A local tour guide, who knew all about the folklore connected to the region, agreed.
The guide was saying that there are stories connected to every aspect of the landscape, Moore said.
Moores first feature film was similarly steeped in Irish history and legend.
Nominated for an Oscar,The Secret Of Kellsbrought Moore and his studio Cartoon Saloon to global attention.
During the four years I was at college, those studios were actually petering out, finishing up.
They were finishing onTarzan.Don Bluths studio had gone back to America to Phoenix.
You could only have so many cels before they start to cancel each other out and get really dark.
It had to look like flat colours on a painted background.
Whereas now, were able to use almost any technique we can animate a charcoal line.
That would have been incredibly difficult to do [without a computer].
You couldnt put watercolour on a cel.
Yeah, we were able to paint on successive layers of watercolour paper, Moore agrees.
Ron Howard shot parts of his 1992 romanceFar And Awayin and around the Dingle Peninsula.
I always come back to Hayao Miyazakis films, Moore says.
You didnt need to know about Japanese mythology to access them, it just gave it a flavour.
You could feel that there was a whole belief system behind it that they were tapping into.
Theres a layer of depth to it, because he was drawing from his own culture.
That kind of stuff.
Theres a lyrical simplicity toSong Of The Seas execution that runs counter to approach taken by most mainstream animators.
Animation, backgrounds and layouts were produced in Luxembourg.
Those elements were composited in Belgium, while post-production, sound and music was completed in France.
Nothing could move on without his approval.
It sounds very unwieldy, but we were kind of used to it.
Indeed, Moore believes thatSong Of The Seacouldnt have been made on such a tight budget without computer technology.
Its great to see something independent.
Lets see more,' Moore says.
Thats what it felt like.
It felt like the industry itself, or our peers in animation, endorsing what we were doing.
And that was massive.
Were not looking for that big breakout opening box-office weekend, because we cant, Young says.
The mainstream has definitely gone CGI, Moore tells us.
Its not going to change back, and wishing it wont make it so.
And I dont wish it anymore.
People dont have Disney to look to now to copy, so now they have to reinvent themselves.
When photography came in, painters had to reinvent themselves.
They invented expressionism, impressionism and cubism and everything else.
They gasped when the fearsome villainess Macha reared up, flanked by her army of owls.
