Luxo blog, The Pixar Animation blog extra-ordinaire, features a new look and a link to this great MTV story on Brad Bird and The Incredibles. "Director Brad Bird is an anomaly in animation, a visionary with a retro sensibility and a stark aversion to the kind of safe, formulaic product that’s dominated the medium in… Read More »Luxo fun!
The Incredibles, a review
Theatrical Release: November 5, 2004 / Running Time: 115 Minutes / Rating: PG
Pixar has been batting 1000 with their animated feature films until now. Without being formulaic, the creative minds in Emeryville have managed to hit upon the recipe for fantastic success with each new release. The Incredibles is the least formulaic feature yet and likely to be the most successful.
Not content to stand on their successes of the past, Pixar brought in the team from the new classic animated film, The Iron Giant. Director Brad Bird and his team of storytellers and artists admittedly had little to no experience with computer generated animation, Pixar’s specialty. This meant they had no idea of the limits of the media and were able to push the boundaries of CG animation to new and exciting places.
“It’s a comic-book adventure,” Bird said in an interview. “Are you going to put pillows around the conflict? No. You do a superhero story, things are going to blow up. Director Brad Bird answers a few questions about the sometimes violent action that takes place in his film The Incredibles.
[Ovitz] said he wasn’t allowed to pursue deals that would have expanded Disney’s music or books businesses or attract top creative talent to the company. He [Eisner] even nixed deals to buy a stake in the Yahoo Inc. Web portal and settle a dispute with Jeffrey Katzenberg, who went on to found Dreamworks SKG after… Read More »Ovitz: Eisner is the real bad guy here.
If you have a vacation booked to Disney’s Vero Beach Disney Vacation Club Resort over the next month or so, you’d better plan on resheduling. The resort remains closed to to heavy damage from Hurricane Jeanne and the previous storms. As for the cast members who work there, some are working to repair the damage,… Read More »Disney’s Vero Beach Remains Shuttered
I’ve been hearing rumors of a book about Walt and the Golden and Silver era’s of the Walt Disney Company that tells the story through interviews with what could be called ‘Walt’s People’. Now comes word that it is actually a series of books edited by Didier Ghez and that the first one will be… Read More »Walt’s People
Here’s a really funny story regarding one mom’s attempts to scrapbook their vacation to Disneyland.
Michael Kovalchick of Graphically Speaking found some vintage matchbook covers from the early days of the Contemporary and Polynesian Hotels. Wanting to share the glory of those classic logos, he reproduced them and has made them available via illustrator files. My favorite is the Polynesian logo, but then I’m a tiki nut. (via BoingBoing.net)