Mayerson on Animation

As I write this, there are 44 hours left in Michael Sporn's Indiegogo campaign to raise money for his proposed animated feature on the ...

Adam Hines and Andrew Murray, two Sheridan grads who have been doing an animation-related podcast for more than a year, once again had me ...

I’ve long been aware that Walt Disney knew Spencer Tracy.   There’s a 1938 photo of them together with Tracy in polo togs and I knew ...

Katarina Antonic , a new graduate of Sheridan's animation program, has started a Sheridan animation channel on Vimeo and it already has...

On May 8  at 7 p.m. at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Sheridan College's animation program will present a retrospective of student films.  Th...

Deadline Hollywood reports that Brad Bird's next project is another live action film and he's still developing his own live action ...

Michael Sporn is once again trying crowdfunding to help finance his animated feature based on the life and work of Edgar Allen Poe, this ti...

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-...