A picture will wind up costing 90 million dollars... Well, animation can't stand that. It can't bear the weight of a 90 million dollar budget, because it can't recoup. Then everybody's surprised when it only pulls in 50-60 million domestic.
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We figured out that we were going to have to do CGI and 2-D animation on screen at the same time. Sixty-five percent of the picture is CGI. That's a big mix. When you marry those two, they can either look very foreign to each other, or they look like they belong together.Don Bluth
The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.
Don Bluth
If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.
Don Bluth
Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.
Don Bluth
When we originally made the game Dragon's Lair, we had no idea the impact it would have on the game market. It was something new at the time it was the first of the laserdisc games, and random-access was a brand-new technology.
Don Bluth
We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.
Don Bluth
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