#animation

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ↗

— Richard Burton

#decays #embraces #false #friendship #gives

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

#camera #did #father #had #i

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

— Marc Davis

#invention #really #were

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

#audience #challenge #connect #does #entire

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

#animated #animated films #animation #back #bad

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

#animation #baby #big #computer #could

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

#animation #around #dimension #disney #even

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#animation #get #otherwise #performance #recording

Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent. ↗

— James Coburn

#actor #although #animation #anyway #been

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#been #fitting #fitting in #i #into