Incredible!

Over the past week I was ill and spent a lot more time in bed than out, hence I didn’t have the time (much less the power) to con­tinue work­ing on Sleep­ing Dragon. Today I feel much bet­ter, so I hope to be able to make some progress in the fol­low­ing days.

I did, how­ever, go out to see Pixar’s “The Incred­i­bles” in a cin­ema at the Pots­damer Platz on fri­day night, where it was shown in Eng­lish, fortunately.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Brad Bird and the team and Pixar, the film was won­der­ful — very, very inspiring!

The plot and sto­ry­telling was bril­liant as expected, and once again they’ve out­done them­selves when it comes to rais­ing the bar for ani­mated film. The ani­ma­tion, the move­ment of the char­ac­ters, their emo­tions were tru­ely stun­ning and I’ll try to “bor­row” a few tricks here and there for use in my own short film!
It’s great to see some­one actu­ally car­ing about story and not just about throw­ing spe­cial effects at the audi­ence. Also, though it may sound strange, I feel that the Incred­i­bles actu­ally have some­thing that their real-​​life coun­ter­parts are severely lack­ing these days: Life…