Maybe the guy should have said the Commodore 64 or the Atari 800. I've used animation software on the latter, and it was pretty crude, by today's standards. Still, it was quite the thrill at the time. Besides, nobody in his target audience knows what an Amiga is anyway... well not many at least.
Back in the day, I had the good fortune to see one of the "International Animation Festivals" in an "art house" theater. I remember "Dance of the Stumblers" made in a guy's bedroom on an A500 with Dpaint getting a bigger reaction that the Cray stuff... so it's not the tool, it's the wielder. (Of course, I noticed quite a few members of the local Amiga user group in the audience, and I'm sure that didn't hurt. :-D :-D :-D
