It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.
I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.
We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.
It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.
Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.
You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.
You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.
With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.
We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.
We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.
There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.
The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.
The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.
The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.
The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.