I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.
An animator is an actor with a pencil.
I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there
Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.
All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
I think all directors should be animators.
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland
Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.
Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.
Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.
nothing is impossible
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.
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