Animation Quotes

220 quotes by 135 authors

I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past, — Jeffrey Katzenberg
We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered… — James Webb Young
My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in… — Sergio Aragones
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature… — Augustus William Hare
This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the… — Henry Selick
Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether. — Edward Tufte
The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now. — Dave Rowntree
Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom. — Cai Guo-Qiang
I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman,… — Hayao Miyazaki
Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it. — Chuck Jones
You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right. — Hank Azaria
People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike… — John Lasseter
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry. — Don Bluth
Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon… — Jane Porter
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life — Chuck Jones
Grave of the Firefliesâ€ is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest… — Roger Ebert
There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation is intensely real,… — Craig Ferguson
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. — John Lasseter
Animation is manipulating the difference. — Norman McLaren
To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable. — John Lasseter

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