Colin O'Donoghue Quotes

I always wanted to do animation.

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.

I used to animate. I started in animation, and you'd end every day with at least one substantive contribution.

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.

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!

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.

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

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

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

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.

I've always been into visual effects. It was something I took keen interest in before films happened. Ironically, I am a part of 'Raaz 3,' a film that is shot entirely on 3D. It has encouraged me to pursue my dream. Hopefully, if time permits, I will travel to the United States and attend a crash course in visual graphics and animation.

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.'

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

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.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

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.

I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.

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've always loved animation and animated films.

I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.