With two published sequels ready and waiting, DreamWorks Animation has a franchise in the works with “The Wild Robot,” a big success in its first weekend. It’s good, too. Based on the first ...

When it came to designing the animation style for The Wild Robot, director Chris Sanders found himself enthralled by the hand-crafted, painterly style of the concept art being developed.

The Wild Robot follows Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), a robot ... Although the idea was to create a more impressionistic and hand-painted style for the animation, Sanders discovered that the animals ...

That meant liberating the look from the relatively photorealistic style of previous CG toons ... stylized aesthetic of their own, and “The Wild Robot” builds on innovations within DWA.

That painterly style “evokes reality” more effectively ... very long time in an animated realm,” he said. “The Wild Robot” is bound to make you tear up and also aims to illustrate ...

The Wild Robot still might win the animation Oscar ... Some have described that animation style as cheap-looking, and indeed, ...

The Wild Robot by DreamWorks Animation “The magic is in how every aspect of this movie, we altered the animation process to fit the style and story that we’re trying to tell,” states Chris ...

DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot,” based on Peter Brown’s ... rendered in a lovely, painterly style and directed by a modern animation master Chris Sanders (“Lilo & Stitch ...

For the striking animation style of “The Wild Robot,” Sanders drew from three key inspirations. For the sequences on the island, he was heavily influenced by the work of Studio Ghibli and the ...

Crafting stakes is complicated territory for a film targeted at audiences of all ages. They are obviously a key component in getting movie-goers invested in the characters and story, but that’s ...