Animator Quotes - Page 4

• I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.

  Henry Selick

  Enough, Persona

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're acting in front of a camera, you can really give all of your emotions with your eyes so the camera can see it. When you're in voiceover, you can't do that at all. It's a lot tougher because you have to convey this emotion, and you have to have a lot of trust in the animators.

  Joshua Rush

  Eye, Giving, Over You

  "'Andi Mack' star Joshua Rush talks Houston, voicing Bunga in 'The Lion Guard'". Interview with Joey Guerra, www.chron.com. April 26, 2017.

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• We exchanged a couple of ideas and stuff like that, but that's about it. I just think ... consulting on 'Tintin' was very interesting because you try to ... not educate, but inform the animators [about] what the lighting looks like, but [in the end] they do it themselves. I don't actually go and sit there with them. [We] just had a couple of conversations.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Couple, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I love the culture of animation. What stop-motion has in common with live-action is that it has many of the same departments. There's hair, costume, makeup in the form of paint, gaffers, electricians. So there's the same sense of real stuff, real light. But it's not like everything happens at once, like it does in live-action. It's all subdivided into these small sets. It's where my strengths are. Live-action is just an utterly different world, and I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.

  Henry Selick

  Real, Makeup, Different

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

  Seth MacFarlane

  College, Boston, Musical

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• There's this whole grey area seemingly every time it's talked about animators and who takes ultimate responsibility for the characters [of the Planet of the apes] but without question and I'll go down saying this year after year, these characters are authored by what we do on set. They are not authored by animators.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Responsibility, Years

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• Toward the end of the film ['Life, Animated'] we see 'The Sidekicks Story,' and that is a story that Owen drew himself. We took that style, which is decidedly different from Disney animation, and used it as a basis. It's a 'two-dimensional' hand drawn animated form, so I went to this company in Paris called 'Mac Guff,' and they assembled an amazing group of young animators, and brought it to life.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hands, Disney Animation, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

  Gotye

  Song, Directors, Lucky

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it to be something that was important...something that would make a difference in people's lives or leave an imprint in history.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I have never played a superhero in real life and I would imagine it is very different Voiceover is super easy. You just come in and do a bunch of versions of it and then the animators and directors on that side of the movie put your performance together.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Real, Superhero, Together

  "Interview with Hangman star Jeremy Sisto". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 3, 2016.

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• There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

  Henry Selick

  Kids, Stuff, Youtube

  "Director Henry Selick Comic-Con Interview – Talks CORALINE and Next Project". Collider Interview, collider.com. July 25, 2009.

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• 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

  Independent, Drawing, Hands

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

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• And as particles are living digital elements, moving on their own according to the various attributes (such as weight, speed, shape) given to them by the animator, we don't know what the visual result will be until everything is completed. This result can often be unsatisfying, obliging us to repeat the process all over again, with new features.

  Martine Epoque

  Moving, Often Is, Elements

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.

  Bill Plympton

  People, Want, Apps

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• In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.

  Andy Serkis

  Actors, Fantastic, Scene

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• I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.

  Andy Serkis

  Men, Cinema, Digital

  "Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum's Oscar Diss". Interview with Steve Silverman, www.wired.com. September 14, 2007.

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• This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the greatest crew of animators, artists, and technicians I've ever been privileged to work with. I share this nomination with all of them and we all share our thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press.

  Henry Selick

  Sweet, Hard Work, Artist

  "Neil Gaiman, Others React to Golden Globe Animation Noms" by Steve Fritz, www.newsarama.com. December 15, 2009.

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• I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Fun, Cat, Night

  FaceBook post by Ralph Bakshi from Dec 15, 2014

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• Paprika is evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox.

  Manohla Dargis

  Moon, Reaching, Stuck

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• It's a high honor to be a part of the Star Wars universe and such a long running show. Our talented writers, animators and cast of voice actors have made The Clone Wars truly unique. And of course we wouldn't have hit 100 episodes had it not been for our incredibly dedicated fans who make this possible!

  Matt Lanter

  Running, Stars, War

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• Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised extremely simple symbols which he dispersed felicitously on his shining grounds. These bright, often linear hieroglyphs serve both as pictorial animators-they often flow in winding patterns or like fluent handwriting-and as references to the plentitude of the artist's existence. Gardens and sky and human joy are read in these exceedingly compressed forms.

  Dore Ashton

  Artist, Simple, Garden

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• You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

  Walt Disney

  Design, Development, Way

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• I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.

  Walt Disney

  Thinking, People, Realization

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• Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

  Gore Verbinski

  Honesty, Philosophy, Thinking

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• What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.

  John Lasseter

  Fun, Writing, Artist

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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