Chris Wedge Quotes

I don't have anything against CGI.

If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared.

Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.

I've been working in computer animation for 25 years. I'm obviously a devotee of the technology. I just think it's the one aspect of the medium that's going to continue to revolutionize the filmmaking. It's constantly changing and it's constantly opening up new possibilities. The technology is evolving where 2-D animation was ultimately limited by how long you could pay how many people to make a movie. I mean computers, not that it's in anyway a labor saving device, but it promises to open up exciting new technical possibilites.

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.

It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.

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.

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

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

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.

Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.

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

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

The great thing about computer animation is that all of those environments exist as three-dimensional worlds, so these VR worlds already exist.

When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to do. Because we were making films in a way that had never really been done before, we were taking this hundred-year-old art form and bringing it into a new era by embracing technology and innovation.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film.

Lucasfilm has always had an openness to technology.

We're not purists about stop-motion. If there's a tool we can use that makes more sense to bring something to life in a better way, we'll use it, whether that's hand-drawn animation or CG or some newfangled technology we're developing.

When I started working with a computer, to me it was kind of like animating with a backhoe. But when you see the results, it just blows your mind.

CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.