BRAD BIRD SPLINECAST!!!
NOW ON ITUNES…
On Valentines day we are trying to show the love.
Adam Burke and I did an interview with Brad on January 8th. Its a great interview and we think you will really like it. Please post your comments. Yes I know some of the audio is low, but most of it is great. Expect it on itunes in the next week or so. Special thanks to Brad for taking the time to do this and to Adam Burke for helping organize it.
ENJOY!
Adam Strick
SWEET! I had a hunch this might have been coming but wasn’t sure. The other splinecasts have been great too! THANKS!!!! Now to listen!
Bill
Oh. Hell. Yes.
Anonymous
I love love love hearing Brad Bird talk. I love the interviews/audio you guys put up! Do you think you’d do another “round table” any time soon? It would be cool if it became a regular thing….
~Marcus
Andrew
Great to see an interview with Brad Bird…I can’t wait to listen to this splinecast. Thanks!
Anonymous
Word! Enough respect.
Dr.Burke
We will be doing at least 2 more roundtables in the foreseeable future. However, we are in the last six weeks of animation on Ratatouille so we can not promise you when we’ll record them and post. Please be patient with us. We’ll try to have some informative posts in the meantime. Enjoy the interview with Brad.
-Adam
Patrick Alessi
WoooW
This is awsome!
Brad is undoubtly the lockiest guy alive…
This interview is so inspirering.
Can’t belive he started a film at age of 11 and continues working on it for three years!
Is that movie available somewhere?
Keep on the GOOD work guys!
MORE MORE MORE
BrandonBeckstead
This is amazing guys thanks for doing this!
Jeremy Spears
Am I the only one who can’t download this? I just see a bunch of text, weird.
Thanks for doing this guys it should be really interesting.
davidbernal
Love it!!!its awesome!!!thanks!!!!
I can hear this all day long, is better than music!!! Love all the stories, the memories !! is just awesome!!!!
Michael
I haven’t been able to listen to it either. Just text. I can’t wait to listen to it but what an emotional rollercoaster!
Jeremy Spears
ok i figured it out…download the text file and remove the txt once it’s downloaded, it should play fine
Brad
Awsome!!
Thanks for pinning him down
during this busy time for you guys.
This is real inspiring!!
-Brad
OV!
i cant open the audio link…
>oVi
Sugartastic_D_Slim
Thank you so much.
*tear*
Tony C.
You guys made me hate Valentines Day a whole lot less.
Thank you!
Michael
Awesome!! I can’t wait to listen to it. It’s ironic too, since I just found out that he was the voice for Edna Mode in the Incredibles…haha.
Bobby Pontillas
Whoa. I love the innerweb.
Thanks guys.
sunhungry
thanks so much doctors, I loved how he was making those spline doctors calls at the end lol. Very inspiring listening, what a talented hilarious fella he is! thanks again
Is his first animation anywhere online?!
sean macneil
whoa! what a fun and enjoyable spline cast guys. i can’t think of anything to say accept, wow. it was awesome to listen to Brad talk so affectionately and passionately about animation. thank you : )
Nick
JOY!!!!!!
Anonymous
A wonderful, extremely honest interview. Thanks a bunch!
Michael
Yeah, pretty much everything about that was great! From childhood to present…and I will definitely be quoting what he last said:
“You can’t create the illusion of life if you haven’t lived one”
Sounds like an animator to me =)
k. borcz
oh my goodness, soo exicted! I have something to listen to- thank you. Brad Bird is a great storyteller and I look forward to hear what he has to say.
Anonymous
awsome interview!
you guys might want to consider not having crunchy snacks available. haha
Jefferson
That was amazing. I can’t get enough of Brad Bird! He is the man! Thanks Spline Doctors!
Jean-Denis Haas
Sweet!!
Stewart
Fantastic! Thank you guys so much.
Ian
I’m animating on the other side of the world in Australia. I feel so lucky to live in a day and age where I can hear from a great director I admire from so far away. Thankyou SplineDocs, for making it possible I’m grinning from ear to ear
Ninja Dodo
Great great stuff. You guys gonna do an mp3 version as well?
teresa
Sweet! Thank you so much for this interview!
(and thanks to whoever said to download it and get rid of the text to play it)! :o)
I can’t wait to come down and visit some of you guys at Pixar this spring!
Paul
I’m not sure if you can do this with a Blogger account, but you need to tell the server how to server an AAC file. You (or your server admin) needs to create a .htaccess file with the following text:
AddType audio/x-m4a .m4a
Pop that file into the same folder as the audio file and Apache should serve it correctly instead of treating it as text.
Victor Ens
This is the most interessting and important interview I have heard ever. Thank god we have this guy on this planet and can learn from him and from any other thinngs that happen around us every day.
You guys are the best. Thank you very much for giving us this !
-Vic-
Tony C.
