Jeffrey Katzenberg Quotes

I've been working in computer animation for 25 years. I'm obviously a devotee of the technology. I just think it's the one aspect of the medium that's going to continue to revolutionize the filmmaking. It's constantly changing and it's constantly opening up new possibilities. The technology is evolving where 2-D animation was ultimately limited by how long you could pay how many people to make a movie. I mean computers, not that it's in anyway a labor saving device, but it promises to open up exciting new technical possibilites.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them.

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

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.

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.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

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

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

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.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

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.

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

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.

I don't have anything against CGI.

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

When it comes to producing breakthroughs, both technological and artistic, Pixar's track record is unique. In the early 1990s, we were known as the leading technological pioneer in the field of computer animation.

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.