“The Wild Robot” director Chris Sanders was feeling a little lost himself. In 2020, he ventured into live-action filmmaking with “The Call of the Wild,” an ambitious, imperfect adaptation of Jack ...

The extraordinary new film from DreamWorks Animation takes place almost entirely on a thickly forested isle, where an obliging droid, Lupita Nyong’o’s Roz, washes ashore one stormy night. The beach on ...

DreamWorks The Wild Robot © 2023 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved. Visual art by Raymond Zibach, production designer “The Croods” and “How to ...

The 2025 Oscar nominations dropped earlier this week, and one notable multi-nominee is The Wild Robot: along with being recognized in the Best Animated Feature category, the Academy also nominated the ...

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 ...

Director Chris Sanders, production designer Raymond Zibach, and VFX supervisor Jeff Budsberg tell IndieWire about hand-painting their sci-fi adventure to get an impressionistic 2D look. “Up to this ...

Spawned from the New York Times No. 1 bestseller by Peter Brown that managed to speak to multiple generations, not just kids, DreamWorks Animation‘s The Wild Robot proves to be a real gem in the genre ...