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Jean Mathieson (born in
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,
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) is a Canadian animator. Mathieson is listed in ''Colombo's Canadian References'' as Canada’s first independent, commercial, non
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, woman
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. She switched from the
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to The
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where in four years she earned her A.O.C.A. After graduation, she trained as an animator in Canada’s fledgling animation industry. Subsequently, she partnered with
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and continued to pioneer as the first woman in Canadian animation combining writer, director, and producer.


Toronto

Profiled in ''
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'' magazine when she worked as lead animator on ''
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'', she went on to work at the CBC doing animation for
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and
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as well as
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. While at the CBC she did a stint at the
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in Ottawa, pioneering CG animation on their mainframe computer - then the largest computer in Canada. In 1977 she was the presenter of the Animation Award at the Canadian Film Awards. Together with her partner Al Guest, she helped found The Canadian Animation Producers Association with Al Guest the first president and Jean Mathieson the founding secretary. The pair produced more than 4,000 television commercials, theatrical shorts, television series and sponsored films, winning more than 100 awards. Although known primarily for animation, they have also produced and directed live action commercials with their company in London, England as well as live action TV shows in the U.S. Among their live productions produced in Canada were 130 episodes of ''
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'' (U.S. syndication) and 195 episodes of '' The Ed Allen Show'' (U.S. syndication). Among their animated productions produced in Canada were: 78 episodes of ''
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'', (
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) 52 episodes of ''
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'' (CBC & international syndication), 20 episodes of ''
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'' (
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), 20 episodes of '' The Sunrunners'' (
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Education Channel)and 26 episodes of ''
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'' (U.S. syndication) and the
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special '' Ukaliq''. Their music video " A Routine Day" made for the band " Klaatu" is considered the first animated music video.


Hollywood

Subsequently they moved to
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where they designed and built a complete motion-control system and produced special effects for numerous commercials and the films ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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'', for which they also produced the logo animation for
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's Zoetrope Studios.


Dublin

On the recommendation and financing of their New York distributor, Don Taffner. they went to
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and partnered in setting up a major animation facility, Emerald City Productions, from scratch in a country that had no animation history. Providing the design and specifications for a complete reconstruction of the premises, supervising all purchasing and installation of the equipment as well as designing the furniture, they set about to recruit and train the entire staff, from animators and background artists to camera operators and editors. While training the staff, Al Guest and Jean Mathieson wrote, produced and directed all the studio's output including the following one-hour specials based on classic books: ''
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'' (
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), '' Ghost Stories From The Pickwick Papers'' (Syndication), ''
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'' (
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), '' Ben-Hur'' (Syndication), ''
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'' (
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), ''
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'' (Syndication), ''
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'' (Syndication), ''
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'' (Syndication), ''
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'' (with
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, Canada), and '' Brer Rabbit Tales'' (Syndication).


Manila, Hong Kong & Guangzhou

After commuting from
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to their
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studio every six weeks for four years, they sold the studio to an English company and moved to
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. There they were commissioned by Syd Banks, to write a live action motion picture screenplay based on the life of Emily Brontë, '' Emily's Story - Wuthering Heights'', to be produced by Denis Heroux, the producer of '' The Black Robe'' and ''
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''. Their animation activity did not stop however, and they wrote, directed and produced '' Brer Rabbit's Xmas Carol'', '' The Outrageous Adventures of Brer Rabbit'', and '' Mighty Bigfoot'', for which they also designed all the characters. These productions were all made with studios in
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and
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, which necessitated numerous trips to the studios by Guest & Mathieson to maintain their "hands-on" production style. The animated commercials they produced during this period were all done in L.A. on their computers.


Los Angeles

In 1998 they were appointed to the faculty of
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in the new Digital Animation Production course where they taught courses in Animation Principles - Beginning and Advanced, Inbetweening, Storyboard, Layout, Animation script writing, Drawing the Figure in Motion, and CGI Environment (
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). Although certified as professors at Mount San Antonio College, they left teaching after a year to produce and direct a trailer section of their script - '' Emily's Story - Wuthering Heights'', as a combination live-action & CGI production.


Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou & Suzhou

In 2000, Guest & Mathieson spent 13 months directing and producing Flutemaster. A ground-breaking animated series originating in California and produced in China, it was a hit running Prime Time on the Chinese network CCTV, where, as one of the most popular programs ever aired, it reached an audience of 140 million viewers during its broadcast in 2004. Guest and Mathieson designed characters, the logo, and art directed the "look" of the series and its promotion. They also trained Chinese concept, storyboard, and background artists in contemporary American animation style, procedures and technical standards. While in Beijing they were invited to the Beijing Broadcasting Institute where they gave an address. Their concept of making the main character a skateboarder resulted in the show being sold around the world as " Skateboy".


Back to Hollywood

After completing a 2D series '' Going Buggs'' based on their movie ''
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'', which was created and directed by their son William S. Mathieson, they created a CGI pilot - '' Oh No, Domingo!'' doing the production overseas. At the same time, a live action horror film they wrote - ''House of Darkness'' - was completed in Montreal. The rock band " KLAATU" recently released a DVD of songs animated by Guest and Mathieson along with personal interviews where they both discuss the rotoscope animation technique they used. Jean Mathieson now works in the Videogame industry where she is credited as Jean Guest on '' Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters'', ''
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'', '' Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier'', ''
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'', '' Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension'', and " Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure". Al Guest and Jean Mathieson continue to write and develop new projects together.


Bibliography

*CARTOONS: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF CINEMA ANIMATION by Giannalberto Bendazzi - Indiana University Press 1995, *CARTOON CAPERS by Karen Mazurkewich - McArthur and Company 1999 *COLOMBO'S CANADIAN REFERENCES by
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- Oxford University Press 1976 *PRESS RELEASE - World Wide Pictures Corporation *THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY by John Clute and John Grant - Macmillan 1999 *FRIGHT XMAS by Alan-Bertanellson Jones - AuthorHouse 2010 *MORE THEATRE: M-Z by Alvin H. Marill and William T. Leonard - Scarecrow Press 1993 *SELF-PORTRAIT:ESSAYS ON THE CANADIAN AND QUEBEC CINEMAS - Pierre Veronneau & Piers Handling - The Canadian Film Institute 1980 *CINEMA CANADA - ISSUES 34-47 - Canadian Society of Cinematographers 1977 *THE CHRISTMAS ENCYCLOPAEDIA - William D. Crump - McFarland & Co 2006 *LES CINEMAS CANADIENS - Pierre Veronneau - Lherminier 1978 *VOYAGE AU FOND DES MERS (French Edition) - Max Phillipe Morel - lulu.com 2012 *BIBLE AND CINEMA: FIFTY KEY FILMS - Adele Reinhatz - (Routledge Key Guides) 2012 *THE UNDERGROUNDS OF THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: SUBLIMATION AND THE GOTHIC IN LEROUX'S NOVEL AND ITS PROGENY - Jerrold E. Hogle - 2002 *BEN-HUR - Lew Wallace and David Mayer - (Oxford World's Classics) - 1998


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