Seth Rogen Quotes

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

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 do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

I don't have anything against CGI.

As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film.

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated.

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

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

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

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.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

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.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

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.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

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.

Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.