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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.
With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.
It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.
In animation, action is changing so quickly that there's really not a lot of suspended moments.
Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.