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Animating Quotes

On creative craft, character, and the spirit behind motion.

These animating quotes focus on creative craft, describing how truly understanding a character means being able to turn it around and see every angle, a process explored further in our action quotes collection.

My prospects for life, though in a measure shaded with uncertainty, hardship and danger, are very animating and bright. My prospects for another life, blessed be God, are still brighter.

Quotes by Adoniram Judson

Seeing clients as people with goals and desires helps you to understand their perspective, animating their existence beyond a line item in a sales pipeline report.

Quotes by Rana el Kaliouby

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Quotes by Olympia Brown

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.

Quotes by Marc Davis

Action Quotes

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Quotes by Louis Sullivan

If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.

Quotes by Gore Verbinski

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Quotes by Felix Adler

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

Quotes by David Bolinsky

When I started working with a computer, to me it was kind of like animating with a backhoe. But when you see the results, it just blows your mind.

Quotes by Bud Luckey

Beauty Quotes

One of the frequent blind spots for economic libertarians, speaking as one who has personally dealt with this log in the eye, is a tendency to allow principles of how economies work and the beauty of trade to make us...

Quotes by Ben Domenech

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow...

Quotes by Arthur Smith

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these animating quotes only apply to cartoon animation?
No, while one quote focuses on understanding animated characters fully, others use 'animating' more broadly to describe the spirit behind a building or the drive behind a client's goals.
What does the quote about turning a character around mean?
It suggests that truly understanding an animated character requires viewing it from every angle, not just the one shown on screen.
Is visual effects work part of this collection?
Yes, one quote describes the day-to-day reality of animating shards of glass and tumbling buses as part of large-scale visual effects work.
How is 'animating' used outside of film or games?
One quote applies it to architecture, describing the spirit that animates a building's mass, and another to business, describing what animates a client's goals.
Are there related quotes about creativity and action?
Yes, see our action quotes collection for more on the drive and energy behind creative work.

Other lines use 'animating' more abstractly, describing the spirit that animates a building or a client's goals beyond a simple sales report, ideas that connect to our building quotes page.