Animation Pipeline Quotes

This new generation of animators was trained in CG. They know all the fundamentals of any 2D animator, but a lot of them learned on these CG rigs. You give them a good rig, and they can make that thing sing.

You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane - we had a parallel pipeline going on where you had two versions recording Mandarin voice actors, getting it to be funny for Mandarin audiences going beyond a straight translation, and then animating it and lighting it, it's a lot of work.

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

The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move characters about.

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.

I ran development and programming at Disney TV animation. We did a lot of cartoons.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.