Quotes About Animation

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 wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.

One of the difficulties of making the young comprehend their place in the animation business is the failure of animation instructors to adequately explain to their charges the realities of the market.

The hard part is discovering the name of the beer. We know how to brew good beer, but it is the name that animates the liquid and gives it a voice. The flavor comes afterward, to the consumer, and it must live up to their expectations, but first there is the name. If the beer really does speak, the label is the first sentence.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

Weight Weight is an implied, if not critical, concept in design and animation. How you show an object in motion greatly affects its weight and therefore its believability. Weight in animation is a perception of mass. An object's movement, how it reacts in motion, and how it reacts to other objects

Once you consider the premise that Episodes I through III are not live-action movies with extensive special effects, but rather animated features with a few living actors rotoscoped in, many of the more common critical objections to the movies simply wither away.

The dazzled girl's eyelashes were fluttering so hard she could only have seen Nicky in stop-go animation.

An animation of real variables proves that the mathematical model is true.

I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.

'Toonami' was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.

'The Venture Bros' are my jam.

To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.

I'm the Nickelodeon version of DangerMouse.

I was traumatized by the cartoon version of 'The Hobbit.' It's not supposed to be scary, I don't think, but literally I think that's the most scared I've ever been.

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action ,you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.

I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.

On Sanjay and Craig, Ive had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.