I have seen Brad Bird speak and I was lucky enough to meet him in person once. And as in the Spline Cast he was funny, insightful, and a joy to listen to. Thanks for putting together this interview, and I would love to hear any and all other tidbits you might be able to get with this great artist.
protowilson
Thanks so much for this Splinecast, guys. I can never tire of hearing from experienced animators and artists like Brad Bird.
Alex M. Lehmann
Thanks, guys!
Kyle
Ditto on the thanks. I especially enjoyed hearing about his experiences working at Disney when he was so young. I can’t believe he was animating and thinking critically about animation long before he was even in high school! Talk about having the animation bug bite early. I’d love to hear more personal stories like that if you do more interviews in the future. It’s interesting to hear someone recount their own life.
Great job guys, thanks for giving to the community
Fabian Vercuiel
Wow, thank you so much for this guys! It is one of the most inspiring animation related podcast I have had the pleasure listening to! I’ve probably played this 10 times now and It just gets my so hyped and excited about this industry!
Dont you just love how he goes on about story, story, STORY?
He’s so right!
Anonymous
why is the brad bird interview not downloading on my mac??????? (c’mon! he worked for Pixar, i.e. Steve Jobs!!) Please help - I really want to hear it!! Cathy PS thanks for doing this!
Dr. Gordon
Thanks for all the great feedback regarding the interview. I do understand that some people are having trouble downloading the file. If someone wants to compose a .htaaccess file, I will put it on our site so that it does not download as text. If anyone has any tips for exporting this better, please advise. I am just using Garageband to make all the chapters and do the general sound editing. Again, thanks for the comments. We enjoy doing the interviews as much as you like hearing them.
Its all about staying fresh and inspired.
-Andrew
Adam
thanks for sharing this!
Bryon
Sweeeet cast guys!! Thanks sooo much! It’s great to hear how artists get started in their careers!
Anonymous
That was great, thanks guys. It shed new light on the Milt Kahl Cal Arts interview I heard a while back. I was listening to it thinking ‘man, Brad Bird sure does seem comfortable talking with a living legend… I guess some people are just that way.’ He probably IS that way but still, interesting to hear he’d apprenticed under Kahl for a while before that. Anyway, thanks again for this. And thanks Brad, for these pearls of wisdom and one great movie. Just kidding of course. - colin
Bobby Pontillas
Yeah no kidding anonymous! And while he was he Junior High? Amazing!
RoboTaeKwon-Z
Hey, is this going to be on Itunes anytime soon?
I can’t get it to play either!
Dr. Gordon
It is up on Itunes now.
Anonymous
I can’t seem to find it on iTunes or download via the supplied link.
Dr.Burke
Go to iTunes and hit subscribe.
Anonymous
Terrific, thanks!
Kaveh R
Thanks a lot! another great splinecast.
Matt J
EXCELLENT interview guys! But MAN, just as Brad was on a roll about Milt Kahl your PHONE went off!!
Really inspiring & encouraging talk from Brad, thanks for asking him to do this & making it publicly available. Hope you guys can get do more great interviews like this. How about GLEN KEANE next? I’m very intrigued by the phrase ’sculptural drawing’, tell us more…
Olivier Ladeuix
I am very busy with my assignment but I though I would still need the time to thank the “doctors” for so much animation goodness.
I opened the splinecast reluctantly last week, thinking it would be one more interview on Story telling but I was pleasantly surprised to hear an in depth interview on Brad Bird as an animator. So he got his first desk at Disney aged 14! Man , he IS mister Incredible.
I also had Andrew’s lecture on polishing at AM this week, man that was christmas twice in a row.
Kirby
O flibbles of joy!
A friend at work passed me the link to this today - it made for great listening.
I will check back on this site like the very sponges that lurk upon the bottom of the ocean of animation goodness - soaking it all in!
Thanks for having this site, and recording the Podcast.
oats
What is the ‘new Disney book’ that B-Bird refers to?
marcobucci
Excellent! Thanks so much for recording and posting this!
Turbo
That was great, I’d love to hear more of this, especially where Brad touches upon topics that are common knowledge to you Pixar folk but not to other animators. I love that other people, such as Brad, comment upon the Disney formula where he uses terms like “the I want song”.
Musical numbers were what turned me off Disney for years and I’m glad I can now go to the cinema to see a cartoon without Elton or Phil blasting in every ten minutes.
Niem
Thanks so much for the great interview.
Oats, the Disney book Brad Bird mentioned is
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
Craig Mackay
Sooo sweet. Great interview guys! I’d love a follow up interview with Brad just to let him go off about his ideas. Prolific genius.
Cassie
Can I say “Can I have some more?”
The interview with Brad Bird was great, and very inspiring for students learning animation like myself!! I can’t wait for another interview with Brad Bird!
Anonymous
Dear Brad Bird My name is Michael. I have read that you started your first animated cartoon when you were eleven. I have started my own animated cartoon also. I just want to ask if you could look over my cartoon to see if it is good or not and if you think it is maybe you could help me with it and help me get it on T.V.
Iggy K
problem with the downloading, got 404′d on the dowload link -.M4A