Dave Rowntree Quotes

I love great animation.

I've loved all forms of animation.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

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

I've always loved animation and animated films.

I don't know if animation is a style. It's a format.

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.

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

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.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

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

I always wanted to do animation.

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

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.

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.'

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

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.

With 'Toy Story,' which is a fantastic film but is essentially animation, you get to make all your decisions beforehand. 'Jumanji' is shot much like any other action film.

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.