Trip Hawkins Quotes

I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that.

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.

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.

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.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

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.

In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.

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.

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.

My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.

I didn't know much about video games.

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

I'm a huge 'Call of Duty' fan, 'Minecraft' and all those kinds of video games. I'm constantly playing video games every day.

Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life.

It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.

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

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'm not a video-game player at all.

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

Videogames are probably my first love.