We have the same sense of humor as the Western studios, and we pay attention to detail like the Japanese.

He's been distracted by everything. We need someone who has new ideas and can pay attention to the district more.

We were arrogant, we thought we were safe because we had our production contracts with the big studios. Now we have to look at new ways to grow.

Boosting the industry's workforce with fresh animators to enable the studios to meet global demand is the most formidable challenge the industry faces.

There is enough business for everybody and we aim at training and producing some 25,000 new animators over a four-year period through 2010.

But our efforts in promoting the industry to the rest of the world amount to nothing if we don't get potential animators interested.