[I] learned that you don't start up a new computer-rendering studio during production, |
The [computers] need at least three months to get to know each other before an animator goes anywhere near them, ... I learned that computers are as human as the rest of us. Our technical director named all the machines after different bands. The four Macs in the edit suite were named after the Beatles; fair enough, I was John. But then we needed a fifth so he named it Yoko, and they all stopped talking to each other. |
We had a sort of five-year plan. Neil wanted to go off and do Hollywood, while I wanted to make little films in my barn, on my own, and not show them to anybody, and see how it went. And the idea was, I'd get a point of view, and he'd get some clout, and then we'd meet up in a few years and make a feature film. Which is pretty much how it worked. |
We've grown up together, so there's no b------- in our relationship. We test each other, and provoke each other into trying new things. |