Mayerson on Animation

The one shot sequence 4-7, where Geppetto and Pinocchio cross paths, is a typical melodramatic convention where characters just miss each o...

Richard Corliss of Time magazine writes about Ratatouille and why Pixar is better. The article contains several quotes from Brad Bird and ...

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While characters moved to the beat of the music in early sound cartoons, the use of the human voice was not as important. Dialogue was rela...

An animation director uses very different tools than a live action director. A live action director will decide where to place the camera, ...

The Animation Guild regularly does an anonymous survey of its members to compile statistics on wages. The survey for 2007, completed in Mar...

This sequence is all about character relationships, something that in later years at Disney would see both characters handled by the same an...

Willard Bowsky was a Fleischer animator whose Popeye cartoons were among the most attractive and entertaining of that series. He was also o...

Steamboat Willie (1928) was not the first sound cartoon, but it was the first to have an impact on audiences. The relationship between the...

As bad as I think things are as to how animated productions are organized, they're not as bad as they are in the visual effects field. ...

This is one of the great sequences in Pinocchio . It's all character animation. There are no fancy camera moves or extreme perspective...

May 26 is John Wayne's 100th birthday. His films have continued to be popular, but he's really three different characters. There ...

A live actor can take his or her own body for granted. An actor literally has a lifetime of experience living in it and intimately knows hi...

The need to synchronize animation with speech and music had a major impact on the way that animation was created. The assembly line approac...

I don't know anything more about the Animagic layoff and the production of Nate the Great than I've read at the link below. I also...

The creation of coherent behaviour in animation got off to a slow start, as did animation itself. Regular production of animated shorts did...