Don Bluth
Don Bluth
Donald Virgil "Don" Bluthis an American animator, film director, producer, writer, production designer, video game designer and animation instructor who is known for directing animated films, such as The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heavenand Anastasia, and for his involvement in the LaserDisc game Dragon's Lair. He is also known for competing with former employer Walt Disney Productions during the years leading up to the films that would make up the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAnimator
Date of Birth13 September 1937
CityEl Paso, TX
CountryUnited States of America
The studios are not hiring right now, and they're beginning to have second thoughts about what they're producing. Even Dreamworks.
Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.
I have been involved with script approval, approvals of character designs and the art direction, on kind of a consultant basis.
I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.
We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.
There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.
It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.
I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.
We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.
In the corporate structure, you get people who are highly competitive with each other... Trying to get more money and more prestige.
All the painting on the cels was farmed out to women all over the city of Los Angeles. They took it into their kitchens and painted it.
We had this laserdisc before, you know, and now you just put it on this little teeny-weeny thing.