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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. Production ...

IndieWire Honors: At the Thursday evening event, the Spark Award winner shared, "I haven't really been able to see since the hand-drawn days of ‘Lion King’ and ‘Lilo & Stitch.'" “One of them was that ...

Directors of some of of the year’s most notable animated features talk about the design and inspiration behind key characters including a sentient robot, expressive cat and villainous penguin. Twins ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

Director Chris Sanders tells IndieWire about his 2D-looking sci-fi adventure, in which robot Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) embraces kindness to survive in the wilderness. Universal premiered the second trailer ...

Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, ...

Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, ...