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Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.Glen Keane
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In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities. A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine.Sanhita Baruah
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Having a purpose is one thing, but the quickening is a total animation of passion.Bryant McGill
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Don’t let the daily routine kill your creativity. Remember who you were before you got that job.Morr Meroz
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SIMPSONS BLUFFER'S RULE #2The competent bluffer should always refer to the performers who play The Simpsons as 'the voice talent' never 'actors'.For extra effect, drop their first names... This implies some tacit familiarity and your bluffee will simply melt before your eyes like the witch in The Wizard of OzPaul Couch
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The fairy tale of film–created with the magic of animation–is the modern equivalent of the great parables of the Middle Ages. Creation is the word. Not adaptation. We can translate the ancient fairy tale into its modern equivalent without losing the lovely patina and savor of its once-upon-a-time quality. We have proved that age-old kind of entertainment based on the classic fairy tale recognizes no young, no old.Walt Disney Company
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When Walt became all wrapped up in the theme parks and live-action films, we tried to get him interested in animation again, " recalls Frank Thomas, one of the Studio's "Nine OldCharles Solomon
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Any time you design a character for a Disney picture, especially a fairy tale, it's going to become the definitive design for that character, so you don't want to hack something out. You need to put in the kind of care it warrants if it's going to live in history.Glen Keane
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Since the earliest days of the art form, humans have been the most difficult characters to animate. The more realistic the human being, the more difficult the animation becomes. Audiences will accept distortions in the actions of a cartoony character: no one has ever seen a four-foot-tall rabbit walk on its hind legs, so an artist animating Bugs Bunny enjoys considerable freedom. But everyone knows how human beings move, and if those movements are not rendered accurately, viewers won't believe in the characters. Ward Kimball, one of Disney's "Nine Old Men, " commented, "As long as we deal in fantasy, we are on safe ground. The eye has no basis for comparison. But the more we try to duplicate nature realistically, the tougher our job becomes. The audience compares what we draw with what it knows to be true. Any false movement is easily detected.Charles Solomon
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Three wishes, to be exact. And ixnay on the wishing for more wishes.Aladdin (1992)
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I don’t need a medal to tell me I’m a good guy.Unknown
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All my life flashed before my eyes.… It was really boring.Chicken Run (2000)
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To infinity…and beyond!Toy Story (1995)
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In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.Ratatouille (2007)
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While the characters drive the epic story of Robotech, it’s the robotic mecha that capture the imagination.Tommy Yune
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Kon’s films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.Andrew Osmond
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Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.Helen McCarthy
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Your mind, your motion and your expression is an animation to marvel and to praise.Bryant McGill
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My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.Gore Verbinski
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I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.Cheryl Hines
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Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.Norman McLaren