Best 86 quotes in «animation quotes» category

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

Animation is about timing; movement or lack of movement, often in time with music. These are the tools which make it's visual gags work, or not. Again, comics don't have those tools, so you have to find some sort of parallel to create something that suggests a close approximation of the source material, but without the ability to truly replicate it.

Animation is so much work! I don't know if I have the skills to really hack that. Maybe as storyboard artist or something like that. But you have to go to school to be an animator. I can't just pop behind the animator's table and be like, "Here I am.".

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

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

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

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

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

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

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

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

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

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

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

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 not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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