Animator Quotes

Animator Quote of the day

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

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

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.

I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!

All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.

I grew up near Disneyland, and my brother's an animator, so I was always really inspired by bright, cartoony colors and that whole feeling of happiness.

When I was at Pixar, I was in my hole. I was an animator, I had my shots and I was like, "Yeah, I've gotta make this perfect!" It's a very selfish thing.

I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.

Being an animator, and I've directed tons of mo-cap, which really is about how do characters move through space.

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

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.

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.