Animation Quotations

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.

I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.

I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than Hollywood's. I'm not attuned to Hollywood.

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do well, but usually those things don't overlap: the same with comics and animation.

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

The process to create that type of animation is very tedious, ... We took all the steps and computerized it.

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it.

Let's say a young boy is going for a CAT scan. First, he gets to preview various animation themes. He chooses his favorite and takes a holographic RFID badge with a Philips ICODE chip. When he goes into the examination room, he waves the badge at the scanning equipment, and the walls and ceiling come to life with animations, accompanied by music and other sounds. It keeps him relaxed and it's a great way to give him instructions. When it's time for him to hold his breath, he sees a cartoon character holding his own breath!

Rich media is now important for the Internet, be it Java animation or audio, ... The time is right and the systems are in place to present rich media.

One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this.

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

IBM offers us the best capacity and the best growth path, enabling our company to grow as fast as we need to. We can now offer our services to mid-sized animation firms who are, in turn, looking to scale quickly. And we can do this after only a few days and a phone call to IBM. IBM's ability to offer computing power on demand is critical to our business.

Certainly for Disney it's riskier than their standard animation film because it has a lot fewer merchandising opportunities. My guess is they'll at least break even. It's being introduced early in the season and there's not much out there competing with it. The other studios are staying away from it.

I have a studio at my house, and there is a sister studio for Disney which is about 45 minutes away, and we haven't dropped a beat. In the art of animation and voiceover work, you can pretty much work from anywhere.

From a psychological standpoint, Chicken Little is very important for Disney. Everything is touched by animation and if they don't refresh it, it becomes frayed at the edges.

If anything, the talent from Burbank might have to move up to Emeryville. The animation center of the universe is moving to Emeryville.

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.

I always laugh when I hear that a form of animation is dying. They've been saying for years that stop-motion is dead. But a few of us are still around.

He has been a tremendous influence on my career and on most animators and animation directors around the world.

Within the art department of Star Trek I had an illustrator, an animation artist, for computer animation, two graphics artists, two video feed technicians, two set designers, an art director, and a set director and his crew.

It can only be a good thing from my point of view. With all the kind of movement toward computer animation and as great as many of those films are, there's more people who have been employed in stop-motion animation in the last year than ever before.

I think it's a wonderful idea and the animation and stories are terrific.

It could be a major coup for Disney to re-enliven their animation franchises.

It had such a profound affect on me as a 9-year-old that it made me want to make films. The next day I got my parents' Super 8 movie camera and started to do stop-motion animation with a clay dinosaur.

I went through nine drafts of a screenplay; it had a whole plot, not just vignettes. Right now I'm getting a lot of feelers from animation companies.

It is a skill you attain when doing voice over animation for thirteen some odd years.

I think there are cycles in the film business. Two-dimensional animation is coming to an end in terms of what was the height of Disney storytelling.

Terry and I have worked closely together for 19 years. This studio has an exciting slate of films in our future and marketing those movies is a vitally important function. I can think of no one better to lead that effort than Terry and I am delighted DreamWorks Animation will continue to benefit from her experience.

The amazing immersive quality of IMAX 3-D will give moviegoers an opportunity to experience the first full-length animated motion picture from Sony Pictures Animation in a very special way. This is a format that has proven especially successful with family features, and the Imax theatre network helps generate incremental revenue for event titles such as Open Season. We are pleased to be an important part of Imax's 2006 lineup.

We need to raise the skills and educational levels of the community to attract new players and support the creation of a homegrown cluster of new enterprises, whether they are graduate companies like Seed Animation or 13 Strides or social enterprises in the community.

We intend to do a massive world tour with Demon Days, but I won't be involved with it. It'll be all animation and big sound systems and stuff.

Unlike other voice-over situations which are done in a recording studio, Roger Rabbit was live action and animation combined, and there was a time factor, so my voice was recorded live on the set. So I'm on the set rehearsing and recording my voice as a performance with the other actors, and they're all wearing costumes, and it made sense to me.

We are one of the most established animation festivals in the world now, which I think is good after only seven years.

