Mayerson on Animation

Allan Holtz's blog, Stripper's Guide , dedicated to comic strips, has reprinted a 1919 article by an animator named Bert Green from...

The New York Times is reporting that the Hollywood studios have decided to push box offices success for the Academy Awards this year. With...

A rather startling layout from Chuck Jones' Bear Feat . The trees are an animated pan, adding even more interest to the shot. The lates...

I've always had mixed feelings about Bill Plympton. He draws beautifully. His short films always provoke a strong audience reaction. ...

Europa Film Treasures , an online archive of films, has a section devoted to animation. The highlights of that section, by far, are two fil...

October 14 marks the release of the seventh volume of Walt's People , a collection of interviews with people who worked with and for Wal...

A commenter named Holger suggested that I list the mosaics in the sidebar so that they'd be easier to find. It's an excellent sugge...

As I go through this film shot by shot, one of the things that keeps jumping out at me is how much re-used animation there is. It's fai...

October 4 is Buster Keaton's 113th birthday. I admire many film makers and artists, though for some reason, Buster's birthday stick...

A reader named David Graves sent the following query: I found your name through your blogs, but feel that my naive question might be appropr...

Spike Lee is interviewed at Salon.com . While this quote does not relate directly to animation, it does relate to the larger film industry ...

Emru Townsend, founder and editor of fps , has been suffering from leukemia and monosomy 7. His family, especially sister Tamu, have been c...

We've all had bad photographs taken. I'm sure that everyone reading this has cringed at a driver's license, passport or yearboo...

Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Darryl F. Zanuck and John Lasseter. All of them worked as studio heads and film makers, but one of them was s...

Designer Hans Bacher ( Mulan , The Lion King ), the author of Dream Worlds , is back again with another blog dedicated to reconstructing t...

Dick Williams will be appearing at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on September 22. Here's the press release: MASTER CLASS: R...

In this segment, Cruella and the Baduns are searching for the dogs, who are fighting their way through a snow storm. They are rescued by a ...