Jean Mathieson
Jean Mathieson (born in
Toronto
Profiled in
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 The Bonnie Prudden Show (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
Hollywood
Subsequently they moved to
Dublin
On the recommendation and financing of their New York distributor, Don Taffner. they went to
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: Oliver Twist (BBC), Ghost Stories From The Pickwick Papers (Syndication), The Phantom of the Opera (HBO), Ben-Hur (Syndication), Les Misérables (HBO), A Tale of Two Cities (Syndication), The Canterville Ghost (Syndication), Around the World in Eighty Days (Syndication), The Call of the Wild (with Global Television Network, Canada), and Brer Rabbit Tales (Syndication).
Manila, Hong Kong & Guangzhou
After commuting from
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
Los Angeles
In 1998 they were appointed to the faculty of
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
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 John Robert Colombo - 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
External links
- Jean Mathieson at IMDb