Computer Animation Quotes:

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

- Walt Disney

topic: People, Age, Stories, Computer Animation, Disney Animation

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

- John Lasseter

topic: Artist, Computer, Animation, Computer Animation

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

- John Lasseter

source: "A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter on creating Oscar magic". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. February 25, 2010.

topic: Children, Stories, Sitting, Minivans, Computer Animation

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.

- Tim Burton

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Technology, Thinking, Artist, Computer Animation

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

source: Interview with Germano Celant, www.artinamericamagazine.com. July 28, 2010.

topic: People, Giving, Way, Computer Animation

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

- John Lasseter

topic: Memories, Details, Add, Computer Animation

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

- Dan Scanlon

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Needs, Computer, Animation, Computer Animation

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

- John Lasseter

topic: Mother, Baby, Simple, Computer Animation

I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.

- John Lasseter

source: "John Lasseter Returns to Hand Drawn Animation with The Princess and the Frog". Interview with B. Alan Orange, www.movieweb.com. March 13, 2010.

topic: Beautiful, Art, Feelings, Computer Animation

Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.

- John Lasseter

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Art, Thinking, Good Movie, Computer Animation, Really Good Movie

First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally...it's hard to explain.

- Richard Sherman

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Computer Animation

I don't know how to animate on the computer, and I'm really grateful that I worked with a couple of other guys. We called it our triumvirate, John Kahrs and Clay Kaytis, who really understood computer animation but loved and embraced hand drawn, which is Disney's heritage.

- Glen Keane

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Couple, Grateful, Hands, Computer Animation

Even if you have money, access to MoCap technology, and strong choreographic and computer-animation abilities, don't try to make a film like this if you don't have a lot of patience, perseverance and a deep affinity for risk-taking.

- Martine Epoque

topic: Perseverance, Strong, Technology, Computer Animation

There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well.

- Matt Groening

source: Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

topic: Independent, Drawing, Hands, Computer Animation, Slick

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

- John Lasseter

topic: Attention, Pay, Computer, Computer Animation