Mayerson on Animation

I recently read Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s by Charles Taylor.  The fol...

NHK World has posted a video interview with Studio Ghibli's producer Toshio Suzuki.  The interview is only available until August 15...

While there's nothing particularly special about the number 117 when celebrating events, Google has taken the opportunity of abstract an...

For me, the most interesting animated features being made today are not from North America.  Europe has come on strong, both in terms of s...

The 18th Annual Animation Show of Shows Trailer - Coming Soon from Acme Filmworks on Vimeo . The 18th annual Animation Show of Shows wil...

My Life as a Courgette ( aka My Life as a Zucchini ) is a Swiss-French stop motion feature that was nominated for an Oscar and has won p...

I am thousands of miles from Laika's studio and have no inside information.  However, I've been interested in following the company...

Floyd Norman, animator and story artist, was one of the first African-Americans to work at Disney and in the animation industry.  A docume...

John Canemaker (left) with Jules Feiffer Animation historian and Academy Award winning filmmaker John Canemaker has started a blog .  H...

Michael Dudok de Wit's film The Red Turtle is playing at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto as of January 27.  Some Sheridan animatio...

Long Way North is a dramatic adventure film, devoid of the comic relief and musical numbers all too common in North American animated fea...

Long Way North , a French-Danish animated feature, has arrived in Toronto playing on a single screen.  Three of the five papers in town hav...

Warner Bros. is accusing itself of pirating its own copyrights .  If this doesn't prove that modern copyright enforcement is hopeless...

According to C21 Media , Jam Filled has completed the purchase of Arc's assets.  There are about 200 employees returning to a facilit...

The Globe and Mail has another article behind a pay wall, providing some details.  Deloitte, the receiver, ran an auction to purchase ...

The Globe and Mail has an article behind their paywall about the Thursday court proceedings relating to Arc.  I can't quote from it...

The news that ARC, one of Toronto’s largest animation studios, has gone into receivership spread in record time thanks to social ...

I attended a one day conference on VR & Film, sponsored by SIRT and ETV Film Inc in mid-June.  There were hardware and software demonstr...