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‘The Wild Robot’ Director Chris Sanders On Finding Roz’s “Engineered Optimism” And The Right “Painterly” Style
Director Chris Sanders discusses finding the Roz's engineered optimism and the right painterly style for 'The Wild Robot'.
In what he deems to be a stroke of luck, Sanders came in at the perfect time when the studio had been developing tools to create an animation style that strays from the traditional CG. Lupita really created that, what we would call “engineered optimism” that was in her voice when she first starts out on the island, and then that all changes gradually as Roz spends more time and begins to evolve. One of the things that really surprised me in getting away from that photorealism that we were locked into for such a long time, and getting into this painterly, more impressionistic look that extended from the backgrounds to the characters themselves, was the overall effect was more believable.
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