When we read the script for Re-Animated , we thought it was innovative, irreverent and, most of all, funny. We knew we had to make it. We think when it's done the 'Cartoon Network' way, kids will enjoy seeing animation and the real world collide.

was so creative, and it didn't talk down to children. It treated them with respect, and it helped to bring different styles of animation to a wider audience.

We want to increase the number of schools offering animation courses. To do this, we are partnering with the government and educational institutions, through the regional offices of the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI), to communicate the attractiveness of a career in animation.

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.

I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation.

Ordinary Women was shot on a soundstage with a professional crew and a professional animation studio creating everything.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

When computer animation came in, they thought it would be the death of 3-D stop-motion, but it has a particular life of its own. It's hand-crafted and has a spontaneity. It can feel more alive. The hand of the individual is right there. Sometimes, you even see the thumbprints in the clay.

You can't crow about things if people aren't buying tickets to your movies. This proves that our animation team, with their commitment and resilience, can deliver.

There is something about spooky stories that serves this animation style well,

The red and gold is a nice tribute. To the golden age of animation to today that she's red hot.

What people like about stop-motion animation is that it's real. It's like a magic trick, taking real things, real sets, and making them come to life with movement.

(We have to) decide what we're going to do in terms of applying the franchise tag, if such is the case, how much money we're going to have to spend. And all of that is really in suspended animation because of the lack of a collective bargaining agreement.

When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.

We figured out that we were going to have to do CGI and 2-D animation on screen at the same time. Sixty-five percent of the picture is CGI. That's a big mix. When you marry those two, they can either look very foreign to each other, or they look like they belong together.

We challenged our agency to depict the life experiences of our frequent business travelers in a thoughtful and differentiated way. The quality and uniqueness of Dragon's innovative animation technique helps us to achieve our goal of making that special connection with our most valued customers.

Those who have seen this particular piece of rough animation say that it is 'simply stunning'. A wonderful throwback to the sort of films Disney used to make.

There's just something visceral about moving a puppet frame by frame. There's a magical quality about it. Maybe you can get smoother animation with computers, but there's a dimension and emotional quality to this kind of animation that fits these characters and this story.

There's just something visceral about moving a puppet frame by frame, ... There's a magical quality about it. Maybe you can get smoother animation with computers, but there's a dimension and emotional quality to this kind of animation that fits these characters and this story.

The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.

I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.

A picture will wind up costing $90 million dollars... Well, animation can't stand that. It can't bear the weight of a $90 million dollar budget, because it can't recoup. Then everybody's surprised when it only pulls in $50-$60 million domestic.

Animation is not going to be just about entertainment. There are incredible things that can be done with 3D technology in preventative medicine, sports and many cross-cultural applications. Animation is not just about Mickey Mouse. It can actually make the world a better place.

Animation has become part of the way we tell stories online. It's an option we use to give more credibility and reality to the piece. We're always thinking about making the story animated if we can, and more interesting to the readers. I think it has changed the way we tell stories dramatically. You can't just copy a news graphic and paste it on the Web page and expect it to engage the reader.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

Animation films are such a driving part of our company. We just said, 'Wow, this is where it all starts, and this is what we've got do.' It hit home for Bob.

As BET looks for that next big signature hit that finds the network, animation is an obvious place for us to explore. When you look at the success of animation with our kind of demographic, it's a pretty consistent winner.

As it relates to animation and the studio part of the company's overall plan to reduce staff ... the goal there is consistent with all of the company's divisions, and that is to reduce staff because of the general slowdown in competition,

This difficult decision was based on what is best strategically for our business in both the short and long term, ... Having the entire animation group working together in Burbank under one roof will further enhance our filmmaking process.

It's a brand-new kind of animation developed for Nick Jr.. It's very real-looking.

It made the animation process go that much more quickly. Once the figures were built, the animator could just swap them out.

The new version truly brought back the roots of the first movie, and portrayed the original 'beauty killed the beast' storyline well. It brought movie animation to a whole new level.

The blazing speed of our Intel-based Macs provides a significant performance boost to all Universal applications running natively. We're thrilled that Toon Boom Animation is creating powerful Universal versions of their award-winning animation products.