#animation

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. ↗

— Steve Burns

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

— Marc Davis

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

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Annette Funicello

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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. ↗

— John Lasseter

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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. ↗

— John Lasseter

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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. ↗

— John Lasseter

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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. ↗

— John Lasseter

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

— John Lithgow

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

— Leonard Maltin

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