Baker is one of the more entrepreneurial c...

Here we have a cartoon where the animators are cast by character. I don't know if this was Wilfred Jackson's standard approach as a ...

Your Career in Animation by David B. Levy was published last year but I've only just gotten around to reading it. I'm sorry that I...

It's been a while since I've done one of these. I've just been too busy to put the necessary time in. I've got a bit of brea...

Starlit Days at the Lido is a one reel MGM musical short from 1935 that features Cliff Edwards, the voice of Jiminy Cricket, singing and pl...

Here's a perfect example of what I've been talking about with regards to animators not publicizing themselves enough and the possibi...

No, I'm not repenting for my comment on Harry McCracken's blog. But I'm always interested in behind the scenes material. C. M...