Mayerson on Animation

It's that time of year again. The Sheridan class of 2012 met the industry on April 26. Industry and faculty line up to register ...

I find that many of the most interesting animated films these days are being made in the genre of animated documentaries.  Paul and Sandra...

The above animation is by Ron Zorman , who did it with TVPaint. I'm including it here because it is a clear reminder of the expressive p...

I've been working my way through the UPA Jolly Frolics DVD collection. I had never seen any of the Ham and Hattie shorts, so I was na...

The only way this book could be better is if the artists who worked at UPA were all still alive to be interviewed. Thankfully, many were in...

The clock is ticking on Michael Sporn's Kickstarter campaign to help finance his feature based on the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe....

TV Ontario ran two animated features, Perspepolis and Mary and Max , on Saturday Night at the Movies on March 17. As usual, between featu...

It's almost that time of year again, where the students graduating from Sheridan's animation program screen their films for industry...

I never saw Brad Bird's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and I won't be seeing Andrew Stanton's John Carter . The analyst in...

Michael Sporn has been developing an animated feature about author Edgar Allan Poe and has decided to use Kickstarter to finance the project...

Apparently, somebody complained about the above clip from Family Guy , and "The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ruled on Thursday...

Today is traditionally the day when everyone complains how boring the telecast was, how awful the fashions were and how out of touch the Aca...

The DVD collection of UPA Jolly Frolics is now available for pre-order through both the TCM website as well as Movies Unlimited . The pre-...

This year the Annie Awards are being streamed live, starting at 7 p.m. Pacific (10 p.m. Eastern) time on various websites, including Cartoon...

The schedule for the Studio Ghibli retrospective at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto is now available here . Tickets can be ordered in adv...

UPDATED Børge and his wife are unhurt, but they have suffered a major loss of their possessions and artwork due to a fire. Their daughter A...

Another copyright case from the comics world, but one that has implications for people working in animation. Writer Gary Friedrich created M...

This blog seems to be tipping more and more into the business, as opposed to the art, of animation, but it's hard to avoid when various ...

The character of Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, has a long and complicated legal history. Jerry Siegel's heirs have...

UPDATED BELOW . If I knew how to block out this site on Jan. 18 in protest against SOPA and PIPA, two bills currently in the U.S. Congress t...