Angela Bettis Quotes

I always wanted to do animation.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

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

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

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

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

I did B com but realised that it was not my cup of tea. I was always fascinated by animation, and after I completed my course, I wanted to go abroad and pursue it. I used to sketch a lot and was rather serious about it. But all this was until I joined films.

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.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

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.

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

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

Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.

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.

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 began as a graphic designer. As part of my work, I created film symbols for ad campaigns. I happened to be working on the symbols for Otto Preminger's 'Carmen Jones' and 'The Man With The Golden Arm' and at some point, Otto and I just looked at each other and said, 'Why not make it move?' It was as simple as that.

The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move characters about.

Doing 3D on 'Hugo' was a big learning curve for me, but fun!

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

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

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.