John Lasseter Quotes

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

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.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

Maybe 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' didn't have a lot of visual effects in it, but most movies have some sort of visual effects.

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.

CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you.

I'm not a big fan of visual effects.

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

You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and things like that. But never done, like, computer-generated imagery in action.

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

We're always striving to make Avatar look like a cinematic, live-action movie.

If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It's very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it'll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven't really seen since the '50s and '60s.

Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.

Stop-motion is filmmaking at the pace of a glacier. In live action, you're moving so quickly.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

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

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.

Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

I'm of a generation of director that came up understanding special effects.

Acting on a blue screen is awful.

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.