Mayerson on Animation

I've always been fascinated by Disney's Woodland Cafe (1937) and this scene in particular. Like Mother Goose Goes Hollywood a yea...

The saying goes that comedy is a man in trouble. There is no shortage of trouble in Cordell Barker's films. In The Cat Came Back and ...

Thanks to my friend, the noted animation historian Jim Korkis, I was alerted to this page . Sally Holmes was a Disney employee and when she...

Germans in the Woods from Rauch Brothers on Vimeo . In time for Veterans Day (in Canada, called Remembrance Day), here is a film from the ...

Last week, the 4th year students at Sheridan had a screening of their story reels. I mentor 10 of those students, out of 108 this year. I...

Adam Elliot's stop motion feature Mary and Max will have its Toronto premiere at the Bloor Cinema from November 20 to 25. It will scre...

The new issue of Flip is out, featuring an interview with Howard Baker, a director who does straight-to-DVD features for budgets as low as...

As a follow up to my review of David Levy's book Animation Development From Pitch to Production , I'd like to point out a blog tha...

The article below dates from about 1981, though I no longer have a record of what Canadian publication it appeared in. Though no one knew i...

Today is Ralph Bakshi's 71st birthday. Below is a publicity pamphlet that accompanied the release of Heavy Traffic . I still feel that...

I'm sure that there will be many interviews coming to publicize The Princess and the Frog . Here's one that deals with some techni...

Gene and Zdenka Deitch Gene Deitch has now been in Prague for 50 years and The Prague Post commemorates the occasion with this article on ...

Animation Development From Pitch to Production by David Levy is a very good book about a very bad process. What's good about it is that...

I had plans to attend the Ottawa International Animation Festival next week. In particular, I was looking forward to the feature films that...

I have no idea who created this , why they created this, how they created this or if it ever ends. If you are one of those people who enjoy...

Let’s get one thing straight: Paying artists is always a positive thing. But the manner in which the guys at Channel Frederator are doing it...

If you have any interest in the way the film business operates or the climate that exists for independent films, you must read this talk gi...

Fred Seibert at left. ScribeMedia.org is a video site focusing on the business, technology and culture of the web. There is a six part, 90...

Canadian Business profiles producer Michael Hirsh, a founding partner of Nelvana and currently the head of Cookie Jar. Whether you like t...

Rich Johnston , Nikki Finke and the N.Y. Times are reporting that the estate of Jack Kirby has filed for termination of copyright on the c...