Mayerson on Animation

Reflections on the art and business of animation.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

101 Dalmatians: Part 16A

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In this section, the pups and their parents spend some quiet time together before Horace and Jasper arrive to resume the chase. The Colonel...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Ed Catmull and the Harvard Business Review

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Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation, has written an article for the Harvard Business Review that can be read here....
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Friday, August 22, 2008

Behind the Scenes of Walt's People

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Didier Ghez, editor of the Walt's People series of books interviewing those who worked with and for Disney, goes into detail on the cre...

Michael Maltese in 1960

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Jaime Weinman has unearthed a 1960 interview with Michael Maltese from the New York Herald Tribune . Maltese, if you're unaware, was o...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Rowley on Persepolis

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I want to draw your attention to Stephen Rowley's review of Persepolis , which has only recently been released in Australia. It begins...
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

The Vital Conception

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With regards to animated acting, I've written that I don't believe the technique (meaning drawn, cgi or stop motion) is responsibl...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

101 Dalmatians: Part 16

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Otto Messmer's Parrot

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Comicrazies has reprinted 22 examples of the comic strip Laura , drawn by Felix the Cat creator Otto Messmer, from 1932. Laura is the nam...
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Sunday, August 10, 2008

101 Dalmatians: Part 15A

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In this part of the film, Pongo and Perdita arrive at Hell Hall and attack Horace and Jasper, allowing Tibbs and the puppies to escape. Pong...
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Friday, August 08, 2008

Happy Birthday Gene Deitch

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Today is Gene Deitch 's 84th birthday, so happy birthday, Gene! Gene worked for UPA and was the head of Terrytoons after Paul Terry sol...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

The Vital Connection

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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...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

101 Dalmatians: Part 15

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Amid at Cartoon Brew has already pointed this out, but I wanted to also recommend Oswald Iten's blog Colorful Animation Expressions . ...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

Babies and Bathwater

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While I'm not surprised that Michael Barrier and Michael Sporn found this summer's animated features lacking, I am surprised by some...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Aardman and Dreamworks

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Courtesy of Harvey Deneroff' s blog, here's a link to an interview with Nick Park from The Guardian . In the article, there are so...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Long Tail Revisited

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Two years ago, I wrote about Chris Anderson and his book, The Long Tail . A quick summary is that in a brick and mortar world, retailers w...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008

101 Dalmatians: Part 14A

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In this section, Horace and Jasper notice that the puppies have fled the room and start to track them down within the house. Pongo and Perd...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

One Percent Redux

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I want to call everyone's attention to a comment made by Andrew Osmond on the entry One Percent . He provides more details about the st...
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Space Chimps

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I haven't seen the film, so I have no opinion of it one way or the other. But I have to question the wisdom of opening any film the sam...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Joel Chandler Harris

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The above dummies were a gift from Walt Disney to the Harris family at the time of the 1946 premiere of Song of the South . Here is a very i...
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One Percent

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TV channels are suffering from declining audiences. That puts financial pressure on them to increase their viewership, which means that nic...
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Mark Mayerson
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I've worked as an animator, writer, producer and director in TV animation for 29 years. I created the cgi series Monster By Mistake. I hold a Masters degree from York University in Cinema and Media Studies.
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