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.
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.
From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.
Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
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.
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.
My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.
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.
The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.
My style is very strong poses and expressions.