I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.
Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
In the mid-1990s, when I stopped having to run from the shows to the film developing lab and first saw digital images, I blessed technology and was convinced that my working life was changing for the better.
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.
What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did.
To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
I remember power-sliding on my knees the first time I got a job.
It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.