Brendan Fraser Quotes

When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.

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

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 always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

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.

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 grew up watching movies and being amazed at the animatronics you'd see in stuff like 'The Dark Crystal,' and all those kinds of movies. So, I'm always enthralled with how they can make it all work, behind the scenes, with the visual effects.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

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

I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.

With 'Toy Story,' which is a fantastic film but is essentially animation, you get to make all your decisions beforehand. 'Jumanji' is shot much like any other action film.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.

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

CG can do anything, but it can't do everything well. What it naturally can do is special effects. But using stop-motion comes from our desire to do handmade stuff. There are always going to be kids who get out whatever it might be - clay, bits of wire, Barbie dolls, Legos. They want to tell little stories.

There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.

I'm not anymore because I haven't kept up with my certification, but I was a certified actor combatant in rapier, dagger, hand-to-hand, and quarterstaff.

Every film that comes out that incorporates CGI or performance capture is a little bit ahead of the last film that came out. You're on the cutting edge for a certain amount of time, and then the new technology comes out.

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.

I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!

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.