#animation

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards. ↗

— Douglas Wood

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My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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You don't have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big. ↗

— Sean Hayes

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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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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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