Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia,… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
It's a high honor to be a part of the Star Wars universe and such a long running show. Our talented writers,… — Matt Lanter Copy Share Image
I have never played a superhero in real life and I would imagine it is very different Voiceover is super easy. You… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
The industry in Japan moving toward CGI is not as severe and extreme as in the U.S. The animation industry in the… — Katsuhiro Otomo Copy Share Image
I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my… — Chris Buck Copy Share Image
When you're acting in front of a camera, you can really give all of your emotions with your eyes so the camera… — Joshua Rush Copy Share Image
I've done animated TV stuff, but I'd never done animated film work, which is much more involved and much more labor intensive.… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
People are mystified by it and so they kind of think, the acting community thinks they're gonna be replaced by CG characters… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Paprika is evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or… — David Hornsby Copy Share Image
In college, I was a cartoonist at 'The Daily Northwestern.' So I draw myself. I was an animator. But basically, I went… — John Musker Copy Share Image
I found a lot of animators bring a lot of baggage to the party, just that there's a certain way of doing… — Steve Dildarian Copy Share Image
When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
(The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation,… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
There's this whole grey area seemingly every time it's talked about animators and who takes ultimate responsibility for the characters [of the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
![“I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.” quote by Don Hertzfeldt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/670/don-hertzfeldt-16260_animator_i-have-friends-and-illustrators-who-can_926709.jpg)
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