Mayerson on Animation

The Directors Rights Collective of Canada is an organization that collects residuals that accrue from foreign screenings of Canadian film an...

Since May, 2006, I have now posted 1000 times to this blog.  It's hard to believe.  I'd be the first to admit that the quality of th...

Animation festivals are proliferating in Ontario these days.  In addition to the Ottawa International Animation Festival and TAAFI , ther...

Animator Tissa David has died at the age of 91.  Michael Sporn has more at his site.  Michael was associated with Tissa professional and ...

Update : Canadian Animation Resources has links to stories with more information. This may only be of interest to those working in the C...

Several recent events have reminded me of the risks involved in animation. Brenda Chapman's dismissal as director of Pixar's Brave...

348,000 people in the U.S. cancelled their cable in three months time.  Why?  This article suggests that the use of OTT (which stands for o...

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  Update : Jerry Beck, who will be co-hosting with TCM's Robert Osborne, has more details at Cartoon Brew . Sunday, October 21 is st...

The Ottawa International Animation Festival has posted its selections for 2012.  Congratulations to everyone whose film will screen.

In the period between the discovery of the principle of persistence of vision and the invention of flexible film stock, animation was born...

Readers of this blog will know how interested I am in creators' rights.  Some of the most famous characters of 20th century pop cultur...

...I'd like to point you to a post, now a year old, called "Growth, Maturity and Decline."   My impression is that Pixar is do...

July6-8 was the first TAAFI festival.  TAAFI stands for Toronto Animation and Arts Festival International.  I suspect that the acronym was ...

Here's an interview with Bill Plympton, where he gives advice to independent animators.  The piece includes video clips.  And there...

Tony Fucile is an animator and visual development artist who has worked on The Little Mermaid , Aladdin , The Lion King , The Iron Giant , T...

Ever wonder what Terry Gilliam's favourite animated films are?  If so, go here .  To see some of them, go here .

Character A has a conflict with Character B based on pride and control. Character A's will to power accidentally does something to pu...

This has nothing to do with animation, so skip it if you like. There was a time when Hollywood movies were treated as nothing more than ...

Let's see.  There's seven of these little guys.  Could it be?  Why yes!  It's the seven dwarfs.  Well, they're public doma...