Paul Walker Quotes

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

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.

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.

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

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

ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.

I don't have anything against CGI.

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

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

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.

The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.