Occupation: Animator Birth: August 1, 1976
There's really no reason film and digital can't happily co-exist and benefit from one another. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to sell ….
I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and….
Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it's also very - it's an expensive thing to do..
I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything..
No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present..
Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat?.
To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine..
To me, that's where memories are very interesting because what happens when we start losing memories? What happens when you can't take your memories ….
The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have your characters r….
I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach….
If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where pe….
Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get ….
I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves..
You have to leave the window open for better classes to come along as you go. You can't grow too proud of your script. You have to let the thing shap….
I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few peo….
If an audience finds themselves paying attention to how you made your film, you're sunk because that means they're unplugged from your story. What ma….
The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story..
Maybe the most annoying questions is: "Where do you see yourself in so many years?" It's a terrifying answer no matter how you think of it..
Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become..
What's interesting is when you talk about that - "living forever" or as long as you possibly can - what you really want is a continuance of your memo….
I've got the luxury of being able to work largely alone, so I don't need to communicate difficult creative classeas to other people and can leave the….