Best 86 quotes in «animation quotes» category

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists - and it used to be. When people think of The Simpsons, they think of Matt Groening. They don't think of whoever the 200 writers are.

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

I have a very low tolerance for animation. I'm used to the perfect integrity you get from drawing your own comics. There's something about that that animation always loses.

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

I don't like animation. I hate animation, actually.

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

I love doing animation - mainly because you get to over-act. They're always saying "more," "louder," "bigger," "huger" and you just turn it lose. Plus, doing animation voiceovers, I have learned so much, and it's always good in your career to discover something you didn't know, and to learn to do things differently. So it's a fascinating experience.

I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.

I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.

I just like voicing films in general. I do a lot of documentary work and it's a short hop really to narrating a character, especially if you're on film and you're there in a visual way. It sounds obvious, but voicing an animation really focuses you on the way that you're communicating through your voice. It's a very specific ability that you need to be able to have in order to pitch it just right.

I'm always a person that's a little suspicious of anything that's been converted in post, but if I know that it's been originated, either in live-action or animation, I'm intrigued.

I'm always astounded that people know who I am and what I do. I still have a lot of anonymity and that's good. I don't get bothered in restaurants and stuff like that. But when I'm at events that are really geared toward animation fans, they know who I am. And I'm so very pleased and so flattered by it. People are extremely complimentary to me, and that only encourages me to continue to do more really good work. I get paid by the studios, but I know I work for the fans.

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the animation.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

There are so many options in animation right now and this is such a great time to make animated movies that I want to make another one.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

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

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

There’s nothing harder to do in animation than nothing. Movement is our medium.

When in doubt, resort to animation.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.

Brenda Chapman She studied character animation at CalArts, and a few years later found herself exactly where she'd always dreamed: working on animated films for Disney in Los Angeles. She soon discovered that she was one of the very few women animators there. "That's when I realized why princesses in their films were so helpless. They had all been created by men." she recalls. She promised herself that she would create a new type of princess: strong, independent, and... "...Brave" she thought. "What a great name for a film!

Any time you design a character for a Disney picture, especially a fairy tale, it's going to become the definitive design for that character, so you don't want to hack something out. You need to put in the kind of care it warrants if it's going to live in history.