Bud Luckey Quotes

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.

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

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.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.

We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.

And being an actor already means that working with cast as a director, I have a clear understanding of their position and that collaboration is great and useful.

I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a character.

Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

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.

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

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.

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.

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.