Mayerson on Animation

The New York Times has an article about the technology behind Paul and Sandra Fierlinger's animated feature My Dog Tulip , which opens...

I'm going to start off with a plea. Hans Perk's documentation for Dumbo is incomplete in several areas, but never more frustrating...

Arnie Lipsey is a Toronto animator who has worked in the local industry for years. He has also created two independent films, The Crow and t...

Thad has posted about Plight of the Bumblebee , a Mickey Mouse cartoon from the early '50s that was animated, but never finished. Inclu...

Here's something that will make Jenny Lerew and many other animation artists happy: the Blackwing pencil will be manufactured once agai...

Dumbo is still tearful after seeing his mother and gets the hiccups as a result. Timothy has Dumbo drink water from the tub the clowns knoc...

A short time ago, I linked to a Mark Evanier piece about hitting deadlines . I believe strongly in behaving in a professional manner when w...

Left to right: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Claude Jarman, Jr. in John Ford's Rio Grande . Tomorrow, Aug. 17, is Maureen O'Har...

This will probably be old news to New Yorkers, but I moved out of the city before this was created and never managed to see it on my visits ...

Mark Evanier, who has written for many animated TV series as well as writing for comics, has posted some advice to a comics writer friend o...

The clowns are still celebrating and decide to raise the platform that Dumbo jumps from. On their way out to ask for a raise, one of them k...

This sequence, the song "Baby Mine," is the emotional center of the film. Looking at it by itself, it's surprising how little...

The above charts come from this article which suggests that the novelty of 3D is rapidly diminishing. Clearly, people are choosing to see ...

John Canemaker has been contributing articles to Print 's online version. His latest is " Chuck Jones at the MacDowell Colony ,...

John Canemaker has become one of our leading animation historians for several reasons. As an artist and animator himself, he has an advanta...

Once again, the film relies on contrast to make a point. The preceding sequence had the clowns celebrating their successful performance. H...

The Mickey Mouse daily comic strip, done for 46 years by artist Floyd Gottfredson, will be reprinted in its entirety by Fantagraphics Books...

The clowns celebrate their success and toast Dumbo. So far the clowns are the only characters beside Timothy to say anything nice about the...

There's an interview with Dean Yeagle over at Super I.T.C.H.

(link via Boing Boing )