Animator Quotes - Page 3

• There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Inspired, Sometimes, Asks

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

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• It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Fun, Wind, People

  "Neil Patrick Harris on The Smurfs, Fatherhood, and the Potential for Socialist Smurf Sequels". Movieline Interview, movieline.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I've done animated TV stuff, but I'd never done animated film work, which is much more involved and much more labor intensive. The animators are much more meticulous and detailed. It's just been really fun and really satisfyingly creative.

  Ty Burrell

  Fun, Creative, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  "Michael Arndt Digs Into 'Toy Story 3' and the Genius of the Pixar System". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Cake, Expectations, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Being an animator, and I've directed tons of mo-cap, which really is about how do characters move through space.

  Timothy Miller

  Moving, Character, Space

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I know reels can be expensive but even if you construct one on your own if you don't have enough money to get a more professional one while you're getting started, as far as college animators go or young indie developers I don't think they are going to care if you have the highest quality reel yet.

  Ashly Burch

  Thinking, College, Quality

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• I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

  Dan Scanlon

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• We [film supervisors] always try to encourage discussion in the room because a lot of times newer animators who are just out of school or people come from other studios, they're gonna have different points of view and we want to make sure we're vetting all the ideas to get the best ones. A lot of people are shy about speaking up if this is their first time at Pixar or if they don't have a lot of experience, so we try to encourage that.

  Victor Navone

  School, Views, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Watching Ray Harryhausen's films growing up was a pure joy. He brought legends to life and he became a legend himself. And I am sure that future generations of animators will continue to look to him for inspiration.

  Joe Letteri

  Growing Up, Inspiration, Joy

  "Hollywood Pays Tribute To Ray Harryhausen" by Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 07, 2013.

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• Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure.

  Bill Foster

  Spiritual, New Work, Body

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• (The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and the performer. So there's no sort of long way around a viral committee of animators.

  Andy Serkis

  Long, Perfect, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Years, Important, Treats

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• I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.

  Luiz Bolognesi

  Real, Character, Hands

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The animators are fantastic though. They'll shoot their own reference material, and just go into the car park or something. And they might shoot a very funny scene, or sometimes a serious scene. But they're really just trying to work out the motion. Yet what we get treated to is hilarious video of someone running around a parking lot with a broomstick and a helmet!

  Chris Sanders

  Running, Car, Work Out

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I found a lot of animators bring a lot of baggage to the party, just that there's a certain way of doing things in that world that's a little hard to unlearn.

  Steve Dildarian

  Party, World, Littles

  "HitFix Interview: ‘The Life and Times of Tim’ creator Steve Dildarian". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 17, 2010.

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• When I was at Pixar, I was in my hole. I was an animator, I had my shots and I was like, "Yeah, I've gotta make this perfect!" It's a very selfish thing.

  John Kahrs

  Selfish, Perfect, Pixar

  Source: collider.com

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• I usually get involved in the interviews about the animators and the filmmaking in general, because I had a chance. I got to know, not only Marc Davis, but Frank Thomas, Artie Johnson, Ward Kimball, all these great animators, and just ask them all these questions about how they did certain things, what their trials and errors were, the ups and downs.

  Andreas Deja

  Errors, Trials, Interviews

  "Exclusive: Andreas Deja Talks the Animation of 101 Dalmatians". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 04, 2008.

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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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• 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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• Theresa strode over to us in a swish of cloth. "Enough of this, animator. He can't do it, so he pays the price. Either leave now, or join us at our...feast." Are you having rare Who-roast-beast?" I asked. What are you talking about?" It's from Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. You know the part, 'And they'd Feast! Feast! Feast! Feast! Feast! They would feast on Who-pudding and rare Who-roast-beast.'" You are crazy." So I've been told.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Crazy, Pay The Price, Talking

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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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• 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'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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