Quotes About Animation

But there was some life in the thing

It was as though the real person had suddenly decided to reinhabit the hostess's body. Her eyes, her expression, her posture had all come alive, and again I felt that vital energy that had animated her dancing.

I love great animation.

I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films...

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

One of the locations that showed up most frequently in Kira's OASIS account logs was the planet Miyazaki in Sector Twenty-Seven. It was a bizarre and beautiful world that paid tribute to the work of Hayao Miyazaki, the famous Japanese animator behind anime masterpieces like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Kiki's Delivery Service.

Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job, I think you can be more realistic with your acting. It gives the story and what's happening to you the feeling that it's a game.

If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about 'Adventure Time' that really remind you of that, even though it doesn't look like any of those cartoons.

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.

In some ways, 'The Little Mermaid' was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use cels and Xeroxing. Pixar and its CGI imitators soon made that rigorous process obsolete.

I don't think anybody can replace Mr. Miyazaki.

Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.

In 2-D, the way you draw defines you, but in CG the computer takes away your identity.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

I never imagined that I'd end up in animation, but marine biology and art collided, and here we are!

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

Animation has been ghettoized through the years by giving the impression we only do the same kind of stories.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

In college, I was a cartoonist at 'The Daily Northwestern.' So I draw myself. I was an animator. But basically, I went to Northwestern to major in English, wound up in college for two years. Studied animation there. Came to Disney. My first week at Disney was the week that 'Star Wars' came out.

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.

The first I paid to see with my own money was 'Laputa Castle In The Sky.' And I was like, wow! I really shocked by it. So I want to make movies that have a similar impact on the audience to that.

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.