"That's Old School"

The Associated Press via The Washington Post has a good article on why Pixar, despite all the advanced wizardry techniques in animation and digital rendering, always comes back to "old-fashionedness". On The Simpsons animators comes this quote from Brad Bird…

"I started pushing the storyboard artists, many of whom had trained on Saturday morning animation, to think of each episode as a movie, and to look toward Hitchcock, Welles, Kubrick and Scorsese for inspiration rather than other animation,"

Have a read here.

Also, Teddy Blanks from notcoming.com has a nice article on how Pixar continues to set the bar in animation and overcomes the hurdles of computer animation.