Digital Artistry Quotes

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Nowadays, if you're a great artist, you don't have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You're closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.

With digital technology there's a huge spectrum of flexibility in what you can do to manipulate sound and image - which you can push into a really artificial realm if you aren't careful.

Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?

You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop.

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

I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.

Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.

I think all directors should be animators.

People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI as if it's responsible for a drop in standards.

I plan on continuing to explore all the possibilities of technology, and then finally film and television and movies. Embrace it.

The first rule of new media is nobody gets rich, but everybody gets paid, in a perfect world. Maybe you don't get fabulously wealthy doing your webcomic, but as long as you can make a decent living.

It's been a dream to work alongside the talented team at Lucasfilm and ILM to make advancements and improvements to the filmmaking process to help tell stories more efficiently.

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 animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move characters about.

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

For a while, I Photoshopped too much. When you first learn what you can do, you really go overboard sometimes.

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands.

It's funny: I was a photographer before I was a programmer.

New artists, it seems to me, have to learn the mechanics of computing/programming and - possessing a vision unhumbled by technology - use them to disassemble/recreate the Web.

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.