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	MichaelBarrier.com -- Interviews: Brad Bird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		I asked Brad Bird if he could make time for a telephone interview, on very short notice, and he was able to do so.
		Bird: Yes, and Premiere magazine just came out with their cross-section of all the top critics in America, and it was No. 3 for the year.
		Bird: I think some voters who may truthfully believe that an animated film is one of the five best of the year may feel like if they nominate you for best animated film they're off the hook.
	www.michaelbarrier.com /Interviews/Bird/Bird_Interview.htm (2910 words)

	Brad Bird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bird started his first animated cartoon at the young age of 11 and finished it at 13.
		Bird was hired in 1989 by Klasky-Csupo and helped develop The Simpsons from one-minute shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show into a half-hour length series.
		Bird was eventually hired by his old friend John Lasseter to create The Incredibles (in which he also provided the voice of costume designer Edna Mode).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brad_Bird (477 words)

	Brad Bird
		Montana-born Brad Bird first visited the Walt Disney animation studios when he was 11 years old.
		Bird's first experience as a professional animator was on Disney Picture's feature film The Fox and the Hound (1981).
		Bird had been planning a film about a retired superhero, and pitched Pixar the idea for The Incredibles (2004).
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=3072 (326 words)

	Bird problems such as pigeons or geese, BIRD -X offers products to repel birds.
		Brad's hangars are his livelihood, and he takes full responsibility for protecting and safeguarding his customers' planes.
		About then, Brad saw an advertisement for an ultrasonic UET-120 bird repeller device and for a bird-scaring vinyl balloon called "Terror-Eyes bird repeller," both sold by a Chicago company, Bird-X. "We sent in the reply card for their literature and decided it wouldn't hurt to try it.
		Brad first used the ultrasonic bird repeller in the main hangar along with Terror-Eyes bird repeller to discourage any problem birds from returning; then he moved the ultrasonic bird repeller to the smaller hangar to rid his living quarters of pesky pigeons.
	www.bird-x.com /casestudies/trust.html (1012 words)

	Brad Bird/The Incredibles Interview
		Brad: That is just, she is a really weird character and probably the days I was happiest as a writer on this were the days I was writing scenes with her.
		Brad: You know, I have two families, I have the family that I grew up in and the family that I now have with my wife and sons and I drew on all of them.
		Brad: I have been interested in live action a long time and I have developed live action projects during that period that I was frustrated about that didn't go and I think those would have been just as good as some of the films that I have made.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/BradBird/BradBird.html (1208 words)

	Brad Bird Interview: Well Rounded Entertainment
		Bird's work those first years of "The Simpsons" helped establish the network as a genuine player and the artist as one of the key members in the new wave of animation who were reshaping the world of cartoons both figuratively and literally.
		Soon after, Bird was taken under the wing of Stephen Spielberg, and wrote, directed and co-produced the animated "Family Dog" segment that aired on the director's TV series "Amazing Stories." He also wrote the first draft for the script that became the feature film *batteries not included.
		Bird moved from the "The Simpson" to the short-lived "The Critic" and the hit "King of the Hill." After a few years at Fox, Warner Brothers came calling, and Bird flew from the small screen for a shot at the big one.
	www.well-rounded.com /movies/reviews/bradbird_intv.html (3104 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| Iron without irony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Bird knew going in that the shows he became part of at Fox -- starting with "The Simpsons" (which began on "The Tracey Ullman Show" in 1987, and premiered as a series in 1989) -- depended more on verbal humor than on visual design.
		Without the taint of compromise, Bird had a ball directing two Krusty the Clown episodes and serving as executive consultant on "The Simpsons" (and then on "The Critic" in 1994 and '95 and "King of the Hill" in 1997).
		But Bird felt that in the drowsy Disney of the late '70s and early '80s, he was a troublemaker with nowhere to go.
	www.salon.com /ent/col/srag/1999/08/05/bird (1636 words)

