Animator Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something?

  David Hornsby

  Cells, Actors, Example

  "David Hornsby Talks Unsupervised Season 1". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 19, 2012.

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

  Bill Plympton

  People, Want, Apps

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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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• When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

  David Bolinsky

  Years, Four, My Family

  "Lives of a Cell, the 3-D Version". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 14, 2007.

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• An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor uses his body to convey feeling and emotion. An animator uses a pencil or a computer to create the same thing, the same exact way... An actor is taking words that are not his own, and he has to bring some kind of authentic life to those words. It's the same goal, to create this authentic life. Even if it's a drawing, or if it's a cartoon, you're still trying to create authenticity because, if the character emotes authentically, it has a power to connect with the audience.

  Rob Minkoff

  Character, Play, Drawing

  "Director Rob Minkoff Exclusive Interview THE LION KING 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is like just one continuous activity for them. They launch into it and do it, and they're not even quite sure how it's going to turn out when they're doing it. They're sort-of sculpting their way through a scene and trying to make this inanimate object alive.

  Wes Anderson

  Trying, Way, Inanimate Objects

  "Wes Anderson on Darjeeling Limited: The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 22, 2007.

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• I grew up near Disneyland, and my brother's an animator, so I was always really inspired by bright, cartoony colors and that whole feeling of happiness.

  Gwen Stefani

  Brother, Color, Feelings

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• I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Glasses, Drawing, Missing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I wrote the initial songs for the film, just prior to leaving full-time employment at the Walt Disney Studios. Therefore, some of the songs we wrote for The Aristocats were never used. I believe, therefore, the challenge fell upon the makers of the film to select what songs made the final cut.

  Richard Sherman

  Song, Believe, Writing

  "Richard Sherman Talks The AristoCats". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 5, 2008.

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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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• With my personal work I prefer not to work from storyboards because being a director, producer and animator in one person I don't have to communicate my idea to anyone else, I can keep the feeling of the story, the story arc and structure in my head.

  Signe Baumane

  Ideas, Feelings, Directors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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 are mystified by it and so they kind of think, the acting community thinks they're gonna be replaced by CG characters and animators think they're gonna be replaced by performance capture (and) a lot of directors, particularly European directors, who have no experience of it.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I do not draw any of the pictures for my movies as an animator. The reason for that is that I am terribly lucky to have many staff members who I look up to, and who are overflowing with talent, that work with me on each project.

  Mamoru Hosoda

  Lucky, Looks, Talent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Sweat, Years, Tears

  "'Kung Fu Panda 3': Directors, Producer on Shaping a Worthy Sequel and Po’s Future". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 13, 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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• 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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