Walt Dohrn Quotes

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 believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter.

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.

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

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

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

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

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

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

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

If people want to watch a CG movie, there's plenty out there.

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

To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.

'Avatar' means so many things to so many different people. When I think of the creation of it, I think of me and Mike at the computer in a little apartment in Burbank.

I always idealized the mainstream cartoonists and the packed schedule they worked under.

In an early version of the story, I thought Aang could shepherd a herd of twenty bison.

I would love to be the voice of a cartoon character in a movie for my kids. I think that would be fun.

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

Our experience on 'Avatar' heavily influenced how we approached 'The Dragon Prince' and how we built our team.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

We believe that creating a 'Mario' game is a special endeavor.

On the 'Tom and Jerry's,' Joe and I would sit across a desk from each other and develop the story. Joe would do the storyboard and I'd do the timing and the direction of the animation.

I eventually thought of SpongeBob, but he needed a last name - SquarePants came to mind.