I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.
Don HertzfeldtI've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.
Don HertzfeldtI think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.
Don HertzfeldtBut I had never drawn on a tablet before. I've been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to try something different. I wanted to teach myself some digital stuff in advance of a bigger feature project that's coming up, and I took to it really quickly.
Don HertzfeldtI've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. And it's [World Of Tomorrow] sort of a parody of science fiction at the same time. It's all of the things I find interesting in sci-fi amplified.
Don Hertzfeldt