We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.
I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.
Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.
Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.
But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.
The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.
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.
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.
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.