Dan Scanlon Quotes

I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

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 a big fan of cel animation, I'm a big fan of computer animation, and, most of all, I'm a big fan of stop-motion animation.

I ran development and programming at Disney TV animation. We did a lot of cartoons.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

My animation work is a major source of pride for me.

This new generation of animators was trained in CG. They know all the fundamentals of any 2D animator, but a lot of them learned on these CG rigs. You give them a good rig, and they can make that thing sing.

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 absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

You look at Japan and Hayao Miyazaki's films are the biggest films ever made in Japan; domestically there and they play to critical acclaim around the world. He won't put more then 5 or 10 percent computer imagery in his movies. It's disappointing to me. It's a silly choice that some studios made to move out of animation. It's part of the unfortuneate preconception that I think the public has going into see animation.

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

I love hand-drawn animation, but I have to say I have fallen in love with CG animation. What you can do in terms of visuals is pretty stunning, and I think if I did go back and do a hand-drawn animation, I would want to make sure that, from a stylistic standpoint, it would be as beautiful as 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' at least!

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.

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

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