Computers are for the Birds

Here's a Brad "The Incredibles" Bird interview, which includes a few thoughts on animating with computers:

We were fighting the computer. I felt that the computer had an agenda on this film. The agenda was the computer wants to make everything look really clean, really small, really weightless-and hard. It likes hard surfaces; it doesn't like soft surfaces. And we had a whole movie where we wanted things to be big and heavy and squishy and dirty. It was like we were fighting it every step of the way. It was like having a really clueless waiter, where you say, "I'd like to have the chicken tonight," and he'll go, "Steak?" And you'll go, "No, I would like the chicken," and he goes, "Yes, the steak." To people who think these things are easier to make because there's a computer involved, I'm here to tell you, the computer wants to go its own way, but if you can coax it, it's a fantastic tool.

As someone who works with computers ever day, I can affirm they have their own agendas.