'It's really hard to do something different that still connects with people,' says Pixar’s chief creative officer, who will be honored for his career contributions during the 50th Annie Awards.
ahead of the gala event at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Docter fondly remembers meeting a trio of his own animation idols — Disney legends Joe Grant and Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston — and the valuable lessons he learned.
“Ollie would say, ‘Don’t draw what the character is doing; draw what they’re thinking,’ ” he says. “The reason we move to begin with is because we’re feeling something inside, and the movement then becomes an expression of that. That was such a great, succinct way of saying, ‘Draw what they’re feeling.’ ”
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