Frame by Frame Quotes

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

It's not like the computer magically does it for you. Animation just takes forever.

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

In manga, nothing actually moves, and you just have to draw the poses in each panel, but in anime, you have to draw the movements between those poses.

The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes. You have to, because it's such a protracted process, break it down to the frame and pretty much get one shot.

I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it's more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it's also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do.

Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn't mean anything if we don't make this point in this shot, this one here and this one here. There's the saying, 'One shot, one thought.' It's pretty much a true way to go.

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.