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My livelihood depends on the art of animators.
Andy Serkis / Film Actor
Livelihood
Animators
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When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
Joseph Barbera / Animator
Animator
Drinking
Sleep
Animators
Sleeping
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The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.
Helena Bonham Carter / Actress
Extraordinary
Mind Boggling
Animators
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I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.
John Lasseter / Animator
Careers
Animators
Disney
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People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.
Bill Plympton / Animator
Apps
People
Want
Animators
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
Hayao Miyazaki / Film Director
Emotion
Pain
Shock
Animators
Draw
Emotions
Experiences
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Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
Darren Aronofsky / Film Director
Live Life
Long
Second Chance
Life Long Live
Animators
Frames
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Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are.
Edwin Catmull / Computer Scientist
Creative People
Programmers
Animators
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As far as doing a TV special, I would have to be in control of it. I'd want my own team of animators to work on it.
Paul Dini / Writer
Animators
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My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.
Gore Verbinski / Film Director
Animation
Directors
Gone
Phones
Animators
Phone
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The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
Byron Howard /
Jungle
Animators
Great Character Game
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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 / Producer
Kids
Stuff
Youtube
Time Always See
Animators
Motion
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I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation.
Mickey Rooney / Film Actor
Animation
Choices
Plenty
Animators
Match
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If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
Peter Jackson / Film Director
Computers
Animated
Being Done
Filmmaking
Fairly
Animators
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
Ralph Bakshi / Animator
Quality
Emulate
Levels
Mannerisms
Trying
Animators
Hit
Disney
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The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move characters about.
Aaron Ehasz /
Models
Animators
Artful
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I think living things can recognize the movement of other living things, and all the best animators in the world can't quite capture that something.
Colin Trevorrow /
Capture
Best World Living
Animators
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My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.
Gore Verbinski / Film Director
Animation
Work Respect Way
Animators
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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 / Animator
Animated
Important
Pizza
Treats
Years
Animators
Raise
Terry
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In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand.
Andy Serkis / Film Actor
Capture
Significant
Animators
Author
Committee
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Any time you get to work with creative people - animators, actors, directors and producers, all of this - it helps to refine what tools you'll need moving forward.
John Cassaday /
Creative People
Moving
Moving Forward
Producers
Tools
Time Work People
Animators
Work Time People
Helps
Refine
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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 / Actor
Animator
Inspired
Sometimes
Animators
Writers
Improvise
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People were very nice to me. They knew I didn't have the money to do figure-drawing classes, so they let me annex the figure-drawing classes that the animators had.
Byron Howard /
Money Me People
Animators
Classes
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One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.
Phyllis Smith / Actress
Sadness
Character Me Day
Animators
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I'm always impressed with the work of animators. You have to be able to draw the scenes in between movements. I'm impressed with the way they can do that - I don't think I could.
Akira Toriyama / Artist
Impressed
Work Always Way
Animators
Work Way Always
Movements
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The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things with magical powers.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Wicked
Animators
Disney
Females
Magical
Mothers
Occasionally
Powers
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In animation, the directors are part of a huge team of animators who all have opinions, too. It's a much more democratic process. Also, the animation executives oversee things more.
Alan Menken / Musical Composer
Animation
Democratic Process
Executives
Animators
Opinions
Oversee
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I think stop-motion has always been semi-obsolete. And stop-motion animators - people like myself - love it so much that we're always going to be looking for new ways to make our films.
Henry Selick / Producer
New Ways
Love Myself Always
Animators
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The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.
Robin Williams / Actor
Cash
Fun
Mad
Recording Studio
Three
Animators
Bad Way
Days
Check
Friend
Large
My Friend
Studio
Recording
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With my own cartoon, it was just me being goofy by myself, but when it comes to an animated film, you're working with 45 animators and assistant animators. It's a whole different ballgame.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Animated
Ballgame
Cartoon
Goofy
Myself Me Own
Animators
Assistant
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To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.
Peter Jackson / Film Director
Animated
Comment
Discussing
Animators
Genuinely
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I started out as a producer. and I used to work at Disney. and I worked with a lot of the animators and went on to become great friends with a lot of these guys and worked on a lot of projects together.
