If you look at the game and everything, it’s not quite like looking at an animated film, because that’s total character. This, this is really movement, but it’s got funny little things if you look for the humor. They’re actually getting to the character.
I want the ‘Roots’ biopic to be animated – I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.
If there’s a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I’m very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.
‘The Little Mermaid’ is my favorite of the Disney animated features. And, I could not wait to see it on Broadway.
‘Coraline’ is Neil Gaiman’s book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.
When you make an animated film, you make it over and over and over. We almost do ten versions of the film.
When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.
I have done a lot of animated stuff over a 30-year period, and you do have to go much bigger on that stuff in order for it to come across.
I don’t want this to come off bad at all, but I really don’t watch Disney shows. I don’t. I like the animated ones, but I just don’t have time to watch a lot of TV.
I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.
You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.
In ‘Tintin,’ it’s like a live-action role. You’re living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it’s a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You’re responsible for a small part.
My dream is to star in an animated movie and to have a toy made after me.
‘Hibakusha’ is an animated docu-drama that Choz Belen and I are directing, and it will take you through the earliest memories of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor named Kaz Suyeishi.
The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don’t act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.
I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.
In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn’t mean you should do everything you want.
I’ll just say that America – us included – has a long way to go to catch up with the animated work being done in a handful of countries, namely Japan.
If I’m really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it’s animated, I don’t care – it has to have that distance from real life.
I know there’s been a lot that’s been said about animated voice work, as though it’s ‘you can do this in your jeans and there’s no camera and no pressure there. It’s no big deal. It’s easy.’ The truth is, it’s really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?
I never read any of the comics, but I grew up on the animated series when I was a little kid – I guess it came out in 1992. So I’ve always been an ‘X-Men’ fan.
I finished ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ in 2012, and I’m living in my agent’s guest bedroom in Los Angeles because you don’t make a ton of money writing an animated film. The movie makes a billion dollars, and you make ‘twelve cents.’
In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere ‘prayer book’ paper that permitted the space for Shepard’s illustrations to Pepys’ diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.
There is an animated version of ‘Lazer Team,’ with all the action sequences, that exists. It’s a pre-visual fidelity, and the voice acting is terrible because it’s one of our animators doing it. But we could sit there and watch what the scene is supposed to look like while we’re doing individual shots.
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.
My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using ‘Star Wars’ figures or Smurfs – depended what the narrative was.
I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life – the story behind my art – through the medium of motion pictures.
In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.
The sexual deviance – I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.
