the incredibles

Watching The Incredibles DVD is a great way to ignite some more complex thinking about art, illustration and creativity. Especially when it’s needed personally (what with huge projects looming and all). The way those wacky Pixar people take every small detail into consideration is, well, incredible.
I have just begun to really want to take things like lighting and characterization into consideration, even just in my small illustrations, and to see an entire team of people work on those things on something as huge as an entire movie is kinda breathtaking for someone as creatively inclined as me.
It makes me feel inadequate in the most childlike, wondrous kinda way. Simply watching these people work away at these impossible things so casually and elegantly makes it seem feasible for me to achieve personally.
I love playing around with Photoshop to see what will happen, so I kinda drool when I see that they have their own software department that exists simply to solve problems and build tools for them. If software is needed, they can build it. “You need more fluid 3D rendering? Sure, I’m on that. The ability to light a animated scene as if it were a soundstage? You got it. Long, realistic looking, flowing hair? As of today it’s the computer animation holy grail, but if I can get my guys on it we should have something by tomorrow.”
If only.
It makes me very, very, jealous of people like Mr. Tirade himself. Lucky freakin duck.