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Chris Wedge

(1957) Actor United States

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Chris Wedge is an actor from the United States, best known for Bunny (Book & DVD Set).

Quick Facts About Chris Wedge

Born: March 20, 1957
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Bunny (Book & DVD Set)

About Chris Wedge

John Christian Wedge is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film Tron (1982), co-founding animation studio Blue Sky Studios, and directing the short film Bunny (1998) and the feature films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). He also directed the live-action film Monster Trucks (2016). Wedge has received two Academy Awards nominations: one for Bunny, for which he won Best Animated Short; and Ice Age, nominated for Best Animated Feature. He also created and voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise (2002–present).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Quotes by Chris Wedge

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

Animation

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We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we…

After

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You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

Meetings

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We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make…

Competing

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For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's…

Animation

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Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script.…

Action

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Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like…

Animated

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Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience.…

Able

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I think I probably am doing animation because I started as a kid and I learned on my own, and I worked…

Animation

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If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

About

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You look at Japan and Hayao Miyazaki's films are the biggest films ever made in Japan; domestically there and they play to…

Animation

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The most fun is to inhabit the world where cartoon physics is king. And that just means that things move with kind…

Animation

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I'm surrounded by a lot of live-action movie professionals, and I'm just taking their lead, as far as what to schedule to…

Action

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This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way…

Certain

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On these feature films there are people on the staff who can draw 100 times better then I can, and animate better…

Cinema

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A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation…

Along

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I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it…

Animation

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I've been working in computer animation for 25 years. I'm obviously a devotee of the technology. I just think it's the one…

Animation

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Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels…

Cinema

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I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect…

Boots

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One of the things I've observed since I was a kid, is that if you work on something long enough you'll find…

Enough

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What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.

Age

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If anything, it's a little intimidating because there's usually a lot of brilliant work and a lot of brilliant ideas out there…

Admire

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I get a lot of credit for Tron. They called us scene choreographers back then because the animation unit wouldn't let us…

Animation

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