I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
I was very intimidated by the visual effects world. But I began to realize that you don't have to know everything. You have to be able to talk about story.
I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.
Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.