I think we kind of changed how people did humans in CG animation after. If you look at films before 'Incredibles,' they tended to be photorealistic in a clunky and ugly way, with pores in their skin and too many eyelashes. It's kind of disturbing. And since, the designs have gotten a lot more playful in a lot of people's films, not just ours.

Brad Bird

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Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel by Brad Bird

Communities need to hear the liberating power of the gospel

liberating community needs

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't c... by Brad Bird

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

animation illusion creating

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

mean ideas interesting

We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue the... by Brad Bird

We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them.

pursue dream impossible

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

schedules lists wish

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

trying people thinking

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel.

rockets fuel want

I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and movies really exist in a much grayer region of dreams and stuff like that, and instinct is prized in movies, it's not prized with the businessmen in movies, but movies themselves often reward instinct rather than pie charts.

pie dream thinking

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

government boys moving

If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention... by Brad Bird

If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

space looks moving

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing. by Brad Bird

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic bu... by Brad Bird

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

real names thinking

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

harder hard-work people

Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all... by Brad Bird

Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I'm all for.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

popular-culture film culture

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love t... by Brad Bird

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

pixar next thinking

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.

levels hands people

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a cert... by Brad Bird

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

firefighter hero television

When you assemble animation teams the way you do a live-action film, you're often struggling a bit to get a cohesive team together, so if you have a team that works well together, you're hoping for another film so that you can refine the team.

team struggle together

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

animation hands thinking