Roundtable: How Did You Become an Animation Addict? - Rotoscopers
I’ve always LOVED the Disney movies and I was a huge fan of every Pixar movie. I started buying books about Pixar and reading a lot about the directors and writers and animators. Not only an animation addict, but a filmmaking addict. My path to animation addiction had a lot of facets to it. There are a few moments, however, that strike me as really important. The first movie I remember seeing was an animated film. I remember it like it was yesterday: it was a hot summer day, too hot to play outside. Therefore, my mom decided to take me to the movies to see Disney’s latest film, ‘ The Lion King. I was too young to understand the movie’s themes, and I hid under my chair when the climax got really intense, but the greatness of the film sunk in, and I came out of the theater loving movies. It hadn’t really struck me, though, that ‘The Lion King’ was animated. I had seen many more animated films since then, and I loved them all (and still do). However, ‘Toy Story’ rocked me in a way no other animated film had before. It wasn’t just that it was CG-animated (even though that probably had something to do with it). it had to do with the fact that the Pixar story crew had crafted such a unique,. Source: www.rotoscopers.com
