You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

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.

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.

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.

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

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

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