as Brad Bird, the first outside director,

一位外聘的导演布拉德·伯德
was invited in to direct a feature.

却在此时应邀导一部动画长片
Well, here I am, pulling into Pixar,

好了我到了我要开进皮克斯
first time, into Pixar. . . Yeah.

第一次进皮克斯
Brad was an old classmate of John Lasseter's from CalArts.

布拉德是约翰在加州艺术大学时的同学
He had made the critically acclaimed 2-D hand animated film, The lron Giant.

他以手绘动画电影《铁巨人》而声名大噪
Brad and I stayed in touch,

布拉德跟我一直有联络
and he pitched us on an idea called The lncredibles,

他跟我提到一个叫《超人总动员》的构想
and it's a family of superheroes,

他们一家子都是超级英雄
and originally he was thinking of it being cell-animated,

他原本是想用2D动画来做
but he thought it could work in 3-D computer animation.

但是又觉得也可以用3D电脑动画来做
I fell in love with it right away,

我立刻就爱上了这个故事