I saw 'Sleeping Beauty' when I was, like, 6 years old at the Mercury Theatre. Then, when I came to Disney, I was in the company of these wonderful artists. People like Glen Keane, like Mark Henn, who were brilliant animators who could really bring these things to life.
Of course the computer animators take a lot of the credit for what's going on, but with Peter's help I really fleshed out the character,
It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
There is enough business for everybody and we aim at training and producing some 25,000 new animators over a four-year period through 2010.
The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.
It made the animation process go that much more quickly. Once the figures were built, the animator could just swap them out.
He has been a tremendous influence on my career and on most animators and animation directors around the world.
I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.
I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation.
I've never met a designer who thought more like an animator than Carlos. He's always thinking not just 'how will this look,' but 'how will it move.' That may seem like the obvious aim of designing for animation, but very few people have that gift.