Emraan Hashmi Quotes

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

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!

When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.

If I hadn't gone into acting, then I would have perhaps become an animator.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.'

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back.

When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.

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.

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

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.

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

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

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

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.

I would love to do some motion capture work just to be able to challenge myself.

It's not like the computer magically does it for you. Animation just takes forever.

'Avatar' means so many things to so many different people. When I think of the creation of it, I think of me and Mike at the computer in a little apartment in Burbank.

I always wanted to do animation.