Dennis Muren Quotes

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film.

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

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

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated.

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.

The great thing about computer animation is that all of those environments exist as three-dimensional worlds, so these VR worlds already exist.

I don't have anything against CGI.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

I always wanted to do animation.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.