It must be a director's dream to not only be able to completely direct every aspect of the shot, but also to have a team of the finest digital animators in the world to make it a reality. The animators at Pixar are just absolute geniuses. There's no question about it. Their unbelievable attention to even the smallest detail is amazing. I have so much respect for their work. The animation is simply brilliant.

I saw Finding Nemo last night at the Magik Cinema downtown and was floored by how good it was. There are so many aspects of the film that would be interesting to talk about, but what I liked the most is how well they nailed the accents for the fish.

It's one thing to have a grizzled Angel Fish and get Wilem Dafoe to voice it. It's entirely another thing to have lobsters with Boston accents, a Great White Shark from Australia, and dueling Swordfish speaking with upper crust English accents.

My favorite of them all was Crush, the turtle. It might be that I just swam with turtles over the weekend and have tortugas on the brain. Or it might be the California surfer accent is just so perfectly suited for the laid back easy going tortoises, that I just fell for it.

Whatever the case, I my admiration for Pixar continues to grow which each successive opus.