Travis Knight Quotes

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

We're not purists about stop-motion. If there's a tool we can use that makes more sense to bring something to life in a better way, we'll use it, whether that's hand-drawn animation or CG or some newfangled technology we're developing.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

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

I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

I think stop-motion has always been semi-obsolete. And stop-motion animators - people like myself - love it so much that we're always going to be looking for new ways to make our films.

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

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

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it.

'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

I love great animation.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre.

I don't have anything against CGI.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies.

Technology is a very important part of cinema.

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