Peter Jackson Quotes

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

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 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.

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

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

We're always striving to make Avatar look like a cinematic, live-action movie.

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

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

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

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.

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.

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.

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

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.

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

I would love to do some motion capture work just to be able to challenge myself.

'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.

Whether you make an action blockbuster or a comedy or a drama, you've got the right camera and all the right technology to do it. In games, it's not the same yet, and I would like to see technologies dealing with cameras the way we do - dealing with bouquet, dealing with performance capture, with lighting - with all this stuff the way we do.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

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.