Rich Moore's 'Wreck-It Ralph' is an homage to blocky video games

When animation director Rich Moore was growing up in Oxnard, he spent so much time in video arcades that his parents worried that their young son was wasting his time. “They would always tell me that I should be concentrating on the real world,” says Moore, who grew up to put all that invaluable research into his first big-screen movie, Disney's “Wreck-It Ralph.”

By Katherine Tulich

November 5, 2012