Michael Giacchino / Film Score Composer
Work Great Together
Animators
Disney
Great Friends
Producer
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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 / Film Actor
Actors
Animation
Fantastic
Scene
Animators
Draw
Emotionally
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We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out.
John Lasseter / Animator
Layout
Shorts
Talent
Love Talent People
Animators
Develop
Next Step
Opportunities
Studio
Step
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People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.
John Lasseter / Animator
Kids
Animation
Childlike
Growing Up
Interest
Little Things
Observation
People
Wonder
Little
Life Great World
Also
Animators
Grow
Grow Up
Happen
Tend
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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 / Film Actor
Men
Bible
Cinema
Digital
Freezing
Obsessed
Photographer
Victorian
Animators
Images
Stages
Treat
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Sometimes you're talking to a tennis ball on a stick, and you have to imagine what is supposed to be there and trust that the editors and the animators are going to make it all convincing to the audience. You have to pull a lot from within.
Ray Fisher /
Trust
Convincing
Editors
Imagine
Tennis
Animators
Ball
Pull
Stick
Supposed
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When I was at N.Y.U., I studied abroad in Prague, and I learned about some of the European animators, like Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Barta. I didn't think at the time that I would end up doing anything like that, but I certainly thought it was very cool.
Duke Johnson /
Prague
Studied
Abroad
Animators
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I've been told that some guy wrote something like, 'Andy Serkis does everything, animators do nothing.' Of course I never in a million years said that, wouldn't ever say that. It's not within my understanding of filmmaking to ever say anything like that.
Andy Serkis / Film Actor
Filmmaking
Andy
Animators
Million Years
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I saw 'Sleeping Beauty' when I was, like, 6 years old at the Mercury Theatre. Then, when I came to Disney, I was in the company of these wonderful artists. People like Glen Keane, like Mark Henn, who were brilliant animators who could really bring these things to life.
John Musker / Animation Director
Beauty
Brilliant
Mark
Mercury
Theatre
Wonderful
Animators
Beauty Life People
Artists
Came
Disney
Saw
Sleeping
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I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.
Seth Green / Actor
Contention
Respectable
Scenic
Silly
Animators
Award
Works
Builders
Puppet
Designers
Incredibly
Seriously
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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 / Actor
Caution
Commit
Fun
Fun Stuff
Guarded
Numb
People
Wind
Animators
Go For It
Seemingly
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I was at Disney for about four years, so I made good friends there. It was a time of not a lot of creativity. It was the end of the first great era, with a few of the original animators. They called them the Nine Old Men. I learned a lot from them, but it wasn't going to be a future home for me.
Henry Selick / Producer
Nine
Time Future Good
Animators
Original
Future Time Good
Disney
Era
Good Friends
Old Men
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There is an animated version of 'Lazer Team,' with all the action sequences, that exists. It's a pre-visual fidelity, and the voice acting is terrible because it's one of our animators doing it. But we could sit there and watch what the scene is supposed to look like while we're doing individual shots.
Burnie Burns / Filmmaker
Animated
Fidelity
Animators
Version
Exists
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'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.
Larry The Cable Guy / Comedian
Honestly
No Idea
Animators
Mic
Script
Small Part
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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 / Screenwriter
Animation
Character
Cutting
Lines
Process
Together
Whole
Writing
Life Great World
Life Great Together
Actor
Again
Animators
Bring
Cuts
Editor
Goes
Great Thing
Screen
System
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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 / Cartoonist
Amazing
Movies
Amazing Things
Animation
Computer
Drawing
Hands
Imperfection
Independent
Pixar
Plenty
Slick
Stuff
Good Movies Always
Animators
Doing
Either
Look
Hand
Image
Opposed
Room
Well
Personally
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You have to understand that when you're a voice actor on an animated film, you're really just a tiny little piece of this huge process. And when you finally get to see the finished product and see all of the wonderful work that the animators & the designers & the writers did to make your character stand out, it's just so touching, so humbling.
Phyllis Smith / Actress
Animated
Humbling
Tiny
Work Character Your
Animators
Finished Product
Little Piece
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