56 Quotes on Animation

• Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

  Author: Tara Strong

• Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

  Author: Alfred Sisley

• My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.

  Author: Ravi Shankar

• And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

  Author: Gerald Scarfe

• Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

  Author: Gerald Scarfe

• Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

  Author: Dave Rowntree

• But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

  Author: Dave Rowntree

• The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

  Author: Dave Rowntree

• When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

  Author: Joe Murray

• 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.

  Author: Hayao Miyazaki

• Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

  Author: Norman McLaren

• Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

  Author: Craig McCracken

• Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

  Author: Leonard Maltin

• The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

  Author: Seth MacFarlane

• In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

  Author: John Lithgow

• Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

  Author: John Lasseter

• If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

  Author: John Lasseter

• 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.

  Author: John Lasseter

• Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

  Author: John Lasseter

• What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

  Author: Jeffrey Katzenberg

• Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

  Author: Chuck Jones

• I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

  Author: John Hench

• You don't have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big.

  Author: Sean Hayes

• I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.

  Author: Ray Harryhausen

• I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.

  Author: Ray Harryhausen

• When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.

  Author: Matt Groening

• Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

  Author: Matt Groening

• Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

  Author: Annette Funicello

• But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

  Author: Katherine Dunn

• Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

  Author: Walt Disney

• Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

  Author: Marc Davis

• What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

  Author: Marc Davis

• I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work.

  Author: Kevin Conroy

• Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent.

  Author: James Coburn

• My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

  Author: Smedley Butler

• We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.

  Author: Steve Burns

• So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

  Author: Kenneth Branagh

• 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.

  Author: Don Bluth

• I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

  Author: Don Bluth

• It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

  Author: Don Bluth

• You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

  Author: Don Bluth

• When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

  Author: Don Bluth

• No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

  Author: Theodore Bikel

• Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

  Author: Ralph Bakshi

• Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

  Author: Ralph Bakshi

• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  Author: Ralph Bakshi

• I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

  Author: Ralph Bakshi

• What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

  Author: Ralph Bakshi

• One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

  Author: Ralph Bakshi

• Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

  Author: Ralph Bakshi

• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

  Author: Ralph Bakshi

• My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.

  Author: Sergio Aragones

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