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How ‘The Wild Robot’ Production Designer Raymond Zibach Added A “Painterly Effect” To The Animated Style


Production designer Raymond Zibach details how his team created the hand-painted animation style for DreamWorks Animation's 'The Wild Robot.'

“When paintings are done really well, you get that connection through the art and through the artist’s eyes.” Below, Zibach gives insight into how his team developed the look for the film, and gave Roz her wild transformation. We wanted a harsh environment that was always going to be another character that was going to be affecting Roz right from the get-go, and a big part of it was trying to capture the feeling of being in a forest. We created a painterly effect that the lighters could use to change the look of Roz and loosen her up with the brush strokes, and even make her edges not as clean, which is a big deal in CG.

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