Top 1200 Computer Animation Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

From an animation perspective, it doesn't get better than Pixar. You're working so much in the blind because the huge circle of collaborators that's required to pull off a film like this means that you are just one small arc in that large circle. The level of trust that you have to give into is significant.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, that's not interesting to me.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.

As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.

When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, thats not interesting to me.

Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

I think miniatures are still superior to a lot of computer graphics.

What happens in animation is that you don't really start the story until you're boarding it, which usually means that you've gotta go through some sort of a script phase. And you can get caught in the doldrums there, overdeveloping that, when you don't really know what you have until you put it up in storyboards.

I love classic animation, and I especially love classic cartoon music.

I don't need a lot: I've got a telly, a computer - what else can you get me?

Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.

Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both motion-capture and traditional animation to build a system.

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15.

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

The National Tracing Center is not allowed to have centralized computer data.

And so not only did I have all new friends and all new surroundings, I didn't even understand what they were talking about, which was very difficult and kind of started me, I think, on my path to animation. It was a lot easier to draw people than to talk and interact with them.

If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

I used to collect computer punch cards from the data centers.

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

I left school, and I went to work in a computer company. I was in my late teens.

The quality and success of Disney was actually bad for us animators because everyone on the planet thought that animation was only for kids and only in a certain domain. The big film festivals never thought much about animated films.

I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.

The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

I've done every imaginable job possible out there - movies, TV, animation, TV movies... and, at this point, almost reality, it seems. It's been a real blessing. It's been a great ride.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

I don't spend much time on the computer at all, so I do most of my email on my phone if I do any at all.

When I'm at home, I love playing action-oriented computer games.

I think the way we're doing computer vision is just wrong.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface.

I don't want to do animation to mimic reality. I want to push reality.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

A computer doesn't have a mind of its own - it needs someone else's to function.

I got into television in 1998 when I didn't have a computer or even an email address.

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

I am a computer illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.

Even when I'm acting, I carry my computer around and work on music.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.