The Incredibles movie director also voiced character !

"They tried actresses, but they ended up having to keep telling the actress, 'No, make it lower, like this.". Finally they went, 'Look, he's already doing it. Why don't we just keep it?'".

The director said, that the animators referenced a number of fashion designers for Edna, but chose to combine those influences to create a completely new character.

"We certainly looked at Edith Head, but there are actually a lot of female fashion designers that have giant glasses. Also, Patricia Highsmith was an influence. She wrote "The Talented Mr. Ripley". When you're designing a character, you're just saying, 'Who is that?' We have drawings where she's taller and fatter and older and younger and thin. We tried a lot of stuff, and we ended up with something that reminds you of Edith Head and Linda Hunt.".

Bird also said that Pixar frequently enlists its animators to create temporary voice tracks for its animated characters.

"We do a temporary soundtrack where we take existing music and cut it together so it represents where we hope to go. We do storyboards, and we record people in Pixar who get in the ballpark of what we're looking for, and sometimes those voices stick.".

Then he listed a few of the animators who contributed to past Pixar efforts.

"Andrew Stanton, the writer and director of "Finding Nemo", was the voice of Crush. Joe Ranft did Heimlich in "A Bug's Life" and did the asthmatic penguin in "Toy Story 2". Bob Peterson did Roz in "Monsters Inc". And Kari the babysitter in "The Incredibles" is one of our animators, Bret Parker. Pixar doesn't really care about how famous somebody is. It's more about how right they are for the character.".

"The Incredibles" comes to cinemas November 5th.

Source: SCI FI Wire