“You are constantly trying to get the audience into the state of feeling, how things feel, rather than how things are.” — Brad Bird
This excellently animated (illustrated?) five-minute films features Brad Bird, writer and director of animated films The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille, providing insights into his process and why many people fundamentally misunderstand the medium.
P.S. Don’t call animation a “genre.” Brad might punch you in the face.
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Very cool. The most difficult thing to impress on others is that art is about emotional connection, that’s what makes it work, it’s what makes it powerful. The medium through which it’s conveyed is just a medium. It should not matter what that is.
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Agreed.
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It was cool seeing someone talking about that. It’s not the cartoon; it’s the story.
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Yes. That’s all that matters. Even in photography where you have a firm school of thought that believe there is no narrative in an image. I’m sorry, but where there is meaning there is a narrative.
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