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You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.
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To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.
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One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.
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The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.
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Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.
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I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
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Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
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My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.
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Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.
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I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
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Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.
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The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.
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As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
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I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.
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