Peter Dinklage Quotes

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.

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

Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.

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

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

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!

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

I always wanted to do animation.

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.

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

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

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.

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 miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.