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Don Bluth Biography

Donald Virgil Bluth (born September 13, 1937) is an American animator, film director, producer, writer, production designer, video game designer and animation instructor. He is known for directing animated films, such as The Secret of NIMH (1982), An American Tail (1986), The Land Before Time (1988), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) and Anastasia (1997), and for his involvement in the LaserDisc game Dragon's Lair (1983). 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 Disney Renaissance. He is the older brother of illustrator Toby Bluth.

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How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

Crew, Day, Director, Directors, Talk, Work

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

Artist, Escapades, Hero, Jobs, Kind, Reaction

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

Character, Children, See, Story, Watches

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

Artist, Blood, Sharks, Wherever

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5. 1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

Game, Home, Memories, Sharp, Sound, Xbox

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.

Animated, Character, Funny Things, Games, Like, Quite

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

Artist, Maybe, Overall, Trying, Whole, World

We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.

Ace, Aces, Artist, Potential, Space

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

Clam, Clams, Enormous, Film, Sort, Takes

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Business, Endless, Holes, Money, Pouring, Recoup

But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people.

360, Artist, Maybe, Mean, Million, Years

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

Artist, Back, Pendulum, Swing, Swings, Waiting

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

Action, Animation, Artist, Prefer, Reach, Trying

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

Artist, Enthusiasm, Nimh, Secret

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.

Artist, Computer, Opposites, Pencils, People, World

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

Artist, Game, Games, Regular, Three, Years

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

Artist, Business, Sells

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

Bats, Dragons, Involved, Snakes, Spiders

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

Business, Financing, Things, Usually

The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

Artist, Heart, Interactive, Story, Team, Teamwork

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