Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

– In 1991, I’d started a small xeroxed publication that I sent out to about a thousand people on my mailing list. Basically, we were promoting ourselves by giving brief interviews and articles about the people in animation who had touched our films in some way.

This first issue had as its focus the two half-hour films we’d done on poetry – Nonesense & Lullabyes: Nursery Rhymes and Nonesense & Lullabyes: Poems. These were two delightful films to work on, and I wanted to give them a bit of attention even though they were designed only for Home Video consumption. (We’re still trying to get back the rights from the now-defunct Live Entertainment to have them rereleased in dvd.)

The issue included a short interview with Tissa David who responded to questions by Esther McGowan, who edited the publication at the time. A non-animator asking curious questions.
(Click on any image to enlarge.)

The late Caleb Sampson wrote a short piece about writing film music for animation. Caleb did music for about 20 of my films.
Greg Perler gives a brief response to the differences of working at Disney’s studio as opposed to MSA. He had just moved to work on Beauty and the Beast as an Assistant Editor. (Greg recently is editing Disney’s Enchanted, due out later this year.)

The Tissa David interview:
pg 2 pg 3

The Caleb Sampson article on music:
pg 4 pg 5

pg 15 pg 12

Stephen MacQuignon on Color Styling:
pg 13 pg 14

Greg Perler on editing here & there:
pgs 8 & 9

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This issue was mailed with a cel from the half-hour shows, Nonesense & Lullabyes, and the response was a negative. Though there was no charge for the publication OR the cel, yet I received a letter back saying that the cels weren’t done with cel-vinyl, so they weren’t valuable! Oh, well. Sorry! I didn’t do that again.

Issue #4 previously appeared on this “Splog,” read it here if you’re interested.

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