What excites me is watching the real world. I do a LOT of people watching. I do a LOT of world watching. I constantly find myself amazed at the things I notice in our world when I'm REALLY paying attention to what's going on. When I can strip down my own ego based sense of what is happening around me, I find many ideas and examples. I don't mean ego in a negative sense. I mean ego in a sense of how I have always looked at the world. I have found it to be a filter on how I see the things around me. When I can drop that filter, amazing things can happen. I can feel things at a deeper, more pure level. Things resinate better with me. If I can watch a persons movement without judging how they are acting or even what they are wearing, I can see the movement at a deeper level. I believe that animators see the world in a whole differant way than most people. Cheers, Joe