Wall-E Coyote, Super Genius

Nice interview here with Wall-E director Andrew Stanton via the A.V. Club.

And speaking of the hallowed halls of Pixar, here is a great link to a Brad Bird treatise on dynamic image composition that is equally relevant to live-action as it is to animation. Strangely enough it was apparently created for "King of the Hill" - not a show that readily springs to mind when I hear the words "dynamic composition."

The big take-away from Bird's mini-manifesto:

• Lower the camera angle/raise the horizon for more dynamic shots.
• Keep away from parallel lines - they tend to make for boring images.

Lots of other very cool animation meat and potatoes at animationmeat.com