David Bolinsky Quotes

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

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

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.

I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

I'm always impressed with the work of animators. You have to be able to draw the scenes in between movements. I'm impressed with the way they can do that - I don't think I could.

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 has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

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

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

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.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

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'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.

Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel.

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.

I've always been a fan of animation. As a kid, I used to watch a lot of the Saturday-morning cartoons, and I was always a fan of even claymation and that whole medium.

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

Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.