AnimationTrip.com continues exclusive interviews with The Incredibles' Brad Bird

SAN DIEGO, CA, November 12, 2004 — With its exclusive interview with Brad Bird, writer/director of the latest Pixar hit The Incredibles, Animation Entertainment has continued its series of insightful industry interviews. The new Brad Bird interview is part of the website’s ongoing series entitled, “Where Great Minds Meet - The AnimationTrip Interview Series”. In this current installment, Brad sits down to talk to Sam Chen, the winner of the SIGGRAPH 2003 "Best Animated Film Award." Sam and Brad talk animator-to-animator about Brad's growth as an animator and the influences that have led him in his moviemaking process today.

Animation Entertainment was started by Steven Churchill and later joined by Chris Padilla, the two men most responsible for introducing audiences to computer animated short films and pioneering the theatrical niche for animation festivals. Churchill produced the world's first computer animation festival in 1986, created the world's first home entertainment videos consisting of computer animation in 1988, and in the early 1990s Churchill produced The Mind’s Eye video series, a Fantasia-like program of computer animation, which is now resurfacing at clubs and raves and has sold over 2 million units to date. Padilla’s Fantastic Animation Festival played in first-run movie theatres across the nation in the late 1970s and made box office headlines in Variety. Its success spurred several take-offs since. In recent years Padilla has also produced various animation events for leading institutions, such as orchestrating the Hollywood premieres of Disney’s Princess Mononoke and DreamWorks' Millennium Actress for AFI Fest, presenting an 85 year retrospective of stop-motion animation with Henry Selick at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and organizing computer animation conferences with ILM, PDI, Pixar and other leading studios.

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