Mayerson on Animation

Canada's federal government is interested in revisiting rules and funding regarding Canadian culture .  In the TV business, broadcasters...

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 After a one year hiatus, the Toronto Animated Arts Festival International (TAAFI) will resume on April 22 and run through April 24.  The ...

As part of the sixth annual Toronto Irish Film Festival , there will be a program of Irish animation on Sunday, March 6 at 1 p.m.  at the...

We're rapidly approaching the end of another school year, and the animation students of Sheridan's class of 2016 have created a prom...

Michael and Lisa (Spoilers below.) Anomalisa , written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Kaufman and Duke Johnson, is a film that I r...

Can you imagine an election where a winner is declared but the vote totals are kept secret? Can you imagine a lottery where someone wins, ...

What is copyright?  It's a privilege granted by law.  Like many things determined by people, as opposed to nature, there's a certa...

Cartoon Brew has a list of 47 animated features that will potentially be released in 2016.  Some have already been released outside North ...

Here's an interesting article on GKIDS, for my money the most interesting distributor of feature animation right now.  They've be...

I've recently read How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention and Discovery by Kevin Ashton.  It contains many insig...

Above is an early section of 101 Dalmatians that I regularly show my students when talking about walks.  The three women are great contrast...

I am not an expert in virtual reality and frankly haven't been following it that closely.  However, it's beginning to pop up more an...

In August, Pete Williams, the creator of the MTV and Teletoon series Undergrads , gave a fabulous talk at Animatic T.O. relating the history...

The Library of Congress National Film Registry invited me to write about the George Pal Puppetoon Tulips Shall Grow .   It is one of the mos...

August 28 would have been Jack Kirby's 98th birthday.  While Kirby has been gone since 1994, it's still a day to celebrate for a v...

Feb. 3, 1952 - Aug. 20, 2015 Richard Cohen, an artist who contributed to the early days of computer animation and digital visual effects...

I've written about creator rights .  I'm especially against contests, which are all over the internet and a really pernicious way f...

Amazon.com will release a package of 11 Miyazaki features in Blu-ray for $224.99 on November 17, 2015.  No listing yet on Amazon.ca.  App...