	fps: The Magazine of Animation: Brad Bird and the First Annual Tex Avery Animation Award
		The first receipent was Brad Bird and the award was presented by Nancy Avery Arkley, Tex's daughter, and he was introduced by William Joyce (children's author and illustrator and creator of Rolie-Polie Olie, George Shrinks, and the art director for Robots).
		Bird said his work is partially targeted at kids, "but you do much better work if you assume that the kids who are watching your stuff are smart." Then Cogill had hm go through his own career history.
		Bird replied, "My primary job is to remind the writers that this is a story with characters and plot, not just gag lines." After that he went over to Warner Brothers and did The Iron Giant.
	www.fpsmagazine.com /2005/11/brad-bird-and-first-annual-tex-avery.shtml (1544 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bird is big on heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Brad Bird made his first short film at 14 and apprenticed at Disney before graduating from college.
		Bird went on to be an executive consultant on such animated shows as The Simpsons and King of the Hill, but he never got much public attention.
		Bird was known for rocking the boat while he and Lasseter both toiled at Disney on such subpar films as The Fox and the Hound, and the Pixar co-founder wanted to tap into that rebel spirit.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-11-02-brad-bird_x.htm (1653 words)

	Lean, Mean Fighting Machine: How Brad Bird Made The Iron Giant
		Bird admits that the executives at Warner Bros. had concerns that the film had few characters to exploit as merchandise.
		Bird had to blend the Giant's CG (computer-generated) animation with the hand-drawn animation of Hogarth, the boy who befriends him.
		Another approach Bird tried was putting the Giant "on twos" when he was seen with other characters that were animated "on twos" [a new pose every other frame].
	www.awn.com /mag/issue4.05/4.05pages/millerbird.php3 (2305 words)

	IGN: Interview: Brad Bird
		Story has always been the strength behind their terrific run, and they knew Brad Bird would be the man to keep their run going with a story Bird had developed entitled The Incredibles.
		Incredibles director Brad Bird was recently on hand to speak with press at the beach front hotel Shutters, overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California.
		IGN FilmForce spoke with Bird about his struggles in the animated world and the terrific, er, incredible experience he's had working with the guys and gals at Pixar.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/563/563285p1.html (730 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Art Of The Incredibles: Livres: Brad Bird,Marc Cotta Vaz,John Lasseter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Short interviews with Bird and his animation crew reveal the collaborative work and innovation necessary to produce a computer-generated feature focusing on humans, which are much harder to depict realistically than, say, angelfish.
		Director Brad Bird envisioned the film as a tribute to the comic books and TV shows of his 1960s youth.
		Bird, whose background is in hand-drawn animation--he directed the undersung The Iron Giant--has, with the help of Pixar veterans, made a smooth transition to the computerized medium.
	www.amazon.fr /Art-Incredibles-Brad-Bird/dp/0811844331 (509 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| Brad Bird interview (1999)
		But his ebullient passion for the work he's done got me all wound up again as I asked him how he managed to make such an inventive departure when the animation department of every studio in Hollywood seems to be blinded by a desire to emulate the Mouse House.
		Bird: The thing that I've always responded to in animation is caricature.
		Bird: It was even better at one point, because we did a mock-up for the opening that said "Filmed in Cinemascope" and "Technicolor," but Fox wouldn't let us use the Cinemascope even though we offered to pay for it and pointed out to them it doesn't exist any more and it's just a sight gag.
	www.splicedonline.com /features/bradbird.html (1127 words)

	COMIC-CON 2004: Director Brad Bird and Prodcuer John Walker talk about Pixar and The Incredibles
		Brad Bird: Well, at the time the idea came to me, I just thought it was a goofy movie about superheroes.
		Brad said, "Come on over, I want to show you this new idea for a movie.â And over coffee, I was shown a drawing of a line-up that we'd been using for the last five years, of characters in the family.
		Bird: Without getting really long and boring about it, which is kind of easy, since it's such a vast subject...Um, I, personally, am really creeped out by a lot of things CG designed.
	movieweb.com /news/news.php?id=4675 (4718 words)

	Brad Bird - Filmography - Movies - New York Times
		By the time Bird stepped behind the camera for 1999's endearing boy-meets-giant-robot fable The Iron Giant, it was obvious to all who saw the film what a unique talent the director really possessed.
		Began at age eleven and completed when the fledgling Bird was a tender fourteen, his first animated film eventually caught the attention of Walt Disney Studios -- and it wasn't long before the ambitious youngster was being mentored under the tutelage of legendary Mouse House animator Milt Kahl.
		Released to near universal critical acclaim in the summer of 1999, The Iron Giant told the tale of a warm friendship between a boy and a giant robot set against the prejudice of small-town America.
	movies2.nytimes.com /gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=81910 (492 words)

