Aaron Ehasz Quotes

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

The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

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

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.

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

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

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!

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

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

Doing 3D on 'Hugo' was a big learning curve for me, but fun!

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

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.

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

To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.

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 learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

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

I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.

The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.

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.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.