Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

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.

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

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

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 don't have anything against CGI.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

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.

I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.

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.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

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 just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

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.

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

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.

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

I'm not against Flash, and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do.

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.