A Great Read: Making a Movie at Pixar is Not Always Fun

The Hollywood Reporter writes about the The Incredibles Revisited bonus feature on The Incredibles Blu-ray. An excerpt…

… is the most insightful since it flirts, underneath plenty of laughs from Brad Bird, producer John Walker and other key personnel, with the revelatory concept that making these Pixar classics isn’t easy and that just because the animators work together doesn’t mean they always get along.

The roundtable discussion gets into it almost immediately with a story of how a high-level, but unnamed and no-longer-at-the-studio, exec (let the guessing begin) was against the project, didn’t think it should be animated, and was lecturing Bird on what was and wasn’t possible with animation.