If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there’s a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there’s a certain way that it happens.
BRAD BIRDIf you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there’s a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there’s a certain way that it happens.
More Brad Bird Quotes
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Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I’m all for.
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If there are similarities, it’s simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I’d be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
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If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don’t pay attention to how things move through space.
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I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.
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Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
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Look, it’s a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It’s meant to be a great time at the theater, but it’s also designed to work on more than one level
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Well I’m still working on The Incredibles. So I’m going to take a little time off. I’ve got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I’m not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
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We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them.
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You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.
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Oh, I’m just Ego’s assistant. It’s not anything big.
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I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren’t dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.
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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.
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Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, because everybody has a feeling for how they move.
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Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can’t create it if you don’t have one.
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To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
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