Character Design Quotes

• Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.

  Ted Naifeh

  Character, Design, Attention

  "Ted Naifeh Talks Courtney Crumrin & the Prince of Nowhere". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.

  Tomm Moore

  Character, Simple, Thinking

  "Handcrafting Magic: Dir. Tomm Moore on His Blissfully Beautiful Film ‘Song of the Sea’". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2014.

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• I'm involved with every single thing that they do as far as just being aware, and then they ask my opinion. I'm involved in the sequence reviews and some of the animation reviews and character designs and things like that. I give my input on that movie as well.

  Klay Hall

  Character, Giving, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Real, Mistake, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

  Sergio Aragones

  Character, Drawing, Design

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• I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we just said, "Gru's Minions do this or do that" in the initial draft. And then, they came up with the characters' design and the philosophical concept of the Minions. And then, we started writing to that. We have to give a lot of credit to them.

  Cinco Paul

  Philosophical, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• One of those strange things that happens in movies is that you need someone to actually say people's names, or else you have no idea who those kids are. This was a way for her to introduce who the important boys were in the story, but then it just was so funny that it became a centerpiece to it. When you look at the character design that Tim did for Weird Girl, and what Catherine [O'Hara] did with the voice, and it's gonna kill.

  John August

  Girl, Character, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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