Animator Quotations

I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.

Louie is an animator and illustrator by trade, and I can tell you that the pages he has been turning in have been stunning.

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.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

I've never met a designer who thought more like an animator than Carlos. He's always thinking not just 'how will this look,' but 'how will it move.' That may seem like the obvious aim of designing for animation, but very few people have that gift.

If you were to peel back the skin on one of these puppets, it would look like the back of a watch. They're fully geared, so the animator can put a little screwdriver in the ear hole and crank a gear that allows one side of the mouth to come up.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

It made the animation process go that much more quickly. Once the figures were built, the animator could just swap them out.