Robert Lepage Quotes

Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens and even hundreds of thousands of drawings. The animation, or 'the reality,' is created in a computer, and the work of the original artist is the work. Nor is it a comic book. You can't turn the pages. You can't read the dialogue.

Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.

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.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.

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.

I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

I don't have anything against CGI.

The very first pieces of film that I did were really graphic designs translated to film. Graphic designs that moved. That was a very new notion.

Certain things work on paper held together with staples. Comics use bright colors to make things leap off the page, but movies are a different medium.

I'm not building gyms. I'm not interested in building football fields or doing football camps. I'm interested in doing film camps and coding camps.

Every 'Star Wars' film was about pushing what was possible in terms of effects, puppets, matte paintings, stop motion and, now, digitally.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Reilly Brown is a master of balancing action, humor, and extreme violence, and his character designs for some of the alien races and technology that we encounter is just amazing.

My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.

I love to do animation movies, and those might be some scores that are lesser known, unless you really kind of dig through my work and see.

I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.

In 'The Greatest Showman,' I'm back doing VFX myself, allowing me to craft exactly how something looks, one frame at a time.

There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.