What was it like working alongside Will Vinton, Kathleen Quaife and other people in general on the project?
Kathleen and I worked in the same small room except when I was in France for a couple weeks. Vinton, as I said, was just a voice on the phone after our first meeting which was very memorable because Vinton showed us around his studio in Portland which I’d never seen. It looked like a great place to work. I’m told that it’s a long process creating 2D animations as you would be sitting in a room for long hours each day just working on special effects 2D animation frame by frame. How did you and your staff motivate yourselves to keep working? Money. We love the work anyway. Somebody has to do it. I know that Kathleen Quaife did the pixie dust animation for you. I did some of it, she did most of it. Had you met Kathleen Quaife before you hired her to help with the special effects for the pixie dust or was that the first time both of you worked together? How did you both get on having to spend hours at a time animating the pixie dust? Animators know how to work alone quietly together and se
