It wasn’t just the style of his illustrations or drawings; it was how much story and emotion was conveyed, breathlessly, with every line. His latest film as a writer/director, “The Wild Robot ...

And for a dream sequence early in the film, the filmmakers relied on the original illustrations from “The Wild Robot” book. “Fink tells a story, yes, and we go into another style ...

Kids’ notebooks would have these illustrations of a forest being plowed down by an evil bulldozer. The impact humans had on nature was just a part of our day. Those themes within The Wild Robot were ...

By Robert Ito On the cover of Peter Brown’s best-selling children’s book “The Wild Robot” are massive ... “I did those illustrations fairly quickly,” Sanders said.

The Wild Robot is now playing in theaters ... photorealism in favor of stylized textures that feel pulled from the illustrations in children's books – or, at times, crayon scribblings in ...

The assignment is daunting: Turn a beloved book with a few illustrations into a full-length movie without losing its tangy heart. Sanders didn’t just nail it; he lasered it. “The Wild Robot ...

DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot,” based on Peter Brown’s book of the same name, opened this past fall and became a quiet smash, making $331 million and taking home major awards all ...

This was supposed to be the year of The Wild Robot. DreamWorks Animation, which in the past decade had become known mainly for churning out animated sequels, must have known they had something ...

In his new animated film The Wild Robot, writer-director Chris Sanders asks if each side is a little right. “I think that any sort of groundbreaking technology throws things out of balance for a ...

“The Wild Robot” has a lot to say and its own way of saying it. It’s a big-studio animated feature that has its own look, feel and identity, wrapped around an unusual story with ample humor ...