If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don’t pay attention to how things move through space.
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More Brad Bird Quotes
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Oh, I’m just Ego’s assistant. It’s not anything big.
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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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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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We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can’t create it if you don’t have one.
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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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You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.
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Anything that makes movie-going a magnificent experience, I’m all for.
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I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there’s a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don’t feel like they are moving themselves.
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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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