Rick Baker Quotes

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

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.

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

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

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

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

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.

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

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.

Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.

I think when you do stuff in a computer people tend to dismiss it. It also allows you to make a lot of stuff totally not connected with reality because you're not limited by any kind of reality.

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

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

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

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.

The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

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.

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