The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.
The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.
It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.
One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going until it's right.
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell any number of stories, be it horror or action or adventure or drama or whatever, and we're trying to do that as well. Every film that you go see from Pixar, we're hoping is a little bit of a surprise.
I found out animation is incredibly boring. You draw and draw and draw, and it's only a few seconds done in a week.