Mayerson on Animation

Patatap is a browser-based abstract animation and sound package that works off a keyboard.  It was developed by Jono Brandel and the music...

This year, Sheridan Animation's industry day is Thursday, April 24.  Here's an advance peek at this year's student films.

"And you're right, the model is changing in many ways, and I don't want to keep doing work-for-hire, piecemeal stuff whe...

There are many books that describe the jobs in animation in a bloodless manner.  They lay out the procedures but do it as a mechanical pro...

The names Jay Rasulo and Thomas Staggs don't mean much to animation professionals or fans right now, but the Los Angeles Times speculate...

"While problems in a film are fairly easy to identify, the sources of those problems are often extraordinarily difficult to assess. A ...

The public thinks of Disney movies as entertainment.  Artists may think of them as inspiration.  Ron Suskind describes how Disney movies wer...

"When working with material objects they look at you and demand attention. They tell you things and maybe you wouldn’t otherwise b...

"The head of a large studio once said privately that in his candid opinion the motion picture business was 25 per cent honest busine...

"It would be good to have audio, designs and b.g.'s BEFORE we start a board." "Somebody who's never done the work ...

Witty, but it would be so much better with a character on screen.

For a short month, February has a lot of anniversaries, and this February marks several milestones. February 8 was the 100th anniversary o...

Ed Hooks is an actor and acting teacher who has run workshops for animators.  He has a monthly newsletter where he talks about animated act...

--> I cannot remember exactly when I first met Michael Sporn.  In the mid-1970s I began attending events given by ASIFA-East...

Michael Sporn has died.  Michael Barrier and John Canemaker have put together an obituary for him.  I've known Michael for close to 40 y...

In this Sunday's episode, The Simpsons reference a multiplicity of Miyazaki films.

I'm no expert when it comes to motion capture, but I'm aware of some of the technical challenges.  In the past, body suits with pote...

Kevin Schreck's documentary on the making of Richard Williams' The Cobbler and the Thief , Persistence of Vision , will be playin...

Crac Frederic Back died on December 24.  I first heard of it on Jerry Beck's Animation Scoop website and then found an obituary in...

Normand Roger, who composed the music for all of Frederic Back's films from 1975 on, remembers the late artist on the CBC radio show As ...