John Lasseter Quotes

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

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.

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

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.

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.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

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 always wanted to do animation.

As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film.

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

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

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

The great thing about computer animation is that all of those environments exist as three-dimensional worlds, so these VR worlds already exist.

Making the visuals photo-realistic lets us do things we were never able to do before. The voice acting, the facial expressions, are all that much deeper.

I think Mike and I would absolutely love to do feature animation. Either another story, or it if worked out, one in the 'Avatar' world. We would be really excited.

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

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

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

I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.

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.

People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.