Being a super-nerd, I would have been excited to hear about the sheer magnitude of their render-farms or how many expressions it took to animate the physics of Sully’s hair in Monster’s Inc., but what I came away with was slightly less geeky—though much more useful.
With every new film, Pixar set the bar impossibly high. No one else was doing it for them. No one had ever done before what they dreamt of doing. How many times do we set the bar that high for ourselves?
So many times I find myself asking “How can I get my images to tell a story like Philip Bloom’s?” or “What kind of off-the wall camera tricks can I think of to be more like Michel Gondry?”.
While it certainly isn’t bad to be inspired by others, I wonder what would happen if we ignored what everyone else had done and imagined new levels of accomplishment for ourselves. What if we didn’t assume that because no one else has done it, it can’t be done.
So that’s it. Think of what can’t be done and figure out how to do it.
Easy, right?
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