Flutterby™! :

Most of you probably won't care about this, but I, at least, am interested in the politics and practice of the computer animation world. This piece was forwarded around the Pixar internal lists with original attribution stripped but one of several from PDI people today.

Have you or your cohorts have got wind of today's Hollywood Reporter article(front page) about CG films? As usual there's a misquote that seems to pit our studios against one another in the bug film race.

At the end of the article, when asked if he though we could match the success of Disney/Pixar, one of our producers, Brad Lewis, is quoted as saying, "You can enter a race in a Ferrari, but I can beat you in a Chevy Nova if you're a shitty driver."

The original question was "What do you think of the quality of your software?", and Brad used the above analogy to say that it's the animator and not the software that makes good animation. Unfortunately the writer thought it would be more interesting if it sounded like a big squirt in a pissing match. Guess it just shows once again that you can't be too careful talking to the press.

Anyhow, regrets. I think that I can speak for all of us when I say that we want this to stay friendly.

Please feel free to post this.