Chris Wedge Quotes

Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.

Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D.

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

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

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.

It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.

I don't have anything against CGI.

Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.

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

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

It's quite amazing what 3D is doing to movies. Just simple things like a paper plane flying at you or flower petals fluttering about are wonderful.

Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.

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

I mean I think people prepared me for like a lot of green screen [in Oz the Great]. I didn't have a lot of green screen. They build most sets. When this castle was tangible, Emerald City was tangible, the forest, the woods was tangible, the cemetery, everything was there.

CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared.

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.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

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.

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