Occupation: Animator Birth: September 9, 1955
Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out..
George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already..
When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The….
I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds loo….
One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be cov….
The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant..
I used to watch nature shows and laugh at them. Everyone thought I was crazy. "Why are you laughing at a nature show?" Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it b….
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained..
My style is very strong poses and expressions..
There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up..
I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor..
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some sto….
I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions..
As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad..
There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw..
Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by mem….
Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening..
From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now..
I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists - and it used to ….
Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads..
I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting..