Dave Rowntree Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

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

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

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

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

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.

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.

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!

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.

I don't have anything against CGI.

If people want to watch a CG movie, there's plenty out there.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

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

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.