Computer Animation Quotes

#1. Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

John Lasseter

#2. In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

John Lasseter

#3. When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.

John Lasseter

#4. I don't know how to animate on the computer, and I'm really grateful that I worked with a couple of other guys. We called it our triumvirate, John Kahrs and Clay Kaytis, who really understood computer animation but loved and embraced hand drawn, which is Disney's heritage.

Glen Keane

#5. I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything ... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people.

Salma Hayek

#6. Even if you have money, access to MoCap technology, and strong choreographic and computer-animation abilities, don't try to make a film like this if you don't have a lot of patience, perseverance and a deep affinity for risk-taking.

Martine Epoque

#7. This was an unpleasant trend. I didn't want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.

Charlaine Harris

#8. In his study of eighteenth-century feelings, John Mullan argues that sentimental passion and sympathy offered 'a more inclusive vocabulary of social coherence' than politics could provide. This

Francis Wheen

#9. A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.

Chris Wedge

#10. I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I've gotta still get my studies in and all. I love to learn. But I also love to do stop motion animation with my little Lego figures. I love to play around on the computer with that.

Atticus Shaffer

#11. There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.

Hayao Miyazaki

#12. I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens.

JWoww

#13. I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

John Lasseter

#14. Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

John Lasseter

#15. In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.

Don Bluth

#16. The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

Jack Charlton

#17. Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

Cai Guo-Qiang

#18. To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

John Lasseter

#19. Love when you can, and fight when you must, but stand together and never give up, not to the enemy, and not on each other.

Alex E. Carey

#20. Pixar started as a company that sold a special computer for doing digital animation; it took a while till they got into the moviemaking business. Similarly, Starbucks originally sold only coffee beans and coffee equipment; they hadn't planned to sell coffee by the cup.

Reid Hoffman

#21. I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

Dan Scanlon

#22. The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.

Christopher Nolan

#23. Animation translates well to a small screen. When you look at Walt Disney or Chuck Jones - you know, Bugs Bunny - there really isn't any difference if you watch on a very big screen or a computer screen.

Isabella Rossellini

#24. Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.

John Lasseter