Walt Dohrn Quotes

Computers are extremely helpful and amazing for a multitude of scientific areas, but for me, when it comes to creation, they are insufficient and slow. Therefore, all of my efforts are to stay away from that beast.

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.

There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well.

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.

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

I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

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 believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.

I mean, for sure, from my history, I have an extreme fondness for 2D. I think it feels very hand-crafted, and you see the artist's personal touch. I think something about CG makes it a bit more sterile.

Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial curves.

I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?

I can access footage much quicker, yes. But in terms of living with a film and knowing what's right, digital doesn't do that for you.

I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.

If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception. I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons.

In the earliest days of Pixar, when we were making 'Toy Story' and 'A Bug's Life,' we all came together as a group.

I've always been involved in the visual aspect of my work, and moreover, it's very important in days where technology allows us to push the boundaries even more than when I started out.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

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.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.