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Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.