In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

He has been a tremendous influence on my career and on most animators and animation directors around the world,

He has been a tremendous influence on my career and on most animators and animation directors around the world.

Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.