A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush. Jennifer Yuh Nelson More Quotes by Jennifer Yuh Nelson More Quotes From Jennifer Yuh Nelson We went to a remote Panda Base which was insane because inside there were several cribs which held about twenty baby pandas. They were all different sizes and they were all lying there in a long row. It was so cute, I could hardly stand it. I wanted to take them all home with me. Jennifer Yuh Nelson cute baby lying You have to make sure that people are still motivated and happy and creatively challenged so that it can all be stitched together. The voice acting starts after a lot of the storyboards are done. Jennifer Yuh Nelson voice acting people Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to. Jennifer Yuh Nelson tigress personality children I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it. Jennifer Yuh Nelson kung-fu-panda mean thinking Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy. Jennifer Yuh Nelson kung-fu-panda roots wish I think we had to push forward to make sure it was different, do something that we had never done before and yet still have the consistency to stay in the same world. This was our chance to do all the things we didn't get a chance to do before. We've been working on these movies [Kung Fu Panda] for twelve years and we have to keep things exciting for us in order for us to devote that many years of our lives to do this. Jennifer Yuh Nelson order years thinking You're right, we both have been working on these films [Kung Fu Panda] forever and we know these characters so well that literally we will react to the same note in the same way. We will have the same answer most of the time. Jennifer Yuh Nelson kung-fu-panda forever character We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it. Jennifer Yuh Nelson sweat tears years We have those new environments [during Kung Fu Panda 3] that give a scale to the movie, that are the spirit realm and the panda village. The spirit realm, having no gravity, having this massive space, allowed us to do huge action shots. All that we just couldn't do before. We just couldn't get the scale, we'd have to cheat them. This time we found ourselves more free. Jennifer Yuh Nelson kung-fu-panda space giving Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy. Jennifer Yuh Nelson support remember people I think more than being a woman is the fact that i'm an introvert. In the environment I work in people forget that i'm a woman which is wonderful it just shows what a wonderful environment i work in, no one treats me differently. They don't think that because i'm a woman i'll make decisions differently. Jennifer Yuh Nelson decision people thinking I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills. Jennifer Yuh Nelson introvert skills thinking As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am. Jennifer Yuh Nelson portfolios style art As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a speech because i've had to do it so much. I've so much support from the people around me that I can achieve something like that, crazy introvert that I am, I never would have thought that would happen. Jennifer Yuh Nelson support crazy people When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it. Jennifer Yuh Nelson important people ideas The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was why we used a historical calligraphy scroll come to life. Jennifer Yuh Nelson historical feelings giving We actually tried to put in [Kung Fu Panda 3] all the things we wanted to put into the first two films. We're all the same people who've been working on the other films and we all had things we couldn't do, and had to leave on the table. We just couldn't achieve them before. This time we have multiple new environments and different styles of animation. Jennifer Yuh Nelson kung-fu-panda two people We did two films [Kung Fu Panda], because the first two films were so embraced by the Chinese audiences we wanted to make something we could push further and since this is a co-production, it seemed like the perfect time to create something that felt native to Chinese audiences. Jennifer Yuh Nelson kung-fu-panda perfect two Usually they have to deal with a dubbing situation or subtitles, and it takes you out of the experience. That's why we wanted to make something that felt really immersive for Chiniese audience, but it takes a lot of work to make 2 versions of a movie! Jennifer Yuh Nelson subtitles dubbing situation You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane - we had a parallel pipeline going on where you had two versions recording Mandarin voice actors, getting it to be funny for Mandarin audiences going beyond a straight translation, and then animating it and lighting it, it's a lot of work. Jennifer Yuh Nelson voice artist two
