My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.
Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.
Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.
Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.
I used to do stop motion in my own garage and Claymation and all that stuff. That led to doing backgrounds and matte paintings. I started doing matte paintings professionally back before the computer, sort of painting on glass.
You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.
I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.