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Dave Rowntree

"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."

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Donna Grant

"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour."

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Donna Grant

"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."

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Donna Grant

"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked."

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Donna Grant

"In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing."

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Donna Grant

"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."

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Donna Grant

"Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s."

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Donna Grant

"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."

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Donna Grant

"It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong."

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Donna Grant

"I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in."

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Dave Rowntree
"But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects."

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Dave Rowntree
"The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on where people click. That would give you the kind of content screening that you don't get at the moment."

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Dave Rowntree
"Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long."

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Dave Rowntree
"Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it."

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Dave Rowntree
"Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour."

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Dave Rowntree
"I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny."

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Dave Rowntree
"There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere."

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Dave Rowntree
"It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really."

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Dave Rowntree
"You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe."

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Dave Rowntree
"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."

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