	IGN: An Interview with Brad Bird
		Bird was also nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category, but lost out to Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
		Bird began his career in animation in 1981 as an animator for Disney's The Fox and the Hound.
		Bird: Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/594/594806p1.html (701 words)

	Ain't It Cool News - View Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The director and cowriter of the film is Brad Bird, who first made an impression on animation fans with his short film "Family Dog," which ended up being shown as a segment of Steven Spielberg's AMAZING STORIES anthology show.
		Yes, they asked Brad and company to do something very difficult and rise to the bar they set, using half the money and moving twice as fast as usual, but what that bought them was the freedom to make the film they wanted.
		Here's hoping they use Brad's stunning redesign of the classic Looney Tunes circles to open the film instead of Bugs in a tux, their current underwhelming WBFA logo.
	www.aint-it-cool-news.com /moriarty-bradbird.html (7196 words)

	Interview - Brad Bird for "The Incredibles"
		The film brought him to the attention of Walt Disney Studios where, at age 14, Bird was mentored by Milt Kahl, one of Disney's legendary animators known as the Nine Old Men.
		Bird includes among his credits serving as executive consultant to the hit animated television series "King of the Hill", "The Simpsons" and "The Critic".
		In addition, Bird co-wrote the screenplay for the live-action feature "*batteries not included", ans gained critical acclaim for his animated masterpiece, "The Iron Giant".
	www.darkhorizons.com /news04/bird.php (1186 words)

	NPR : The Man Behind 'The Incredibles'
		Fresh Air from WHYY, April 6, 2005 ·; Brad Bird is the writer and director of the Academy Award-winning computer animated Pixar film The Incredibles, about a family of superheroes doing their best to blend into their suburban neighborhood by not using their powers.
		The mix of everday settings and extraordinary abilities has turned the animated characters into celebrities, and a new Collector's Edition DVD of The Incredibles is now available.
		Bird previously directed the animated film The Iron Giant.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4578508 (187 words)

	MCN Interview: Brad Bird & The Incredibles
		, the latest Walt Disney release of a Pixar film, is a four-year labor of love from director and screenwriter Brad Bird, who started his training as an animator when he was only 14.
		He went on to a highly successful career in television (The Simpsons, The Critic, King of the Hill); his 1999 feature, The Iron Giant, was a marvel of 2-D animation that critics loved, but it suffered a mismanaged theatrical run.
		Samuel L. Jackson voices super-cool superhero Frozone, and Brad Bird nearly upstages them all as the voice of their diminutive, authoritarian costume designer, Edna Mode.
	www.moviecitynews.com /Interviews/bird.html (1603 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bird masks his secret identity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Incredible shuns his efforts to be his sidekick, has a bit of Bird in him, especially when he harasses the imprisoned superhero for meddling: "You had to go and ruin the ride."
		Brad for years was trying to make his movie, bashing his head against the brick walls in Hollywood.
		Edna is most like Bird when she urges a crying Helen into action, Lasseter says.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-11-02-bird-secret-identity_x.htm (553 words)

	I Watch Stuff! - Brad Bird Directing Ratatouille
		In a Disney shareholders meeting on Friday, it was announced that Brad Bird, award-winning writer/director of The Incredibles and The Iron Giant, would direct Pixar's next animation project, Ratatouille, the story of a skinny rat in a Parisian restaurant:
		Pixar Animation Studios' Brad Bird will direct "Ratatouille," the computer-animated mouse tale that was developed in-house by the studio's Oscar-winning short-film director Jan Pinkava ("Geri's Game").
		Bird is probably one of the most talented directors in Hollywood today.
	iwatchstuff.com /archives/2006/03/brad_bird_directing_ratatouill.html (695 words)

	Brad Bird - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone
		Bird started his first animated cartoon at the young age of 11 and finished...
		And writer-director Brad Bird, who's just returned from a whirlwind press junket to promote his superhero fable The Incredibles, is so bewildered he can't...
		Brad Bird - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Brad Bird Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/brad-bird/81910/main (136 words)

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